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Papunya: A Place Made After the Story, the Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement
$120.00$59.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
In 1971, a hopeful, young art teacher drove the long, lonely road from Alice Springs to the Aboriginal outpost settlement at Papunya. His name was Geoffrey Bardon. Eighteen months later, he left Papunya, defeated by a ho... More »
30,000 Years Of Art
$69.95 (Hardcover book / )
30,000 Years of Art presents 1000 great works of art from all periods and regions in the world, arranged in chronological order for a general readership. Breaking through the usual geographical and cultural boundaries of... More »
Mirror Of The World
$75.00 (Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson )
What is art and where did it begin? Why do we make it and why does it change? These are some of the many questions that Julian Bell considers in this new story of art for the 21st century.From humans' first impulses to c... More »
Melbourne City Guide
$12.95 (Paperback book / )
Wallpaper City Guides not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he or she has a week or just 24 hours in the city. The guides feature up-and-c... More »
Papunya: A Place Made After the Story, the Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement
$59.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
In 1971, a hopeful, young art teacher drove the long, lonely road from Alice Springs to the Aboriginal outpost settlement at Papunya. His name was Geoffrey Bardon. Eighteen months later, he left Papunya, defeated by a ho... More »
The Spirit Of Secular Art
$49.95 (Paperback book / Sydney University Pr )
The Spirit of Secular Art explains the spiritual prestige of art. Various theorists have discussed how art has an aura or indefinable magic. This book explains how, when and why it gained its spiritual properties. The id... More »
Destiny Deacon Walk And Dont Look Blak
$29.95 (Paperback book / Mca )
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Tracey Moffatt Between Dreams And Reality
$59.95 (Paperback book / Skira )
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Michael Riley Sights Unseen
$59.00 (Paperback book / Nat Gallery Of Aust )
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Exhibiting Maori A History Of Colonial Cultures Of Display
$69.95 (Paperback book / )
This richly illustrated book presents a comprehensive assessment of the display of Maori culture from the 19th Century to today. In doing so,Exhibiting Maori: A History of Colonial Cultures of Display traces the long jou... More »
Future Of The Image
$58.00 (Hardcover book / Verso )
A leading philosopher presents a radical manifesto for the future of art and film. In 'The Future of the Image', Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and p... More »
Aboriginal Art Art & Ideas
$39.95 (Paperback book / )
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Aboriginal Art
$33.00 (Paperback book / Thames And Hudson )
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Possessions: Indigenous Art Colonial Culture
$24.95 (Paperback book / Thames And Hudson )
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Joseph Lycett Convict Artist
$79.95 (Hardcover book / Museum Of Sydney )
Examines the life and work of one of Australia's earliest colonial artists, Joseph Lycett, who worked in Australia from 1815 to 1822, and was responsible for the most extravagantly illustrated account of the colony, publ... More »
Destination Art
$75.00 (Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson )
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War Posters Weapons Of Mass Communication
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson )
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Street Art And The War On Terror
$60.00 (Hardcover book / Korero Books )
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Third Text Reader On Art Culture And Theory
$90.00 (Paperback book / Continuum Pub Co )
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Border Film Project
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Abrams )
Rudy Adler, Victoria Criado & Brett Huneycutt. Three friends who gathered in the summer of 2005 to find an innovative way to shed light on the issue of illegal immigration. After several weeks of filming and travelli... More »
Becoming Art Exploring Cross Cultural Categories
$44.95 (Paperback book / Nsw Press )
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Art Museum From Boullee To Bilbao
$62.95 (Paperback book / Univ California Pr )
Art museums, oases of beauty and calm in a fast-paced world, have emerged in recent decades as the most vibrant and popular of all cultural institutions. But as they have become more popular, their direction and values h... More »
Marking Time On The Anthropology Of The Contemporary
$33.95 (Paperback book / Princeton Univ Press )
In 'Marking Time', Paul Rabinow presents his most recent reflections on the anthropology of the contemporary. Drawing richly on the work of Michel Foucault, John Dewey, Niklas Luhmann, and, most interestingly, German pai... More »
Ancient And Modern Time Culture And Indigenous Philosophy
$39.95 (Paperback book / Univ Nsw Pr )
How might we think and talk about indigenous philosophy? Why has Aboriginal knowledge not been given the status of philosophical knowledge, but treated by whites rather as culture or history? There is a quarrel about who... More »
Material Thinking Collaborative Realisation And The Art Of Self Becoming
$44.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
'Material Thinking' is a ground-breaking book for artists, and for those who study or teach in the arts. Author and artist Paul Carter provides an intimate, first-hand account of how ideas are turned into works, and how ... More »
Modernist Papers
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Verso )
A new perspective on Proust, Joyce, Kafka and others from master of literary theory. Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, for the first time sin... More »
Art Of The Collection State Library Of Victoria Picture Collection
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press )
The Art of the Collection is a celebration of the State Library of Victoria's Picture Collection – the oldest visual documentary collection in Australia. Acting on its mandate to collect and preserve Victoria's documenta... More »
Neutral The Lecture Course At The College De France 1977 1978
$43.95 (Paperback book / Columbia Univ Pr )
"I define the Neutral as that which outplays the paradigm, or rather I call Neutral everything that baffles paradigm." With these words, Roland Barthes describes a concept that profoundly shaped his work and was the subj... More »
Uncommissioned Art The A Z Of Australian Graffiti
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press )
This is an expertly designed and packaged title on a somewhat controversial topic – that of graffiti. The photographs are from all over Australia from Alice Springs to Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
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Stencil Graffiti Capital Melbourne
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Mark Batty Publisher )
An edgy visual survey of the best streetartists working in Melbourne, Australiawith intimate interviews, dynamic layoutsand a riot of examples. Melbourne’s citywalls and spaces are both canvases andmeeting places for ide... More »
Stencil Graffiti
$29.95 (Paperback book / Thames And Hudson )
In Stencil Graffiti, the first book to examine comprehensively this design phenomenon, Tristan Manco traces the history of stencil art and provides an exciting and thorough overview of the medium. His introduction traces... More »
Gordon Bennett
$49.95 (Paperback book / Nat Gallery Of Vic )
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Location Of Culture
$39.95 (Paperback book / Routledge )
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Settling With Indigenous People
$66.00 (Paperback book / Federation Press )
Settling with Indigenous People describes practical modern attempts to reach local and regional agreements between settler societies and indigenous people.These cases differ markedly from the famous formal treaty negotia... More »
Theory Of Justice An Installation By Peter Friedl
$0.00 (Paperback book / Actar )
Presents an installation and artist book on the logic of politics as opposition, where conflict replaces consensus. More »
Talking Prices
$37.95 (Paperback book / Princeton Univ Press )
How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? "Talking Prices" is the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a wide range of qualitat... More »
Art As Far As The Eye Can See
$46.95 (Hardcover book / Berg Publishers )
Translated by Julie Rose Art as Far as the Eye Can See puts art back where it matters - at the centre of politics. Art used to be an engagement between artist and materials. As art practice and media have changed, these ... More »
Art Question
$0.00 (Paperback book / Routledge )
If an artist sends a live peacock to an exhibition, is it art? The question "what is art?" is a question many of us want to know but are afraid to ask. It is the very question that Nigel Warburton demystifies in this acc... More »
Pop Art And Vernacular Cultures
$41.95 (Paperback book / Mit Press )
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Selected #2 A Source For Video Art Lovers
$35.00 (Paperback book / Actar )
Presents 44 selected works by 44 contemporary artists from 18 countries. All were presented at LOOP 07, held in Barcelona, 31/05/07 to 2/06/07, a platform for video art lovers. More »
On Beauty A History Of A Western Idea
$95.00 (Hardcover book / Secker & Warburg )
Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to ... More »
On Ugliness
$95.00$29.95 (Hardcover book / Harvill )
This book is the follow up to the previous volume ON BEAUTY. Apparently beauty and ugliness are concepts that imply each other, and by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty, so all we need do is define the firs... More »
Venice And The Islamic World 828 1797
$150.00 (Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr )
From 828, when Venetian merchants carried home from Alexandria the stolen relics of St. Mark, to the fall of the Venetian Republic to Napoleon in 1797, the visual arts in Venice were dramatically influenced by Islamic ar... More »