Making the Shrine: Stories from Victoria's War Memorial |
Making the Shrine by Laura Carroll
Laura J Carroll's funny and tender graphic novel explores, in 25 handwritten and illustrated stories, the soul of a city's most treasured monument, along with how it impacted the lives of generations of people: those who made it, visited it, violated and venerated it.
"Melbourne's Shrine is a storied place and those stories have greater diversity and reach than you can imagine. Which is why we need an artist as gifted as Laura J Carroll to have used her talent, research-skills and imagination to produce such an unexpected and remarkable history. Making the Shrine is a unique and extraordinary book."
- SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM, author of Melbourne and This Devastating Fever
Making the Shrine
A tender and funny graphic novel exploring the soul of a city's most treasured monument.
The Shrine of Remembrance has been an everyday sight in the living memory of all Melburnians.
But while everyone knows its purpose, not everyone knows the many stories that have surrounded it for a century.
The competition for its design, and the eleventh-hour campaign that forced it into existence. The community enterprise that helped to fund it.
The hardship and struggle that came with its creation. Throughout it all, the constant battle to define what it represents to the people of Victoria.
This graphic novel is a sequence of stories seeking to explain the meaning of the Shrine across time, both to its architects and supporters, and to the many Victorians who contributed to its creation, and to those who have visited, violated and venerated it since.
Some of the stories are individual and intimate; others are public history from the archives. In Laura J. Carroll's words and pictures, the building's many lives are brought into focus in new and exciting ways.
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laurajcarroll.au
Paperback, 247 x 171mm, 176 pages, full colour.
ISBN 9781763515604
Postage is free within Australia.
❊ Web Links ❊
➼ Making the Shrine: Stories from Victoria's War Memorial
➼ www.laurajcarroll.au
❊ Also See... ❊
➼ Shrine of Remembrance
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