Art and Architecture, mainly
Blog URL http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com/
Located Melbourne, Victoria Australia
Tags art, architecture, history, town planning
The fine arts, decorative arts and architecture of Europe, North America and Australia, 1650-1933.
Latest Blog Posts
- Dunera and its Jewish Internees in 1940 on Nov 21, 2009 in Britain Jewish WW2 Australia art history
The BBC said in 1940 thousands of Germans, Austrians and Italians in Britain were sent to camps set up at racecourses and incomplete housing estates, such as Huyton outside Liverpool. That many of the enemy aliens were Jewish refugees and therefore h...
- 19th Century Amusement Centres: healthy living, sport, fun on Nov 18, 2009 in USA Scotland Vienna universal exhibitions Australia 19th century
The concept of "healthy living" witnessed the peak of its development by the end of the C19th and early C20th. Once most people had left the countryside and moved into city life, the seaside held a held a special position in peoples’ thinking as a...
- Lady of Shalott: Keeping the Lady on Nov 15, 2009 in Britain Tennyson Alfred literature art history
Towers are ambiguous structures. The keep, or tower, holds people in and out. Towers are bulwarks against what is outside: the chaos of nature, marauders, and things that go bump in the night. Towers protect the outside from what is locked within: th...
- Women's Cultural Salons: literature, music, art, politics on Nov 15, 2009 in women music salons literature art history
I have been fascinated by the range of creative talent and interest that salonieres managed to get together in the privacy of their homes, largely during the 1795-1905 era. These women may well have had important fathers and husbands, but I am certai...
- Vienna's Ringstrasse: 1860-1890 on Nov 12, 2009 in architecture Vienna history
A very young Emperor Franz Joseph came to the throne of Austria in 1848 and reigned for a long 68 years. Franz Joseph made a great difference to the look of his capital city, demolishing the city’s defensive, medieval walls in 1857 to build an...
- Remember Them: Guide to Victoria's Wartime Heritage on Nov 9, 2009 in war memorials books history Australia
Like historian Garrie Hutchinson, who we will meet in a moment, I had a very powerful moral and political objection to the Vietnam war. My grandfather had been a soldier-translator in the 1914-18 war and my father was an engineer in the 1939-45 war.
- George B. Shaw, Fabian Society, London School of Economics on Nov 8, 2009 in Britain stained glass windows history Fabian Society London
The Fabian Society was founded in 1884 by the best and brightest of Britain’s reformist thinkers. Absolutely anyone I would have wanted to correspond with in late Victorian Britain was a member, including Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Sh...
