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Journey Through Landscape in Seventeenth-Century Holland: The Haarlem Print Series and Dutch Identity
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCatherine Levesque
University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. -


The Tela Quadrivium: Conjunctio, Coagula, Solve, Distillatio (4 Volumes)
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOrryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
London: Fulgur, 2008-15.A complete set of the occult art and text series Tela Quadrivium by Australian magician and artist Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule published between 2008 and 2015. A dark and meditative series of ‘graphic grimmoires’, an exploration of esoteric philosophy, an alchemical puzzle where each volume reveals new aspects of the others. Sex, union, birth, death, destruction, decomposition, new growth, magic, are the author’s inspirations, and the illustrations live up to the source material. Each book is individually numbered in an edition of 640 copies.
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A Suicidology of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge: The Bridge – Nanjing – Under the Heaven
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartQiu Zhijie
Singapore: Singapore Tyler Print Institute, 2008.A series of artworks based around the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, listed as the location of the world’s highest number of suicides by jumping.
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Between Worlds
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPolixeni Papetrou
[Melbourne]: Polixeni Papapetrou, 2009.Catalogue for a series of photographic works by contemporary artist Polixeni Papetrou (1960- 2018).
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Hyakunin Joro Shinasadame [One Hundred Women Classified According to Their Rank]
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNishikawa Sukenobu
Kyoto: Unsodo, No date.One of the masterpieces of Ukiyoe art. Depicts women from various social classes of the Edo period, from court and samurai ladies to geisha and sex workers, and the many town and country women in between. Originally published in 2 volumes in 1723 and here reprinted together in 1 volume circa late 19th/early 20th century.
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Yves Klein: Dreaming in the Dream of Others
AU$125.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorges Petitjean
Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2022.This volume presents works by 13 Aboriginal artists alongside pieces by the influential French artist Yves Klein (1928-62), whose early childhood art and writings reflect an interest in prehistorical Aboriginal motifs. Artists include: Angkaliya Curtis, Bardayal Lofty Nadjamerrek, Bil Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Danie Mellor, Dhambit Mununggurr, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Ignatia Djanghara, Waigan Djanghara, Judy Watson, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Paddy Nyunkuny Bedford, Paji Honeychild Yankarr, and Wattie Karruwara.
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The Lost Tune: Early Works (1913-1930) as photographed by the artist
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStanislav Szukalski
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2023.The photos in this volume were printed from the original glass negatives taken by the artist between 1913 and 1930. This is the second edition of Stanislav Szukalski’s The Lost Tune. The first edition was produced to complement the exhibit Szukalski: The Lost Genius, held between August 3 and October 22, 1990 at the Polish Museum of America in Chicago. With the addition of over a dozen photos, this new edition is a collection of prints of almost all of Szukalski’s existing glass negatives. The negatives have been scanned in high resolution and meticulously reproduced and printed. This edition has a larger format than the first edition, and includes a comprehensive article on the historical and artistic merit of Szukalski’s early photography. (publisher’s blurb)
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Dobangaka kiyohara keiko sakuhinshu
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKeiko Kiyohara
Tokyo: Abe Shuppan, 2017.Monograph of Japanese printmaker Keiko Kiyohara (1955-1987). This copy with the catalogue, The Etcher, Kiyohara Keiko Retrospective, from the Hachioji Yumi Art Museum (2017) laid in.
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Soseiki: Wakaki hi no geijutsukatachi / Eikoh Hosoe Portraits
AU$450.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEikoh Hosoe
Tokyo: Kokusho Kankokai, 2012.125 mostly previously unpublished portraits of 35 of Japan’s leading 20th century artists in their youth. Features butoh dancers, writers, artists, and creatives such as Yayoi Kusama, Yukio Mishima, Kazuo Ohno, Tatsumi Hijikata, Min Tanaka, Akira Sato, Yoko Ashikawa, Masuo Ikeda, Shuji Terayama, and others. Limited to 1,500 unnumbered copies, this copy signed by Eikoh to the front free endpaper.
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Issue: Social Strategies by Women Artists
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLucy R. Lippard
London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1980.Catalogue for an influential feminist art exhibition, including the works of Jenny Holzer, Suzanne Lacy, Leslie Labowitz, Nicole Croiset, Nil Yalter, Sue Richardson, Monica Ross, Kate Walker, Margaret Harrison, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Alexis Hunter, Maria Karras, Mary Kelly, Margia Kramer, Loraine Leeson, Beverly Naidus, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, Miriam Sharon, Bonnie Sherk (the Farm), Nancy Spero, May Stevens, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Marie Yates.
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Superb Youth in a Camera Life-Class, For Artists and Students including Anthropometry and Anatomy (2 Volumes)
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn S. Barrington
London: John S. Barrington, 1970.John S. Barrington (1920-1991) was a prolific 20th century British physique photographer. Receiving a formal art training in Paris, he was also a visual artist and sculptor, and earlier in his career worked in theatre design. Barrington began picking up and photographing men at the pool, eventually going on to establish one of the most prolific physique studios of the 20th century, during which time he probably published and distributed more full male nudes than any of his contemporaries up until the changing censorship laws in the latter part of the century. Superb Youth in a Camera Life-Class is one of his scarcest works, unrecorded in public collections, and with a stated limited edition of 100 copies (though this could be Barrington’s marketing at work). It combines his photography and visual art with detailed instruction in the art of the measurements and proportions of the male body, and features numerous photographs and drawings of many of his favourite models, who were also his lovers or unrequited lusts. A prospectus at the end of volume two alludes to a third and fourth volume to be published and available only to subscribers of the first two volumes, though no record can be found of them ever having been published. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC at October, 2023.
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Pleasure of the Gaze: Image and Appearance in Recent Australian Art
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBruce Adams
Perth: The Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1985.Exhibition catalogue. Full list of artists: Julie Brown-Rrap, Peter Callas, Richard Dunn, Merilyn Fairskye, Marinka Kordis, Maria Kozic, Lindy Lee, John Lethbridge, Akio Makigawa, Sue Paull, Stieg Persson, Robert Randall, Frank Bendinelli, Carol Rudyard, Peter Tyndall, Vicki Varvaressos, and John R. Walker. Essays by Adrian Martin, Eaghan Morris, and Peter Callas. Curated by Bruce Adams.
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The Dance of Moon and Sun: Ithell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJudith Noble; Tilly Craig; Victoria Ferentinou
Lopen: Fulgur Press, 2023.“Straddling the worlds of Surrealism, occultism and modernist literature, Ithell Colquhoun was widely respected in her lifetime, but her transgressive, esoteric and poetic paintings and writings were long neglected until recent years. This volume is the first critical examination of her diverse legacy, compiling papers from a 2018 conference on Colquhoun and her contemporaries Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini and Stella Snead. Colquhoun occupies a unique place within the lineage of occult Surrealist painters such as Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, as her presence in the 2022 Venice Biennale exhibition Milk of Dreams demonstrated.Contributors explore themes of authorship and agency, Colquhouns drawing practice, her Celtic motifs, British Surrealism and alchemy.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Synthesis
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKohei Nawa
Tokyo: AKAAKA Art Publishing, 2011.The extensive catalogue accompanying the 2011 solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the first to present a comprehensive view of all of Nawa’s work to date. Includes an original work by Kohei Nawa mounted in an enclosure on the lower board.
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Cosmic Love Wonder Lust: The Imperial Slacks Project
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNicholas Tsoutas
Sydney: Campbelltown Arts, 2018.Accompanying book to exhibition by artist run collective Imperial Slacks held across the Campbelltown Arts Centre and Sydney College of the Arts Galleries in 2015. Imperial Slacks challenged the traditional model of artist run spaces, using their collective to test alternative attitudes towards curating.
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Binding Culture into Thread: Textile Arts of Biboki, West Timor
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFiona Leibrick
Darwin: Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory / The Centre for Southeast Asia Studies, Northern Territory University, 1994. -


Yokoo Tadanori: Grand Theatre of Live Painting: Something’s Happening at the Museum Today
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYokoo Tadanori
[Kobe]: Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019.Published to accompany the 2019 exhibition dedicated to works that Tadanori created in front of live audiences. Tadanori thrives on the focus, and the energy, that painting in public provides and this catalogue includes photos of audiences observing the artist.
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Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoshua S. Mostow; Norman Bryson: Maribeth Graybill
Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2003. -


Color on Color (Volume 2)
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHiroshi Hara
[Tokyo]: [Takeo Paper Co.], No date.Exploring the possibilities of opaque ink. A sample book created by paper firm Takeo Paper featuring works by famous graphic designers and photographers printed in various inks. Features work by Kishin Shinoyama, Keisuke Nagatomo, Seitaro Kuroda, Satoshi Kondo, Ayumu Ohashi, Tamotsu Ejima, Yoshihiro Tatsuki, Tadahito Nadamoto, Eiko Ishioka, Keiichi Tanaami, and Makoto Nakamura. Curated by Hiroshi Hara.
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Destroy All Monsters Magazine
AU$280.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDestroy All Monsters; Cary Loren
New York: Primary Information, 2011.“Facsimile edition of Destroy All Monsters Magazine including remnants of the lost seventh issue, which was never released. Destroy All Monsters Magazine features work by Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw. Destroy All Monsters Magazine was edited by Cary Loren and contained artwork, photographs, and flyers from band mates Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw. Printed using any papers and techniques available to the band, the issues combine the cut and paste tactics of punk zines with a psychedelic affinity for color. Destroy All Monsters Magazine functions as a kind of manifesto, providing insight into the band through densely layered pages with movie imagery, kitsch, cartoons, delicate drawings, and counter-culture collages. While Destroy All Monsters has been the subject of recent exhibitions and partial reprints, this is the first time that all issues have been reprinted.” (publisher’s blurb)