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Society

Selective Pruning

by Ilana Snyder
September 2007, no. 294

Which School?: Beyond public vs private by Joana Mendelssohn

Pluto Press, $17.95 pb, 108 pp

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Joanna Mendelssohn is best known as an art critic and historian. After the publication of an essay in The Griffith review entitled ‘Going Private’, Pluto Press commissioned her to write a piece for its Now Australia series. Similar to Black Inc.’s Quarterly Essays, but even more determinedly non-academic, the Pluto Press format is part of a publishing phenomenon and covers a range of political, intellectual and cultural views on public issues and debates. The authors are not necessarily experts in the area they write about, nor are their views always based on systematic, in-depth research.

 


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Which School?: Beyond public vs private by Joana Mendelssohn

Pluto Press, $17.95 pb, 108 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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