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'A radical polymath himself, Jack Lindsay recalled Vere Gordon Childe as ‘a bubble-pricker’ yet retained an affectionate regard for this deeply enigmatic man. ‘He was the most detached person I knew’, Lindsay continued, ‘and yet one felt all the while there was a warm core to his gently spoken and deadly sarcasm’ (124). Terry Irving’s biography, similarly, gently works its way around Childe, a figure who demands a measure of introspection as well as a breadth of scholarly investment from those seeking to understand and ‘place’ him.' (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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