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
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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...
Art Oracles: Creative and Life Inspiration from 50 Artists
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Be guided and inspired by the world's greatest artists with this creative set of oracle cards. Are you suffering from creative block? Struggling to make a difficult life decision? Find...
The Infinity Machine: Mike Parr's Performance Art
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Mike Parr is Australia's most significant performance artist. His contribution to the development and establishment of performance art in Australia remains continuous and resolute. Parr's dedication and research into the...
Ethics - Whitechapel Series
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The boundary of a contemporary art object or project is no longer something that exists only in physical space; it also exists in social, political, and ethical space. Art has...
Marking Time
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Published to accompany the major exhibition Marking Time, curated by Rachel Kent this full colour catalogue includes essays from Andrew Benjamin, Bruce Jenkins, Rodrigo Moura, Justin Paton, Robert R Riley,...
Fiona Foley: Forbidden
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Fiona Foley is a leading Australian artist as well as an influential curator, writer and academic. From Fraser Island in Queensland, her diverse practice spans two decades and encompasses painting,...
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. Born...
Annette Messager: motion/emotion
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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
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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...
Volume One: MCA Collection
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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...
Neo Rauch: Dromos: Paintings 1993-2017
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Dromos, Paintings 1993–2017 is a fully illustrated survey of the painting of Neo Rauch (born 1960). It begins with his first solo show in 1993 at the renowned Galerie Eigen...
Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls
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Andy Warhol's 1966 movie The Chelsea Girls is the iconic document of the Factory scene and 1960s New York. Filmed in part at the Chelsea Hotel with Factory Superstars like...
The Book of Cats: Cats in Art
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Cats have been revered by artists since ancient times for their beauty, grace, independence and air of mystery. Domesticated, but with a touch of the wild about them, they share...
Aboriginal Sydney - a Guide to Important Places of the Past and Present
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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. But...
McCulloch's Contemporary Aboriginal Art: The Complete Guide
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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:...
Little Red Yellow Black Book: An Introduction to Indigenous Australia
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This updated edition of The Little Red Yellow Black Book provides a comprehensive introduction to Indigenous Australia. It features real-life case studies covering history, culture, arts, sport, languages, population, health, education...
Aboriginal Art
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Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana is a concise survey showcasing the work of Australian indigenous artists from all over the continent. From Arnhem Land and the desert, the Kimberley and northern Queensland,...
Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia
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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....
Humanity - Ai Weiwei
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Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-activists and a...
We Go To The Gallery
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Closely modelled on the Peter and Jane Ladybird reading books from the 1960s and 70s, We Go To The Gallery is an irreverent satire and international best-seller, humorously exploring...
Ai Weiwei Speaks: With 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...
How to be an Explorer of the World
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From the author of Wreck this Journal, Keri Smith's How to be an Explorer of the World is an invitation to rediscover the world around you. Artists and scientists analyse the...
Hilarie Mais
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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...
Bronwyn Oliver: Strange Things
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Bronwyn Oliver: Strange Things is the first major publication on Australian sculptor Bronwyn Oliver. Released to coincide with the exhibition 'The Sculpture of Bronwyn Oliver' at the TarraWarra Museum of...
Fiona Hall - Wrong Way Time
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Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time showcases the extraordinary creations of Australian artist Fiona Hall. From figures woven from military camouflage, painted clocks, botanical illustrations on banknotes and sardine-tin sculptures to...
Del Kathryn Barton
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Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton's work is celebrated for its frank sexual assertiveness and for her imagined landscapes inhabited by humans, animals and imagined creatures. In this first major text...
Sirius
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‘Located on one of the finest sites on Sydney Harbour, sharing the magnificent panorama of the harbour in all its moods and the exciting city skyline and nestling against the...
Footpath Guides Sydney Modern 1950-90
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Footpath Guides: Sydney Modern 1950-1990 showcases some of the best examples of the city's post- war architecture via an easy and insightful walking route. The pocket-sized guide showcases notable architectural...
Wabi Sabi - Further Thoughts
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Wabi-sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of what we think of as traditional Japanese beauty. Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete - it could...
Wabi Sabi For Artists Designers Poets & Philosophers
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Wabi-sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of what we think of as traditional Japanese beauty. Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete - it could...
Think Like An Artist, Don't Act Like One - Common Sense from an Unexpected Source
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Think Like an Artist, Don't Act Like One presents seventy-five ways to look at art and seventy-five life lessons you can learn from it. From the works of ancient Egypt...
Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to be Understood
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Hugely popular contemporary artist, Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, yet he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there...
Hegarty on Creativity - There are No Rules
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Creativity isn't an occupation, it's a preoccupation. It is at the very core of what makes us human and is a fundamental challenge that everyone faces in the modern world -...
Read This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing
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Read This if You Want to be Great at Drawing demystifies the art and practice of drawing. Through fifty drawings by great masters past and present, the techniques and ideas...
Brutalist Sydney Map
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This two-sided folding map features the most iconic and inspiring examples of Brutalist architecture in Sydney and surrounding suburbs - from Pennant Hills to Sutherland and Curl Curl to Penrith....
Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places
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From the author of the best-selling Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs series, this jargon-free introduction covers all aspects of photographing places, including landscapes, cityscapes, architecture and...
Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of People
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Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs Of People is an inspiring book of conceptual starting points and invaluable technical tips for anyone, novice or professional, who wants...
Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs
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Photography is now more popular than ever thanks to the rapid development of digital cameras. Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs is for this new wave of...
Michael Zavros
$85.00
Well known for his hyper-realistic paintings, and more recently for sculpture, film and performance works, the work of Australian artist Michael Zavros has been collected by major museums an private...
Punk Girls
$75.00
Fashion, music and politics collide in this landmark photography publication by one of Australia's most acclaimed artists - Liz Ham. The images are inspired by and reference the iconic women...
Steal Like An Artist - 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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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
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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...
Failed It! How to turn mistakes into ideas and other advice for successfully screwing up
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Part photobook and part DIY guide, Failed It! is a fun and fabulous take on the art of making mistakes. Written by artist and advertising guru Erik Kessels, it celebrates imperfection...
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
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In this autobiography, published in 1975, the private Andy Warhol talks about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success; about New York and America; about himself - his childhood...
It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be
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Written by advertising guru Paul Arden, this pocket sized best-seller is full of handy tips to help you succeed in the world! Covering a diverse range of topics from problem...
MCA Collection Handbook
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The MCA Collection Handbook is an A to Z of over 150 artists' work from across Australia. This lavishly illustrated publication features new and accessible texts and an introductory essay...