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?...
100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists | Author: Alex Danchev
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In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism,...
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...
The Australian ugliness | Author: Robin Boyd
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Fifty years after its first publication, Robin Boyd's bestselling The Australian Ugliness remains the definitive statement on how we live and think in the environments we create for ourselves. In...
Yayoi Kusama: All About My Love
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A retrospective of Yayoi Kusama, Japan's most prominent artist and 'Queen of the Polka Dots'. Avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama's matchless creativity and originality have been captivating the world since she moved...
B is for Bauhaus: An A-Z of the Modern World | Author: Deyan Sudjic
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Design is a unique way of understanding the world around us. This book is an essential tool kit for decoding contemporary culture. It's about what makes a Warhol a genuine...
Installation View: Photography Exhibitions in Australia (1848-2020) | Author: Daniel Palmer
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Installation View: Photography Exhibitions in Australia (1848-2020) offers a significant new account of photography in Australia, told through its most important exhibitions and modes of collection and display. From colonial records...
Australia at the Venice Biennale: A Century of Contemporary Art | Author: Kerry Gardner
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Before the winds of World War I blew Europe apart, a rowdy and radical group of Australian artists would gather in the salons of Paris and London to embrace new...
Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings | Author: Gordon Bennett
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Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings is the first publication to survey the writing practice of the late Gordon Bennett (1955-2014), giving vital insight into one of Australia's most important contemporary artists...
Landscape painting now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism | Edited by: Todd Bradway
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Brimming with some of the brightest stars in the contemporary art world, this is a far-reaching exploration of the very best landscape painting now. Whether as a reaction to our technological...
CUT: 10 Years of the Stencil Art Prize | Author: Jacinta Fintan
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A stunning new book created with Jacinta Fintan, Director of The Stencil Art Prize. The Stencil Art Prize is a touring exhibition of the world’s biggest, best and most daring artists...
Huma Bhabha: We Come in Peace: The Roof Garden Commission | Author: Shanay Jhaveri, Ed Halter and Sheena Wagstaff
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A compact volume that illuminates the work of Huma Bhabha and chronicles her piece for the 2018 Met Roof Garden commissionOften described as “post apocalyptic,” the work of Pakistani sculptor...
Contemporary Painting (World of Art) | Author: Suzanne Hudson
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An international survey exploring the many ways in which painting is re-approached, re-imagined and challenged by today’s artists. Painting is a continually expanding and evolving medium. The radical changes that...
What Is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives | Edited by Adam Geczy
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What Is Performance Art? Australia Perspectives is a new volume that takes a look at the rich history of performance art in Australia through a multitude of perspectives. With thirty-nine...
The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art | Author: QACOMA
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In its tenth anniversary year, one of Australia's longest running and most critically acclaimed contemporary exhibition series, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT), returns to the Queensland Art...
Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement | Author: Professor Whitney Chadwick
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This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas and art works of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist...
Landscapes: John Berger on Art | Author: John Berger
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In this brilliant collection of diverse works essays, short stories, poems, translations which spans a lifetime 's engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his own unique...
Research For People Who Think They Would Rather Create | Author: Dirk Vis
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What is artistic research? What is a research document? How do these relate to the making process, invention, and creativity? What exactly is expected of me? If you have ever...
Janis Joplin: The queen of psychedelic soul | Author: Simon Braund
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Janis Joplin was the most compelling female blues singer of the 1960s with a thrilling, emotional depth and a fiery stage presence that dominated albums such as Big Brother's Cheap Thrills...
Great Women Artists | Editor: Phaidon
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Five centuries of fascinating female creativity, presented in more than 400 compelling artworks and one comprehensive volume.The most extensive fully illustrated book of female artists ever published, Great Women Artists...
The Architecture of Happiness | Author: Alain de Botton
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The Architecture of Happiness is bestselling author Alain de Botton's exploration of the hidden links between buildings and our well being. In The Architecture of Happiness, de Botton explores one...
To Be Determined: Photography and the Future | Author: Duncan Wooldridge
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To Be Determined: Photography and the Future is a book with a radical proposal: the photograph is as much an object of the future as it is of the past. Exploring...
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...
Artists on Art: How They See, Think & Create | Author: Holly Black
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Through a carefully curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, Artists on Art reveals what matters most to the masters. You'll discover how the giants of the different artistic genres...
Regional Bureaucracy | Author: Guillermo Fernandez-Abascal
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Every regional city and town has basic amenities of some description. A post office, a school, a town hall, a police station, and sometimes, a swimming pool. Across New South...
Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now | Author: Carmen Winant
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Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now is a timely and explosive book by artist and writer Carmen Winant. An investigation of a genre of photographs Winant calls 'instructional', it asks:...
The Impossibility of Silence | Author: Ian Lynam
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The Impossibility of Silence is a book for artists, designers and photographers interested in approaching writing about their vocation and culture. Drawing upon decades of experience as a writer, designer,...
Before Time Began | Author: Jessica De Largy Healy
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The common thread running right through this work is man's link with the land, the legacy of the ancestors that still echoes in the present. Understanding and following this underlying...
Cross Cultural Chairs: Diversifying Modern Seating | Editor: Matteo Guarnaccia
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The anatomy of our bodies requires sitting; but do we design seats in the same way? Have our ideas around 'sitting' been colonised by modern design? And how is the...
Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment 1933-1957 (Second Edition) | Author: Eugen Blume
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The interdisciplinary and experimental educational ideas espoused by Black Mountain College (BMC), founded in North Carolina in 1933, made it one of the most innovative schools in the first half...
MoMA NOW | Author: Ann Temkin
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This newly revised deluxe edition of MoMA Highlights celebrates the 90th anniversary of the Museum.MoMA Highlights presents a chronological overview of some of the most significant modern and contemporary artworks...
The Material Kinship Reader | Edited by: Kris Dittel
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What does it mean to acknowledge one’s closeness to, enmeshment in or even kinship with the material world? And what does it mean to question family structures – the way...
Doing Feminism | Women's Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia | Author: Anne Marsh
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Doing Feminism represents over 220 artists and groups with 370 colour illustrations punctuated by extracts from artists' statements, curatorial writing and critique. Here, Marsh demonstrates the innovation and power of women's...
Victory over Death: The Art of Colin McCahon | Author: Rex Butler
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Perhaps at the origin of all thinking about culture lies the question of the afterlife. The artist makes their work hoping that it will live on after their death. The...
The Art of Contemporary China (World of Art) | Author: Jiang Jiehong
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A redefinition of contemporary Chinese art of the last forty years in the context of unprecedented cultural, political and urban transformation. Fulfilling a need for an accessible, affordable introduction to...
Buried not dead: Essays | Author: Fiona McGregor
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Novelist Fiona McGregor's new book, Buried Not Dead, is a collection of essays on art, literature and performance, sexuality, activism and the life of the city. It features performance artists,...
The Flash of Recognition: Photography and the Emergence of Indigenous Rights | Author: Jane Lydon
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As a student, Jane Lydon was shocked by the photograph on the cover of Charles Rowley's 1970 classic, The Destruction of Aboriginal Society, which showed two Aboriginal men in neck-chains....
Whitechapel Series: The Market | Author: Natasha Degen
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Transnational markets hold sway over all aspects of contemporary culture, and that has transformed the environment of recent art, blurring the previously discrete realms of price and value, capital and...
What is Contemporary Art? | Author: Terry Smith
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Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today's multifaceted definition, Terry...
Rotography: A New Universe of the Visual | Author: Jürg Stünzi
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Instead of the horizontal panning movement used to create a classic panoramic image, the author experiments with curves as well as vertical or parallel shifting. A fixed camera recording of...
LAND: Photographs that make you think | Author: Henry Carroll
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LAND: Photographs That Make You Think considers humanity’s changing relationship with the natural world, a relationship that has seen us edge further away from real encounters. The photographs explore how the...
Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Age of Culture Production | Author: Nato Thompson
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In our chaotic world of co-opted imagery, does art still have power? A fog of images and information permeates the world nowadays: from advertising, television, radio, and film to the glut...
Utsuwa: Japanese Objects for Everyday Use | Author: Kylie Johnson
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Japanese craft has long been revered for its quality and beauty, and skilled craftwork remains an important part of Japanese life. 'Utsuwa', meaning 'for everyday use', embodies the ethos of...
After The Australian Ugliness | Author: Naomi Stead
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Robin Boyd's The Australian Ugliness was published in 1960 and quickly took its place as a key work of architectural and cultural critique in the nation's canon. This new book responds to...
Black Art Notes | Edited by: Tom Lloyd
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Black Art Notes is a collection of essays edited by artist and organiser Tom Lloyd. Originally published in 1971, the book was conceived as a critical response to the Contemporary...
Tracey Emin | Author: Jonathan Jones
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This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the work of one of the most important and respected artists working...
The Henson Case | Author: David Marr
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The Australian Prime Minister called them 'absolutely revolting'. Their removal from a Sydney art gallery was hailed by the Daily Telegraph as a 'Victory for Decency'. Cate Blanchett and members...