Before the clearing : Vor Der Säuberung : an exhibition by Simon Normand ; Ludwig Leichhardt 1845
- Bib ID:
- 8152159
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Normand, Simon, artist
- Description:
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- [Ivanhoe, Victoria] : Simon Normand, 2016
- 26 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 x 58 cm in solander box 31 x 60 cm.
- Summary:
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An exhibition examining Ludwig Leichhardt's epic journey from Queensland through the gulf country and Kakadu to Port Essington in 1845. Using hand-coloured etchings, original journal entries and artefacts collected along Leichhardt's original path, artist Simon Normand illuminates the disparity between the facts of the journey and what was ultimately reported.
- Full contents:
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- List of works: I've often thought sadly
- The capok dancers
- Fish trap on Nathan River
- At first just the names disappeared
- Singing for country
- Stamping out the Dreaming
- Leichhardt dreaming
- The giant orb weaver
- Here the drooping tea-tree
- Namarrkon's fault
- At the monoliths
- The first sparks fall at Jim Jim
- Death by waterlillies.
- Notes:
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- Cover title.
- Limited edition of 10 copies.
- National Library of Australia copy is no. 7/10, quarter bound in leather with python skin spine.
- Book was released to coincide with exhibition held at Northern Territory Library from 18th July 2017 until 1 October 2017. Part of the Darwin Festival.
- Subject:
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- Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813-1848 -- Travel -- Australia, Northern
- Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813-1848
- Leichhardt Expedition (1845)
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
- Discoveries in geography
- Travel
- Etching, Australian -- 21st century -- Specimens
- Artists' books -- Victoria -- Specimens
- Jim Jim Falls (N.T.)
- Limmen Bight (N.T.)
- Northern Territory -- Discovery and exploration
- Northern Australia
- Northern Territory
- Australian
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2016
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