Wilson, Hardy
Entry updated 12 August 2018. Tagged: Author.
(1881-1955) Australian painter, architect and author, most of whose writings espouse visions of Utopia soured by a persistent anti-Semitism, beginning with The Cow Pasture Road (1920). The fictional element in these texts varies from cursory to minimal. His vision of an orientalized ideal home called Celestion, a central glory of the imagined ideal City of Kurrajong, is central to almost all of this work, soaking it in a sometimes welcome aesthetic glow: beauty throughout shaping the construction of his proposed world. [JC]
William Hardy Wilson
born Campbelltown, New South Wales: 14 February 1881
died Richmond, Victoria: 16 December 1955
works
- The Cow Pasture Road (Sydney, New South Wales: Art in Australia, 1920) [hb/]
- The Dawn of a New Civilization (London: Cecil Palmer, 1929) [hb/]
- "Yin-Yang" (Flowerdale, Tasmania: for the author, 1934) [coll: hb/]
- Collapse of Civilization (Melbourne, Victoria: for the author, 1936) [hb/]
- Eucalyptus (Wandin, Victoria: for the author, 1941) [fictionalized memoir: hb/]
- Atomic Civilization (Melbourne, Victoria: for the author, 1949) [hb/]
- Kurrajong: Sit-Look-See (Melbourne, Victoria: for the author, 1954) [hb/]
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