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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Australian Abstract | Author: Amber Creswell Bell
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There is no single neat definition of abstract art. It makes no attempt to represent reality; instead it has its own visual language using shape, colour and form with no...
50 Contemporary Women Artists: Groundbreaking Contemporary Art from 1960 to Now
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This one-of-a-kind compendium serves as a reminder of women's strength in the contemporary art market place, and acts as testament to the innovation, power, and necessity of women's art and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Decade of Art and Love: Charles and Barbara Blackman | Author: Christabel Blackman
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When Christabel Blackman's mother turned ninety, they celebrated by sifting through Barbara's old documents: diaries, photos, manuscripts - and a fragile old folder, tied with a ribbon. This held letters...
Glenn Murcutt: Unbuilt Works | Author: Nick Sissons
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Glenn Murcutt believes, 'Architecture is not about a material, it's about place-making. It's about prospect, refuge, climate, topography, flora, fauna, it is about making beautiful spaces that link with the...
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...
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 D?rer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh and Kahlo.Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching:...
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...
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, writing seminal monographic...
Still Life: Contemporary Australian Painters | Author: Amber Creswell Bell
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A collection of objects, no matter how mundane, tells a story. They are like a little world; you can get lost in them. - John BokorStill Life explores the diverse...
Pop-Up Surrealism | Author: Gerard Lo Monaco
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Open the door to the dreamlike world of surrealism! In this magical book, pop-up engineer Gerard Lo Monaco brings to life eight works of art by leading surrealists: Salvador Dali,...
Women Artists in Midcentury America A History in Ten Exhibitions: A History in Ten Exhibitions: | Author: Daniel Belasco
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Explores the history and significance of all-women art exhibitions in midcentury America. In Women Artists in Midcentury America, readers embark on a journey spanning two decades, delving into the evolving...
Framed | Author: Stuart Rosson
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?Framed? blows the lid off one of Melbourne?s most puzzling secrets: Who stole Picasso?s Weeping Woman from the NGV in 1986. Written by the brother of the brilliant artist who...
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...
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...
Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art | Edited by: Andrew St. Louis
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This book is a generously illustrated survey of the most talented artists who emerged from South Korea's burgeoning art scene in the past decade. The 25 artists introduced in the...
Contemporary Art Underground | Author: Sandra Bloodworth
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Contemporary Art Underground presents more than 100 permanent projects completed between 2015 and 2023 by MTA Arts & Design. This ground-breaking program of site-specific projects by a broad spectrum of...
Clearing | Author: Simryn Gill
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One way to understanding clearing is as an act of removal, or erasure. In this book – produced in association with the Art Gallery of NSW as part of her...
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...
Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot's Russia | Author: Maria Alyokhina
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The Russian art collective and activist group Pussy Riot is famous for its spontaneous and courageous actions challenging the Russian regime. Edited by Maria (Masha) Alyokhina, cofounder of the collective,...
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...
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 Artist's Palette | Author: Alexandra Loske
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The paint-loaded palettes of fifty world-renowned artists are displayed alongside the paintings the artists created using those hues, and the colours and brushstrokes employed are analysed to uncover surprising new...
Viktor & Rolf: Fashion Statements (Bilingual edition) | Edited by: Thierry-Maxime Loriot
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Are we designers or artists? Maybe it's possible to be both... For more than three decades, Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren have been exploring with breathtaking virtuosity the boundaries between...
Contemplations of a Collector: Irini Pari in Conversation with Dimitris Daskalopoulos | Author: Irini Pari
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In a contemplative walk through a 30 year collecting endeavor in the art of our time, collector D.Daskalopoulos and his partner Irini Pari, converse in this book on the main...
Panton: Environments, colours, systems, patterns | Author: Ida Engholm
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Dive into the colourful, fun, and futuristic universe of Verner Panton. Verner Panton is the enfant terrible of Danish design. While his Danish colleagues during the 1950s and 60s prioritised...
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity | Edited by: Roxana Marcoci
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Published in conjunction with the first comprehensive museum survey dedicated to the artist, LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity presents the full range of her practice and includes rarely seen...
Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis
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Pictures for Charis offers a groundbreaking new work by artist Kelli Connell, synthesizing text and image, while raising vital questions about photography, gender, and portraiture in the twenty-first century. This project...
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...
Kunsthalle Bega Box | Author: Alina Cristescu
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In the past three years, the Kunsthalle Bega Box in Timioara, Romania, successively became a laboratory and experimental space for young and mid-career Romanian artists, showcasing comprehensive projects involving research...
Magnum Magnum | Edited by: Brigitte Lardinois
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Since its founding in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David ?Chim? Seymour, Magnum Photos ? the legendary co-operative ? has powerfully chronicled the peoples, cultures, events...
Between Worlds | Author: Barbara Cole
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Barbara Cole's artwork is collected by public and private institutions and has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Canadian embassies in Washington, D.C. and Tokyo, Japan. Cole, who is often...
Visitor | Author: Vincent Ferrane
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Visitor by Vincent Ferran? is a series of photographs of female artists in their studios in Paris. In this series, Ferran? strives to find the right distance to capture the...
Artist's Choice: Five Decades of Artist Writings
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Art & Australia had a long tradition of commissioning artists to write about artists. These are the essays they judged to be the best forty artists’ essays that were published...
Pol Bury: Time in Motion | Author: Kurt Boodt
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Pol Bury (1922-2005) was a painter, sculptor, jewelry designer, writer, and graphic artist, but is perhaps best known to the general public for his fountains and sculpture in public spaces...