Author: Keith Macrae BowdenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Samuel Thomas Gill
Author: Keith Macrae BowdenSamuel Thomas Gill
Author: Samuel Thomas Gill; Artist
Author: Keith Macrae BowdenPublisher: Collaroy, N.S.W : The Author, 4 Collaroy Street, Collaroy, N.S.W. 2097
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
S.T. Gill & His Audiences
Author: Sasha GrishinPublisher: National Library of Australia
ISBN: 0642278733
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Samuel Thomas Gill, or STG as he was universally known, was Australia’s most significant and popular artist of the mid-nineteenth century. For his contemporaries he epitomised ‘Marvellous Melbourne’ basking in the glow of the gold rushes. He worked in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales and left some of the most memorable images of urban and rural life in colonial Australia. A passionate defender of Indigenous Australians and of the environment, Gill in his art celebrated the emerging quintessential Australian character. This is the first major comprehensive book to be devoted to Gill and presents a radical reassessment of one of the most important figures in Australian colonial art and reproduces, in some instances for the first time, some of the most startling images from nineteenth-century Australian art. There will be an exhibition of S.T. Gill’s work at the State Library of Victoria in July 2015 and at the National Library of Australia in June 2016, plus smaller shows in regional Victorian galleries. In association with the State Library of Victoria.
Gill, Samuel Thomas
Author: S.T. Gill's Australia
Author: Geoffrey DuttonPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780333337349
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
100 illustrations of Samuel Thomas Gill who arrived in Adelaide in 1839 and painted, until his death in 1880, Adelaide, gold diggings, Melbourne, Ballarat and Sydney.
William Wordsworth
Author: Stephen GillPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192551280
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
In this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat the poet's later years as of little interest, this biography presents a narrative of the whole of Wordsworth's long life—1770 to 1850—tracing the development from the adventurous youth who alone of the great Romantic poets saw life in revolutionary France to the old man who became Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate. The various phases of Wordsworth's life are explored with a not uncritical sympathy; the narrative brings out the courage he and his wife and family were called upon to show as they crafted the life they wanted to lead. While the emphasis is on Wordsworth the writer, the personal relationships that nourished his creativity are fully treated, as are the historical circumstances that affected the production of his poetry. Wordsworth, it is widely believed, valued poetic spontaneity. He did, but he also took pains over every detail of the process of publication. The foundation of this second edition of the biography remains, as it was of the first, a conviction that Wordsworth's poetry, which has given pleasure and comfort to generations of readers in the past, will continue to do so in the years to come.
Lost!
Author: Stephanie Owen ReederPublisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 0642276862
Category : Children's clothing
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Tales of children lost in the bush have frightened and fascinated the Australian public since colonial times. In August 1864, three children - Isaac aged nine, Jane aged seven and Frank aged three - survived nine long days and eight cold winter nights in the desolate scrub of the Wimmera region of west Victoria. The children walked for nearly 100 kilometres with no food and very little water. Against all odds, they were found alive. This is their inspiring story, illustrated throughout with reproductions of classic Australian artworks.
The Cause of God and Truth ...
Author: John GillRunning the Marathon with Cancer
Author: Doug LimbrickPublisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504307836
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
A few days before Doug Limbrick is to run a marathon he receives a diagnosis of colorectal cancer. The large mass has been there for some time and must be removed at once. What a shock for a healthy, fit man who hasnt had a sick day from work in twenty years and has been a runner for thirty. In his memoir, the author shares what it is like to have major surgery that impacts him both physically and psychologically. Six months of chemotherapy and five weeks of radiotherapy bring complications. Yet Doug returns to running during chemotherapy in an attempt to regain some fitness and distract himself from the side effects of weeks of continuous infusions. He runs while carrying a black box that delivers the chemotherapy drugs through a tube in his chest at predetermined intervals. Living through more surgery and complications from septicemia and pneumonia, he leaves the hospital after two months weighing 115 pounds (52 kilograms). The long process of rehabilitation begins, with the help of some very good friends. Doug raises some important questions. Why did he get cancer? Why did he survive? And what did he learn? The final chapter looks at life after cancer and the lessons Doug gleaned from his illness and recovery.