| Description |
1 online resource (273 pages) |
| Contents |
This is love -- Paddington Street -- Memory colour -- Fiji -- Birthday barbecue -- Number three -- Musical stairs -- Afternoon -- Spanish rap -- Spaghetti lesson -- Drawing -- Raelian -- Oblong soup -- Papageno -- Tarragon chicken -- Knockers -- Cairns -- Morning light -- Family friend -- Ice cream -- Snakes -- The robbery -- Lizard people -- Mardi Gras -- Buderim -- Bareback riding -- Trinket -- Holyoake -- Paper cigarettes -- Bundeena -- Driving south -- Rodeo rider -- The dog and the witch -- The party -- Statement -- Breath -- Rehab -- Everything is different -- Coda |
| Summary |
The celebrated musician's evocative and intimate memoir of the magic and vulnerability of her bohemian childhood growing up as the daughter of iconic artist Charles Blackman.Bertie Blackman grew up too fast. Bohemian Negligence tells that story with the breathtaking innocence of a child's point of view: close and vivid and utterly in the moment. As memories refract and elide with the images, sounds and impressions of Bertie's child's world, we experience both her wonder and confusion with astonishing intimacy. A renowned musician and artist, Bertie is also a formidable and lyrical writer, and brings those gifts to recreate the world she grew up in. As the daughter of iconic artist Charles Blackman, that world celebrated freedom and creativity but also contained darkness and contradictions. Bertie has captured the magic and vulnerability of childhood in words and images both joyful and haunting: 'My childhood world was full of cracks. Full of light and full of dark. But it was full of love.' |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 28, 2023) |
| Subject |
Blackman, Bertie -- Childhood and youth
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Women musicians -- Australia -- Biography
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Women artists -- Australia -- Biography
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Early memories.
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Childhood and youth of a person
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Early memories
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Women artists
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Women musicians
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Australia
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781761185298 |
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1761185292 |
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