Social Science Popular Culture
A Portrait of the Artist as Australian
L’Oeuvre bizarre de Barry Humphries
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2004
- Category
- Popular Culture, Acting & Auditioning
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773571624
- Publish Date
- Sep 2004
- List Price
- $65.00
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A Portrait of the Artist as Australian offers the first critical assessment of Barry Humphries' entire career - as a daring postmodern deconstructionist on stage, film, and television, with sixty-seven stage shows, twenty-four film and thirty-four video appearances, thirty-four television series and seventy-one television appearances, and seventy-two audio recordings, but especially what he calls his "second career" as author of twenty-nine books. With an oeuvre that includes novels, biographies, autobiographies, editions, compilations, comic books, poetry, dramatic monologues, sketches, film scripts, and several unclassified works, Humphries is a literary and dramatic artist of considerable significance. Arguing that Humphries is one of Australia's greatest writers, Paul Matthew St Pierre reveals a multi-faceted artist whose success is rooted in music halls, Dadaism, and his identity as an Australian.