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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 a...
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 have...
A documentary HerStory of women artists in revolution | Author: Women's Media Center
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A rare, ever-relevant compendium of texts and manifestos from women artists on gender and race issues in cultural institutionsOriginally published in 1971, A Documentary HerStory of Women Artists in Revolution...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
A Spectator is an Artist Too: How we look at art, How we behave around art | Author: Johan Idema
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Is there anything more entertaining, inspiring and instructive than observing art? Yes, it is watching the people interacting with this art. This book may forever change your approach to art...
Behind the Lines 2017: Best Political Cartoons | Author: The Museum of Australian Democracy
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Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Political Cartoons 2017 celebrates another year in Australia's unique, vibrant, and fearless tradition of political cartooning. No politician, party, or policy is safe from the...
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...
Abstract Art: A Global History | Author: Pepe Karmel
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Taking content as a guide to form, this important survey on abstract art breaks open the canon to make room for artists from across the globe.Taking a radically new approach...
Two Sisters - A Singular Vision: Celebrating the Gifts of Margaret and Cathryn Mittelheuser | Author: Dr Margaret Mittelheuser
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Since 2001, Dr Margaret Mittelheuser AM (1931-2013) and Dr Cathryn Mittelheuser AM have supported the acquisition of more than 100 works for the QAGOMA Collection, and their sustained and generous...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 | 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Imants Tillers: Journey to Nowhere | Author: Elita Ansone
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For the renowned artist Imants Tillers, whose career spans more than four decades of prolific creative practice. Displacement, diaspora and an awareness of the complex weave of cultures marks all...
Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Political Cartoons 2018 | Author: The Museum of Australian Democracy
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Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Political Cartoons 2018 celebrates another year in Australia's unique, vibrant and fearless tradition of political cartooning. No politician, party or policy is safe from the...
Lucienne Day: In the Spirit of the Age | Author: Andrew Casey
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This is the first in depth study to look at all aspects of the work of Lucienne Day, bringing together her work in textiles, wallpaper, carpets and ceramics from both...
Saul Leiter (2nd Edition) | Author: Francois Halard
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In 2015, French photographer François Halard (b. 1961) visited late Saul Leiter’s almost empty apartment in the East Village, two years after his passing. He took photographs of the decrepit...
Visitor | Author: Vincent Ferrane
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Visitor by Vincent Ferrané is a series of photographs of female artists in their studios in Paris. In this series, Ferrané strives to find the right distance to capture the...
Jason Brooks: Perpetual Orgy | Author: Michael Bracewell
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Perhaps best known for hyper realistic portraits of subjects from Kate Moss to the heavily tattooed Mr. X and Zoe which take the process of portraiture beyond the photographic medium,...