Black Tattoo Art 2: Modern Expressions of the Tribal
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This is the second incarnation of what has been deemed the Bible of Blackwork Tattoos continues the first volumes photographic journey across the globe: showcasing the absolute best of tattoos...
Beach | Author: Ken Done
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Whether it's the kaleidoscopic colours of Manly or Bondi on a hot summer's day, the endless sands and red rock cliffs of Western Australia or the tropical, palm-fringed shores of...
Reef | Author: Ken Done
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Spotted, dotted corals and darting, iridescent fish flicker amidst rainbow-coloured reefs. A delightful, compact book - Ken Done’s Reef is one of four books in a collectable set exploring his...
Naoto Fukasawa | Author: Bill Moggridge
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Naoto Fukasawa (b.1956) is one of the best-known Japanese product designers working today. His simple, restrained and user-friendly products appeal to people's shared experience of things. The wall-mounted CD player...
Gemma Smith - Found Ground | Author: Julie Ewington
$80.00
The first comprehensive survey of Gemma Smith’s artistic practice features work spanning her career, such as the large-scale paintings and translucent acrylic sculptures for which she is best known. Combining...
Dezefrelle: Gosia Wlodarczaks
$66.00
Drawing is often a starting point for an artist, but for Polish-born Gosia Wlodarczak this method of inscription is central to her trans-disciplinary practice. A limited edition of 500, ‘DEZEFRELLE’...
50 Photographers You Should Know
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This dynamic introduction to the world's greatest photographers from the inception of photography to today bears proof of the magic of the camera. From Felix Nadar to Nan Goldin, each...
50 Fashion Designers You Should Know | Author: Simone Werle
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This accessible and beautifully illustrated book brings together the most important designers who have moved fashion forward over the past century. Fifty major fashion designers are profiled in this book...
R34G38B25 | Author: Christopher Doyle
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A collection of words and images by Christopher Doyle, RGB features photographs, textures, colours and complicities all documented during the filming of Hero. Doyle captured this lush, beautiful photographic "footage"...
Do Sing: Reclaim your voice. Find your singing tribe | Author: James Sills
$27.00
Singing is one thing, but singing together is something else. Powerful and uplifting, group singing creates deep human connections and benefits our wellbeing, And it's fun. Do Sing, James Sills...
Do Death: For a life better lived | Author: Amanda Blainey
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Death has a 100 per cent success rate. We can't escape its inevitability nor can we deny its existence. So, when someone close to us dies or we are confronted...
Do Scale: A road map to growing a remarkable company | Author: Les McKeown
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Scaling up is something most founders aspire to, especially once the tricky start-up phase has been navigated. But how do you 'scale' an organisation? And how does it differ from...
Do Inhabit: Style your space for a creative and considered life | Author: Sue Fan & Danielle Quigley
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Home is where we make space for our senses to come alive - and come to rest. Somewhere that is both restorative when we need to be, and inspiring when...
Do Story: How to tell your story so the world listens | Author: Bobette Buster
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Bobette Buster is a story consultant, lecturer and screenwriter who works with the major studios and in top film programs all over the world. In this, her first book, she...
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art: Collection Highlights
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The National Gallery of Australia holds the largest collection of Australian Indigenous art in the world. Written by Indigenous authors and curators and other experts in the field, this new...
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia | Author: Bruce Pascoe
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'Dark Emu injects a profound authenticity into the conversation about how we Australians understand our continent...[It is] essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what Australia once was, or...
Young Dark Emu: A Truer History | Author: Bruce Pascoe
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Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using...
Michael Armitage: The Promised Land | Exhibition catalogue
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Born in Nairobi, 1984, Michael Armitage is one of Kenya’s most exciting young artists. His lush, often large-scale paintings merge the traditions of European modernism with the subjects and materials...
Christopher Orchard: The Uncertainty of the Poet | Author: Margot Osborne
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Although the Bald Man has been expecting inclement weather for some time, he is often ill-prepared and ill-attired for the climatic conditions that assail him ...Christopher Orchard is the creator...
Detective Special | Author: Prudence Murphy
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Detective Special invites us to examine our response to guns – the gun as fetish, the gun as purchasable part, the gun transcending the world of play and moving across...
Do Improvise: Less push. More pause. Better results. A new approach to work (and life) | Author: Robert Poynton
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Everyday we deal with the unplanned and the unexpected - from a broken toaster to losing (or gaining) a major client. Our natural ability to improvise gets us through. But...
100 Ideas that Changed Art
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From the earliest cave paintings through to the internet and street art, this inspiring book chronicles the 100 most influential ideas that have shaped the world of art. Arranged in...
Janet Laurence: The Pharmacy of Plants | Author: Prudence Gibson
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Well-known for her installations and major public art commissions that engage with architectural and biological forms, acclaimed Australian artist Janet Laurence is fascinated by the interplay of plant species, animals...
The National 2019: New Australian Art
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The National 2019: New Australian Art is a celebration of contemporary Australian art. The second of three biennial survey exhibitions, it showcases work being made across the country by 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,...
Do Design: Why beauty is key to everything | Author: Alan Moore
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So much goes unnoticed. We multi-task, switch between screens, work faster. When was the last time you paused to consider a beautifully made object or stunning natural landscape? Yet this...
Gentleman: A Timeless Guide to Fashion
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This is a treasure trove of information about the fashion icons who have created modern style for men, with advice on what to wear and how to wear it. Gentleman is...
The Andy Warhol Diaries | Author: Andy Warhol
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Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written at the height of his fame and success, Warhol records the...
Leigh Bowery: Take A Bowery
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Born in Sunshine, Melbourne in 1961, Bowery moved to London in 1980 at the height of the post-punk era and rapidly positioned himself at the centre of the city’s club...
50 Contemporary Artists You Should Know | Author: Christiane Weidemann
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50 Contemporary Artists You Should Know presents a selection of some the most important artists working today such as Matthew Barney, Damien Hirst, Sophie Calle, and Olafur Eliasson. It is...
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,...
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...
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...
Aleks Danko: MY FELLOW AUS-TRA-ALIENS
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MY FELLOW AUS-TRA-ALIENS presented artworks spanning nearly five decades by Victorian-based artist Aleks Danko - from his earliest exhibitions in the late 1960s through to his recent large-scale installations. Although...
Annette Messager: motion/emotion | Exhibition catalogue
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Annette Messager is an internationally renowned French artist whose diverse practice encompasses drawing, artist’s books, photography, sculpture and installation. At once playful and disturbing, Messager’s works employ everyday materials and...
They Are Meditating : Bark paintings from the MCA's Arnotts Collection | Exhibition catalogue
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Since the 1950s the practice of bark painting has responded to new contexts and has become increasingly pertinent to the outside world. During this period, the generation of painters most...
MCA Collection | Volume One
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Volume One: MCA Collection features over 280 works by more than 170 Australian artists drawn from a period of acquisitions which began with the constitution of the MCA in May...
Sun Xun | Exhibition Catalogue
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Sun Xun (b. 1980, Fuxin, China) is one of China’s most exciting young artists, best known for his animations made up of thousands of ink paintings, charcoal drawings and woodcuts....
Aboriginal Sydney: A guide to important places of the past and present | Author: Melinda Hinkson
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Despite its bustling urban presence, Sydney has a rich and complex Aboriginal heritage. Hidden within its burgeoning city landscape lie layers of a vibrant culture and a turbulent history -...
McCulloch's Contemporary Aboriginal Art: The Complete Guide | Author: Susan McCulloch
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From Alice Springs to Aurukun, Kaltjiti to Kakadu, Papunya to Peppimenarti and throughout Australia, McCulloch’s Contemporary Aboriginal Art is the complete guide to the Aboriginal art of Australia. It features:...
Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia | Author: Marcia Langton
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Keen to travel and learn more about Australia's first peoples? Marcia Langton's Welcome to Country is a completely new and inclusive guidebook to Indigenous Australia and the Torres Strait Islands....
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...
Art as Therapy | Author: Alain de Botton
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This passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, suggesting that it can be useful, relevant, and therapeutic. Through practical examples, world-renowned authors...
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...
Hilarie Mais | Exhibition Catalogue
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Hilarie Mais was born in the UK and lives and works in Sydney. Her work is characterised by a deep interest in the grid and its expressive possibilities. She makes...
Rosemary Laing | Author: Abigail Solomon-Godeau
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Rosemary Laing is a photo-based artist. Many of her projects relate to cultural or historically resonant Australian locations. With interventions undertaken in situ or through the use of choreographed performance...
Steal like an artist : 10 things nobody told you about being creative | Author: Austin Kleon
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When asked to talk to students at Broome Community College in upstate New York in the spring of 2011, Austin Kleon wrote a simple list often things he wished he'd...
Think Like an Artist | Author: Will Gompertz
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Why do some people seem to find it easy to come up with fresh, brilliant ideas? And how do they turn them into something worthwhile? After spending years getting up...