Humphries’ larger than life characters were vehicles to deride and challenge the mind-numbing intellectual climate dominating Australian cultural life in the 1950s and 60s.
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Whilst not saying that everything in our cities is crass - we have a fine tradition of making great public monuments, in what Leon Krier calls the ‘Res Publica’ - it is the vast bulk of the ‘Res Economica’, the everyday built environment of housing and commerce that makes our cities so mediocre.