Product Description: In 1900 Vienna was one of the most exciting places to live in the world. Its glamorous high society was the envy of Europe, and it was the centre of an exploding arts movement that set the tone for the following century...Tim Bonyhady's great-grandparents were leading patrons of the arts in fin de siecle Vienna: Gustav Klimt painted his great-grandmother's portrait, and the family knew many of Vienna's leading cultural figures...read more

Product Description: While climate policy has focused overwhelmingly on the science and on reducing emissions, policy makers are increasingly focused on how to adapt to changes are already 'locked in', changes that will bring significant social economic and environmental impacts...read more

Product Description: Through the use of paintings and objects from Australian and British collections, the story is told of hardships in 19th century England, Scotland and Ireland and the factors that encouraged or forced people to emigrate to Australia, an unknown and strange land, reached after a perilous voyage...read more

Product Description: Drawing on sources dating from the First Fleet until federation - from paintings and poems to reports of public meetings and parliamentary debates - this text shows that an enviromental aesthetic is as deep-set in the Australian culture as the inability to turn environmental concern into practice...read more

Product Description: Who are public intellectuals? Why do they matter? What is the difference between an academic and an intellectual? Prehistory to Politics explores these issues by examining the life and work of John Mulvaney, one of Australia's foremost prehistorians, who has not only changed our understanding of the past but who has made a major contribution to public debate and public policy concerned with world heritage, archaeological and conservation practice, the function and operation of museums and the relevance of the humanities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A scholarly and original examination of Australian landscape painting, this book examines its formative years--from the arrival of the first professional landscape painter, William Westall, until the emergence of the first school of Australian artists led by Tom Roberts...read more

Product Description: First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: The first of several volumes to be published in association with the Australian National Gallery, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of Australian painting from the 1820s to the mid-1880s. Bonyhady's rigorous analysis of the individual works, supported by a wealth of biographical and historical detail, recreates the lively and influential artistic climate that prevailed during the first hundred years of colonial settlement...read more