The Australian ugliness

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Fifty years after its first publication, Robin Boyd's bestselling The Australian Ugliness remains the definitive statement on how we live and think in the environments we create for ourselves. In it Boyd rails against Australia's promotion of ornament, decorative approach to design and slavish imitation of all things American.

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Title Statements

Full title :The Australian ugliness / Robin Boyd ; foreword by Christos Tsiolkas ; afterword by John Denton, Philip Goad & Geoffrey London ; drawings by Robin Boyd.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010.
Edition:50th anniversary ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Text Publishing
Place of Publication:Melbourne
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

Notes

Previously published: Ringwood, Vic. : Penguin Books, 1980, ©1960.

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 286 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781921656224, 1921656220
oclc:ocn871286707
LC Classification:NA1600
Dewey Decimal:720.994

1. The descent into chaos -- 2. The featurist capital -- 3. Anglophiles and Austericans -- 4. Pioneers and arboraphobes -- 5. The non-featurists -- 6. The innocent era -- 7. The pursuit of pleasingness -- 8. The ethics of anti-featurism.

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Architecture Architecture -- Australia Architecture and society Architecture and society -- Australia Architecture et société -- Australie Australia Australians Australiens National characteristics, Australian