Australia & the Pacific

ISBN: 9781921394379
Published by : Macmillan Art Publishing
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... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781921394430
Published by : Macmillan Art Publishing
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 acr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714125947
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
The British Museum holds the largest Maori collections outside New Zealand, including some items of major artistic and cultural significance. This important book contains a substantial introduction, including a history of the study of Maori mat... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781921394393
Published by : Macmillan Art Publishing
Series: Macmillan Mini-Art Series
Volume: 15
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... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781921511547
Published by : ATF Press
Series: Marist
Volume: 1
This volume deals with the founding of a missionary religious order in the Catholic Church, the Society of Mary, otherwise known as the Marists, a society of Priests many of whom in the early days went to the South Pacific islands. The book, a col... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781921394287
Published by : Macmillan Art Publishing
The care with which this book has been prepared is simply astonishing. Its history began when Truus and Joost Daalder acquired their first examples of non-European ethnic body adornment around 1980, four years after their arrival in Adelaide. ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714125800
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: Artistic Traditions in World Cultures
Quilts generically known as tivaivai have been produced by women in the Cook Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, the Society Islands and elsewhere in Eastern Polynesia since the late 19th century, where they were a substitute for bark-cloth but als... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781921394003
Published by : Macmillan Art Publishing
Donna Leslie, a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne, sets out to demonstrate how Aboriginal art has questioned the 'assimilationist' policies which prevailed in Australia from the 1930s to the 1970s. Her rigorous and su... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781920691752
Published by : ATF Press
Series: Otago University
Volume: 1
What is the future of Christinaity in the 21st century' Are Western socities growing more secular, leaving cherished religious traditions behind' Or has modernity's secularising currents generated equally powerful desecularising and resecularising... .... Learn More