Variations: A More Diverse Picture of Contemporary Art by Tristen Harwood, Grace McQuilten, Anthony White
69.99 AUD
Category: Art History
' Variation' is a term that embraces difference, and is core to the excitement and uniqueness of art practice. This book gives much-deserved attention to the work of artists with exceptional and varied lived experiences - including neurodiversity, diverse mental health, incarceration, and refugee, migra ...Show more
Grief and beauty by Franklin, Annie; Patel, Anita
45.00 AUD
Category: Art History
Grief and Beauty by south coast artist, Annie Franklin, and Canberra-based writer, Anita Patel, arose from the personal experience of the 2019 -20 bushfires. This beautiful limited edition book tells a story (in paintings and poems) of the impact of those fires. It portrays the changes in the forever a ...Show more
Transformations - The Art of Sonia Payes by Ashley Crawford
65.00 AUD
Category: Art History
Author Ashley Crawford traces the development of Payes's career in which, in opposition to the 'hyper-styled, highly colour-saturated' photography of the digital age, she has quietly created a more personalised, monochromatic and moody language. Crawford describes it as 'discourse in chiaroscuro' in whi ...Show more
Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement by Elizabeth Butel
34.95 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Imprint Lives Ser.
Margaret Preston, Australia's foremost woman painter between the wars, sent a series of shock-waves through Sydney's art circles with her vital art, her spirited journalism and her belligerent enthusiasm for living, during a career that spanned over seventy years. 'A red-headed little firebrand of a wom ...Show more
PLATFORM PAPERS 10: SATIRE OR SEDITION? by BIGGINS JONATHAN
16.00 AUD
Category: Art History
The introduction in late 2005 of the re-invigorated sedition laws provoked an angry response from a wide coalition of civil libertarians, authors, publishers, artists and performers, who saw them as an invasion of creators right to social criticism. This title examines the state of theatrical satire in ...Show more
Australian Abstract: Contemporary Abstract Painting by Amber Creswell Bell
69.99 AUD
Category: Art History
'There is an internal monologue, and a world of decisions and possibilities behind each work that the viewer does not see. Abstraction is akin to learning a new language.' ANA YOUNG There is no single neat definition of abstract art. It makes no attempt to represent reality; instead it has its own visu ...Show more
Interwoven Journeys: the Michael Abbott Collections of Asian Art by James Bennett (Editor); Russell Kelty (Editor)
120.00 AUD
Category: Art History
Interwoven Journeys: The Michael Abbott Collections of Asian Art celebrates the generosity of one of Australia's leading patrons whose passion for the art and cultures of Asia has resulted in a deep and generative legacy at cultural institutions across Australia. Published by the Art Gallery of South Au ...Show more
Children of the Dreamtime by Helen Baldwin
35.00 AUD
Category: Art History
For decades Helen Baldwin has been painting outback Australia and the Aboriginal people. Her travels have taken her throughout western New South Wales and to Alice Springs, Darwin, Yuendumu, Napperby, Mbunghara, Papunya, Kintore, Docker River, Areyonga, Maryvale and countless places in between. Through ...Show more
Australian Artists in Etaples by Jean-Claude Lesage
29.95 AUD
Category: Art History
In 1900, 30 Australian artists were working in Etaples, a French fishing village west of Paris. Charles Conder, Rupert Bunny, Isobel Rae and John Peter Russell were among these wo lived and worked in France. In 1900, 30 Australian artists were working in Etaples, a French fishing village west of Paris. ...Show more
Picturing a Nation: The art and life of A.H. Fullwood by Gary Werskey
49.99 AUD
Category: Art History
The untold story of a major Australian artist. Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A.H. Fullwood (1863–1930) was also the most widely viewed British–Australian artist of the Heidelberg era.Fullwood's illustrations for the popular Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and the ...Show more
Erwin Fabian Sculptor by SASHA GRISHIN
49.95 AUD
Category: Art History
Erwin Fabian was one of Australia's most highly regarded sculptors and graphic artists and is widely represented in public art collections in Australia and Europe. When he died on January 19, 2020, aged 104, it was felt that Australia has lost on of its great art elders. Born in Berlin in 1915 into an a ...Show more
The Life and Work of Ante Dabro, Australian-Croatian Sculptor - The Midnight Sea in the Blood by Peter Read
40.00 AUD
Category: Art History
For so long Ante Dabro hasbeen called a sculptural dinosaur that he now rejoices in the title. So why does a highly skilled and highly trained sculptor, the master of every style and technique, insist on working in the style of the Italian Renaissance? The answer is that to Dabro, every sculpture must s ...Show more