Art Books
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# 34660
EDQUIST, Harriet
Pioneers of modernism : the arts and crafts movement in Australia
Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2008. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 268, illustrated. Out of print and scarce. Between 1890 and 1930, a number of Australian architects and garden designers were heavily influenced by British and American Arts and Crafts movements. This book explores the work of four of Australia’s most radical and innovative Arts and …
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# 34659
HUNT, Susan and CARTER, Paul
Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. 150, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia. A fine copy.
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# 34658
LOCK-WEIR, Tracey
Misty moderns : Australian tonalists 1915-1950
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (illustrating a work by Clarice Beckett), pp. 144, illustrated. A fine copy. Seminal exhibition of Australian modernism featuring the works of Clarice Beckett, Max Meldrum, Percy Leason, William Frater, Roland Wakelin, Colin Colahan, Polly Hurry, and others.
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# 34657
FRENCH, Alison
Seeing the centre. The art of Albert Namatjira 1902 – 1959
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2002. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 166, illustrated, spine slightly sunned, a very good copy.
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# 34648
DONALDSON, Mike and KENNEALLY, Kevin (editors)
Rock art of the Kimberley
Proceedings of the Kimberley Society Rock Art Seminar held at the University of Western Australia, Perth 10 September, 2005. Perth : Kimberley Society, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 158, illustrated. Contents : Introduction and overview of Kimberley rocka rt / Mike Donaldson Rock art as inspiration for contemporary Aboriginal painting / Donny Woolagoodja (with an …
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# 34634
McKENNA, Noel
End Street
Melbourne : Perimeter Editions, 2019. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 90, illustrated. New copy. Noel McKenna’s paintings do a lot with a little. The senior Australian artist’s suburban interiors, solitary male inhabitants, and the various domesticated animals that keep them company, fit adroitly into the wider motif of the poetics of the banal. But it’s via …
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# 34633
PETTIFER, Drew
Less than Lovers
Melbourne : M.33, 2014. Quarto, lettered wrappers, unpaginated, photographically illustrated. New copy. Following hot on the heels of his playfully provocative 2011 publication I keep mine hidden, Drew Pettifer presents a more languid, more moody and delicate collection of images in his latest book from M.33. Once again taking its name from a song title; this …
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# 34632
LOVETT, Dane
Flowers
Melbourne : Perimeter Editions, 2021. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 104, illustrated. New copy. Dane Lovett’s flower paintings both embrace and eschew their historical, thematic and allegorical roots. Dark, often monochromatic and subtly tonal in their palette, the scores of works that populate the Melbourne-based artist’s debut book Flowers gesture towards the syntaxes of minimalism and seriality as …
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# 34629
WADELTON, David
Small business
Melbourne : M.33, 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 171, illustrated. New copy, printed in an edition of 500 copies. Small Business is a companion volume to David Wadelton’s Suburban Baroque – with the focus this time on work rather than domestic spaces. Designed once again by Yanni Florence and with an accompanying essay by Professor Natalie King OAM, Small Business looks at the small but …
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# 34628
MARLOW, Jesse
Jesse Marlow – Second City
Melbourne : Sling Shot Press, 2021. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 96, illustrated. New copy. Printed in an edition of 900 copies. ‘When I was at photography school, every few weeks our photojournalism teacher would send the class off into the city on “Citywalks”. With an otherwise open brief, our only task was to keep an …
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# 34645
ANEMAAT, Louise
Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet.
Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2014. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, pp. 256, illustrated. A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in 18th-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds, and plants—and striking watercolor illustrations. The sudden emergence, in 2011, of a large …
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# 34644
HUNT, Susan and DAVISON, Graeme
Sydney views 1788-1888 from the Beat Knoblauch collection
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2007. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated. Fine copy.
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# 34642
ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)
Life’s a beach
Melbourne : Currey O’Neil, 1983. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (bottom corner bumped with some slight crumpling to lower margin of text block), unpaginated, photographic illustrations, light handling wear, a good copy. Ellis’ candid photographs of Australian bodies on display in the hot summer sun of the eighties.
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# 34638
LOCK, Tracey
Dorrit Black : unseen forces
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2017. Second edition. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 224, illustrated. Corners bumped and rubbed, sold as a damaged, working reference copy. “Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces was written by Tracey Lock, Curator of Australian Paintings & Sculpture at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Dorrit Black is the last major Australian …
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# 34637
NORTH, Ian
The art of Dorrit Black
Melbourne: Macmillan and the Art Gallery of South Australia, 1979. Quarto, boards in dust jacket, pp 152; a fine copy. The standard monograph on the artist, illustrated throughout with a detailed catalogue.
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# 34636
LETI Bruno (1941 - ); PESSOA, Fernando (1888 - 1935)
Dream walls
Melbourne : the artist, 2018. Octavo, printed gatefold wrappers, pp. 114, photographs and images by Bruno Leti. Printed in a small run of unnumbered copies. Signed by the artist. Images of Roman walls at Herculaneum and Pompeii taken by the artist with his painted responses.