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Objects/Histories eBook Series

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  • Remote Avant-Garde

    Aboriginal Art under Occupation

    Series series Objects/Histories
    In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle models new and emergent desert Aboriginal aesthetics as an art of survival. Since 2007, Australian government policy has targeted "remote" Australian Aboriginal communities as at crisis level of delinquency and dysfunction. Biddle asks how emergent art responds to national emergency, from the creation of locally hunted grass sculptures to biliterary ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Acute Misfortune

    The Life and Death of Adam Cullen

    by Erik Jensen ...
    An unflinching portrait of talent and addiction, now an award-winning feature film.In 2008, the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his spare room and write his biography.What followed were four years of intense honesty and a relationship that became increasingly claustrophobic. At one point Cullen shot Jensen, in part to see how committed he was to the book. At another, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Forgotten Islands of Indonesia

    The Art & Culture of the Southeast Moluccas

    This beautiful book contains fascinating text and over 170 unique photographs of one of the most interesting but least well known cultures in the Indonesian Archipelago.The traditional art of Maluku Tenggara, the Southeast Moluccas, is among the most sophisticated and expressive in the world. Simple tools were used to create masterpieces in wood, stone, textiles and precious metals, while the ... Read more

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  • Rattling Spears

    A History of Indigenous Australian Art

    by Ian McLean ...
    Large, bold, and colorful, indigenous Australian art—sometimes known as Aboriginal art—has made an indelible impression on the contemporary art scene. But it is controversial, dividing the artists, purveyors, and collectors from those who smell a scam. Whether the artists are victims or victors, there is no denying the impact of their work in the media, on art collectors and the art world at large ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Photography, Natural History and the Nineteenth-Century Museum

    Exchanging Views of Empire

    Series series Science and the Arts since 1750
    The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visual technologies. Concurrently, different parts of the British Empire began to more actively claim their right to being acknowledged as indispensable contributors to knowledge and the progress of empire. This book addresses the complex relationship ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Montsalvat

    The intimate story of an Australian artists' colony

    In the legend of King Arthur and the knights of the round table Montsalvat is the home of the Holy Grail. Australia's Montsalvat is an artists' colony in Eltham, established by the architect and artist Justus Jorgensen in 1934. It is home to over a dozen buildings, houses and halls built out of local stone, recycled timbers and rammed earth and set amongst richly established gardens on 12 acres of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Asmat Art

    Woodcarvings of Southwest New Guinea

    Edited by Dirk Smidt ...
    Asmat Art features the world renowned woodcarvings of the Asmat, former head-hunters who live in the western half of New GuineaThis book presents a full range of Asmat woodcarving art, but emphasizes the rare early shields and figure sculptures. Drums, canoe prowheads and the larger, more dramatic "objects" are also shown.Together with bisj poles, war shields are perhaps the most famous creation ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Pottery As a Profession

    Margaret Preston's essay on Pottery As a Profession, first published by Art in Australia, Third Series, Number 32, June-July 1930. Reissued in eBook format in 2016 by ETT Imprint. The publisher is grateful to the Trustee of the Estate of Margaret Preston and the Permanent Trustee Company Limited for granting permission to reproduce the writings and images of Margaret Preston in this book. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hard Light of Day

    An Artist's Life in the Australian Outback

    by Rod Moss ...
    A rare glimpse into the Australian heartland and the interactions of black and white Australians through the eyes of an artist.Two years after artist Rod Moss arrived in Alice Springs in Australia’s outback to teach painting, he met an indigenous couple who had set up camp in the gully beside his home. Over the next twenty-five years, his friendship with Xavier and Petrina Neil and the friendships ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Selected Writings - Margaret Preston

    Never shy of voicing an opinion, artist Margaret Preston launched into print on a variety of subjects, from flower arranging and furnishing a bedroom, to Aboriginal art and design, Pokerwork and Wood-blocking. Selected from the pages of Australia's journals by Elizabeth Butel, this collection addresses Preston's recurring preoccupations - "modern" art, an Australian national art and the craft of ... Read more

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  • Holy Fool

    Artworks

    At the heart of Michael Leunig's work lies the idea of the holy fool - a character who does not conform to social norms of behaviour because of a peculiar mental disposition or as a deliberate choice, but is regarded as having a compensating divine blessing or inspiration. It could be said that the holy fool is the protagonist in most of Michael's paintings and cartoons.As wonderful as his ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Hall Thorpe Coloured Woodcuts

    by Hall Thorpe ...
    A catalogue of Hall Thorpe coloured woodcuts, including a Foreword by Richard King, Introduction (Hall Thorpe: A Consideration of His Work) by Robert and Ingrid Holden, and 'On Colour in the Cottage' by Hall Thorpe, R.B.A., reproduced from The Studio Year-Book of Decorative Art 1919. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus