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30,000 Years Of Art
Editors Of Phaidon

$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... Buy or find out more 


 

Mirror Of The World
Julian Bell

$79.95$39.95 – 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... Buy or find out more 



Melbourne City Guide
Wallpaper

$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... Buy or find out more 


Papunya: A Place Made After the Story, the Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement
Geoffrey Bardon

$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... Buy or find out more 



The Spirit Of Secular Art
Robert Nelson

$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... Buy or find out more 


Destiny Deacon Walk And Dont Look Blak

$29.95 – Paperback book / Mca

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Tracey Moffatt Between Dreams And Reality
Filippo Maggia Ed

$59.95$15.95 – Paperback book / Skira

Making art is quite therapeutic, Tracey Moffatt once said of herself. This brief statement reveals much of the artist’s personality and above all about her manner of interpreting the artistic experience, a practice that ... Buy or find out more 


Michael Riley Sights Unseen
Brenda Croft

$29.95 – Paperback book / Nat Gallery Of Aust

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Exhibiting Maori A History Of Colonial Cultures Of Display
Conal Mccarthy

$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... Buy or find out more 


Archive
Walter Benjamin

$39.00 – Hardcover book / Verso

An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents from his own collection. The works of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin are a reservoir of texts, commentaries,... Buy or find out more 



Future Of The Image
Jacques Ranciere

$0.00 – 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... Buy or find out more 


 

Aboriginal Art Art & Ideas
Howard Morphy

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Aboriginal Art
Wally Caruana

$33.00$17.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson

This well illustrated survey of Aboriginal art, ancient and modern, focuses on the spiritual and geographic sources of art and ritual traditions in Australia. It covers the range of art from all parts of the continent, i... Buy or find out more 


Possessions: Indigenous Art Colonial Culture
Nicholas Thomas

$24.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson

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Joseph Lycett Convict Artist
John Mcphee

$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... Buy or find out more 


Destination Art
Amy Dempsey

$75.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson

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War Posters Weapons Of Mass Communication
James Aulich

$59.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson

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Street Art And The War On Terror
Xavier Tapies

$49.95 – Hardcover book / Korero Books

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Third Text Reader On Art Culture And Theory
Sardar Cubitt Araeen

$90.00 – Paperback book / Continuum Pub Co

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Becoming Art: Exploring Cross Cultural Categories
Howard Morphy

$44.95 – Paperback book / Nsw Press

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Guan Wei
Dysart Dinah Et Al

$65.00 – Hardcover book / Sherman Galleries

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Marking Time On The Anthropology Of The Contemporary
Paul Rabinow

$42.95 – 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... Buy or find out more 



Ancient And Modern Time Culture And Indigenous Philosophy
Stephen Muecke

$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... Buy or find out more 


Material Thinking Collaborative Realisation And The Art Of Self Becoming
Paul Carter

$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 ... Buy or find out more 



The Art Of The Collection: State Library Of Victoria Picture Collection
Niall Brenda Et Al

$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... Buy or find out more 


 

Uncommissioned Art: The A Z Of Australian Graffiti
Christine Dew

$39.95$24.95 – 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
Tristan Manco

$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... Buy or find out more 


Location Of Culture
Bhabha Homi K

$32.95 – Paperback book / Routledge

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Settling With Indigenous People
Langton Marcia Mazel Odette

$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... Buy or find out more 


Art As Far As The Eye Can See
Paul Virilio

$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 ... Buy or find out more 



Art Question
Nigel Warburton

$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... Buy or find out more 


Selected #2 A Source For Video Art Lovers
Javier Duero

$0.00 – 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. Buy or find out more 



On Beauty A History Of A Western Idea
Umberto Eco

$90.00 – 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 ... Buy or find out more 


On Ugliness
Umberto Eco (Ed)

$99.00 – 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... Buy or find out more 



Venice And The Islamic World 828 1797
Stefano Carboni

$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... Buy or find out more 


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