Mark Byron

Bio

Mark Byron is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Sydney whose research takes as its focus the geographical scope and historical reach of Modernism. He is author of the monographs Ezra Pound's Eriugena (London: Bloomsbury, 2014), Samuel Beckett’s Geological Imagination (Cambridge UP, 2020), and with Sophia Barnes the critical manuscript edition Ezra Pound’s and Olga Rudge’s The Blue Spill (London: Bloomsbury, 2019).

Contributions

Pacific Print: Margaret Preston and the Australian ukiyo-e

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The painting and printmaking of the Australian modernist artist Margaret Preston (1875–1963) blend European, Australian, and Japanese artistic techniques and subject matter, providing a critical index of the modern transformation of global geopolitical power. As an artist who trained in several cultural centers but who lived most of her life in Sydney, Preston developed an acutely critical disposition toward imperial geopolitical formations as the old faded and the new emerged in the mid...

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australia visual culture