Inspired by Country: Bark Paintings from Northern Australia - The Gerd and Helga Plewig Collection by Michaela Appel
$85.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art And Design
The Gerd and Helga Plewig Collection of Bark Paintings from Northern Australia with works mainly from the 1950s to 1970s is presently considered the best collection of its kind outside of Australia. It includes works from the Kimberley, Wadeye, the Tiwi Islands, Arnhem Land and Groote Eylandt by artist ...Show more
The Golden Age of Botanical Art by Martyn Rix
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art And Design | Series: Y Ser.
Truly global in its scope, this beautifully illustrated book moves across centuries and continents to explore the evolution and diversity of botanical art.Images produced in the study of plants have always held a fascination for all those who love nature. The Golden Age of Botanical Art brings together ...Show more
Mirka Mora: A Life Making Art by Sabine Cotte
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art And Design
Mirka Mora features a rich insight into the intellectual life and art practice of one of Australia's most versatile, creative and prolific modern artists. A Melbourne cultural icon, Mirka, along with her ex-husband Georges, was instrumental in helping to establish Australian modern art on a global stag ...Show more
Present Tense: Anna Schwartz Gallery and Thirty-Five Years of Contemporary Australian Art
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art And Design
This vivid and revealing account of thirty-five years of art and history revolves around the locus of the internationally renowned Anna Schwartz Gallery and its eponymous founder. Beginning in St Kilda with United Artists, visionary gallerist Anna Schwartz relocated to City Gallery at 45 Flinders Lane b ...Show more
Ellis Rowan: A Life in Pictures by Christine Morton-Evans
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art And Design
Ellis described the fungi:Growing, they look like dolls dressed up in fluted lace petticoats … Some are apple green, others mauve; one is black, and another has a scarlet cap. They stand high on long white stems, and the fungus closely resembles exquisite lace. In her 70s, artist and naturalist Ellis Ro ...Show more
Love and Lament: An Essay on the Arts in Australia in the Twentieth Century by Margaret Plant
$60.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art And Design
Spanning music, theatre, film, literature, as well as other forms of visual art including architecture and photography, this ambitious overview of Australian art covers the entire spectrum of artistic mediums in the 20th century. Art historian Margaret Plant's extensive research and intimate knowledge o ...Show more
Art in Australia: From Colonization to Postmodernism by Christopher Allen
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art And Design | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Does Australian art have a history or is it just a series of belated footnotes to European and American artistic development in the last two centuries? Does it always express some essential "Australian sensibility"? Christopher Allen's book argues that Australian art does have a history of its own from ...Show more
Current - Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand by Justin Paton et al.
$120.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art And Design | Reading Level: very good
The first truly comprehensive look at contemporary art in Australia and New Zealand in this century. It explores the particular regional uniqueness which comes from a mix between Indigenous, Western and Asian cultures. Featuring 80 artists, the book shows ANZ art to be diverse in culture, medium and the ...Show more