$199.00 (Hardcover book / Black Inc / ISBN:9781863952552)
Performances: 1971 to 2008
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 boundaries of performance art within the parameters of art history and theory are unprecedented. At the forefront of performance art in Australia in 1970, Parr explored areas far removed from mainstream visual culture at the time. Despite the contempt, he persevered, remaining true to his practice. This long awaited book pays homage to Parr’s achievements and is an essential admission into Australia’s cultural memory. Compiled by the artist, this first hand account includes an extraordinary array of photographic documentation together with performance scripts and the artist’s writings on his work, encapsulating the qualities that have made Mike Parr one of Australia’s greatest cultural assets on the world stage. Parr has performed in Switzerland, France, Austria, Italy, USA, Japan, The Philippines, Sweden and throughout Australia since 1973.
August Art and Design
Patterns 2: New Design, Art and Architecture
$140.00 (Hardcover book / Birkhauser )
With more than ten thousand copies sold of Patterns in Design, Art and Architecture, now comes Patterns 2, the new volume of the successful pattern book. Once again, the publication presents extraordinary works by leadin... More »
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 »
Jon Cattapan: Possible Histories
$49.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
Jon Cattapan: Possible Histories traces Cattapan's art from his student days to the present. Beginning with the Dadaist grotesquerie and surrealist erotica of Melbourne's 1970s punk scene, it traces Cattapan's themes of ... More »
Leisurama Now: The Beach House For Everyone 1964
$68.00 (Hardcover book / Princeton Archit. Pr )
Who doesn't dream of owning a second home at the beach? Well, in the early 1960s, it was a snap even for the working class. For as little as $590 down and $73 a month, you could walk into Macy's and leave with a fully fu... More »
Formulas For Now
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson )
Imagine if the whole of life were reducible to a single formula. The results are not just unexpected but as weird and as wonderful as life itself. Many of the most creative and original minds of our time - more than a hu... More »
The Australian House
$50.00 (Paperback book / Pesaro Publishing )
A fresh new approach to Australian architecture… The Australian House features 46 recent houses by Australia’s best architects.
These spectacular and provocative houses point to the way of the future… for living in t... More »
