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Charles Blackman 'Prone Schoolgirl' women artists the banquet was intended asProne Schoolgirl is perhaps the most recognisable of Charles Blackmans Schoolgirl series. Marking a distinct shift in his practice, these images follow a lone student through desolate suburbia. Present are themes of vulnerability, alienation and the loss of innocence reflective of life in an increasingly urbanised postwar Melbourne. Blackman was also inspired by the murder of thirteen year old Alma Tirtschke in 1921. Conceived in 1953, this deeply