Readings Recommends: Australian Art
Russell Drysdale
$125.00 (Hardcover book / Murdoch Books )
This definitive work on Russell Drysdale, in print for 26 years, has been redesigned with an elegant, spacious layout to make the paintings come alive for a new generation. More than 160 colour plates illustrate the work... More »
Women Of Flowers
$34.95 (Paperback book / National Lib Of Aust )
Renowned botanical artist Leonie Norton pays tribute to those who came before her in this beautiful full-colour book, illustrated with over 100 exquisite botanical paintings. Ten Australian women artists are showcased he... More »
Looking At Paintings: A Private View
$69.95 (Hardcover book / Murdoch Books )
This book draws together an eclectic and highly personal mix of painters: from Picasso to Carpaccio, from Cranach to Nolan. The connecting thread between these diverse works, which span six centuries, is international th... More »
I Blame Duchamp
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Lantern Books )
'My musings on art could be described as a benign diatribe; one inspired by a genuine if watchful passion.'
In this sweeping collection of essays, Edmund Capon describes his lifelong fascination with art and the artists ... More »
Tim Johnston
$39.95 (Paperback book / Queensland Art Gal. )
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Arnold Shore Pioneer And Modernist
$99.00 (Hardcover book / Palgrave )
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Days Of Summer
$65.00 (Hardcover book / Salvatore Zofrea (Mosman Art Gallery) )
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Yvonne Audette Paintings And Drawings 1949 2003
$99.00 (Hardcover book / Macmillan )
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Menagerie Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture
$49.95 (Paperback book / Object Gallery )
Accompanying a major touring exhibition of the same name, this elegant publication highlights the richness and breadth of contemporary Indigenous sculpture in Australia through the innovative work of 33 Aboriginal and To... More »
The Psychology Of Trees
$35.00 (Paperback book / )
The Psychology of Trees is a collection of dramatically dark images by Jenny Bolis.
The viewer is invited to discover the mystery of female psychology, as we are drawn into a dreamstate of female intuition, architecture ... More »
Fairweather
$125.00 (Hardcover book / Murdoch Books )
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After Fire: A Biography of Clifton Pugh
$65.00 (Hardcover book / Hardie Grant )
Born in Richmond, Victoria, in 1924, Clifton Pugh rose to prominence as a portrait and landscape painter, winning the Archibald Prize three times and an Order of Australia medal in 1985. After attending the National Gall... More »
Blood Language
$39.99 (Paperback book / Miegunyah Press )
Judy Watson is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. Her art explores territory that includes the dispossessed Indigenous Australians with whom she shares a family history and heritage. Judy Watson’s art is in... More »
Anne Ferran The Ground The Air
$25.00 (Hardcover book / )
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Performances: 1971 to 2008
$199.00 (Hardcover book / Black Inc )
Mike Parr is Australia’s most significant performance artist. His contribution to the development and establishment of performance art in Australia remains continuous and resolute. Parr’s dedication and research into the... More »
Art Of Australia: Volume One
$125.00 (Hardcover book / Macmillan )
"I have on my desk the printer's proof of Art of Australia. It is quite simply the most beautiful book I've ever been involved with. The text is marvellous - fascinating, compelling and definitive from Australia's pre-em... More »
Someone's Universe: The Art Of Eugene Carchesio
$29.95 (Paperback book / Queensland Art Gal. )
Someone's Universe: The Art of Eugene Carchesio is a focused survey of work by the leading Queensland contemporary artist, Eugene Carchesio. Known for his repeated use of particular images and patterns, his work has an o... More »
John Brack
$49.95 (Paperback book / Nat Gallery Of Vic )
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Rosalie Gascoigne
$49.95 (Trade paperback / Nat Gallery Of Vic )
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Lives Of The Papunya Tula Artists
$100.00 (Hardcover book / Iad Press )
Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists by Vivien Johnson presents, as never before, the biographies of over 200 Western Desert painters from the world-acclaimed Papunya Tula Artists company in Alice Springs. Established in 19... More »
New Beginnings: Classic Paintings from the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art
$79.95 (Hardcover book / )
For more than 40 years leading businessman Pat Corrigan has been one of Australia’s largest and most significant arts benefactors. A strong supporter of the innovative and of living artists, post-2000 Pat turned his eye ... More »
When You Think About Art: Ewing And George Paton Gallery 1971-2008
$79.95 (Hardcover book / Macmillan )
A history of Melbourne’s iconic Ewing and George Paton Gallery. The title is taken from the first of the Ewing Gallery’s famous Ideas Shows. ‘The Letter Show,’ July 1974, asked artists and others to respond to the questi... More »
Destiny Deacon Walk And Dont Look Blak
$29.95 (Paperback book / Mca )
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Jeffrey Smart
$120.00 (Hardcover book / The Beagle Press )
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Brook Andrew Theme Park
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Piper Press )
Brook Andrew is an Indigenous Melbourne-based artist who works with neon, installation, photo-media, mixed-media, performance and video. Andrew challenges cultural and historical perception, using text and image to comme... More »
Cross Currents: Focus On Contemporary Australian Art
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Contemporary Australia: Optimism
$45.00 (Paperback book / Queensland Art Gal. )
More than 60 contemporary Australian artists feature in this publication produced for ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’, the first in a major new national triennial series of thematic Australian art exhibitions. It expl... More »
Redback Graphix
$39.95 (Paperback book / Nat Gallery Of Aust )
Redback Graphix will bowl readers over with colour and edgy social comment. From 1979-94 design and screen printing studio Redback Graphix produced posters that combined witty graphics with eye-watering colours to give v... More »
Written In The Land: The Life Of Queenie Mckenzie
$59.95 (Paperback book / Melbourne Books )
This beautifully produced book tells the story of Queenie McKenzie, a remarkable indigenous woman from the remote East Kimberley in Western Australia. Now deceased, Queenie was an important cultural leader, revered Abori... 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 »
Tracey Moffatt Between Dreams And Reality
$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 ... More »
Dale Frank Ecstasy
$21.90 (Hardcover book / Museum Contemp Art )
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Tim Maguire
$99.00 (Hardcover book / Piper Press )
Tim Maguire paints images of overwhelming beauty. Frequently cinematic in scale and distinctive for their rich colouration and technical skill, his works hover between realism and abstraction. The enormous scale of his s... More »
Utopia The Genius Of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
$59.95 (Paperback book / National Museum Of Australia )
Emily Kame Kngwarreye is one of the most important abstract painters of the 20th century and one of the most significant artists that Australia has ever produced. Emily’s strikingly modern and beautifully innovative work... More »
Julie Rrap: Body Double
$69.95 (Hardcover book / Piper Press )
Victoria Lynn explores the persona of the ‘trickster’ in Rrap’s work and the theme of the ‘body double’ in her photography, sculpture and installations. More »