Margaret Snowdon
Margaret Snowdon is from Readings Carlton
Review — 29 Jun 2021
Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Women’s Bodies by Catherine McCormack
Reading Catherine McCormack’s new book is an antidote to something I didn’t know had been happening to me. I have read writers that McCormack references such as Griselda Pollock, Hélène…
Blog post — 2 Jun 2021
Favourite art and design books of 2021 (so far)
Readings’ art & design specialist Margaret Snowdon runs through some highlights of the year so far, from frontrunners to the not-so-obvious.
Architecture books have been quite inspiring this year, with…
Review — 2 Mar 2021
Kerstin Thompson Architects: Encompassing People & Place by Leon Van Schaik & Fleur Watson
Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA) is a diverse practise whose projects range from public buildings such as police stations, to private homes, multi-residential projects, and interventions into historic buildings. Their work…
Blog post — 16 Nov 2020
Art & design book highlights from the year
Prehistorians propose that the arrival of art in the timeline of humanity’s history indicates a jump in our cognitive abilities, so Readings is happy to present to you some wonderful…
Review — 28 Jun 2020
Landscapes of Our Hearts by Matthew Colloff
Mathew Colloff works at the Fenner School of Environment & Society at the ANU, and prior to that was a research scientist for twenty- three years at the CSIRO. So…
Review — 29 Mar 2020
Design Lives Here by Penny Craswell
The beauty of this book is that it does many things in a (seemingly) effortless, elegant fashion. For every house or apartment featured, the sum of its parts creates the…
Review — 26 Mar 2018
The Italian Garden edited by Cecilia Hewlett & Narelle McAuliffe
The Italian Garden is a collaborative work centred on the restoration of a traditional Italian garden at the Monash Centre at Palazzo Vaj in the heart of medieval Prato in…
Blog post — 17 Nov 2016
The best art & design books of 2016
Every year our staff vote for their favourite books, albums, films and TV shows of the past 12 months. Here are our top 10 art and design books of the…
Blog post — 19 Nov 2015
The best art & design books of 2015
Here are our top ten art and design books of the year, voted for by Readings staff. Displayed in no particular order.
The Social Studio by Grace McQuiltern
This book…
Review — 26 Feb 2014
Australian Art: A History by Sasha Grishin
This is an important and good-looking contribution to the understanding of Australian art. Covering ground from the earliest rock art to the twenty-first century, Sasha Grishin presents an engaging and…