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This ferral Australis! : how terra Australis (a utopian terra nullius) became Ferral Australis (a dy...

This ferral Australis! : how terra Australis (a utopian terra nullius) became Ferral Australis (a dy...

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKOZPavvzd

This ferral Australis! : how terra Australis (a utopian terra nullius) became Ferral Australis (a dystopian terra numbskullius!) / by Mr John Hinds, Esq.

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Full title

This ferral Australis! : how terra Australis (a utopian terra nullius) became Ferral Australis (a dystopian terra numbskullius!) / by Mr John Hinds, Esq.

Publisher

Fairfield, Vic John Hinds, 2014.

Call Numbers

HF 2015/37

Record Identifier

74VKOZPavvzd

MMS ID

991022372719702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

14 plates (concertina folded) : illustrations, facsimiles ; 3.33 m x 36 cm (concertina folded to 36 x 25.5 cm), covered with a canvas jacket.

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Publication information

Publisher

Fairfield, Vic John Hinds, 2014.

Place of Publication

Victoria

Date Published

2014.

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

A concertina-bound artist's book, light-hearted in tone, which toys with ideas of feraI-ness (or ferality) in Australia, with sections covering animals, humans, and the climate. Images of the skulls of four examples of introduced domestic animals (horse, cat, dog, and pig) are overprinted on facsimiles of an early colonial newspaper. The human fera...

Alternative Titles

Full title

This ferral Australis! : how terra Australis (a utopian terra nullius) became Ferral Australis (a dystopian terra numbskullius!) / by Mr John Hinds, Esq.

Other title

This ferral Australis! : how terra Australis became Ferral Australis.

This feral Australis!

This terra Australis!

Alternative title at foot of title page: or ... An: ironic meta-narrative on the pluralist hybridity of the hegemonic colonialistic simulacra, referencing the semiotic intertextuality of a paradigmic Shakespearean narratology. : A hyper-critical poststructuralist pastiche on the metaphysical extraction of urine!...

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

On the cover and title page the 'f' and 'l' of 'Ferral' are superimposed in red on the black-printed word 'Terra.'

Mitchell Library copy is no. 7/10; artist's catalogue no. H/14/005. Plywood boards, covered with printed raw canvas, with a wrap and tie made from the same material. The book as issued is enclosed with a red wax seal....

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

HF 2015/37

Record Identifier

74VKOZPavvzd

Permalink

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKOZPavvzd

Other Identifiers

DDC

702.81

MMS ID

991022372719702626

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