Sidney Nolan: Retrospective by Barry Pearce
$89.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
The speed at which Sidney Nolan worked, and the expansiveness of his production, has always presented something of a dilemma for the retrospective defining of his genius. John Olsen once described Nolan as having a wild eye, by which he was able to glimpse a motif with the instantaneousness of a lens sh ...Show more
Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World by Deborah Edwards
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
This treasury of Australian art created between the two world wars sheds fascinating light on the country's incredible artistic growth and the flowering of modernism Down Under. The "Sydney Moderns" who dominated the Australian scene between World Wars I and II were at once engaging with revolutionary a ...Show more
Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists by Vivien Johnson
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists chronicles the beginnings of the Western Desert art movement and the phenomenal development of its founding art company over four decades. Through comprehensive and widely research biographies of more than 200 men and women the book illuminates lives balanced between fi ...Show more
Contemporary Australian Drawing: 20 Years of the Dobell Prize for Drawing by Hendrik Kolenberg et al
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art
his book celebrates 20 years of the prize and presents a view of contemporary Australian drawing through 40 works (winners and additional works selected for the collection from the exhibitions) by 30 artists ranging from traditional practice to works that push the boundaries of drawing
Collecting Ladies: Women Botanical Illustrators and Ferdinand Von Mueller by Penny Olsen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Around 1870, Ferdinand von Mueller, the greatest Australian botanist of the nineteenth century, began to advertise in several newspapers across Australia for 'lady' plant collectors. This was at a time when women typically had little recourse to science, or contact with men outside their circle of frien ...Show more
A Botanical Life: Robert David Fitzgerald by Penny Olsen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Robert David Fitzgerald (1830-1892) was a successful colonial surveyor who had arrived in Australia in 1856 as a young Irish immigrant of 25. He was employed by the Lands Department in New South Wales and, although he was an exemplary public servant, he was also one of the last of the Victorian-era gent ...Show more
Margaret Olley by Barry Pearce
$120.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Margaret Hannah Olley AC (24 June 1923 -- 26 July 2011) was an Australian painter. She was the subject of more than 90 solo exhibitions. Margaret Olley was born in Lismore, New South Wales. She attended Somerville House in Brisbane during her high school years. She was so focused on art that she dropped ...Show more
Jeffrey Smart by Barry Pearce
$120.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Since the 1999 retrospective organised by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jeffrey Smart has consolidated his position as one of the most outstanding Australian painters of the 20th century. Now at the age of 90 it is possible to assess his achievement in this comprehensive monograph by Barry Pearce, ...Show more
Janet Hawley: Artists in Conversation by Janet Hawley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
This beautifully presented collection of essays by Walkley award-winning journalist Janet Hawley examines the creative output of some of the last few centuries' greatest artists, both Australian and international. Drawn from her widely read and well-respected Good Weekend columns, each essay offers a re ...Show more
Heart Garden - Sunday Reed & Heide by Janine Burke
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
"Born into one of Melbourne's most prominent establishment families, Sunday Baillieu was expected to become a society princess. But this passionate individualist turned her back on upper-class privilege and created a life wholly her own. With her husband, John Reed, Sunday established Heide - a home and ...Show more
The Bird King and Other Sketches by Shaun Tan
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
The bird king, the anthropologists, the thing in the bathroom, the paraffin-oil koala, the secret birthday party...what do they all have in common? Nothing! Except for the fact that they all come from the sketchbooks of Shaun Tan, acclaimed creator of The Lost Thing, the Arrival and Tales from Outer Sub ...Show more