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James Turrell

A Retrospective

By National Gallery of Australia

To encounter a work by American artist James Turrell is to enter another world—a realm where eye and mind meet. The artist engages us, the viewers, in order to make us witnesses of his focus...

Arthur Boyd

Agony and Ecstacy

By National Gallery of Australia

Arthur Boyd: Agony and Ecstasy is a major exhibition of Boyd’s art including more than 100 works across diverse media: paintings, prints, drawings, ceramic tiles and sculptures, and tapestries. This publication provides the opportunity to...

Atua

Sacred Gods from Polynesia

By Michael Gunn

The Polynesian concept of atua — of gods, figurative objects and associated beliefs — developed over thousands of years and spread throughout the region. The superb examples of sculpture illustrated in this volume provide an...

Collection Highlights

2014 Edition

By Ron Radford

Collection highlights is an essential book for any art lover’s library. Completely redesigned, updated and expanded, with magnificent illustrations of over 300 works, it is a concise and accessible introduction to the nation’s largest visual...

Bali

Island of the Gods

By Robyn Maxwell, Niki Van Den Heuvel, Melanie Eastburn, and Lucie Folan

Bali is easily the best known and most frequently visited island of Indonesia. Drawn exclusively from the National Gallery of Australia’s rich and varied holdings, Bali: Island of the Gods features some of the finest...

Peter and the Wolf

By Danila Vassilieff

Peter and the Wolf is a Russian folk tale that has entranced children and adults for generations. Sixteen of Danila Vassilieff’s illustrations for the story are featured in this delightful publication by the National Gallery...

Culture Warriors

National Indigenous Art Triennial 07

By Brenda L. Croft, Deborah Clark, and Susan Jenkins

Presenting the work of thirty artists from each Australian state and territory, the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial demonstrates the incredible range of contemporary Indigenous art practice. The works included were created during the past...

George W. Lambert Retrospective

Heroes and Icons

By Anna Gray

George Washington Lambert (1873-1956) was one of Australia's most brilliant, witty, and influental artists, "the Australian Sargent," according to Barry Humphries. This comprehensive book presents the diverse range of Lambert's work from Australian bush subjects...

Impressions of Paris

Lautrec, Degas, Daumier

By Jane Kinsman. With contributions by Emilie Owens and Rose Peel

Impressions of Paris: Lautrec, Degas, Daumier examines the major contribution to French art made by three key figures: Honore Daumier, Edgar Degas, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. A generation apart, each was a consummate draftsman whose...

Our Land

A Puzzle Book of Indigenous Australian Art

By National Gallery of Australia

This fun, colorful, and educational book introduces pre-schoolers to the art of Indigenous Australians and the idea of sharing and caring for our land. Children will develop their observation, manual-dexterity, and coordination skills as they...

Printed Images in Colonial Australia, 1801-1901

By Roger Butler

This book reveals some of the remarkable colonial works that form the cornerstones of the National Gallery of Australia’s collection of Australian prints.

The earliest intaglio prints were produced in New South Wales by a free...

Space Invaders

Australian Street | Stencils | Posters | Paste-ups | Zines | Stickers

By Jaklyn Babington

Off the street and into the gallery. This exciting book looks at work from the past five years by some 35 contemporary artists from around Australia. Playful, edgy, clever, satirical and political, street art has...

Australian Artists Books

By Alex Selenitsch

Artists' books are works of art created in book form, or rather forms as there are a myriad of approaches such as pages in a box, scrolls, fold outs and even a Rolodex. They can...

Degas

The Uncontested Master

By Jane Kinsman and Michael Pantazzi

Born in Paris in 1834, Edgar Degas's art was considered radical in his adoption of modern subject matter and he became a key figure in the evolution of modern art. Degas: The Uncontested Master covers...

Richard Larter

By Deborah Hart. With Deborah Clark and Joanna Mendellssohn

This book recognizes and celebrates the work of one of Australia's most significant and engaging artists. Working from the late 1950s through to the present, Larter's work is at times audacious, confronting, political, and in...

Imants Tillers

One World Many Visions

By Deborah Hart

Imants Tillers: One World Many Visions is a landmark publication on a major Australian artist. Tillers's art received considerable international recognition in the 1980s. In 1986 he was slected as the artist to represent Australia...

Michael Riley

Sights Unseen

By Brenda L. Croft

Michael Riley (1960-2004) was one of the most important contemporary Australian Indigenous visual artists of the past two decades. His contribution to the urban-based Indigenous visual arts industry was substantial and his film and video...

Papua New Guinea Prints

By Melanie Eastburn

Papua New Guinea Prints is the first in-depth study of printmaking in Papua New Guinea from its beginnings in the late 1960s to the present. It explores the National Gallery of Australia's exceptional collection of...

Grace Crowley

Being Modern

By Elena Taylor

Grace Crowley was a leading figure in the development of modernism in Australia. Born in rural New South Wales in 1890, Crowley’s life and art intersected with some of the major movements in twentieth century...

No Ordinary Place

The Art of David Malangi

By Susan Jenkins

David Malangi (1927-1999) of the Manharrngu people was a leading figure in the development of the central Arnhem Land bark painting movement and holds a prominent place in Australian Aboriginal art. Made famous by his...