Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Amanda Scardamaglia Puts a Colourful Past on Display
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'Amanda Scardamaglia’s Printed on Stone focuses on the work of Charles Troedel and Company, a lithographic printing firm established in Melbourne in the mid-nineteenth century. A history based on the archives of a local Australian printer may seem, at first glance, to cater to a very specialist – and perhaps correspondingly small – audience. Yet Scardamaglia’s story of Charles Troedel deserves a wider readership than its subject suggests. Clearly designed to attract the general reader, with its large format, hard cover, and rich collection of images drawn from an extensive archive, Printed on Stone connects that material with wide range of academic approaches, from Scardamaglia’s own specialty, trade mark law, to cultural history.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon History Australia vol. 18 no. 4 2021 23761646 2021 periodical issue

    'On 1 September 2021, Tasmanian Aboriginal artist Julie Gough’s work ‘Breathing Space’ was unveiled in Hobart. This artwork is part of the City of Hobart’s ‘Crowther Reinterpretation Project’, for which four artists have been invited to create works responding to the statue of William Crowther. The project aims to ‘acknowledge, question, provoke discussion or increase awareness’ about Crowther, especially his treatment of the body of well-known Aboriginal leader William Lanne after his death in the 1860s. In Gough’s work, the statue of Crowther has been removed from public view, boxed up in a black timber crate. Visitors can scan a QR code nearby and be directed to a webpage that provides a printable amended wording for the plinth. Gough told ABC Hobart that she had avoided walking past the statue for 20 years, but now the statue was covered, ‘I can sit here, knowing he's not looking down on us…when he was crated you could feel Hobart breathe. It was amazing.' (Editorial introduction)

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