After The Australian ugliness / edited by Naomi Stead, Tom Lee, Ewan McEoin and Megan Patty ; [foreword by] Tony Ellwood AM ; [preface by] Tony Issacson.

By: STEAD, NAOMI ET ALContributor(s): Stead, Naomia [editor.] | Lee, Tom [editor.] | McEoin, Ewan [editor.] | Patty, Megan [editor.] | Ellwood, Tony [writer of foreword.] | Issacson, Tony [writer of preface.] | National Gallery of Victoria [issuing body.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Melbourne, Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria in association with Thames & Hudson Australia, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: xiii, 279 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles (chiefly colour) ; 26 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760761899Subject(s): Boyd, Robin, 1919-1971. Australian ugliness | Architecture | Architecture -- Australia | Architecture -- Australia -- Exhibitions | Australia -- Buildings, structures, etc -- Exhibitions | Australia -- Buildings, structures, etc -- Exhibitions | Australia -- Buildings, structures, etc -- Exhibitions | Australian history | AustralianDDC classification: 720.994 LOC classification: NA1603 | .A97 2021
Contents:
Before, during and after The Australian ugliness / Naomi Stead and Tom Lee with Ewan McEoin and Megan Patty -- Peeling back the veneer / Alison Page -- Holding up the mirror: The Australian ugliness and Australian architecture / Philip Goad -- Gradually sagging spirits: revisiting urban planning in Australian since The Australian ugliness / Liz Taylor -- Robin Boyd's The Australian ugliness and liberal education / John Macarthur -- Easy living in uneasy skins / Eugenia Lim -- Casting nasturtiums: suburban satire and The Australian 'ugliness' of Kath & Kim / Naomi Stead -- Experiential interiors: correcting the fallacies of featurism / Tom Lee -- Postcards from the El Dorado Motel / Michael Ryan -- Scenes of (not) reading: a descent into Australian ugliness / Guest, Riggs -- Covert story: the publishers and designers behind an icon / Ann Carew and Megan Patty -- Let's say goodbye to pioneers and arboraphobes / Elizabeth Mossop -- Ugly rich and rare: the myth of Australian beauty / Benjamin Law -- Anglophiles and Austericans: sufters paradise and the rhetoric of failure / Harriet Edquist -- Cultivating peace / Georgina Reid -- From oatmeal sweaters to rainbow blouses: Robin Boyd and Australian fashion / Peter McNeil -- in the zones with Robin Boyd / Vanessa Berry -- in the time of ubiquitous design / Ewan McEoin -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Futher reading -- List of illustrations -- Index.
Summary: Robin Boyd's The Australian Ugliness was published in 1960 and quickly took its place as a key work of architectural and cultural critique in the nation's canon. This new book responds to Boyd's most well-known text with new critical and creative writing by authors from a range of disciplines. Through different styles and approaches, each author makes Boyd's work live in the contemporary moment, exploring enduring questions about the elusive, sometimes lucky and sometimes ugly character of Australia today.
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Catalogue for exhibition held at NGV Melbourne on 2 April to 22 August 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Before, during and after The Australian ugliness / Naomi Stead and Tom Lee with Ewan McEoin and Megan Patty -- Peeling back the veneer / Alison Page -- Holding up the mirror: The Australian ugliness and Australian architecture / Philip Goad -- Gradually sagging spirits: revisiting urban planning in Australian since The Australian ugliness / Liz Taylor -- Robin Boyd's The Australian ugliness and liberal education / John Macarthur -- Easy living in uneasy skins / Eugenia Lim -- Casting nasturtiums: suburban satire and The Australian 'ugliness' of Kath & Kim / Naomi Stead -- Experiential interiors: correcting the fallacies of featurism / Tom Lee -- Postcards from the El Dorado Motel / Michael Ryan -- Scenes of (not) reading: a descent into Australian ugliness / Guest, Riggs -- Covert story: the publishers and designers behind an icon / Ann Carew and Megan Patty -- Let's say goodbye to pioneers and arboraphobes / Elizabeth Mossop -- Ugly rich and rare: the myth of Australian beauty / Benjamin Law -- Anglophiles and Austericans: sufters paradise and the rhetoric of failure / Harriet Edquist -- Cultivating peace / Georgina Reid -- From oatmeal sweaters to rainbow blouses: Robin Boyd and Australian fashion / Peter McNeil -- in the zones with Robin Boyd / Vanessa Berry -- in the time of ubiquitous design / Ewan McEoin -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Futher reading -- List of illustrations -- Index.

Robin Boyd's The Australian Ugliness was published in 1960 and quickly took its place as a key work of architectural and cultural critique in the nation's canon. This new book responds to Boyd's most well-known text with new critical and creative writing by authors from a range of disciplines. Through different styles and approaches, each author makes Boyd's work live in the contemporary moment, exploring enduring questions about the elusive, sometimes lucky and sometimes ugly character of Australia today.

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