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Anthony Lister
by Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer
New York based Australian artist Anthony Lister began his career in Brisbane where he studied at the Queensland College of the Arts and helped pioneer the stencil and street art movement in the that city. Lister's art could be seen as a reincarnation of the American Pop Art movement of the 1960s but, instead of mass market commodities, Lister draws upon the mass media and its super-heroes who have helped shape new attitudes and ways of seeing ...
Hardback. Price US$35.00
Brett Whiteley: A Sensual Line 1957 - 67
by Kathie Sutherland
Kathie Sutherland's scrupulously researched and expertly written account of Brett Whiteley's formative decade, 1957 - 67, is essential reading for all who wish to better understand this charismatic artist and the development of his career. This beautifully designed and sumptuously illustrated volume, tempting to both eye and mind, is an exemplary tribute to this legendary Australian artist who died in 1992 after a creative life lived to the full. ...
Hardback. Price US$130.00
Charles Blackman
by Ken McGregor and Barry Dickins
Sydney-born Charles Blackman has been a major figure on the Australian art scene since the 1950s when he joined the Melbourne Drift, befriending artists life Arthur Boyd, John Perceval, Joy Hester and Mirka Mora. He became involved with the Antipodeans whose manifesto proclaimed the importance of figuration as opposed to the tide of international trends favouring abstraction. He would exhibit alongside many of his artist friends in the famous ...
Hardback. Price US$35.00
Tate Adams
by Frances Thomson and Jenny Zimmer
Townsville-based artist Tate Adams is renowned for his wood engravings, a form of printmaking he first practised while illustrating limited edition books for Ireland's famous Dolmen Press. In Australia, he initiated something of a revolution in the art of printmaking through his teaching at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1960-1982, and his establishment of the Crossley Gallery with early exhibitions of prints by artists such as ...
Hardback. Price US$35.00
Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson
by Ken McGregor and Marie Geissler, with French translation by Flore Gregorini
This large and sumptuously illustrated monograph presents the spectacular painting of a master colourist - Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson. A Pitjantjatjana elder who maintains his home and studio in Alice Springs, he still travels extensively across his 'Country' to fulfil traditional obligations. Watsons 'Dreamtime' stories, inherited from his family, relate to sites and geographical features within his 'Country'; all his paintings are of these ...
Hardback. Price US$99.00
Yannima Tommy Watson
by Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer
Yannima Tommy Watson is a Pitjantjatjara man who in 2001 was one of the founding artists of the Irrunytju Art Centre. He paints the Dreamtime stories of his 'country' inherited from his family. As an elder he travels widely across Pitjantjatjara lands to fulfill his obligations. His painting might be described in abstract expressionist terms as exploiting a virtual 'geography of sensation'. The colours and abstract shapes are stunningly ...
Hardback. Price US$35.00
Making Moonta: The Invention of 'Australia's Little Cornwall'
by Philip Payton
This book is about Moonta and its special place in the Cornish transnational identity. Today Moonta is a small town on South Australia's northern Yorke Peninsula; along with the neighbouring townships of Wallaroo and Kadina, it is an agricultural and heritage tourism centre. In the second half of the nineteenth century, however, Moonta was the focus of a major copper mining industry.
Making Moonta explores Moonta and its ...
Hardback. Price US$89.95
Australia in Oxford
edited by Howard Morphy and Elizabeth Edwards
The museums, libraries and colleges of Oxford contain some of the greatest collections of records and objects from Australia's recent past. This richly illustrated guide looks at how Oxford perceived Australia as the city's collections grew during the 18th and 19th centuries and how Australia fought against its perceived image. Eight contributions examine, for example, the botanical collection of William Dampier, the papers of Captain Charles ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$15.00, Our Price US$6.98
Measured on Stone: Stone Artefact Reduction, Residential Mobility, and Aboriginal Land Use in Arid Central Australia
by Wallace Boone Law
This monograph explores the many ways in which stone artefact reduction can be measured and used to discern prehistoric changes in artefact technology and land use from two sites in arid Australia. Several empirical techniques are used to investigate the ...
Paperback. Price US$92.50
Another Tasmanian Paradox: Clothing and Thermal Adaptions in Aboriginal Australia
by Ian Gilligan
This work explores the nature and extent of the use of clothing in the pre-colonial Australian Aboriginal population. Anthropological reviews have indicated that while a total absence of clothing was the usually the case, garments were sometimes worn. ...
Paperback. Price US$65.00
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