The Planetary Clock: Antipodean Time and Spherical Postmodern Fictions

The Planetary Clock examines the representation of time in postmodern culture by describing literature, music, film, and painting since the 1960s. By focusing on the antipodean dimensions of postmodernism, including Indigenous writing and questions of climate change, this book indicates how the contemporary arts have self-consciously accommodated a planetary circumference. It includes discussions of visual artists such as David Hockney, Charles Blackman, and Fiona Hall, composers such as John Cage, Peter Sculthorpe, and George Benjamin, and film-makers such as Baz Luhrmann and Quentin Tarantino. With 22 colour illustrations, this book brings the Southern Hemisphere into critical dialogue with the established world of Western culture.