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Ko-Kutani
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartIdemitsu Museum of Arts
Tokyo: Idemitsu Museum of Arts, 2004.A detailed catalogue of Ko-Kutani Japanese porcelain from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts collection. Primarily photographs, most of the text is in Japanese with some captions bearing English translation and an essay in English at the rear.
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Monuments to Nature
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPatricia Leighton
Hamburg: Jahr-Holding, 2002.Catalogue of work by environmental artist Patricia Leighton. This copy inscribed by Leighton.
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About Courage
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMickey C. Fleming
Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1989. -
Gustav Klimt: The Complete Paintings XXL
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTobias G. Natter; Gustav Klimt
Koln: Taschen, 2018.“During his lifetime, Gustav Klimt was a controversial star whose works made passions run high. He stood for Modernism but he also embodied tradition. His pictures polarized and divided the art-loving world. The press and general public alike were split over the question: For or against Klimt? This monograph explores Klimt’s oeuvre with particular emphasis upon such contemporary voices. With a complete catalogue of his paintings, including new photographs of the Stoclet Frieze commissioned exclusively for this book, it examines the reactions to KlimtÂ’s work throughout his career. Subjects range from Klimt’s portrayal of women to his adoption of landscape painting. The theory that Klimt was a man of few words who rarely put pen to paper is also dispelled with the inclusion of 179 letters, cards, writings, and other documents from the artist.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Application
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChristian Ratsch
Rochester: Park Street Press, 2005.“In The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants Christian Ratsch details the botany, history, distribution, cultivation, and preparation and dosage of more than 400 psychoactive plants. He discusses their ritual and medicinal usage, cultural artefacts made from these plants, and works of art that either represent or have been inspired by them. The author begins with 168 of the most well-known psychoactives–such as cannabis, datura, and papaver–then presents 133 lesser known substances as well as additional plants known as “legal highs,” plants known only from mythological contexts and literature, and plant products that include substances such as ayahuasca, incense, and soma. The text is lavishly illustrated with 797 colour photographs many of which are from the author’s extensive fieldwork around the world showing the people, ceremonies, and art related to the ritual use of the world’s sacred psychoactive.” (publisher’s blurb) Foreword by Albert Hofmann.
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Glory Days: Brisbane’s Art World to 1970
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJudith Hamilton
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2020.“This book recounts the glory days when Brisbane was seen as the art capital of Australia. Great artists such as renowned, award winning artist, Margaret Olley and two time Archibald winner, William Robinson, were developing and exposing their skills. Brisbane had many prestigious art galleries, art organisations and groups. These times inspired great art teachers such as Wendy Allen and Mervyn Moriarty who made such a big impact on the education of students in primary and secondary schools and tertiary colleges in the city and country areas of Queensland.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Booze Built Australia
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWayne Kelly
Brisbane: Watson Ferguson & Company, 2017.This is the fascinating account of how AustraliaÂ’s development was fuelled by alcohol.
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Paul Outerbridge
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Outerbridge; Manfred Heiting
Koln: Taschen, 2017.“American photographer Paul Outerbridge created shimmering “artifical paradises.” From Cubist still life images to nudes, his sensitivity to light and shadow and pioneering use of color transformed everyday scenarios into near-abstract compositions. This unique aesthetic helped him seductively champion the expressionistic, as much as commercial, potential of color photography.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The History of EC Comics
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGrant Geissman
Koln: Taschen, 2020.“In 1947, Bill Gaines inherited his legendary fatherÂ’s fledgling publishing company, EC Comics. Over the next eight years, he and a “whoÂ’s who” of the era including Al Feldstein, Harvey Kurtzman, and Wally Wood would reinvent the very notion of the comic book with titles like Tales from the Crypt, Weird Science, and MAD. With more than 1,000 images and rarities, thereÂ’s something new here for even the most die-hard EC Fan-Addicts. Famous First Edition: First printing of 5,000 numbered copies.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Seven Illustrated Books, 1952-1959
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndy Warhol
Koln: Taschen, 2017.“Andy WarholÂ’s 1950s hand-drawn books, created during his pre-fame years, are much-coveted jewels in the Pop art masterÂ’s crown. This portfolio contains meticulous reprints of all seven books, reproduced as closely as possible to the original and presented in an accordion case. Complete with an XL-sized guidebook contextualizing WarholÂ’s life alongside his unique creations, this edition offers an unparalleled glimpse of WarholÂ’s budding genius.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Ordinances Against a Set of Crack-brained Fellows, Commonly Called or Known by the Name of Poets
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThomas Gray
: The Murder Club, 1986.A short poetic diatribe against poets here printed in a limited form in the style of a private press poetry book. An excerpt from The Newgate Calendar, attributed to Thomas Gray, criminal nephew of the Exeter Hangman.
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All The Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South
AU$33.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRuth Coker Burks; Kevin Carr O’Leary
London: Trapeze, 2021.“Ruth Coker Burks was a young single mum in Hot Springs, Arkansas who cared for people with AIDS when no one else would in the 1980s and 1990s. With no medical background, Ruth single-handedly created a network of care, and saw to the final resting places of roughly a thousand men abandoned by families and neglected by medical professionals. For 30 years, Ruth has been an advocate for the LGBTQ community. She currently resides in Northwest Arkansas.” (publisher’s biographical note)
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A Devil Pokes The Actor: Frankly Acting 2
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Nobbs; Peter Berkahn
Brisbane: Frank Theatre Press, 2010.“This is the second book about actor training by John Nobbs. The first, Frankly Acting, outlined the early development of the Frank Suzuki Performance Aesthetics (FSPA), as a western variant and translation of the classic Suzuki Actor Training Method (SATM). This devil’s logbook is a series of 25 provocations that poke further and deeper into the alchemical triggers and mechanisms that inform the one true actor training system originally devised by Tadashi Suzuki. Interspersed throughout the 25 provocations are revelations by some of the many actors that have used the FSPA to develop their acting spirit. Tadashi Suzuki, the inventor of the SATM, has stated that he believes that the training is not just for the actor’s craft, but that it should be a creative tool for making theatre performances . The FSPA follows on the traces of that purpose, and this book outlines its importance as the creative onestop shop of Ozfrank Theatre Matrix. It includes examples, with colour photographs, that illustrate how Ozfrank director Jacqui Carroll uses the FSPA to impel her productions.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Frankly Acting: An Autobiography of the Frank Suzuki Performance Aesthetics
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Nobbs
Brisbane: Frank Theatre Press, 2006.“John Nobbs’ Frankly Acting is the first Australian book espousing a uniquely homegrown theatrical performance theory. As Grotowski did in Poland and Artaud in France, Nobbs has articulated an Australian performance aesthetic which revivifies in a contemporary context the theatrical traditions of its geographic region. With illuminating references to popular culture, his Suzuki-inspired method is based on rigorous theatrical discipline, but with an ever-present and distinctively Australian sense of humour. Frankly Acting grounds its theory in the artistic heritage of the Asia-Pacific, with a theatrical resonance which is universal.” (Martin Buzacott)
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Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSteven Watts
Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2008. -
Scarlet (5 Volumes)
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBendis Maleev
New York: Icon / Marvel, 2010.First five issue of Scarlet. No. 1 is a second printing, Nos. 2-5 are first printings.
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Korean 12 Muse
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSeung Hyo Jang
Seoul: Sejong Center, 2004.Catalogue for an exhibition of humanoid robot sculpture. Rare, not recorded in OCLC at November, 2020.
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Human Warmth & Other Stories
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Curzon
San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1981.YOUNG 884*.
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Wild Women: Crusaders, Curmudgeons and Completely Corsetless Ladies in the Otherwise Virtuous Victorian Era
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAutumn Stephens
Coral Gables: Conari Press, 2020.“Enjoy a fascinating and sometimes humorous glimpse into the lives of over one hundred, 19th-century Victorian era American women who refused to whittle themselves down to the Victorian model of proper womanhood. Included in Wild Women are 50-black-and-white photos from the era.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRosalie Gilbert
Coral Gables: Mango Publishing Group, 2020.“An inside look at sexual practices in medieval England. Were medieval women slaves to their husband’s desires, jealously secured in a chastity belt in his absence? Was sex a duty or could it be a pleasure? Did a woman have a say about her own female sexuality, body, and who did or didn’t get up close and personal with it? No. And yes. It’s complicated. Romance, courtship, and behind closed doors. The intimate lives of medieval women were as complex as for modern woman. They loved and lost, hoped and schemed, were lifted up and cast down. They were hopeful and lovelorn. Some had it forced upon them, others made aphrodisiacs and dressed for success. Some were chaste and some were lusty. Having sex was complicated. Not having sex, was even more so.” (publisher’s blurb)