| Description |
1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Section One Blindingly Obvious -- Third Little Pig: Showcasing Australian Brickwork -- Letterbox That Jerry Built -- You Have Junk E-Mail -- Section Two One-Eyed Monster -- Switching On the "Telly" Down Under -- Gob-Smacked! T.V. Dining in Australia Between 1956 and 1966 -- Dressing Up (and Down) for T.V. -- Section Three Happiest Place on Earth -- Walt Disney's Backyard -- Feng-Shui Down Under -- Hong Kong Disneyland: Feng-Shui Inside the Magic Kingdom -- Section Four Adaptable Shop-House -- Sinaiwan: A Shop-House Town -- Tall Storeys: Vietnamese Shop-Houses in Transition -- "Mapping" Sydney Road, Brunswick -- Section Five Great Detective -- John Bennett Shaw: Collecting Sherlock Holmes -- Holmes Is Where the Art Is -- Section Six Image of the Architect -- Forgotten "Chinese" Architecture of Arthur Purnell -- Barlow File: A Curious Adventure in Building -- Remembering Harry Seidler -- Section Seven A Portrait of an Artist -- Almost Anything Goes: The Canvases of Pro Hart -- Pro Hart's Frankenstein Monsters |
| Summary |
""Out of the Ordinary is one part unembellished documentation and one part verbi-visual equivalent of a Pro Hart work made with nineteenth-century, paint-loaded canons. It is a cultural history, resource for contemporary designers, imaginarium and luminous almanac of an explorer of the stranger species of creativity - from brick art to letterboxes, junk mail, mail art, television, fashion, food, model trains, Disney's imagineering, amusement parks, feng-shui, Postmodern architecture, human-scale craftsmanship, forgotten Australian architects in China, famous architects (that, perhaps, should b |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Art and popular culture.
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Art and popular culture. |
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Popular culture.
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Popular culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lyon, Corbett.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Groves, Derham. Out of the ordinary. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012 1443840300 (OCoLC)798061273 |
| ISBN |
9781527551428 (electronic book) |
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1527551423 (electronic book) |
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1443840300 |
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9781443840309 |
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