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Macmillan Art Publishing

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Homesickness: Nationalism in Australian Visual Culture
by Traudi Allen
This timely and intelligent discussion focuses on the elusive nature of Australian nationalism as it is defined by visual images drawn from a vast variety of sources - some surprising and others regularly encountered in our daily lives. From high art to popular kitsch, the more than 100 plates support the author's feisty arguments which range from domestic issues related to the great Australian dream of suburban home ownership to the plight of ...
Paperback. Price GB £35.00

Satires & Songs of an Upright Rabbit
by Jim Allen
Deriving its title from Shakespeare's line in Henry IV, 'Away, you whoreson upright rabbit, away!', Jim Allen's selected poems are grouped under the following headings: Distant Lands, A Bestiary, The Breaking of Seals, Meditations, Lines of Resistance, Memories, A Company of Friends, Relationships, Comic Cuts, Tongues of Fire and Progression. As Jim Allen points out, poets are not saints - and many of these poems are pithy in the extreme. ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £40.00

Earth to Sky: The Art of Victor Majzner
by Leigh Astbury
Victor Majzner arrived in Australia in 1959 as a Jewish refugee from Russia. His career as a painter accelerated during the 1980s when, as a migrant seeking identity, he began to travel inland and study the antiquity of the ancient continent as well as ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00

Coming Clean: An Illustrated Visit to a Turkish Bath
by Susan Aykut
This richly illustrated book examines the Turkish bath and its many rituals from the twin perspectives of its place in Ottoman society and its role in the Western imagination. The history of the Turkish bath is presented, from the time of the first Sultan ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £60.00

Jim Pavlidis
by Megan Backhouse
During a visit to Greece artist Jim Pavlidis and writer Megan Backhouse decided to explore in words and images the ambivalence of Greeks who migrated to Australia between 1954 and 1990, with some deciding to return permanently to their homeland. Interviews reveal that these people returned because they always intended to do so, or because they craved the simplicity of village or island life. However, they always missed the lifestyle of where they ...
Hardback. Price GB £25.00

Bracelet 'Java La Grande
by Robert Baines
In 2005, Robert Baines, an acclaimed Australian goldsmith known worldwide for his fine artistry - often incorporating ancient goldworking techniques - made an extraordinary gold bracelet that was exhibited in Lisbon's Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga on the ...
Hardback. Price GB £32.00

Contemporary Australian Drawing 1
by Janet McKenzie, Irene Barberis, Christopher Heathcote
Scotland-based Dr Janet McKenzie, long-term deputy editor of the renowned art journal Studio International, first published on Australian drawing with Macmillan back in 1986. Twenty-one years later she met Dr Irene Barberis, an Australian artist who was ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £65.00

Revelation/Apocalypse
Edited by Brown, Michelle P
This unusual book - rich in colours, textures and symbolism - serves as a memento of the changing millennium. Based on The Book of Revelation, it traces a 4-year project by Melbourne-based artist Irene Barberis. She studied ancient Apocalypses in famous manuscript collections in London and Paris, then created her own contemporary version, using abstract and figurative images and new materials and techniques. It includes fold-out pages and images ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00

Walters
by David Thomas, with a foreword by Joseph Brown
Wes Walters has painted more than 200 portraits of notable Australians e.g. Arthur Boyd, Kerry Stokes, Kenneth Myer and Dame Elizabeth Murdoch. His abstract paintings, on the other hand, are inspired by the Australian landscape. These highly gestural abstracts have seldom been exhibited while much of his highly successful graphic design work executed in the 1960s and 70s will be immediately recognisable to those who once drove early Holden cars ...
Hardback. Price GB £70.00

The Art of Grahame King
by Sasha Grishin with contributions by Roger Butler, Libby Bright, caroline Field, Martin King, Anne Virgo and Jenny Zimmer
Grahame Kings life as an artist began with his mastery of the new art of colour reproduction as a photolithographic colour etcher in Melbourne in the 1930s. At the same time, study at the National Gallery Art School with George Bell assisted his ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00