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Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond
Transforming Education through Art, Design and Architecture
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,...
ISBN: 9780522875621
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Imants Tillers
Journey to Nowhere
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...
ISBN: 9789934538223
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Tony Tuckson
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...
ISBN: 9781741741414
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What Is Performance Art?
Australian Perspectives
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...
ISBN: 9780909952938
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Nongirrna Marawili
From My Heart and Mind
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...
ISBN: 9781741741407
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John Russell
Australia's French Impressionist
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...
ISBN: 9781741741384
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Hegel's Owl
The Life of Bernard Smith
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 biography....
ISBN: 9780994306425
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Jacky Redgate
Mirrors
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...
ISBN: 9780994306418
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The Legacies of Bernard Smith
Essays on Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics
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...
ISBN: 9780994306432
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No Idols
The Missing Theology of Art
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...
ISBN: 9780909952990
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Art from Milingimbi
Taking Memories Back
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...
ISBN: 9781741741285
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Artists and Their Inspiration
A Guide through Indonesian Art, 1930-2015
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...
ISBN: 9789460223877
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Workshop
The Kenneth Tyler Collection
Workshop tells the story of Kenneth Tyler—one of the twentieth century’s preeminent master printers, publishers, and arts educators—who, after establishing himself in 1965, set about...
ISBN: 9780642334565
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Myth + Magic
Art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea’s mighty Sepik River has been home to many communities for over a thousand years and yet how much do we, as outsiders, really know and understand the culture and visual arts of...
ISBN: 9780642334558
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Plumes and Pearlshells
Art of the New Guinea Highlands
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 –...
ISBN: 9781741741056
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The Photograph and Australia
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...
ISBN: 9781741741162
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Lloyd Rees
Paintings, Drawings, Prints
Lloyd Rees (1895–1988) is indisputably one of the most admired 20th-century Australian artists. This richly illustrated new book on his art is the only title currently available on Lloyd Rees’s...
ISBN: 9781741740882
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Drawing Out
Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2014
The inaugural Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial presents the work of ten artists for whom drawing is the core of their practice, and who work in or from the landscape. The artists included are Tom...
ISBN: 9781741741148
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Tradition Today
Indigenous Art in Australia
The expanded and revised edition of this popularbook includes nine new artists - Tony Albert, Jakayu Biljabu, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Julie Gough, Ivy Pareroultja, EsmeTimbery, Wingu...
ISBN: 9781741740875
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Australian Symbolism
The Art of Dreams
Featuring paintings, sculpture, photographs, and decorative arts, Australian Symbolism: The Art of Dreams is the only book on this subject and provides a fresh context for the work of some...
ISBN: 9781741740769
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