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Homesickness: Nationalism in Australian Visual Culture
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTraudi Allen
Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2008. -
Imagination, Books & Community in Medieval Europe
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGregory Kratzmann
Melbourne: Macmillan and the State Library of Victoria, 2009.Papers of a Conference held at the State Library of Victoria, 29-31 May 2008. In conjunction with an exhibition The Medieval Imagination 28 March – 15 June 2008.
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The Art of Grahame King
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSasha Grishin; Grahame King
Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2005.“Grahame King’s life as an artist began with his mastery of the new art of colour reproduction as a photolithographic colour etcher in Melbourne in the 1930s. At the same time, study at the National Gallery Art School with George Bell assisted his development as a painter. After war service and travels abroad, King returned to Melbourne with his wife, the sculptor Inge King. The two held a number of joint exhibitions of paintings and sculptures in Australia throughout the 1950s and then, from c.1962 Grahame King turned his attention, increasingly, towards the art of lithography becoming a master in this field of printmaking. He has also devoted himself to promoting the art of lithography and printmaking generally through the Print Council of Australia. He is often called Australia’s patron saint of printmaking. The book examines his seven decades working as an artist in Melbourne and is lavishly illustrated with colour reproductions throughout.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnne Marsh
Melbourne: Macmillan, 2003.“Anne Marsh’s treatise on the art of photography traces its theoretical underpinning from the early debates between the rationalists and the fantasists, through psychoanalytical interpretations, to the theatre of desire. She investigates the role of photography in ghostly performances, the masking of desire, and high camp aesthetics – through to performance art and the role of the photographer as a gender terrorist – as in the work of Del LaGrace Volcano. The study concludes with notable examples of postmodern photography as they have occurred in the Australian context. This ground-breaking work by a leading Monash University academic will interest all students of photography and followers of recent trends in art and art theory.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Tutta la Solitudine che Meritate. Viaggio in Islanda
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClaudio Giunta; Giovanna Silva
Macerata and Milan: Quodlibet Humboldt, 2013.All the Solitude you Deserve. Trip to Iceland. With text by Claudio Giunta and photographs by Giovanna Silva. This is the story of a trip through Iceland detailing the history, culture, music, and books, illustrated with images of the magnificent landscape.
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Mike Brown 1938 – 1997: Paintings from the Estate
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMike Brown
Sydney and Melbourne: Watters Gallery and Charles Nodrum Gallery, 2002.Catalogue of an exhibition 24 April – 18 May 2002 at Watters Gallery and 4-22 June, 2002 at Charles Nodrum Gallery.
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Cameron Jamie
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCameron Jamie
Graz: Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, 2004.With essays by Gary Indiana, Mike Kelley, Edwin Pouncey, and Ralph Rugoff. Cameron Jamie (b. 1969) is an American artist and film maker who lives and works in France. His work analyses the structure of mythology in popular and vernacular culture and the extent that it influences fictional worlds and fictional personas. The book was published on the occasion of the exhibition JO, held at the Kunstlerhaus Graz from 10 October – 24 November 2004. Jamie’s film JO premiered in 2004.
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Michel Boulange: Japon
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichel Boulange
Tokyo: Michel Boulange, No date.Michel Boulange is a French artist working in installation, landscape art, and jewellery. During the mid 1980’s he lived in Japan.
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Tokyo Transmission ’88
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYurakucho Seibu
Tokyo: Yurakucho Seibu, 1988.An exhibition of artists from around the world living in Japan.
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Onomatopoeia: Its People and Surroundings
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Avery
Amsterdam: Frame Publishers, 2016.“In 2005 Charles Avery embarked on a lifelong project entitled The Islanders, a detailed description of the topography, cosmology and inhabitants of a fictional island, realised in drawings, objects and texts. The project can be read as a meditation on the central themes of philosophy and art as well as the colonization and ownership of the world of ideas. This book is a portrait of the people and culture of Onomatopoeia, capital city, port, and gateway to the Island.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDidier Ottinger
Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2011.Exhibition entry ticket laid in.
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The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J. R. Abbey
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. J. G. Alexander; A. C. De La Mere
London: Faber and Faber, 1969. -
Codex Seraphinianus
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLuigi Serafini
New York: Rizzoli, 2013.The deluxe 2013 edition of the ever mysterious Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini (1949-). Possibly an illustrated encyclopaedia of an alternate universe, Serafini has alluded that it is perhaps all just the thoughts of a cat passed through his hand. The Codex is written in an imaginary language and illustrated phantasmagorically throughout. This being the deluxe 2013 edition, being the second Rizzoli edition, expanding on their 2006 edition. The deluxe edition was published in an edition of 600 copies, of which this is number 70, signed and numbered by Serafini on a plate mounted to the colophon and includes the Decodex in the rear pocket, as well as a signed and numbered print, housed in a clamshell folder. This copy also with a copy of the standard edition of the only published volume of literary criticism in English on the Codex Seraphinianus, Confronting Serafini by Jordan Hunter (2017). Confronting Serafini is a 36 page saddle-stitched booklet bound with a treated page from the 2013 Rizzoli edition of the Codex, numbered 39 in an edition of 60.
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Codex Seraphinianus (2 Volumes)
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLuigi Serafini
Milano: Franco Maria Ricci, 1981.The first edition of the ever mysterious Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini (1949-). Possibly an illustrated encyclopaedia of an alternate universe, Serafini has alluded that it is perhaps all just the thoughts of a cat passed through his hand. The Codex is written in an imaginary language and illustrated phantasmagorically throughout. This being the true first edition published in 2 volumes by Italian art publisher Franco Maria Ricci. This copy numbered 2295 and signed by Serafini to the colophon of volume 2, with the original trilingual letter from the editor laid in, together with a FMR catalogue, several photocopied Italian newspaper clippings related to the Codex, as well as the deluxe edition of the only published volume of literary criticism in English on the Codex Seraphinianus, Confronting Serafini by Jordan Hunter (2017), all housed in the original shipping cartons. Confronting Serafini is a 36 page book hand-bound with treated pages from the 2013 Rizzoli edition of the Codex, signed and numbered in a limited edition of 10, of which this is number 10.
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Jack Goldstein x 10,000
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJack Goldstein; Philipp Kaiser
Newport Beach and Munich, London and New York: Orange County Museum of Art and Del Monico Books, 2012.Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art, California 24 June – 9 September 2012. Jack Goldstein (1945 – 2003) was a Canadian performance and conceptual artist. Based in California in the 1970s and 1980s he began painting and was among the first contemporary painters to pay others to produce works from his ideas.
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Technique and Collaboration in the Prints of Jasper Johns
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJasper Johns; Susan Lorence
New York: Leo Castelli Gallery, 1996.Published by Leo Castelli Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition, Jasper Johns Prints: 1960 to 1996, 19 October – 14 December 1996.
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Two Sisters: a Singular Vision: Celebrating the Gifts of Margaret and Cathryn Mittelheuser
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChris Saines; Diane Moon
Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, 2021.Catalogue of an exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery 18 July 2020 – 31 January 2021.
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British Salmonidae
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. Jardine
London: Decimus, 1979.First published privately in Edinburgh between 1839 and 1841, this facsimile is limited to 500 numbered copies, of which this is number 327. Paintings by Jardine, engraved by William Lazars, who engraved the early sets of Audubon’s Birds. Four page essay ‘Sir William Jardine and the British Salmonidae’ by Alwyne Wheeler, Curator of European fishes at the British Museum (Natural History), laid in.
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Nexus Erotica
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward Dregg
[Noosa Heads]: R. Lees, 1992.Queensland sculptor Edward Dregg and six models retire to a bush castle atelier to explore psyche and desire, and create erotic life size sculptures. The resulting works are captured in this two part volume, the first, being the stories and sculptures of each model, five women and one transgender, and the artist. The second part being a series of black and white photographs of the team at work and play. Signed and numbered edition of 1,000 copies, of which this is number 172.
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Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSophie Crumb; R. Crumb; A. Crumb
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011.“A groundbreaking work of striking originality that charts a young artist’s life through her own drawings-from toddlerhood to motherhood. Sophie Crumb’s startlingly expressive drawings track her development as an artist from age two to twenty-eight. Sifting through dozens of their daughter’s remarkable sketchbooks, our generation’s most celebrated graphic artists have, with their only child, Sophie, now selected more than three hundred paintings and drawings that depict her artistic and psychological maturation. Revealing how an original artistic sensibility is both innate and nurtured, the book features six separate developmental stages, including Sophie’s earliest drawings, the elaborate fantasy world of her childhood, her late adolescent rebellion, and her coming of age in the milieu of the Paris circus world and New York’s “seventh circle of hell.” The drawings from her early twenties — of tattoo artists, dangerous menreflect a personal anguish that finally ends with her becoming a mother and creating a family of her own. Illuminating and intimate, this book is a dramatic yet subtle statement on the evolution of personality as seen through art.” (publisher’s blurb)