Hundertwasser | Author: Harry Rand
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"If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest." Friedensreich Hundertwasser.Friedrich Stowasser, born in Vienna in 1928, called himself...
Ai Weiwei Speaks | Author: Hans Ulrich Obrist
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Ai Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist - extended the notion of art and is one of the world's most significant creative and cultural figures. In this...
Where Children Sleep | Author: James Mollison
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`Where Children Sleep` presents English-born photographer James Mollison's large-format photographs of children's bedrooms around the world--from the U.S.A., Mexico, Brazil, England, Italy, Israel and the West Bank, Kenya, Senegal, Lesotho,...
Performance Ritual Document | Author: Anne Marsh
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This copiously illustrated publication explores performance art-and its intensive cousin, body art-through live manifestations and reiterations in photographs, film and video. Records such as these, that began to be made...
Whitechapel Series: The Object | Author: Antony Hudek
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Discussions of the object as a key to understanding central aspects of modern and contemporary art. Artists increasingly refer to “post-object-based” work while theorists engage with material artifacts in culture....
Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Barrels and The Mastaba 1958-2018 | Author: Paul Goldberger
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From June 18 to September 23, 2018, London’s Hyde Park hosted Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s newest installation: The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake). The temporary sculpture takes cues...
Koons | Author: Hans Werner Holzarth
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The creations of Jeff Koons (born 1955) are at once immediately accessible and eloquently art-historical. From basketball tanks to flower puppies, his instantly-recognizable work frolics with banal imagery as much...
The Floating Piers: Christo and Jeanne-Claude | Author: Jonathan William Henery
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In 2016, 100 kilometers east of Milan and 200 kilometers west of Venice, thousands of people walked on water. The Floating Piers by Christo and Jeanne-Claude deployed 70,000 square meters...
Robert Hannaford: Natural Eye | Author: John Neylon
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Robert Hannaford is one of Australia's foremost portrait artists, but this is only one aspect of his work. 'Robert Hannaford: Natural Eye', the first book to be published on this...
Catherine Truman: Touching distance | Author: Melinda Rackham
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Catherine Truman's practice has a palpable anatomy. Silken threads, connecting gestures, forms and techniques, reach across time and location, between suites of more traditionally crafted work and those that infiltrate...
Nicholas Folland | Author: Lisa Slade
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'Nicholas Folland's realm poses speculations for ratbag scientists, fringe dwellers, explorers and dreamers.' Alexie Glass, 2008 Nicholas Folland transforms the everyday, the overlooked and the no longer fashionable. Using domestic...
Hossein Valamanesh: Out of Nothingness | Author: Mary Knights
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'Valamanesh’s work is generously and carefully reproduced throughout, the book’s overall production a fitting tribute to his aesthetic.' Art Monthly, Summer IssueHossein Valamanesh: Out of nothingness traces the development of...
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...
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...
Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines | Author: Dr. Dieter Buchhart
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Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat are considered icons of twentieth-century art. Both are known for their idiosyncratic imagery, radical viewpoints and complex socio-political commentary, and both employed signs, symbols and...
Serious Play: The Art of Kevin Mortgensen | Author: Rob Haysom
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Kevin Mortensen came to prominence in Australia and internationally as an early and highly regarded practitioner of performance art.He represented Australia at an early Venice Biennale and was a major...
Social Forms: a Short History of Political Art | Author: Christian Viveros-Faune
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In an increasingly polarized world, with shifting and extreme politics, Social Forms illustrates artists at the forefront of political and social resistance. Highlighting different moments of crisis and how these...
The Art of the Simon and Kirby Studio | Author: Joe Simon
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The names Joe Simon and Jack Kirby are synonymous with comic books, and their partnership ushered in the Golden Age of comics starting in the 1940s. Together they created memorable...
The Hockneys: Never Worry What The Neighbours Think | Author: John Hockney
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The Hockneys is a never before seen insight into the lives of one of the world's most famous artists and his family by youngest brother John, from growing up in the...
The Thonet Brand: A Look at Its Graphic Design History | Author: Lilo Schafer
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The company Thonet was founded in 1819 and has since become a furniture manufacturer with the highest standards of design and quality. Worldwide, the name is associated with famous design...
The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century | Author: Timothy Hyman
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Figurative painting is due a reappraisal. In this passionately argued volume the distinguished writer and artist Timothy Hyman cuts a new path through the tangle of twentieth century art. The...
What It Means to Write about Art | Author: Jarrett Earnest
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The most comprehensive portrait of art criticism ever assembled, as told by the leading writers of our time.In the last fifty years, art criticism has flourished as never before. Moving...
Yves Saint-Laurent: Dreams of the Orient | Author: Aurelie Samuel
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Asia has long fascinated European artists. The gradual arrival of art objects and textiles from the Orient were inexhaustible sources of inspiration for painters, sculptors and of course couturiers. Yves...
You, Me and Art: Artists in the 21st Century: Artists in the 21st Century | Author: Marta Gnyp
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As the art world shifts and expands, the position of everyone in its orbit--from viewers to critics and curators to artists themselves--is continuously reinvented and transformed. Though the artist remains...
Co-Art: Artists on Creative Collaboration | Author: Ellen Mara De Wachter
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Art history is traditionally presented as the individual's struggle for self-expression, yet over the past fifty years, the number of artists working collaboratively has grown exponentially. Co-Art: Artists on Creative...
Performance in Contemporary Art | Author: Catherine Wood
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In this important new survey, Catherine Wood proposes performance not as a genre of art separate from object-making but as an attitude that has infiltrated the entire terrain of contemporary art. From the...
MoMA NOW | Author: Ann Temkin
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This newly revised deluxe edition of MoMA Highlights celebrates the 90th anniversary of the MuseumMoMA Highlights presents a chronological overview of some of the most significant modern and contemporary artworks...
Chuck Close Scribble Book: Self Portrait | Author: Chuck Close
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A fascinating and absorbing book that will take pride of place in any artmaker, collector or enthusiast's library. Chuck Close immediately liked the idea of a book without words. As...
Heartland: Contemporary Art from South Australia | Author: Nici Cumpston
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Heartland is the accompanying publication for a contemporary art exhibition from South Australia that generated new ways of thinking about who and where we are. It premiered new works of...
Management of Art Galleries | Author: Magnus Resch
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The art world is tough, the rules are a mystery, and only the lucky ew make money' - so how can galleries succeed? What makes a commercial art gallery successful?...
Destination Art: 500 Artworks Worth the Trip
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Art tourism has been a popular pursuit for generations of adventurers, and Destination Art is the essential guide to 500 must-see examples of permanently installed place-specific artworks of the twentieth...
Chromaphilia: The Story of Colour in Art | Author: Stella Paul
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"Stella Paul has written a most useful and readable book on the complex subject of colour which addresses expertly both its material and affective properties." Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus, The...
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...
Great Women Artists
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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...
Connecting: Harness Your Emotions to Enhance Your Creativity | Author: Paulina Larocca
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Want to learn how to cultivate your creativity to live a more emotionally rewarding life?Connecting is an homage to our creative forces. Each page is an illustrative example designed to...
Luigi Ghirri: Its Beautiful Here Isnt It | Author: Germano Celant
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Luigi Ghirri was an extraordinary photographer, as well as a writer whose career was so rich and varied that it seems like a lesson in the contemporary history of the...
Love and Lament: An Essay on the Arts in Australia in the Twentieth Century | Author: Professor Margaret Plant
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Spanning music, theatre, film, literature, as well as other forms of visual art including architecture and photography, this ambitious overview of Australian art covers the entire spectrum of artistic mediums...
Mr White | Author: Yiting Lee
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Who needs colour? Not Mr White! This charming book describes how Mr White discovers something extraordinary in his ordinary and black and white world. He decides to add colour everywhere...
Sydney Noir: The Golden Years | Author: Michael Duffy
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The first ever book devoted entirely to the golden years of the Sydney underworld. In the late 1960s Sydney was one of the most prosperous places on earth and one...
Australian Gypsies: Their Secret History | Author: Mandy Sayer
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Today, roughly 100,000 Gypsies call Australia home, yet until now their experiences have been hidden from our history, and from our present.Here, award-winning memoirist and novelist Mandy Sayer weaves together...
William Yang: Recompositions | Author: Helena Grehan
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Acclaimed photographer William Yang has captured the zeitgeist like no-one else, providing a very personal insight into the evolution of Mardi Gras, the spectre of AIDS, Sydney’s theatrical and social...
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....
Platform Papers 51: Missing in Action: The ABC and Australian Screen Culture | Author: Kim Dalton
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This paper takes the opportunity to ask how and why a cultural institution of such significance as the ABC has been variously able, allowed, encouraged and supported to run its...
Culture Heist: Art versus Money | Author: Judith White
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A much-loved cultural institution facing a cost-cutting government, a board dominated by the big end of town, and a management fixated on an ambitious building project. It’s a true story. Culture...
Hegel's Owl: The Life of Bernard Smith | Author: Sheridan Palmer
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‘An elegant and powerful study, finely crafted – fully worthy of its subject.’ Peter Beilharz, Curtin University, PerthBernard Smith began life as a ward of the State; he would go...
My Salute to Five Bells | Author: John Olsen
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My Salute to Five Bells by John Olsen charts the journey of one of Australia's greatest living artists at work on the biggest commission of his career. Member of the...
RICHARD LARTER | Author: Deborah Hart
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Recognises and celebrates the work of one of Australia's most significant and engaging artists and is the first major book of his work. Born in England in 1929, Larter moved...
Australian Artists Books | Author: Alex Selenitsch
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Artists' books are works of art created in book form, or rather forms as there are a myriad of approaches such as pages in a box, scrolls, fold outs and...