Blackheath


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Back from the Brink


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Blue Gum Forest is the Cradle of Conservation in NSW. It was saved from the axe by bushwalkers in 1931-32. This is the story of the forest and the wilderness area in which it lies: the railways, dams and mines that never eventuated, and the Aborigines, explorers, cattlemen, bushwalkers, canyoners and conservationists who've been part of it.




Picturesque Pursuits


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As amateurs, these women worked in sketchbooks rather than on canvas; in pencil and watercolour rather than in oils, and in miniature rather than full scale. They employed the genres deemed suitable for their gender: miniature portraits, flower paintings and picturesque landscapes.










Drawing in Australia


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This beautifully illustrated book is an informative and fascinating chronological survey of Australian drawing since 1770. Defining a drawing as "any unique work on paper", Sayer examines a wide range of them in relation to the social influences of the period in which they were created, the genre and the medium, and discusses stylistic changes and changes in perception such as in the many "revivals" that drawing has experienced since the 1920's. He also provides drawings of natural history, Aborigines and landscape, portraits, scenes of contemporary life of the 1850's, decorative drawing, watercolors, and examples of surrealistic techniques.