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Women of Flowers: Botanical Art in Australia from the 1830s to the 1960s
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLeonie Norton
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2010. -
Gatherings: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland Australia
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarion Demozay
Gold Coast: Keeaira Press, 2001.“A comprehensive book of contemporary Queensland Indigenous art, featuring the work of over 100 practicing artists, some have reputations internationally, others are emerging artists. This book has become the definitive reference for contemporary Queensland Indigenous art. It is recommended for collectors, researchers, academics or anyone with an interest in Aboriginal art.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Routledge International Handbook of Intercultural Arts Research
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPamela Burnard; Elizabeth Mackinlay; Kimberly Powell
London: Routledge, 2016. -
Remembering Brian and Marjorie Johnstone’s Galleries
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNancy Underhill
Brisbane: University of Queensland Art Museum, 2014. -
Cressida Campbell: 26 July – 20 August, 2022
AU$180.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCressida Campbell
Brisbane: Philip Bacon Galleries, 2022.Exhibition catalogue. Price list laid in
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Not Only Black + White Magazine Number 57: Design Issue
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2001.Single issue of successful Australian photography magazine, (not only) Black+White. Published between 1992 and 2007 Black+White was a coffee table format magazine which featured work from some of the world’s top photographers, often nude or semi-nude portraiture, together with interviews with photographers and celebrities and articles on popular culture and current events. In this issue: Fabien Baron, Australian Design, Allen Smithee, James Whitlow Delano, Alyssa Sutherland, Future Systems.
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Not Only Black + White Magazine Number 47: The Design Issue
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2000.Single issue of successful Australian photography magazine, (not only) Black+White. Published between 1992 and 2007 Black+White was a coffee table format magazine which featured work from some of the world’s top photographers, often nude or semi-nude portraiture, together with interviews with photographers and celebrities and articles on popular culture and current events. In this issue: The Design Issue: Frank Gehry, Tate Modern, Adam Cullen, St Germain, Droog Design, Lights Fantastic, Hot Fonts, Imogen Bailey, Foster, Libeskind, Piano and the new Berlin, Auto Erotica: Sexy Cards and Bikes, James Houston’s Raw Moves, Armin Linke’s Architectural Wonders.
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Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDidier Ottinger
Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2011. -
A Place to Paint
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPatricia Prentice
[Brisbane]: Patricia Prentice, 1989. -
Les Diners de Gala
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSalvador Dali
Koln: Taschen, 2021.”Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste… If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eating into a form of punishment, close this book at once; it is too lively, too aggressive, and far too impertinent for you.” (Salvador Dali). Food and surrealism make perfect bedfellows: sex and lobsters, collage and cannibalism, the meeting of a swan and a toothbrush on a pastry case. The opulent dinner parties thrown by Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) and his wife and muse, Gala (1894-1982) were the stuff of legend. Luckily for us, Dalí published a cookbook in 1973, Les diners de Gala, which reveals some of the sensual, imaginative, and exotic elements that made up their notorious gatherings. This reprint features all 136 recipes over 12 chapters, specially illustrated by Dalí, and organized by meal courses, including aphrodisiacs. The illustrations and recipes are accompanied by Dalí’s extravagant musings on subjects such as dinner conversation: “The jaw is our best tool to grasp philosophical knowledge.” All these rich recipes can be cooked at home, although some will require practiced skill and a well-stocked pantry. This is cuisine of the old school, with meals by leading French chefs from such stellar Paris restaurants as Lasserre, La Tour d’Argent, Maxim’s, and Le Train Bleu. Good taste, however voluptuous, never goes out of fashion. In making this exceptionally rare book available to a wide audience, TASCHEN brings an artwork, a practical cookbook, and a multisensory adventure to today’s kitchens.The first English edition of Les Diners de Gala was published in 1973 by FELICIE, INC., New York.” (publishers’ blurb)
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Ravilious Engravings
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJeremy Greenwood
Woodbridge: The Wood Lea Press, 2008.An important collection with a portrait frontispiece and over a hundred of Eric William Ravilious’ (1903-1942) engravings and reproductions including bookplates, calendar designs, and astrological charts. Introduction by John Craig. One of 800 of the Standard Edition.
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Genshoku Nihon no Bijutsu [Primary Colours of Japanese Art] (30 Volumes)
AU$2,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTerukazu Akiyama
Tokyo: Shogakkan, 1966-1972.A complete set of large format pictorial Japanese encyclopedias on Japanese history, religion, art, culture, architecture, antiquities, and more. Most volumes are first printings, with the occasional reprint. Each volume is dedicated to a different subject. Full list of titles: 1. Genshi bijutsu [Ancient Japanese Art]; 2. Horyuki [Horyu-ji Temple]; 3. Nara no jiin to Tenpyo chokoku [Temples and Sculptures in Nara in the Tenpyo Period]; 4. Shosoin; 5. Mikkyo jiin to Jogan chokoku [Esoteric Buddhism Temples and Jogan Sculptures]; 6. Amidado to Fujiwara chokoku [Amidado and Fujiwara Sculpture]; 7. Butsuga [Buddhist Painting]; 8. Emakimono 9. Chusei jiin to Kamakura chokoku [Medieval Temples and Kamakura Sculpture]; 10. Zendera to sekitei [Zen Temples and Rock Gardens]; 11. Suibokuga [Ink Painting]; 12. Shiro to shoin [Architecture of Castles and Halls]; 13. Shoheiga [Screen Paintings]; 14. Sotatsu to Korin [Japanese Illustrators]; 15. Katsurarikyu to chashitsu [Katsura Imperial Villa and Tea Room]; 16. Jinja to reibyo [Shrines and Mausoleums]; 17. Ukiyoe; 18. Nanga to shaseiga [Japanese Painting]; 19. Togei [Pottery]; 20. Senshoku, shikko, kinko [Dyeing and Weaving, Lacquer work, Metalwork]; 21. Katchu to token [Armour and Swords]; 22. Sho [Calligraphy]; 23. Men to shozo [Portraits]; 24. Fuzokuga to ukiyoeshi [Genre paintings and Ukiyo-e artists]; 25. Nanban Bijutsu to yofuga [Nanban art and Western-style painting]; 26. Kindai no Nihonga [Modern Japanese Painting]; 27. Kindai no yoga [Modern Western Paintings]; 28. Kindai no kenchiku, chokoku, kogei [Modern Architecture, Sculpture, and Crafts]; 29. Shorai bijutsu (kaiga, sho) [Painting and Calligraphy)]; 30. Shorai bijutsu togei [Pottery].
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The Wines of Gala
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSalvador Dali
Koln: Taschen, 2017.“Hot on the heels (or lobster claws) of the best-selling Salvador Dali phenomenon, Les diners de Gala, TASCHEN presents the artist’s equally surreal and sensual viticulture follow-up: The Wines of Gala. A Dalinian take on pleasures of the grape and a coveted collectible, the book sets out to organize wines “according to the sensations they create in our very depths.” Through eclectic metrics like production method, weight, and color, the book presents wines of the world in such innovative, Daliesque groupings as Wines of Frivolity, Wines of the Impossible, and Wines of Light. Bursting with imagery, the book features more than 140 illustrations by Dali. Many of these are appropriated artworks, including various classical nudes, all of them reconstructed with suitably Surrealist, provocative touches, like Jean-Francois Millet’s The Angelus, one of Dali’s favorite points of reference over the decades. Dal’ also included what is now considered one of the greatest works from his late Nuclear Mystic phase, The Sacrament of the Last Supper (1955), which sets the iconic biblical scene in a translucent dodecahedron-shaped space before a Catalonian coastal landscape. Dali was by this stage a devout Catholic, simultaneously captivated by science, optical illusion, and the atomic age.” (publishers’ blurb)
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A Garden of Eden: Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartH. Walter Lack
Koln: Taschen, 2021.“In pursuit of both knowledge and delight, the craft of botanical illustration has always required not only meticulous draftsmanship but also a rigorous scientific understanding. This new edition of a TASCHEN classic celebrates the botanical tradition and talents with a selection of outstanding works from the National Library of Vienna, including many new images. From Byzantine manuscripts right through to 19th-century masterpieces, through peonies, callas, and chrysanthemums, these exquisite reproductions dazzle in their accuracy and their aesthetics. Whether in gently furled leaves, precisely textured fruits, or the sheer beauty and variety of colors, we celebrate an art form as tender as it is precise, and ever more resonant amid our growing awareness of our ecological surroundings and the preciousness of natural flora.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Hilma af Klint: The Complete Catalogue Raisonne (7 Volumes)
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHilma af Klint; Daniel Birnbaum; Kurt Almqvist
Stockholm: Bokforlaget Stolpe, 2022.“Hilma af Klint became known to a wider audience in 2013, nearly 70 years after her death, in conjunction with Moderna Museet’s Stockholm exhibition Hilma af Klint: Abstract Pioneer. Six years later, her work was exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Both exhibitions saw record numbers of visitors, and today she is one of the world’s most acclaimed artists. The paintings in the catalogue raisonne are presented in the same order as Olof Sundstrom, also a follower of anthroposophy, numbered them in 1945, based on Hilma af Klint’s notes. The forewords to the volumes are short and concise. They present facts about the works rather than interpretations. The works are printed in an exclusive edition designed by Patric Leo housed in a specially produced slipcase to hold all seven volumes.” (publisher’s blurb) Edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Kurt Almqvist.
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Sex and Horror Volume 4
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNicola D’Agostino; Y. El-Droubie
London: Korero Press, 2016.“This is the fourth title in our bestselling Sex and Horror series, which celebrates the 1960s and 1970s publishing phenomenon known as fumetti sexy–Italian adult comics with a unique take on such genres as horror, crime, fantasy, history and fairy tales. The comics were hugely successful, due in part to their uninhibited mix of twisted humour, gory violence, and up-front eroticism; however, what makes them so sought-after today is their technicolour cover illustrations, rendered by classically trained painters. Here is a further collection of those superb covers–a visual feast of outrageous pulp art.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Crocodile Tears
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDouglas Huebler
Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery and CEPA Gallery, 1985.Brief fictions re-sounding from the proposal in Variable Piece #70: 1971 to photographically document the existence of everyone alive. Photographs of American conceptual artist Douglas Heubler’s Variable Piece #70, and found forgeries of works by Van Gogh, Matisse, and Degas, illustrating a disjointed screenplay. A reflection on the dark side of the art market.
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The Russian from Belfort: 37 Years Journey by Painter Nicolai Michoutouchkine in Oceania
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNicolai Michoutouchkine; Marie Claude Teissier-Landgraf
Vanuatu: Institute of Pacific Studies; Michoutouchkine-Pilioko Foundation; USP Complex; South Pacific Creative Arts Society, 1995.Nicolai Michoutouchkine (1929 – 2010) was a French artist, who spent much of his life in the Pacific where he collected native art and craft. He later arranged hundreds of exhibitions of his collection around the world. This copy inscribed by the artist in 1998 to curator Ross Searle. In green pen he has amended the number of the title on the wrappers to 41 years journey by painter Nicolai Michoutouchkine in Oceania.
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The Lip Anthology: An Australian Feminist Arts Journal, 1976 – 1984
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVivian Ziherl
Melbourne and Amsterdam: Macmillan Art Publishing and Kunstverein Publishing, 2013.“By reviewing the adventurous projects and artworks of a significant group of women involved with the LIP Collective based in Melbourne in the 1970s and 80s, this exciting anthology co-published by Kunstverein Publishing Amsterdam and Macmillan Art Publishing: Melbourne discloses for the first time the scope of the movement.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Midday Clock: Selected Poems and Drawings
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. A. Simpson
Melbourne: The Age and Macmillan Publishers Australia, 1999.“Based on the Book of Revelation, it traces a 4-year project by Melbourne based artist Irene Barberis. She studied ancient Apocalypses in famous manuscript collections in London and Paris, and then created her own contemporary versions using abstract and figurative images and new materials and techniques.” (publisher’s blurb)