Yvonne Audette:Paintings and Drawings 1949-2014 by Christopher Heathcote
$99.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Yvonne Audette s career as a painter and artist specialising in works on paper has now spanned nearly six decades. Strarting out in Sydney where she attended art school and modelled or Max Dupain, she soon discovered Europe and lived and worked in Spain and Italy in the piost-war years when abstract exp ...Show more
Pro Hart Life & Legacy by Gavin Fry
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
PRO HART was without doubt the most enigmatic figure in Australian art of the late twentieth century. The proposition that an individual could be considered a near genius by some, be recognised and loved by millions, yet scorned, derided or at best ignored by expert opinion was the constant contradictio ...Show more
Reality in Flames: Modern Australian art and the Second World War by Australian War Memorial Staff
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Modern Australian artists were immersed in the Second World War. They served in the armed forces, worked with labour groups or in factories, and as official artists observing, recording, and interpreting military activity. Drawing on their immediate experiences, these men and women responded to the uphe ...Show more
Australian Art: A History by Sasha Grishin
$180.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Sasha Grishin is a leading Australian art historian, art critic and curator who has published some twenty books and over two thousand articles on various aspects of art. This book is his magnum opus, a comprehensive and definitive history of Australian art. Lavishly illustrated and meticulously research ...Show more
Australian Notebooks by Betty Churcher
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art
In Australian Notebooks, Betty Churcher revisits some of the artworks she most cherishes—a seminal Picasso, early works of the Heidelberg School, a striking portrait by Lucian Freud—and invites us to look afresh at the treasures that can be found in Australian galleries. Taking in the glorious work of A ...Show more
Holy Fool: The pictures of Michael Leunig by Michael Leunig
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art | Reading Level: General Adult
At the heart of Michael Leunig's work lies the idea of the holy fool - a character who does not conform to social norms of behaviour because of mental disability or as a deliberate choice, but is regarded as having a compensating divine blessing or inspiration. The holy fool is the protagonist in most o ...Show more
My Country,I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia by Hetti Perkins
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art | Reading Level: Near Fine
My Country features the work of over 130 artists around Australia and makes an important contribution to writing on Aboriginal art. Interviews with exhibiting artists highlight their experiences and approach to art practice, while essays by respected writers Hetti Perkins, Brenda L Croft, Glenn Iseger-P ...Show more
Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World by Daniel Thomas
$90.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art
This important new book looks at one of the most distinctive periods in the history of Australian art, bracketed between the two world wars from 1915 into the 1940s. The Sydney moderns were progressive artists at the forefront of the development of modernism in Australia.
Australian Artists (Portraits) by WEIGHT Greg
$89.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Photographer Greg Weight visits more than 80 significant Australian artists in their studios. Each artist portrait is accompanied by a personal response to the shoot. Brief biographies help to place them in context. Artists featured include Brett Whiteley, John Olsen, Tim Storrier, Robert Klippel, Lloyd ...Show more
Margaret Preston by EDWARDS Deborah
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
This richly illustrated monograph is the first publication to look in detail at the life and art of Margaret Preston, an artist who practised in her native Australia from the mid-1890s right up to her death in 1963. Bearing the conspicuous mark of talent from an early age, the fiercely independent and o ...Show more
John Olsen: Drawing -The Human Touch by MCGREGOR, KEN
$150.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art
This richly illustrated publication represents the author's attempt to locate as many of John Olsen's drawings as possible and Macmillan's determination to reproduce them in a book which will serve as a companion to our previous monographs on the artist's prints and paintings. Olsen is an artist who bel ...Show more
Illumination -The Art of Philip Wolfhagen by Jane Clark
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
This catalogue documents the first comprehensive survey of Wolfhagen's work. This catalogue features an essay by acclaimed Australian writer Tim Winton amongst other highly regarded curators and writers.