ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 43 | February 2000
The World Upside Down: Australia 17881830
The Librarys current exhibition The World Upside Down will be complemented by this publication, which contains essays that explore the early years of New South Wales and Van Diemens Land as found in the Librarys records and art from the period. Created for a variety of purposes and in a variety of media, these artworks and documents range from the official to the deeply personal, from the pragmatically useful to the whimsically poetic.
Covering subjects from representations of landscape and society, the condition of children, the experience of women, through first contacts between Aborigines and settlers, to early printmaking practices and reflections on the very nature of the records themselves, this publication presents an engrossing and evocative portrait of Australia in its early period of colonisation. Essayists include Patricia R. Macdonald, Sasha Grishin, Deborah Oxley, Robert Holden, Michael Rosenthal, Richard Neville and exhibition curator Michelle Hetherington.
A book for the general reader as well as for students of Australian culture, The World Upside Down: Australia 17881830 will be available in March.
ISBN 0642107130, pb, 240 x 220 mm, b&w and colour illus., RRP $19.95, plus $5.00 postage and handling if ordered from Sales and Distribution, National Library of Australia, CANBERRA ACT 2600; tel.: (02) 6262 1646 or 1800 800 100; email: nlasales@nla.gov.au; fax: (02) 6273 1084
Please address any comments and enquiries to The Editor, Gateways: tford@nla.gov.au