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Body culture : Max Dupain, photography and Australian culture, 1919-1939 / Isobel Crombie.

Title
Body culture : Max Dupain, photography and Australian culture, 1919-1939 / Isobel Crombie.
Author
Crombie, Isobel.
Publication
Victoria, Australia : Peleus Press in association with the National Gallery of Victoria, 2004.

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Description
208 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
Summary
"Max Dupain is regarded as one of Australia's most significant photographers. For the first time, this book details how Dupain's formative early work was created in response to the 'body culture' movement of the interwar period. As Dr. Crombie shows, after World War One many western countries enthusiastically subscribed to schemes designed to control, regulate and develop the body as a means of building individual health and fitness and assisting communal regeneration. Drawing on the pseudo-scientific theories of eugenics, ideas and methods concerning the revitalisation of the body became popular among a diverse range of groups. As part of this study, Dr. Crombie reveals how Australia's most distinctive contribution to 'body culture' was through the development of two physical archetypes associated with the beach - namely, the lifesaver and the surfer - and that the popularity of these icons was largely enabled through photography by Dupain and others."--Jacket.
Alternative Title
  • Max Dupain, photography and Australian culture, 1919-1939
  • Max Dupain, photography and Australian culture
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-198) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Creative effort -- Bad blood -- Natural selection has here created an almost new race -- '1 Russian = 1 German = 5 Australians' -- Are you an Australlian apollo? -- The whiter your bread, the sooner you're dead -- tAdoring the naked body -- Laughing Gods in bathing costumes.
ISBN
  • 1920744568
  • 0724102477 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
  • 57410649
  • SCSB-11791121
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library