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FREE SHIPPING WITHIN THE USA, I WILL SHIP WORLDWIDE AT BUYER'S EXPENSE 1980 FIRST EDITION TREASURY OF AUSTRALIAN KITSCH BY BARRY HUMPHRIES Publisher Description: Australian art incorporates art made in Australia or about Australian subjects since prehistoric times. This includes Australian Aboriginal art, Australian Colonial art, Landscape, Atelier, Modernist and Contemporary art. The visual arts have a long history in Australia, with evidence of Aboriginal art dating back at least 30,000 years. Australia has produced many notable artists from both Western and Indigenous Australian traditions including the late 19th century Heidelberg School impressionists, central Australian Hermannsburg School watercolourists, Western Desert Art Movement, Heide Circle of Modernists, and the expatriates who worked in London in the nineteen sixties. Mid twentieth century Modernist figuration prevails in the Australian art market: principal artists include Ian Fairweather, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Russell Drysdale, Brett Whiteley, John Brack, Jeffrey Smart and Charles Blackman. John Olsen and Fred Williams are exceptions whose landscapes border on abstractions. Painter/sculptor William Dobell, and landscapist Lloyd Rees produced notable bodies of work. Max Dupain is the best known modernist photographer Australia has produced. Contemporary indigenous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye and hyperrealist sculptor Ron Mueck have also recently received substantial popular attention. Australia has a number of major museums and galleries, including the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the National Gallery of Australia, National Portrait Gallery of Australia and National Museum of Australia in Canberra, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. Notable Indigenous sites have been set aside as UNESCO listed areas such as those at Uluru and Kakadu National Park. About the Author: John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist, author and character actor, best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife and "gigastar", and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attache to the Court of St. James's. He is a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer and an accomplished landscape painter. For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only the most significant theatrical figure of our time ? [but] the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin. Humphries' characters, especially Dame Edna Everage, have brought him international renown, and he has appeared in numerous films, stage productions and television shows. Originally conceived as a dowdy Moonee Ponds housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, Edna has evolved over four decades to become a satire of stardom, the gaudily dressed, acid-tongued, egomaniacal, internationally feted Housewife Gigastar, Dame Edna Everage. Humphries' other major satirical character creation was the archetypal Australian bloke Barry McKenzie, who originated as the hero of a comic strip about Australians in London (with drawings by Nicholas Garland) which was first published in Private Eye magazine. The stories about "Bazza" (Humphries' nickname, as well as an Australian term of endearment for the name Barry) gave wide circulation to Australian slang, particularly jokes about drinking and its consequences (much of which was invented by Humphries), and the character went on to feature in two Australian films, in which he was portrayed by Barry Crocker. Humphries' other satirical characters include the "priapic and inebriated cultural attache" Sir Les Patterson, who has "continued to bring worldwide discredit upon Australian arts and culture, while contributing as much to the Australian vernacular as he has borrowed from it", gentle, grandfatherly "returned gentleman" Sandy Stone, iconoclastic 1960s underground film-maker Martin Agrippa, Paddington socialist academic Neil Singleton, sleazy trade union official Lance Boyle, high-pressure art salesman Morrie O'Connor and failed tycoon Owen Steele. *VERY GOOD CONDITION* THE DUST JACKET HAS MINIMAL SHELF WEAR FRONT OF DUST JACKET IS CREASED ON THE TOP EDGE BACK OF DUST JACKET HAS A FEW SCRATCH MARKS, APART FROM THAT THE BOOK IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION THE BOOK HAS NORMAL SHELF WEAR FIRST PUBLISHED 1980 BY M THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF AUSTRALIA ISBN# 0333299558 96 PAGES ILLUSTRATED SEE OUR OTHER BOOKS IN OUR STORE! Check out my other items! 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