Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture 1901–1939
UQP, $22.95pb, 292pp
Art
Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture 1901–1939 by Laurie Duggan
by Isobel Crombie •
Laurie Duggan’s study of ‘imagined space’ in Australian visual culture arrived on my desk, with a certain synchronicity, the day after I saw the film Memento. In their distinctive ways, both these works seem indicative of our age, offering unstable and fractured accounts of space and time at a moment when virtual reality seems to be untying our formerly fixed Western notions of these concepts.
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