July–August 2013, no. 353

Welcome to our annual Art issue! Noted photography scholar Helen Ennis – in her ABR George Hicks Foundation Fellowship – writes about Olive Cotton’s second marriage and slow re-emergence as a photographer. Mark Dober and Mary Eagle review the big new NGV Monet and NGA Turner exhibitions. Other highlights include Tim Rowse’s review of Marcia Langton’s 2012 Boyer Lectures and Morag Fraser’s reading of Joyce Carol Oates’s new novel. In Advances we question the Melbourne Writers’ Festival’s strong emphasis on the London Review of Books in its new program. Our Open Page guest this month is the Pascall Prize winner, Kerryn Goldsworthy.
Full Contents
Indigenous Studies
The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom (2012 Boyer Lectures) by Marcia Langton
by Tim Rowse
Art
Monet’s Garden: The Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris edited by Marianne Mathieu et al.
by Mark Dober
Society
Hidden Innovation: Policy, Industry and the Creative Sector by Stuart Cunningham
by Andrew Leigh
History
Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser
by Neal Blewett
Art
A Most Generous Scholar: Joan Kerr: Art and Architectural Historian by Susan Steggall
Art
Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century edited by Angus Trumble and Andrea Wolk Rager
by Anne Gray
Art
Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens by Wolfram Koeppe
Art
Collecting Ladies: Ferdinand von Mueller and Women Botanical Artists by Penny Olsen
Cultural Studies
Making Melbourne’s Monuments: The Sculpture of Paul Montford by Catherine Moriarty
Architecture
Public Sydney: Drawing the City edited by Philip Thalis and Peter John Cantrill
by Philip Goad
Gender Studies
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna
by Paul Morgan
Gender Studies
Just Between Us: Australian Writers Tell the Truth about Female Friendship edited by Maggie Scott et al.
by Milly Main
Literary Studies