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The Eternal Return Of Irony: Gordon Bennett (1955-2014), Ian A. Mclean
The Eternal Return Of Irony: Gordon Bennett (1955-2014), Ian A. Mclean
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
While it is foolhardy to predict artists’ legacies, Rex Butler’s claim – made in an incisive review of Gordon Bennett’s retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2007 – would seem on safe ground as few artists had a greater impact on the Australian artworld in the early 1990s. However, Butler is an ironic critic who writes against the grain of his own thought. Conferring on Bennett a privileged place in the history of Australian art when the grand lineages of History have lost currency was an intentionally backhanded or ironic compliment.
The Voices In The Making And Unmaking Of History: Arnold Bennett, Marie Corelli, And Single Women In Late Victorian England, Sharon Crozier
The Voices In The Making And Unmaking Of History: Arnold Bennett, Marie Corelli, And Single Women In Late Victorian England, Sharon Crozier
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Historians are continually constructing and reconstructing, making and remaking history. Present-day preoccupations offer the historian new questions to ask and new directions to take and such an opening up of relatively unexplored areas of study has also led to the search for, and finding of, new sources to analyse. This is especially so in the branches of social history referred to as 'the history of mentalities' and 'cultural history'.