Arts and Literature
- Peter Carey's novel Oscar and Lucinda wins the Miles Franklin Award
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“But here comes Generosity; giving—not to a decayed artist—but to the arts and sciences themselves.—See,—he builds ... whole schools and colleges for those who come after. Lord! how they will magnify his name!
—One honest tear shed in private over the unfortunate, is worth them all.”
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“The textile and needlework arts of the world, primarily because they have been the work of women have been especially written out of art history. It is a male idea that to be “high” and “fine” both women and art should be beautiful, but not useful or functional.”
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“Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.”
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