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1 y separately published work icon Monster & Colossus: Letters Between Greek Writer Costas Taktsis & Australian Artist Carl Plate & Their Families in Cosmopolitan Post-War Sydney Cassi Plate , North Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2020 19530586 2020 single work biography

'Costas Taktsis, arguably the most important post-war Greek writer, called himself a Sacred Monster, and his life-long friend Carl Plate – an important painter, Gallerist and influencer of modern art in Sydney – the Colossus of Woronora.

'‘You get a very aromatic sense of this great cross-pollination of cultures, and what a hip cast of characters! (Powys and Oblomov!!) And the letters supply specificity like nothing else – details, voice, intimacy.

'It’s great. How the drab Edwardian monochrome of the post-war years, gets a sweep of colour on islands of creativity, dazzled landscapes … terrific links (London, Paris, Ireland, Athens, Hydra, Sydney), and entanglements and – because we know the end  – one senses the drama of forces  – beyond anyone’s control – under the sunny availability of youth. A fantastic work of cultural history.’
– George Alexander'

(Source: publisher's blurb)

1 German Romanticism, British Property and Indigenous Sovereignty : Landscape and Literature in Australia Cassi Plate , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Halfway House : The Poetics of Australian Spaces 2010; (p. 158-169)
1 Surrendering Control : Two Laws as Collaborative Community Film-making: an Interview with Carolyn Strachan and Alessandro Cavadini Therese Davis (interviewer), Cassi Plate (interviewer), 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Documentary Film , vol. 2 no. 2 2008; (p. 149-168)

'This interview with film-makers Carolyn Strachan and Allesandro Cavadini focuses on their collaboration with the Borroloola Aboriginal community in the making of Two Laws (1981). They explain why they chose to ‘surrender’ directorial control to the community and how this action led to the unique form and style of this documentary. The detailed and frank discussion of the complex processes of collaboration, what Marcia Langton once called the‘actual dialogue’ of cross-cultural film production, deepens our appreciation of this unique group-authored film. It also allows us to consider how film in general can function meaningfully as a site of cross-cultural exchange.'  (Introduction)

1 The Last Frontier : Land and Landscape Cassi Plate , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia : Making Space Meaningful 2007; (p. 103-114)
‘The Last Frontier: Land and Landscape’ looks at the intersections between three prevailing ideas in relation to land in Australia at the turn of the last century. Through an examination of paintings, photographs and writings of a seaman/artist/publisher, Adolf Gustav Plate, several layers of the land’s meanings are exposed: German Romantic notions of land as sacred, British ideas of land as property, and the Aboriginal conception of land as existing in a reciprocal relationship to people and animals. A mingling of these ideas continues to inform our relationship to land in Australia…(Author’s abstract p. 103)
1 6 y separately published work icon Restless Spirits : The Life and Times of a Wandering Artist Cassi Plate , Sydney : Picador , 2005 Z1173251 2005 single work biography travel Cassi Plate reconstructs life in the Pacific during the time when her granddather, A. G. Plate was travelling there as an artist and photographer.
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