Illustrated children’s books: Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)
Edmund Dulac published in the first decades of the twentieth century, at a time now recognised as a golden age of children’s book illustration.
Archive for March, 2018
Speculating upon the archive: woman+pants=key search
This is where it starts, in the pictures archive, where visual records are kept. Accompanying the images are written descriptions with misplaced pronouns and sometimes unstable definitions of gender. You have questions: is there something else to be seen here?
Celebrating Australian women on International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is always a welcome opportunity to share stories of women. Intrepid, individual, inspiring – there are so many lives that blazed before us and often into obscurity.
Sybil Craig: a life in pictures
Arts & literature, Such was life:
Melbourne artist Sybil Craig became one of the first women war artists in Australia. The Library holds Sybil’s archive which contains over 1700 photographs and more than 280 works on paper, many of which are now online.
2018 Inky Award longlist announced; teen judges invited to apply
News:
The longlist for the 2018 Inky Awards, Australia’s national teen choice awards for young adult literature, has been announced today.
