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One Sun One Moon Aboriginal Art in Australia Hetti Perkins
One Sun One Moon Aboriginal Art in Australia brings together for the first time the most celebrated Aboriginal artists and their work in a compreshensive and visually magnificent publication. One Sun One Moon is designed to be the standard work …
Jeffrey Smart Unpublished Paintings 1940 2007 Christopher Allen
Jeffrey Smart's lucid and impassive paintings of cities ad roads convey a vivid sense of human experience in a modern urban setting. This volume presents over one hundred works that have not been published in previous monogrphs, while Christopher …
Utopia The Genius Of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Emily Kame Kngwarreye is one of the most important abstract painters of the 20th century and one of the most significant artists that Australia has ever produced. Emily’s strikingly modern and beautifully innovative works, created in an …
McCulloch's Contemporary Aboriginal Art Susan & Emily McCulloch
Aboriginal art has become Australia’s most internationally known visual arts practice. And Contemporary Aboriginal Art a gloriously illustrated guide to Australia’s art producing communities, regions and city-based art has been at its forefront …
Current Contemporary Art From Australia and New Zealand Art & Australia
The first truly comprehensive look at contemporary art in Australia and New Zealand in this century. It explores the particular regional uniqueness which comes from a mix between Indigenous, Western and Asian cultures. Featuring 80 artists, the …
ON SPECIAL NOW $49.95 Ian Fairweather Murray Bail
Fairweather is an entirely new study on this acclaimed artist. Murray Bail has unearthed newly discovered writings and letters, paintings and rare photographs, and has expanded and revised his views on the artist. With 233 reproductions, most in …
For more than 40 yeas leading businessman Pat Corrigan has been one of Australia's most passionate and significant arts benefactors and patrons. Already known for many different collection streams, post 2000 Corrigan turned his eyes towards …
Women of Flowers pays tribute to the female colonial artists who drew and painted the indigenous wildflowers and plants of Australia. The publication focuses on the rich holdings of albums, sketchbooks and paintings in the Pictures Collection of …
McCubbin Last Impressions 1907 to 17 Anne Gray
Featuring some 70 works - many of which have not been previously published - covering the last decade of Frederick McCubbin's life, this publication looks at a key period in the development of his art. Most well known for his evocative bush …
The Mind and Times of Reg Mombassa Murray Waldren
Christopher O′Doherty, aka Reg Mombassa, has infiltrated our culture for more than thirty years with a unique, laconic view of our world ... and of his. His wit, sense of mischief and larrikin energy resonated in the songs and performances of one …
Mueck’s sculptures are some of the most widely acclaimed, prominent and identifiable works in the international contemporary art arena. Often naked and suspended in states of self-consciousness, introspection or deep contemplation, his figures …
The Infinity Machine Mike Parr Performance Art Edward Scheer
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 boundaries of performance …
Fred Williams 1927-1982 Patrick McCaughey
This scholarly and highly illustrated study of Fred Williams was originally published in 1980, and was the first comprehensive and fully researched attempt to inform a wider public of the significance of Williams' work. The author traces the …
William Creek and Beyond Ken McGregor & Ashley Crawford
In 2000, ten of Australia's most famous artists set out on an adventure that would take them into the heart of Australia. Artists, John Olsen, Tim Storrier, David Larwill, Robert Jacks, Rodney Pople, Mark Schaller, Jason Benjamin, Jeff Makin, …
Brett Whiteley A Sensual Line Kathie Sutherland
Kathie Sutherland’s scrupulously researched and expertly written account of Brett Whiteley’s formative decade, 1957 – 67, is essential reading for all who wish to better understand this charismatic artist and the development of his career This …
Margaret Preston An Artists Life Philippa Obrien
This is the fascinating story of a young sculptor who helped bring modernism to Perth. Margaret Priest was educated at the prestigious Glasgow School of Art and won the Royal Scottish Academy's award for best young artist before arriving in Perth …
Yiwarra Kuju National Museum of Australia
The Aboriginal people of Australia’s Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track …
This Macmillan mini-art book features a variety of works by this much favoured senior Australian artist. Drawings, prints and paintings are arranged according to familiar Olsen themes with sections devoted to the landscape, the kitchen and …
New York based Australian artist Anthony Lister began his career in Brisbane where he studied at the Queensland College of the Arts and helped pioneer the stencil and street art movement in the that city. Lister's art could be seen as a …
Since coming to Australia, via London, in the early 1950s, Inge King has forged a remarkable reputation as a leading pioneer of contemporary sculpture. In this new addition to the Macmillan's mini-art series, art historian Judith Trimble …
Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists V Johnson
Through widely researched biographies of more than 200 artists, this book chronicles the beginnings of the Western Desert art movement and the phenomenal development of its founding art company over four decades, illuminating lives balanced …
Jack Dale Mengenen Neil McLeod & Jack Dae Mengenen
This unique book displays the powerful, rhythmic and often hypnotic artwork of Jack Dale, alongside an account of his life which provides insights into the hardships endured, his experiences of growing up in the Kimberley, and his reflections on …
Once Upon A Time In Papunya Vivien Johnson
Astronomical auction prices in the late 1990s first drew many people’s attention to the phenomenon of the early Papunya boards, the thousand small painted panels created at the remote Northern Territory Aboriginal settlement of Papunya in 1971-72…
Desert Country showcases the finest examples of Aboriginal art from the Art Gallery of South Australia's collection. It features the Gallery's superb holdings of Western Desert painting, including pivotal works by the leading artist of the …
Eugene Von Guerard Nature Revealed Ruth Pullin
Today the beautiful portrayals of the Australian landscape by artist Eugene von Guerard have become critically relevant to understanding our fragile environment. This illustrated art reference book draws on new research and previously unpublished …
How Aboriginies Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art Ian McLean
This is the first anthology to chronicle the global critical reception of Aboriginal art since the early 1980s, when the art world began to understand it as contemporary art. Featuring 96 authors-including art critics and historians, curators, …
Out of Australia Prints and Drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas Stephen Coppel
This ground-breaking book follows the rise of a distinctive school of Australian art that first emerged in the 1940s. Beginning with the artists of the Angry Penguins movement, Arthur Boyd, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and Sidney Nolan, whose work …
Baskets and Belonging: Indigenous Australian Histories Lissant Bolton
The baskets are not empty. They are full of makers, their stories, their thoughts while making. The baskets are never empty. All of the thoughts jump out of the baskets on to all of us. Verna Nichols Indigenous Australian communities were …
In this gorgeously illustrated book, join Betty Churcher on a personal tour of her most beloved works, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Velazquez, Courbet, Vermeer and Cezanne. A trained artist, Betty's sketches reveal the …
Kathleen Sauerbier A Modern Pursuit Gloria Strezelecki
Modern in her attitude to life and art, Kathleen Sauerbier (1903 1991) painted outstanding landscapes, and also portraits, streetscapes and still lifes. In her native South Australia she became one of the first artists to respond to the beautiful …