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,...
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...
We are Artists: Women Who Made their Mark on the World | Author: Kari Herbert
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We Are Artists celebrates the life and work of 15 female artists from around the globe and the distinctive mark they made on the art world and beyond. Following in...
101 Things to Learn in Art School | Author: Kit White
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What is the first thing to learn in art school? "Art can be anything." The second thing? "Learn to draw." With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
Portraits: John Berger on Artists | Author: John Berger
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Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Here he takes us through centuries of drawing...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
A documentary HerStory of women artists in revolution | Author: Lucy R. Lippard
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A rare, ever-relevant compendium of texts and manifestos from women artists on gender and race issues in cultural institutions. Originally published in 1971, A Documentary HerStory of Women Artists in...
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...
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...
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...
Glossary of Undisciplined Design | Edited by: Spector Books
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D for Dummy Woman, M for Monster’s Tools, S for Style Defense, U for Unstable Signs – the Glossary of Undisciplined Design looks into undisciplinarity as a feminist unpacking of...
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...
An Unreliable Guidebook to Jewellery by Lisa Walker | Editor: Kate Rhodes
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Edited by Kate Rhodes and Nella Themelios, this expanded second edition of An unreliable guidebook to jewellery by Lisa Walker further explores how the work of the internationally celebrated New Zealand jeweller can be framed...
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,...
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 History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen | Author: David Hockney
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The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two-thirds of it is irrevocably lost, since the earliest...
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....
Home: Drawings by Syrian Children | Author: Ben Quilty
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Renowned Artist and Archibald Prize Winner Ben Quilty has assembled this heartbreaking and awe-inspiring collection of drawings by Syrian children. These drawings form an extraordinary testament to the resilience of...
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...
A Little History of the World
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In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, twenty-six-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly,...
A Little History of Philosophy
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Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking...
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...
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...
Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start | Author: Cara Manes
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One of the most beloved American artists of the last century, Alexander Calder reimagined sculpture as an experiment in space and motion. He upended centuries-old notions that sculpture should be...
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...