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UnAustralian Art

Ten Essays on Transnational Art History

By Rex Butler and A. D. S. Donaldson

UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History proposes a radical rethinking of Australian art. Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson do not seek to identify a distinctive national sensibility; instead, they demonstrate that Australian art...

Vivienne Binns

On and through the Surface

By Anneke Jaspers, Hannah Mathews

Vivienne Binns is an important and singular figure in the history of Australian visual art. Her groundbreaking and experimental work has tested the philosophical underpinnings of art itself, both preempting and participating in the most...

The Sydney Modern Project

Transforming the Art Gallery of New South Wales

By Michael Brand, Ross Gibson

With the completion of its Sydney Modern Project—encompassing a beautiful new building designed by award-winning Japanese architects SANAA and a unique art garden along with transformed displays of art across its campus—the Art Gallery of...

Dale Harding

Through a Lens of Visitation

By Hannah Mathews, Dale Harding, Kate Harding, Deborah Edwards, Nancy Underhill, Ann Stephen, Jacky Huggins, Paul Taçon

Through a Lens of Visitation pays homage to the stories and presence of matrilineal figures in Dale Harding's family. It documents a first-time collaboration with his mother, textile artist Kate Harding. Kate Harding's quilts and...

Aboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia’s Top End

By Joanna Barrkman

Aboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia’s Top End presents the work of contemporary Australian textile artists working at five Aboriginal-owned art centers in the Northern Territory: Tiwi Design, Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association, Injalak Arts and...

Gordon Bennett

Selected Writings

By Angela Goddard, Tim Riley Walsh

The first publication to survey the writing practice of the late Gordon Bennett (1955–2014), Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings gives vital insight into one of Australia’s important contemporary artists in his own words. Bringing together nearly...

Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond

Transforming Education through Art, Design and Architecture

By Edited by Philip Goad, Ann Stephen, Andrew McNamara, Harriet Edquist, and Isabel Wünsche

Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming Education through Art, Architecture and Design presents an extraordinary new Australasian cultural history. Beginning in 1930, the arrival of émigré, internee, and refugee educators, exiles from Nazism, helped to transform...

Tony Tuckson

By Denise Mimmocchi

Tony Tuckson’s story is not a simple one. He was an artist, arguably Australia’s most significant abstract expressionist painter, but he also played a crucial role in shaping the modern art museum in Australia. This...

Imants Tillers

Journey to Nowhere

By Elita Ansone, Graham Coulter-Smith, Mark Ledbury, Ian McLean, and Imants Tillers

For the renowned artist Imants Tillers, whose career spans more than four decades of prolific creative practice, this "journey to nowhere" is neither a homecoming nor a departure, but a fertile and thought-provoking meeting of...

Nongirrna Marawili

From My Heart and Mind

By Cara Pinchbeck, Kade McDonald

Noŋgirrŋa Marawili is one of the most distinctive Aboriginal artists working today. From her home in Yirrkala, Marawili has revolutionized the art of northeastern Arnhem Land while adhering to cultural protocols. In her prints, drawings...

What Is Performance Art?

Australian Perspectives

By Adam Geczy, Mimi Kelly

This new volume looks at the rich history of performance art in Australia through a multitude of perspectives. With this collection's thirty-nine contributions by scholars, curators, and artists covering more than three decades of practice,...

John Russell

Australia's French Impressionist

By Wayne Tunnicliffe

Australian artist John Russell (1858–1930), an active and influential member of the French nineteenth-century avant garde, was a close friend of Vincent van Gogh and Auguste Rodin, taught impressionist color theory to Henri Matisse, and...

Jacky Redgate

Mirrors

By Ann Stephen

Jacky Redgate is regarded as one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, with over thirty-five years of continuous creation, exhibition, and innovation. She is well known for her eminent minimalist-conceptual works based on systems and logic,...

Hegel's Owl

The Life of Bernard Smith

By Sheridan Palmer

Bernard Smith began life as a ward of the State; he would go on to become the father of Australian art history. In 2008, Smith invited writer and art historian Sheridan Palmer to write his...

The Legacies of Bernard Smith

Essays on Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics

By Jaynie Anderson, Christopher R. Marshall, Andrew Yip

It has been widely asserted that Bernard Smith established the discipline of art history in Australia. He was the founding professor of contemporary art and the director of the Power Institute at the University of...

No Idols

The Missing Theology of Art

By Thomas Crow

The first in the new Power Polemics series, Thomas Crow’s No Idols: The Missing Theology of Art turns away from contemporary cultural theories to face a pervading blindspot in today’s art-historical inquiry: religion. Crow pursues...

Art from Milingimbi

Taking Memories Back

By Cara Pinchbeck. With Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby

There are particular moments in the history of art when exceptional things happen. Such a moment occurred in the 1950s in Milingimbi, the small island community in Arnhem Land in far northern Australia.

Gathered in groups...

Artists and Their Inspiration

A Guide through Indonesian Art, 1930-2015

By Helena Spanjaard

This book covers the development of modern and contemporary art in Indonesia, from the colonial period in the 1930s to the present time of globalization. Each chapter is based on important historical moments that changed...

The Photograph and Australia

By Judy Annear. With Geoffrey Batchen, Michael Aird, Katherine Davidson, Jane Lydon, and Daniel Palmer

Visually rich with fine reproductions and high-level production, this book tells the many stories of photography in Australia over the last 175 years. It will examine the sense of wonder which the photograph can still...

Plumes and Pearlshells

Art of the New Guinea Highlands

By Natalie Wilson, Florence Kamel, Michael Mel

Spectacular exchange ceremonies involving hundreds of dancers festooned with elaborate body adornments – including highly prized bird of paradise plumes and the revered kina, or pearlshell – is something for which the peoples of the...