Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 "Be Men If You Can't Be Artists!" : Masculinity in the Fiction of Norman Lindsay
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'A prevailing myth surrounding the work of Norman Lindsay is the influence of a dominating female figure. Many of his larger works in pen and ink, oil, and watercolor feature this figure, as do many of his etchings. It is through his artwork that he is most well-known, and aside from his drawings of anthropomorphized Australian native animals and political cartoons, his artwork typically features tall, strong, buxom women. While these female figures are often used as metaphorical representations of ideas or nations, they are just as often used as objects of the controlling male gaze. In the context of Lindsay's published fiction, the application and assumption of a controlling male gaze subvert the more conspicuous gender narrative.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Antipodes vol. 32 no. 1/2 2018 17976279 2018 periodical issue 2018 pg. 174-184
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