Monumental Queensland
Subtitle: signposts on a cultural landscape
By: Lisanne Gibson & Joanna Besley.
Contributors: Besley, Joanna.
Publisher: University of Queensland Press; Distributed in the USA by International Specialized Book Services
Published: 2004
Place of publication: St. Lucia, Qld; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Public sculpture -- Australia -- Queensland.; Monuments -- Australia -- Queensland.; Arts, Australian -- Australia -- Queensland.; Cultural property -- Australia -- Queensland -- Social aspects.; Queensland -- Cultural policy.; Queensland -- Description and travel.; Queensland -- Social life and customs.
Description: "Authors Lisanne Gibson and Joanna Besley have selected over 200 of Queensland's diverse public cultural objects and placed them, for the first time, along the same continuum. Some old, some new. Some familiar, some forgotten. Some lost forever. These signposts on a cultural landscape provide a unique guide to Queensland's stories and histories." "Monumental Queensland encourages us - whoever and wherever we are - to look more closely at the things around us and how they articulate our identity. It also asks us to consider why these objects continue to matter, and shows what can happen if they're not acknowledged."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-261) and index.