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Modern Consciousness Research and the Understanding of Art: Including the Visionary World of H. R. Giger
Stanislav Grof
Santa Cruz: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, 2015.“In 200 spellbinding pages–including over 100 large, full-color illustrations–Modern Consciousness Research and the Understanding of Art takes readers on an enchanting tour of the human psyche and a visual tour of the artwork of H.R. Giger. In this book, Grof illuminates themes related to dreams, trauma, sexuality, birth, and death, by applying his penetrating analysis to the work of Giger and other visionary artists.” with a foreword by Alex Grey.
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The Complete Works of Primo Levi
Primo Levi; Ann Goldstein
New York and London: Liveright, 2015. -
Wild Australia: Meston’s Wild Australia Show, 1892-1893
Michael Aird; Mandana Mapar; Paul Memmott
Brisbane: University of Queensland Anthropology Museum, 2015.“The ‘Wild Australia Show’ was conceived by Archibald Meston and was a travelling troupe of 27 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people conscripted from the Queensland frontier who performed in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne during 1892 and 1893 in preparation for departure on an international tour in the era of World Exhibitions. However the plans were curtailed by contractual disputes, scandals of financial incompetence and accusations of the capture of certain troupe members against their will in chains. The exhibition came out of a meticulous process of collection and research by Queensland Museum senior curators Michael Aird and Mandana Mapar, and University of Queensland academic, Professor Paul Memmott who place the previously unknown images in a visual and historic context. This exhibition catalogue uses the same title of Meston’s show of more than 120 years ago, Wild Australia, and gives human dignity to the names and faces of the people in the photographs, whose strength of spirit and determination are evident in the gazes of the portrait subjects.”
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Cairns: City of the South Pacific: A History, 1770-1995
Timothy Bottoms
Cairns: Bunu Bunu Press, 2015. -
Bold: Stories from Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex people
David Hardy; Elizabeth Whiley
Panton Hill: The Rag and Bone Man Press, 2015. -
The Structural-Semantic Types of Lithuanian Folk Tales (2 Volumes)
Bronislava Kerbelyte
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2015.I: Genres and Tale Types. II: The Classification and Index of Elementary Plots and Their Types. The classification system of the types of folk tales published by Antti Aarne in 1910 was a much needed and courageous project. Bronislava Kerbelyte has classified more than 40,000 variants of Lithuanian folk tales according to the international catalogue by Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson (AT). She has concluded that it is necessary to improve the classification system. Kerbelyte has determined elementary plots (EP) as structural elements for narratives and created the structural-semantic method for analysis and description of texts on several levels. The classification of elementary plots and their types contains much information about folk tales and about people. FF Communications No. 308 & 309 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Landscape, 2007 – 2014
Piyatat Hemmatat
[Chicago]: Serindia Contemporary, 2015.“LANDSCAPE 2007-2014 by Piyatat Hemmatat is a limited edition (of 500) artist’s book of his Landscape series in which for the last seven years he explored ‘his alternate reality’, the landscape. His exploration of nature has informed many of his published projects and has enabled him to get back in touch with his instincts and derive creative strength from them. LANDSCAPE is a collection of his most illuminating encounters that translated into a stunning selection of thirty landscape photographs in this beautifully-produced artist’s edition volume.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Rage Against The Light
Markus Andersen
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2015.“Markus Andersen’s photographs feature the city of Sydney as an abstracted backdrop for a fragile human presence, one dwarfed by overwhelming architectural development and consumerism. In these moody black-and-white images, people scurry about and are literally exposed by light. Struck by shafts of illumination between buildings, they are like insects coming out for food.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Sideshow Alley: Infamy, the Macabre & the Portrait
Joanna Gilmour
Canberra: National Portrait Gallery, 2015.“Featuring a sometimes disquieting selection of portraits, Sideshow Alley combines history, biography and the art of portraiture with true crime, scandal and sensation. National Portrait Gallery Curator Joanna Gilmour introduces the relationship between death and portraiture via a focus on the various ways in which artists, photographers and entrepreneurs made use of portraits of Australian convicts and criminals: the canny or unscrupulous publishers trading in salacious prints and penny dreadfuls; the otherwise respectable people who put carte de visite of serial killers into their family albums; the photographic studios doing a brisk trade in portraits of heroes and villains; and the waxworks proprietors who, with their ‘Chambers of Horrors’, turned violence, misfortune and the macabre into a lucrative art form.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Building of the Queensland House, 1880-1920: A Carpenter’s Handbook and Owner’s Manual
Andrew L. Jenner
Brisbane: Andrew L. Jenner, 2015. -
Every Hill Got a Story: We Grew Up In Country
Marg Bowman; The Central Land Council
Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 2015.Men and Women of Central Australia and the Central Land Council. Every Hill Got A Story is the first comprehensive history of Central Australia’s Aboriginal people, as told in their own words and many languages.
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Mystery School In Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT
Graham St John
Berkeley: Evolver Editions, 2015.Foreword by Dennis McKenna.
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Xenolinguistics: Psychedelics, Language, and the Evolution of Consciousness
Diana Reed Slattery
Berkeley: Evolver Editions, 2015.Foreword by Allyson Grey.
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From Dawn to Decadence (2 Volumes)
Jacques Barzun
London: The Folio Society, 2015.1500 to the present, 500 years of Western cultural life. Introduction by Peter Conrad. FORD-SMITH 1955.
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Sexuality in Role-Playing Games
Ashley M. L. Brown
New York and London: Routledge, 2015. -
11th International Symposium on Rock Fragmentation by Blasting
A. T. Spathis; D. P. Gribble; A. C. Torrance; T. N. Little
Melbourne: The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2015.Conference Proceedings: 24-26 August, 2015: Sydney, Australia.
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Tarosophy: Tarot to Engage Life, Not Escape It
Marcus Katz
Brisbane and Chiang Mai: Salamander and Sons, 2015.“Based upon 30 years of studying, reading and teaching tarot, more than 10,000 face-to-face readings and extensive research in the field, Marcus Katz successfully combines academic rigour with invaluable practical experience and breathtaking originality. Suitable for all tarot readers – from absolute beginners to experienced professionals – Tarosophy is written in three sections: basic tarot in a new light for the beginning Tarosophist, intermediate tarot in a magical light for the enquiring Tarosophist, and advanced tarot in a spiritual light for the progressive Tarosophist. From terminology and technique, to reading and spreads, inner work and trees, Tarosophy encapsulates the wisdom of tarot as a living, divine art and science; a dynamic interface between awareness and appearance, and a system to observe, tie and untie the ‘secret knots’ that bind the world. With 50 unique exercises, in excess of 50 illustrations, extensive footnotes, and detailed reading lists, there are more new tarot ideas on any given page of Tarosophy than in some entire texts on the subject.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy with a laid in presentation bookplate signed by the author.
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For the Love of the Game: Ten Legends of Queensland Rugby League
Murray Barnett
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2015.“Queensland State of Origin legends are indelibly printed on the minds of rugby league supporters – Lewis, Meninga, Lockyer. They are lauded for their contributions to the greatest game of all and rightfully so. But what about all the great players who played for Queensland before Origin? They are not so easily remembered, but this does not mean their status should be in any way diminished. This book is a tribute to their courage, dedication and spirit – and to their love of the game.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Hijominoe Modejade (Guided by Ancestors)
Omie Artists
Brisbane: Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 2015.Exhibition catalogue.
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Old Fashioned Painting
Leonard Brown
Brisbane: Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 2015.