Art & Wonder: Young Children and Contemporary Art | MCA | Authors: Dr. Clare Britt & Amanda Palmer
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How do young children bring meaning to and make meaning from contemporary art within a museum context? What potential might there be for creative reciprocity between artists and young children?...
Civic Actions: Artists' Practices Beyond the Museum
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At a time of increasing inequality and social tension, what role can art play in bringing people together? Can artists working in public spaces and situations shift perceptions and attitudes?...
Why have there been no great women artists? | Author: Linda Nochlin
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The 50th anniversary edition of the first major work of feminist art history, published together with the author?s reflections three decades onLinda Nochlin?s seminal essay on women artists is widely...
A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works | Author: Kelly Grovier
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What makes great art great? Why do some works pulse in the imagination, generation after generation, century after century? From Botticelli?s Birth of Venus to Picasso?s Guernica, some paintings and sculptures have become...
Digital Art | Author: Christiane Paul
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This new edition of Christiane Paul?s acclaimed book investigates key areas of digital art practice that have gained in prominence in recent years, including the emergence and impact of location-based...
Nicholas Mangan: Limits to Growth | Edited by: Aileen Burns
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This book evaluates five significant works created by artist Nicholas Mangan over the past seven years. These five seminal works consider political and social narratives of the Asia-pacific and how...
The Self-Portrait | Author: Natalie Rudd
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Self-portraiture shows no sign of losing its ability to capture the public imagination. Given our current proclivity to snap and share 'selfies' in seconds, it is unsurprising to find a...
Be Polite | Author: Gordon Bennett
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Be Polite presents a series of rare and largely unexhibited works on paper by acclaimed Australian artist Gordon Bennett. Bennett’s small but powerful drawings are influential through their use of...
Buon Fresco | Author: Tacita Dean
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St Francis of Assisi was the saint who humanised sainthood. He was a man with an ordinary body and ordinary desires. As Tacita Dean writes, 'He rolled naked in the...
Motherhood | Author: Ann Coxon
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A captivating visual exploration of motherhood, as seen through the eyes of artists over the last 150 years. Depictions of motherhood are ever present in Western art yet are rarely...
The adidas Archive: The Footwear Collection | Author: TASCHEN
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More than 100 years ago the brothers Adolf (?Adi?) and Rudolf Dassler made their first pair of sports shoes. Hundreds of ground-breaking designs, epic moments, and star-studded collabs later, this...
Mikala Dwyer: Drawing Down the Moon | Author: Mikala Dwyer
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For more than 20 years, Mikala Dwyer has pushed the limits of installation, sculpture and performance, establishing herself as one of Australia?s most important contemporary artists.Dwyer has been exhibiting internationally since 1982,...
NOTNOT: Digital Realities | Limited Edition | Author: Cam Scott
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A fascinating and absorbing Artist Book from one of the most exciting contemporary street artists Sydney has to offer ? available in a Limited Edition of 50. Featuring reproductions and...
A Room of Her Own: Inside the Homes and Lives of Creative Women | Author: Robyn Lea
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Meet the creative women who are living life on their own terms in this stunning photographic survey of the most original homes and interiors. A Room of Her Own features...
The medium of Leonora Carrington | Catriona McAra
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A critical survey of Leonora Carrington’s legacies in contemporary creative practice. The medium of Leonora Carrington explores why creative people, especially women, are preoccupied with making work in her legacy...
Culture is not an industry | Author: Justin O'Connor
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Culture is not an industry argues that art and culture in the UK need to renew their social contract and re-align with the radical agenda for a more equitable future....
The Power of Art | Author: Caroline Campbell
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To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of different movements, periods and styles is essential to truly...
Furnitecture | Author: Anna Yudina
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As the definition of 'designer' expands and architects today create everything from jewelry to urban masterplans, a new wave of objects is transforming our interior spaces. They include bookshelves that...
Steal Like An Artist | Author: Austin Kleon
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Artist Austin Kleon?s beautifully illustrated bestseller teaches readers how to use their surroundings and their own creativity to discover their own artistic paths. Filled with clever infographics and words of...
Forms of Enchantment | Author: Marina Warner
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Art-writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues Marina Warner. In this new anthology of some of her most...
Photography: A Feminist History | Author: Emma Lewis
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How did the abolitionist movement interact with women's entry into the field of photography? What does the medium have to do with menstrual taboos? Is there even such a thing...
Value of Art | Author: Michael Findlay
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In this newly revised, updated, and generously illustrated edition Findlay draws on a half-century in the business and a passion for great art to question and redefine what we mean...
Crossing of Innumerable Paths | Author: Guy Brett
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Celebrated art critic and curator Guy Brett made a unique contribution to art criticism and exhibition making through his championing of experimental artists from across the world, as well as...
James Drinkwater: I Love You More Than Paintings | Author: James Drinkwater
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James Drinkwater paintings are physical, muscular, messy - articulating something that Picasso started - blending nameable and unnameable or recognisable imagery with nondescript painted signs, dancing in a frenetic ballet...
Studio Ghibli | Authors: Colin Odell & Michelle Le Blanc
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The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are among the most respected in the movie industry. Their films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each new...
Dana Schutz | Authors: Hamza Walker, Dan Nadel & Lynne Tillman
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The first comprehensive monograph on one of today's most innovative and successful painters - made in close collaboration with the artist.Defined by bold brushstrokes, a dynamic use of color and...
The Art Public: A Short History | Author: Oskar Batschmann
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Although the idea of a collective audience for art - an 'art public' - is highly significant in the art world, this is the first book to enquire into the...
Writings on Art and Anti-Art | Author: Dawn Ades
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Art historian and curator Dawn Ades is a leading voice on Dada, Surrealism, abstraction and art from Latin America. This volume collects her important essays for the first time, addressing...
James Hall on The Self-Portrait | Author: James Hall
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Excerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer and broadcaster James Hall's lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, including such artists as Dürer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh and Kahlo.Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching:...
Griselda Pollock on Gauguin | Author: Griselda Pollock
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Griselda Pollock, feminist art historian and longstanding advocate of gender and racial inclusivity, unpacks the racist, sexist and imperialist underpinnings of works by Gauguin and others as they competed for...
Australia: Antipodean Stories | Author: Eugenio Viola
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Antipodean Stories was the largest exhibition of Australian contemporary art shown overseas. This accompanying publication showcases the breadth of cultural, political and social perspectives from our country in mediums ranging...
Why I Make Art | Author: Brian Alfred
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This compelling volume explores the practices and life stories of artists across multiple mediums, including painting, photography, sculpture and land art. Offering readers an intimate, contemplative view of each remarkable...
Women in Revolt! | Author: Alice Correia
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A timely exploration of the work and lived experiences of a postwar generation of women artists that have largely been omitted from art historical narratives, Women in Revolt! surfaces the...
Tate Photography: Chris Killip | Author: Bilal Akkouche
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Chris Killip (1946–2020) was one of the most influential British photographers of his generation. His boundless curiosity and empathy drew him toward groups and places otherwise overlooked, where he venerated...
Encounters with Artists | Author: Richard Cook
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Richard Cork draws on his impeccable skills as a critic and writer to tell the story of his encounters with some of the world's most influential artists. Through a series...
Letters to a Critic: Alan McCulloch's World of Art | Author: Rodney James
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Australian art through the letters of leading critic Alan McCullochDescribed as 'arguably the most influential Australian art critic of the last half of the twentieth century', Alan McCulloch's work-as illustrator,...
Ai Weiwei: Making Sense | Author: Justin McGuirk
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Artist, film-maker, architect, activist, collector ? whatever mode Ai Weiwei is in, he is trying to tell us something about the state of the world. This book presents Ai?s work...
Enough: Artists and writers on gendered violence | Edited by: Vikki McInnes
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CoVA x Perimeter is a collaborative publishing initiative curated by the Centre of Visual Art at the University of Melbourne and independent publishing house Perimeter Editions. Foregrounding experimental and otherwise innovative...
Look Again: Visibility | Author: Johny Pitts
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Photographer and broadcaster Johny Pitts examines the notion of 'visibility' in Tate's galleries, asking who gets to be seen - and why. The well-known faces of our best-loved paintings hang visible...
Space Between: Selected Writings on Art | Compiled by: Michael Bracewell
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The novelist, writer, curator and cultural commentator Michael Bracewell has written extensively for museums and galleries, along with art publications as diverse as Frieze and The Burlington Magazine, approaching visual...
The Story of Contemporary Art | Author: Tony Godfrey
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A lively introduction to and history of international contemporary art from 1960 to the present. What does it mean? Is it really art? Why does it cost so much? While...
British Women Artists: From Suffrage to the Sixties | Author: Carolyn Trant
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The story of modern British art history told through the stories of its women.Consider for a moment the history of modern art in Britain; you may struggle to land on...
The Other Side | Author: Jennifer Higgie
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In an illuminating blend of memoir and art history, The Other Side explores the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women artists. From the twelfth-century mystic Hildegard of...
Threads: Material, Myths & Symbols | Author: Maria Spitz
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The thread is an interesting thing. Formally, it can be described by a beginning and an end, and a certain stability, flexibility, and mobility. A thread rarely exists as a...
Annika Nordenskiold: From Nothing | Author: Annika Nordenskiold
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The first extraordinary art book created through promtography. The artist and author has created the images, not with paint and brush but with AI. The artist Annika Nordenski?ld has used...
E.H.Gombrich on Fresco Painting | Author: E.H.Gombrich
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An interpretation of the history of mural painting from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century by one of most eminent art historians of all time, who wielded huge influence over...
Linda Nochlin on The Body | Author: Linda Nochlin
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Renowned art historian and pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin explores how, from the late 18th century, fragmented, mutilated and fetishized representations of the human body came to constitute a distinctively modern...
The Story of Art | Author: E.H. Gombrich
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For more than 70 years Sir Ernst Gombrich?s The Story of Art has been a global bestseller ? with more than 8 million copies sold ? the perfect introduction to...