Art Books
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# 51817
SAXTON, Louise
Louise Saxton : cut & pinned
Melbourne : the artist, 2024. Quarto, illustrated boards in dustjacket, pp. 167, illustrated. New copy. Contributions by Catherine Bell, Louise Saxton, Carol Schwartz and Jason Smith. ‘This book reflects the Australian artist Louise Saxton’s past two decades of collecting & re-imagining discarded needlework. Her reclaimed ‘cut & pinned’ needlework assemblages, profiled in full colour in …
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# 51814
MOUNTFORD, Charles
Australian Aboriginal portraits
Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1967. Quarto, boards in dust jacket, edges rubbed, pp 89, illustrated. A good copy
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# 51811
BUCKMASTER, Ernest
The art of Ernest Buckmaster
Melbourne : Lothian, 1951. Small quarto, cloth, pp. 54, tipped-in colour plates, essay by Buckmaster, foreword by A. H. Spencer; a very good copy in the decorated box.
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# 51809
LINDSAY, Lionel
Conrad Martens : the man and his art (presentation copy for Hugh Wright)
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1920. First edition. Quarto, publisher’s printed papered boards, maroon cloth spine, tipped-in colour frontispiece self-portrait of the artist, 33 pages of text (essay by Lindsay), LX plates (the first XXXII are tipped-in colour plates), a fine copy in the original presentation box (corners split). With a signed presentation inscription from …
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# 51807
URE SMITH, Sidney and STEVENS, Bertram
The Art of J. J. Hilder
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1918. Quarto, quarter cloth over lettered boards, lightly marked, 48 pp., front free endpaper removed, numerous tipped-in colour and black and white plates (some offsetting), contributions by Julian Ashton, Bertram Stevens, Harry Julius, Sydney Ure Smith and J. J. Hilder.
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# 51806
RRAP, Julie; LYNN, Victoria
Julie Rrap. Body double
Sydney : Museum of Contemporary Art / Piper Press, 2007. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 168, illustrated. New copy. ‘Since the 1980s Julie Rrap has sought to ‘disclose’ the human body, and unravel the ways in which it has been represented in art and elsewhere For the most part, Rrap has used her own …
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# 51805
MENDELSSOHN, Joanna
The life and work of Sydney Long (deluxe edition)
Sydney : Copperfield Publishing, 1979. Folio, bound in full leather, lettered in gilt (a few light marks), pp. 284, illustrated; limited to 275 copies signed by the author, a very good copy of the deluxe edition of this extensive survey on the artist.
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# 51803
GALWAY, George
Fifty years of Australian art by members of the Royal Art Society 1879 – 1929
With a commentary by George Galway. 20 illustrations in colour, 100 illustrations in black & white. Sydney : Royal Art Society Press, [1929]. Quarto, illustrated cards (marked, foxed, short tears to the yapp edges), pp. 114, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates and black and white reproductions, occasional foxing. Limited edition, numbered (presumably 1000 copies printed). …
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# 51802
VIDLER, Edward A. RAMSAY, Hugh.
The art of Hugh Ramsay
Melbourne: The Fine Art Society, [1918?]. Quarto, titled card wrappers (light edge wear), 28 pp. with tipped-in colour plates and catalogue. Scarce, limited to 500 copies.
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# 51801
THOMAS, Laurence (curator)
Jubilee Exhibition of Australian Art : aboriginal art, early colonial art, the art of the middle period, contemporary art
Organised by Laurence Thomas under the direction of the Plastic Arts Committee. [Sydney] : Ure Smith, [1951]. Quarto, decorated wrappers (lightly foxed), pp. 64, illustrated. Includes reproductions by Lionel Lindsay, Arthur Streeton, Sidney Nolan, Eric Wilson, Margaret Preston, Hans Heysen, David Davies, Russell Drysdale and others, as well as Aboriginal bark paintings.
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# 51800
FAIRWEATHER, Ian
The drunken Buddha
St. Lucia : University of Queensland Press, 1965. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (small tears to edges), inscription to endpaper, pp. 160, illustrated by Fairweather. A scarce publication of the well-known Chinese novel based on the life of a Buddhist saint, translated into English and illustrated by Fairweather.
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# 51788
[McAULEY, James and STEWART, Harold]. “MALLEY, Ern”.
The Darkening Ecliptic by Ern Malley.
Melbourne and Adelaide: Reed and Harris, 1944. Small quarto, 46 pages, in original wrappers illustrated by Sidney Nolan of ‘The Arabian Tree’ from the ‘Malley’ poem Petit Testament, further reproduced as a black and white frontispiece, spine chipped, a couple of minor stains, upper wrapper nearly detached. The first edition variant in illustrated wrappers, a …
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# 51780
[LINDSAY, Norman]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin (ed.).
Norman Lindsay: 80 Years of Pencil Drawings.
Bungendore : Odana Editions, 2008. Quarto, pictorial boards, 335 pages, profusely illustrated; a new copy. During his long creative life Norman Lindsay produced works in many media, but pencil was the only one he used continuously from childhood to old age. The earliest drawing reproduced in this book was done in 1889, when he was …
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# 51776
McGREGOR, Ken and ZIMMER, Jenny
Criss Canning
Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2010. Series: Macmillan mini-art series number 5. Small square octavo, pictorial boards in dust jacket, 144 pp extensively illustrated. An as new copy.
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# 51763
WHITELEY, Brett and DRISCOLL, Michael.
Native Rose (hardcover edition)
Sydney : Richard Griffin, 1986. Large quarto, cloth in dust jacket (light handling wear), 58 pp, illustrated by Whiteley. The scarce hardcover edition of this book of poems illustrated with large format plates. A series of poems by Michael Driscoll inspired by the Olgas (Kata Tjuṯa) in Central Australia and the journals of explorer Ernest …
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# 51762
LANE, Terence (1946 - 2024)
Australian Impressionism (hardcover)
Melbourne : NGV, 2007. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, light handling wear and a little sunned towards spine, pp. 352, profusely illustrated in colour. A scholarly survey of Australian impressionism and at the same time a lavishly produced catalogue to accompany the major exhibition held at the NGV, 31 March – 8 August 2007; a very …