Eileen : stories from the Phillip Street courtyard / Eileen Kramer & Tracey Spring
- Bib ID:
- 7865120
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cramer, Eileen, 1914-, author
- Description:
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- Melbourne, VIC : Melbourne Books, [2018]
- ©2018
- 206 pages : colour illustrations, portraits (some colour) ; 22 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781925556391 (hardback)
- Summary:
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Eileen Kramer is quite possibly the longest working dancer and choreographer in Australia, if not the world. At 103 years young, she continues to take to the stage and dance and create every day and is showing no signs of stopping any time soon. Eileen has now written a book about her life before she was a dancer, living in a bohemian artist community in Phillip Street in the centre of Sydney. This memoir is comprised of thirty-three short stories spanning five years of her life as a young woman from 1936 to 1940. She has drawn gorgeous colour illustrations that bring the stories to life. The reader gets to know the close knit group of artists who lived in the Phillip Street courtyard: Rosaleen Norton, who would go on to become the ‘Witch of Kings Cross’, the intellectual and mysterious, Joan, and the beautiful model, Ann. These young women were professional artist’s models, sitting for Norman Lindsey and other modern painters of Sydney. Eileen’s first boyfriend, Richard, was a Freudian psychoanalyst and they would spend their Sundays at the Art Gallery of NSW and Speakers Corner at the Domain. These stories are a social history of Sydney bohemia in the late 1930s.
- Notes:
- National Library of Australia’s N copy is signed by the authors.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Spring, Tracey, author
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2018
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