The Hobart Bookshop
The Hobart Bookshop and Forty South Publishing are pleased to invite you to the launch, by Yvette Watt, of Carol Freeman’s new book, Paper Tiger: How Pictures Shaped the Thylacine.
When: 5.30pm, Thursday 28th August
Where: The Hobart Bookshop
Free event, all welcome.
Paper Tiger is an exciting new history of the thylacine that takes the reader on a journey behind artists’ brushstrokes and photographers’ lenses into the world of science, printing processes, publishing entrepreneurs, circulating libraries and bounties and reveals how inaccurate published images were … and how profoundly they affected attitudes toward living thylacines. Written with sensitivity and an eye for detail, Paper Tiger uncovers forgotten drawings and lost photographs from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, telling a story full of mystery and revelations. It demonstrates how pictures and words have a vital influence on a species’ survival. As the rate of extinctions escalates, we are also reminded that sympathetic pictures have the power to provide hope for endangered animals.
Carol Freeman is a writer and Adjunct Researcher at the University of Tasmania, where she was awarded a University Medal in 2000. Her work focuses on representations of extinct and threatened species, ethics in human-animal relations and visualisations of animals in popular culture and wildlife documentaries.
Yvette Watt is a lecturer in painting at the Tasmanian College of the Arts. She has a PhD in fine art, has held numerous solo exhibitions and is the recipient of a number of grants and awards. Her work is held in a many public and private collections including Parliament House, Canberra, Artbank and the Art Gallery of WA. She has an ongoing fascination with the relationships between humans and animals and has been actively involved in animal advocacy since the mid-1980s.
For more information on the book and author, visit Carol Freeman’s website.
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