Best Art & Design of 2021

Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror

Carlos Basualdo,Scott Rothkopf

An innovative retrospective look at the work of one of America’s most iconic artists, utilizing the concepts of mirroring and doubling, which have long preoccupied Johns

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Iconotypes: A compendium of butterflies and moths. Jones’s Icones Complete

An enhanced facsimile of Jones’s Icones, one of the most scientifically important and visually stunning works on butterflies and moths ever created.

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Installation View - Photography Exhibitions In Australia (1848-2020)

D. Palmer, M. Jolly

Installation View offers a significant new account of photography in Australia, told through its most important exhibitions and modes of collection and display.

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After The Australian Ugliness

Naomi Stead,Tom Lee,Ewan McEoin,Megan Patty

Robin Boyd’s The Australian Ugliness was published in 1960 and quickly took its place as a key work of architectural and cultural critique in the nation’s canon. This new book…

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Daniel Thomas: Recent past: writing Australian art

Art Gallery NSW

Covering the period from 1958 to 2020, Recent past: writing Australian art is the first anthology of Thomas’s writings and presents an overview of Australian art, at once authoritative and…

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A Room of Her Own

Robyn Lea

Meet the creative women who are living life on their own terms, and the unique living spaces they have designed and inhabit in this lavishly produced volume.

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Still Life: Contemporary Australian Painters

Amber Creswell Bell

A rich survey of the work of more than forty still-life artists, which presents the genre in a uniquely Australian light.

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Frances Burke: Designer of Modern Textiles

Nanette Carter,Robyn Oswald-Jacobs

An elegantly illustrated celebration of iconic Australian designer Frances Burke

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Evergreen Architecture: Overgrown Buldings and Greener Living

Nature and architecture have never been more intertwined. As more of the earth’s surface is swallowed up by the built environment, architects are increasingly up to the task of integrating…

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The King’s Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein

Franny Moyle

The first illustrated biography of Hans Holbein, the painter who depicted some of the most powerful people of the early sixteenth century, over three decades.

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Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges)

Alison Page, Paul Memmott

Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country.Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated…

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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir

Ai Weiwei

In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei - one of the world’s most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his…

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Best Art & Design of 2021

Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror

Iconotypes: A compendium of butterflies and moths. Jones’s Icones Complete

Installation View - Photography Exhibitions In Australia (1848-2020)

After The Australian Ugliness

Daniel Thomas: Recent past: writing Australian art

A Room of Her Own

Still Life: Contemporary Australian Painters

Frances Burke: Designer of Modern Textiles

Evergreen Architecture: Overgrown Buldings and Greener Living

The King’s Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein

Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges)

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir