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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment 1933-1957 (Second Edition) | Author: Eugen Blume
$95.00
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
$49.00
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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With works from Sidney Nolan, Howard Arkley and more, this richly illustrated work illuminates the untold stories and origins of the most important event of the art world.Before the winds...
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...
Cross Cultural Chairs: Diversifying Modern Seating | Editor: Matteo Guarnaccia
$59.00
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 a radically new approach to the history of abstract painting, Pepe Karmel applies a scholarly yet fresh vision to reconsider the history of abstraction from a global perspective and...
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...
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
$60.00
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 Museum.MoMA Highlights presents a chronological overview of some of the most significant modern and contemporary artworks...
Chuck Close Scribble Book: Self Portrait | Author: Chuck Close
$160.00
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...
Joana Vasconcelos: Maximal | Author: Achim Sommer
$80.00
Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos (born 1971) is famous internationally for her three- dimensional works - largely installations and objects - in which she explores the boundaries between tradition and modernism,...
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...
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....
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...