Autobiography

Summary of the three-part autobiography

These volumes tell the story of writing critical histories of art and literature in a state and country where there is little interest in the life of the mind and where arts institutions, funding agencies and other bodies think that there is little value in critical thought or in knowing anything about Australia’s cultural past.


Cover: Trusting in Providence, an Autobiography, Part 1. By Michael Denholm

Trusting in Providence, an Autobiography, Part 1

Tells the story of the author's struggle to write critical studies of Australian literature and Australian art, such as his six-volume series of books, In the Vineyard of Art, and his history of Australian art and craft criticism and Australian art and craft history, in a country where there is very little interest in such books. He relates his own struggle to the struggle writers and artists such as Flaubert have had over centuries, as he discusses the life and work of such writers and artists as Kierkegaard, Hermann Broch, William Faulkner, Leo Tolstoy and Minor White.

ISBN 978-0-9751684-4-8
2016 (428 p.)
Price - $40 Aus.
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Cover: The Almost Total Death Of Art Criticism. Combating Mediocrity, Stupidity and Ignorance at the Beginning of the Twenty First Century, an Autobiography, Part 2. By Michael Denholm

The Almost Total Death Of Art Criticism. Combating Mediocrity, Stupidity and Ignorance at the Beginning of the Twenty First Century, an Autobiography, Part 2

Continues the author's story, while, in essays on such writers and philosophers as W.H. Auden, John Carroll, Leonard Cohen and John Updike, the author explores, through the nature of his childhood and upbringing, how he became the person he now is, and describes the life of the mind he has explored and his interior life.​

ISBN 978-0-9751684-5-5
2016 (206 p.)
Price - $40 Aus.

Cover: Faith Moves Mountains, Creating A Monument Set in Stone, The Diary of A Superfluous Man in a Nightmare 'Society', Struggling to Survive and Triumph in the Penal Colony

Faith Moves Mountains, Creating A Monument Set in Stone, The Diary of A Superfluous Man in a Nightmare 'Society', Struggling to Survive and Triumph in the Penal Colony. Part 3


A deeply philosophical book, Faith Moves Mountains, Creating a Monument Set in Stone, the third volume of this author's autobiography, explores, through the mind of famous authors, artists, philosophers and filmmakers, realities where humanity has gone wrong in its history, as it examines such matters as the nature of genius.
ISBN 978-0-6480425-3-2
2022
Price - $40 Aus.