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tempete apres tempete
AU$70.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRebekka Deubner
[Gent]: Art Paper Editions, 2021.“Ive been meeting you through a strip of land, called Fukushima-ken emerging of the Pacific ocean. The scenery I am wandering around is made of water and cells — randomly forming pink-whitish seaweed, shiny epidermis, teeming caves, narrow pupils, raven hair. Shamelessly Im strolling around the offered pieces of the landscape’s body. Hidden behind my telephoto lens, I am gazeating every detail of it, responding to an urge to feel and seize all the shapes emerging from the still fertile breach of a disaster and its offspring. Keiko, Natsumi, Hayato, Hitoshi, Junka, Hisashi and AsamiIf I am lucky, your defense caves in and I’ll get close, collecting scattered pieces of you and soft gestures — a face revolving — a folding hand — lips opening — a winking eyelid — my pictures become the films stills of a slow sequence shot which wasnt filmed. Suggesting the missing images from the in-between, calling out to us to fill the gaps while the nocturnal fauna of the sea is swarming through the seaweed, feeding itself on the leftovers of the wave(s).” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Dark Wood
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDanielle Mericle
[Los Angeles] and [Melbourne]: The Ice Plant and Perimeter Editions, 2021.“Danielle Mericle’s The Dark Wood explores broad questions of history and our collective ability to document and learn from the past. Through intertwined images of abandoned Greco-Roman casts, an ancient Sequoia forest and the artists own texts, Mericle invites us to consider history as a fluid process rather than a static truth. The once highly valued casts — which appear in the book as original and archival photographs — were rejected as worthless copies during the early part of the 20th century, under the belief that they lacked the artistry and aura of the originals, despite the fact that many of the originals were in fact Roman copies of Greek artefacts. During the two World Wars, many of these originals were damaged or destroyed, and the casts are now considered some of the most authoritative versions available. A Sequoia forest in Northern California offers two important counterpoints. Ancient Sequoia tree rings chart the rise and fall of civilisations over the last 3000 years, including those that created the Greco-Roman artefacts. The tree rings position human history within a broader geological timeframe, lending an adjusted perspective to the human enterprise. The rings also reveal the complex history and shifting perspectives on the significance of fire in the region, with the dissonant histories of expansive logging practices, the conservation movement, Indigenous knowledge, and climate change playing out against the troubled fate of the ancient Sequoias. Though we attempt to understand and preserve our past, the endeavour is subject to inevitable shifts in knowledge, the whims of ideology, and the vagaries of historical truth. With an epilogue that grounds the complex sequence of images in personal elegy, The Dark Wood re-calibrates our sense of scale by allowing us to locate a sense of mourning, loss and the specifics of our own narratives within the broad and unfixed framework of history.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Nudism in a Cold Climate: The Visual Culture of Naturists in Mid-20th-Century Britain
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnnebella Pollen
Los Angeles: Atelier Editions, 2021.“Annebella Pollen’s richly illustrated study examines the idiosyncratic phenomenon of social nudism, or naturism, in 20th-century Britain, a place known for its lack of sunshine and conservative attitudes to sex. By bringing naturists’ own words and images to light, Nudism in a Cold Climate tells this little-known but fascinating history for the first time. From the 1930s, thousands of people appeared nude in books and magazines associated with the nudist movement, drawing attention to the cause, attracting public curiosity and inciting moral panics. Naturist nude photography offers a fascinating lens on moral, legal and aesthetic shifts over a century of dramatic social change, including national beliefs about sex and gender, ethnicity and class, pleasure and power. Nudism in a Cold Climate offers readers a fascinating glimpse behind British veils of propriety and a unique view inside an enduring experimental culture that sought to radically challenge, liberate and ultimately transform conventional attitudes to bodies and their representations.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Cuentos Malevolos
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClemente Palma; Santiago Caruso
Buenos Aires: Aguijon de la Noche, 2021.Short fiction by Peruvian writer Clemente Palma (1872-1946), illustrated by Argentine symbolist and surreal artist Santiago Caruso (1982-).
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Soft Borders, Hard Edges (Bent Street 5.1: Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing & Ideas)
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSam Elkin; Yves Rees; Tiffany Jones
Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan Press, 2021.A special edition focusing on the trans and gender diverse community. “Bent Street is an annual publication that gathers essays, fiction, poetry, artwork, reflections, letters, blog posts, interviews, performance writing and rants to bring you ‘The Year in Queer’.” (from blurb)
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The Honey of Australian Native Stingless Bees
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDean Haley
Brisbane: True Blue Bees, 2021.Including guidance on Extraction and Processing.
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Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pain of the Real Vampira
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSandra Nieme
Port Townsend: Feral House, 2021.“Maila Nurmi, the beautiful and sheltered daughter of Finnish immigrants, stepped off the bus in 1941 Los Angeles intent on finding fame and fortune. She found men eager to take advantage of her innocence and beauty but was determined to find success and love. Her inspired design and portrayal of a vampire won a costume contest that lead to a small role on the Red Skelton show which grew into a persona that brought her the notoriety she desired yet trapped her in a character she could never truly escape. This is Malia’s story. Her diaries, notes, and ephemera and family stories bring new insights to her relationships with Orson Welles, James Dean, and Marlon Brando. Sandra Niemi–Malia’s niece–fills in the nuances of her life prior to fame and her struggles after the limelight faded and she found a new community within the burgeoning Los Angeles punk scene who embraced her as their own.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Hedda
AU$90.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFin Serck-Hanssen
[Marseille]: Loose Joints, 2021.“Over the last five years, Norwegian artist Fin Serck-Hanssen followed and documented the gender transitioning journey of close friend Hedda, who from her early twenties travelled from Oslo to Buenos Aires and Bangkok to undergo cosmetic surgeries and a vaginoplasty. Serck-Hansen and Heddas images are made collaboratively to build a complex portrait of both physical and psychological change within a young persons life, and show with unflinching honesty the realities of Heddas transitioning, surgeries, and recovery. Hedda reflects on the psychological construction of identity in the 21st century, mixing her selfies and curation of an online identity against Serck-Hansens tender but direct portraiture of her most vulnerable moments.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Wonderland
AU$125.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnnie Leibovitz
London: Phaidon, 2021.“Legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz’s surprising – and surprised – account of her encounters with fashion. Looking back at my work, I see that fashion has always been there, Annie Leibovitz observes in the preface to her new book, Wonderland. Fashion plays a part in the scheme of everything, but photography always comes first for me. The photograph is the most important part. And photography is so big that it can encompass journalism, portraiture, reportage, family photographs, fashion… My work for Vogue fueled the fire for a kind of photography that I might not otherwise have explored.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Atlas of Interior Design
AU$135.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDominic Bradbury
London: Phaidon, 2021.“A unique geographically organized survey of the world’s most desirable and iconic residential interiors from the 1940s to today. The Atlas of Interior Design is an inspiring, unparalleled global tour of more than 400 captivating residential interiors from the past eight decades. From classic to contemporary, minimal to maximal, the homes included illuminate the design tropes unique to their location s context, while others confound preconceived ideas of vernacular design to spectacular effect. Exceptional photography and a descriptive text accompanying each project enrich this thoroughly researched and comprehensive volume a must-have for all design aficionados.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Archer Magazine 16: Disabilities Issue
AU$17.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAmy Middleton; Roz Bellamy
Melbourne: Archer Magazine, 2021.A magazine about sex, gender and identity. Disabilities issue: Kink + Mental Health, Neurodivergence, Queer + Disabled, Deafness, Medical Racism, Disorder + Diagnosis, Sex Work, Lockdowns, Parenting + Bipolar, Institutional Abuse, Q&A with Elvin Lam.
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Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrew Nette; Iain McIntyre
Oakland: PM Press, 2021.“Much has been written about the “long Sixties,” the era of the late 1950s through the early 1970s. It was a period of major social change, most graphically illustrated by the emergence of liberatory and resistance movements focused on inequalities of class, race, gender, sexuality, and beyond, whose challenge represented a major shock to the political and social status quo. With its focus on speculation, alternate worlds and the future, science fiction became an ideal vessel for this upsurge of radical protest. Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 details, celebrates, and evaluates how science fiction novels and authors depicted, interacted with, and were inspired by these cultural and political movements in America and Great Britain.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by editor, Andrew Nette.
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A Potter’s Tale
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRamu Velar
India: Tara Books, 2021.“The first title in Tara’s Makers series, this book unfolds as a life narrative as Ramu Velar tells us how he views his craft, vocation and life. Just as his fingers deftly mould a lump of clay to create sturdy pots and beautifully carved bowls, his memory creates sharp as well as dreamy vignettes of his journey from a village potter to a resident craftsman in a museum. Richly textured photographs and evocative illustrations bring alive the world of an unusual and introspective artisan.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Soled Out: The Golden Age of Sneaker Advertising
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSimon Wood; Sneaker Freaker
London: Phaidon, 2021.“Soled Out is an epic compilation of nearly 900 vintage print advertisements sourced from the golden age of sneakers. Featuring sporting and cultural icons such as Andre Agassi, Paula Abdul, Bo Jackson, Michael Jordan, MC Hammer, and Shaquille ONeal, every page is packed with unforgettable imagery, bold graphics, and outrageous trash talk devised by the footwear industrys biggest players. Sit back and enjoy the spectacular scenery ahead as Soled Out powers through a 720-page marathon celebration of the rubber, leather, and mesh we wear on our feet!” (publisher’s blurb)
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Caught in the Act: A Memoir
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartShane Jenek AKA Courtney Act
Sydney: Pantera Press, 2021.“Boy, girl, artist, advocate. Courtney is more than the sum of her parts. Meet Shane Jenek: Raised in the Brisbane suburbs by loving parents, Shane realises from a young age that he’s not like all the other boys. He finds his tribe at a performing arts agency, where he discovers his passion for song, dance and performance. Shane makes a promise to himself- to find a bigger stage. Meet Courtney Act: Born in Sydney around the turn of the millennium, Courtney makes her name in the gay bars of Oxford Street and then on Australian Idol. Over ten years later, she makes star turns on RuPaul’s Drag Race and Celebrity Big Brother UK, bringing her unique take on drag and gender to the world. Behind this rise to national and global fame is a story of searching for and finding oneself. Told with Courtney’s trademark candour and wit, Caught in the Act is about our journey towards understanding gender, sexuality and identity. It’s an often hilarious and at times heartbreaking memoir from a beloved drag and entertainment icon. Most of all, it’s a bloody good time. (publisher’s blurb)
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Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLiz P. Y. Chee
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2021.“A history of the rising use of “medicinal animals” in modern China. While animal parts and tissue had been present in Chinese medicine from an early date, the book argues that their role in the Chinese pharmacopiea greatly expanded and became systematized in the changed political and economic circumstances of the early Communist period. Mao’s Bestiary is the first book to place medicinal animals squarely within the historiography of Chinese medicine. In an age of controversy over the ethics and efficacy of faunal medicalization, its perpensity to foster zoonotic diseases and its devastating effect on wildlife conservation in China and worldwide, the book contributes a much-needed historical perspective, explaining the modern origins of what is too casually taken to be traditional practice” (publisher’s blurb)
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Missile Park
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYhonnie Scarce
Brisbane: Institute of Modern Art, 2021.“Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park is the first survey exhibition of leading contemporary artist Yhonnie Scarce, and brings a major new commission into dialogue with work that spans the past fifteen years of the artist’s career. Scarce’s works in this survey reference the on-going effects of colonisation on Aboriginal people, responding to research into the impact of nuclear testing and the removal and relocation of Aboriginal people from their homelands and the forcible removal of Aboriginal children from their families. Born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973, Scarce belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples, and family history is central to Scarce’s works in this show. This survey also includes major works that engage with the disciplinary forms of colonial institutions and representation-religion, ethnography, medical science, museology, taxonomy-as well as monumental and memorial forms of public art and remembrance.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Making Art Work
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLlewellyn Millhouse; Liz Nowell; Tulleah Pearce; Sarah Thomson
Brisbane: Institute of Modern Art, 2021.“This publication documents an initiative of the Institute of Modern Art, Making Art Work which proposed an experimental role for the institution as administrators of economic stimulus for artists. Taking place across 2020–during and post [COV..]-19 lockdowns–the project saw over 40 artists commissioned to create new works that reinforced the importance of creative labour at a time when the cultural and economic value of art had been diminished. Drawing from the politicised language of the crisis, each artist responded to the provocations posed by four curatorial pillars; Unprecedented Times, Industrial Actions, Permanent Revolution, and Relief Measures. Artist commissions spanned objects, texts, workshops, ephemeral projects, and more with the outcomes presented via makingart.work, and at the IMA Belltower. This publication complies these artworks alongside new essays from Sophia Nampitjinpa Sambono, Ian Were, Sarah Werkmeister, and Yen-Rong Wong, and a foreword from IMA staff Llewellyn Millhouse, Liz Nowell, Tulleah Pearce, and Sarah Thomson to create a document celebrating Queensland art and artists. Making Art Work commissioned artists included: Tony Albert, Kieron Anderson, Mariam Arcilla, Maeve Baker, Richard Bell, Mia Boe, Hannah Brontë, Michael Candy, Emil Cañita, Jacquie Chlanda, Monika Noémi Correa, Merinda Davies, Julian Day, Digi Youth Arts, ?ggve|n, Ana Paula Estrada, Chantal Fraser, Hannah Gartside, Mindy Gill, Channon Goodwin, Kinly Grey, Daisy Hamlot, Susan Hawkins, Rachael Haynes, Gordon Hookey, Natalya Hughes, Inkahoots, Peter Kozak, Jenna Lee, Mia McAuslan & Jon Tjhia, Amelia McLeish, Archie Moore, Tori-Jay Mordey, Sally Olds, Steven Oliver, Sarah Poulgrain, Refugee Solidarity Meanjin, Angelica Roache-Wilson, Amy Sargeant, Shandy, Jacqui Shelton, Des Skordilis, Hannah Smith, David Spooner, Grant Stevens, Tyza Stewart, and Liesel Zink.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Radical Architecture of the Future
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBeatrice Galilee
London: Phaidon, 2021.“Architectural practice today goes far beyond the design and construction of buildings the most exciting, forward-thinking architecture is also found in digital landscapes, art, apps, films, installations, and virtual reality. This remarkable book features projects surprising, beautiful, outrageous, and sometimes even frightening that break rules and shatter boundaries. In this timely book, the work of award-winning architects, designers, artists, photographers, writers, filmmakers, and researchers all of whom synthesize and reflect our spatial environments comes together for the first time.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Aphrodisiacs: The World of Ayumi Kasai
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAyumi Kasai
Tokyo: PIE International, 2021.“Ayumi Kasai is a pioneer and one of the most popular artists in the genre of yaoi, or Boys Love. This book contains illustrations from Kasai’s yaoi novels over the past 10 years, as well as her original work in the “Dannahan to Chiwagenka (The Husband & Lovers Fight)” series and a selection of illustrations specially drawn for the publication. On every page you can enjoy Kasai’s world of aestheticbeauty and eroticism. Contains explicit sexual scenes.” (publisher’s blurb)