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Published by Power Publications Power Institute of Art, University of Sydney By Erika Esau 2010 A$59.95 ISBN 9780909952396 Release Date: Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Images of the Pacific Rim: Australia and California, 1850-1935

AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE:

The University of Washington Press has now placed the book in its interactive catalogue.

It's also available from Amazon.com.

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LET THE REVIEWS BEGIN!
 
Robert Dixon mentions my themes (itinerancy, reproducibility and portability) in his
review in AAANZ Journal of Art . 


This review by my old colleague Sasha Grishin means alot to me!  Canberra Times

Here's a really nice review in Library Journal,
April 15, 2011, by a librarian at Berkeley Public Library.  


Despite coping with the effects of the Brisbane
flood, Prue Ahrens wrote this review
for the  Journal of Design History: 


Roy Lumby's wonderful review in Architecture Bulletin: 



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LECTURES IN THE U.S.:

Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 6:00pm: State Library.
Maybe the first of some more lectures!  This one coming shortly in Sacramento at the State Library, part of its Food For Thought: Thinking and Talking at the California State Library.  The doors open at 5:00pm for a 6:00pm start. 




Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 12:00 noon: Huntington Library: "In Conversation" 

Fulbright Scholar and art historian Erika Esau has just published Images of the Pacific Rim: Australia and California, 1850-1935 (Power Publications) on the aesthetic connections between Australia and the American West. From gold rush photography to Spanish style houses, the absorption of images into the everyday life of these “new” Western societies constructed distinctive cultural iconographies and helped to create a sense of place based upon a shared ocean and climate. Esau works presently as librarian at LACMA’s Rifkind Center of German Expressionist Studies.

This conservation is part of a brown bag luncheon series sponsored by ICW. The event is open to any who wish to attend, and a limited number of lunches will be available upon a first  come/first served basis. To reserve a seat, please respond to Kim Matsunaga at kmatsuna@usc.edu by March 25.

Previous Lectures:

Saturday, March 12, 2011, 4:00 pm. : Friends of The Gamble House lecture, Art Center School of Design, Pasadena : "The Transcontinental Bungalow: From Pasadena to Australia" : http://www.gamblehouse.org/events/lecture.html#L3.  The Gamble House and Art Center College of Design folks were kind enough to have taped the lecture.  (In a couple of days we'll have figured out how to edit the MP3 files into a single play, until then, I'm afraid you'll have to click to start each 5 minute section:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.) 


Thursday, January 27, 2011, 6:30 p.m.:  Lecture for the American Arts Council, LACMA, Brown Auditorium, LACMA:  "California Discoveries".  Mostly my local friends came to hear me. 

Thursday, February 24, 2011, 11:30am for noon: Annual Luncheon Celebrating the Signing of the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, Society of California Pioneers, 300 Fourth Street, San Francisco:  "California Discoveries". 

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Send a note if you'd like -- Contact Erika Esau

Cheers!

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AUSTRALIAN BOOK LAUNCH

I wish you all could have been there:

          
            

Power Publications' launch of Images of the Pacific Rim: Australia and California, 1850-1935
7pm Thursday 4 November 2010, Schaeffer Library, The University of Sydney

Launched by Robert Dixon, Professor of Australian Literature, University of Sydney.
I gave a public lecture in the Mills Lecture Theatre that immediately preceded the book launch.

INTERVIEW
Listen to my interview by Alan Saunders on ABC radio's By Design (2 November 2010)

      

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The Power has produced the flier for the book!  Here's the pdf.


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AMERICAN TOUR--IN PROCESS!



                 



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AUSTRALIA TOUR,  23 February-21 March 2010


Thanks to everyone who made the speaking tour so delightful! 

Tuesday, 2 March, RAIA (NSW) at Tusculum, Sydney, 6: 30 p.m.:  "The California Bungalow:  Pasadena to Australia"

Wednesday, 3 March, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Design Department, 12:30-1:30 p.m.:  "Images of the Pacific Rim:  How Fruitbox Labels Changed Commercial Art" 

Friday, 5 March, 20th Century Heritage Society of NSW, Mitchell Theatre, Mechanics School of Arts, Pitt Street, Sydney, 6 p.m.:  "From Hollywood to Sydney:  Spanish Style Architecture in Australia"

Tuesday, 9 March, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, noon:  "Rain, The City, and the Picturesque:  Charles Conder, William Smedley, and Artistic Exchange in the 1880s".  The NGA's announcement is in its Calendar.   G boards a bus to a flight from Sydney at 4:00 and lands in Los Angeles at 4:00.

Wednesday, 10 March, University of Canberra/Australian National University, University of Canberra, building 12 B 50, 6:30 p.m.:  "The Bungalow in California and Australia"

Thursday, 11 March, Art Forum, Art School, Australian National University, Canberra, noon:  "Early Photographic Exchange between California and Australia:  Some Discoveries"

Wednesday, 17 March, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, noon:  "Bret Harte and Euchre in the Bush".  G, to little effect, pretends to be especially sad and lonely because on their 36th anniversary E was away.