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'Muecke discusses the cultural representation of the Australian landscape. Australian landscape is the wide brown land of Dorothea McKellar's famous poem gathered and brought into the orbit of perception: framed as a landscape painting or photograph, conceived of as a suitable site for building, or captured as a moving image in the cinema.' (Publisher's abstract)
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Epigraph: Landscape is a medium of exchange between the human and the natural, the self and the other. As such, it is like money: good for nothing in itself, but expressive of a limitless reserve of value. - W.J.T. Mitchell
Nietzsche wrote that truth approaches on the legs of a dove. Let us make ourselves sick the way Proust did, or let us all fall truly in love, just enough to listen to the doves landing silently. In this condition, Cezanne remains motionless while his sight endlessly scans the Montaigne. Sainte Victoire, waiting for the emergence of what he called "small sensations" which are the pure occurrences of unexpected colors. -Jean-Francois Lyotard
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Subjects:
- South of the West : Postcolonialism and the Narrative Construction of Australia 1992 single work criticism
- Enchanted Country 1993 single work criticism biography
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