Australian Art - General
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# 35492
DIGGINS, Lauraine
The Antipodeans : another chapter
Melbourne : Malakoff Fine Art Press, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 72, illustrated. A retrospective of the significant exhibition of 1959 with additional important works by Arthur Boyd, John Brack, David Boyd, Clifton Pugh, Robert Dickerson, Charles Blackman, and John Perceval.
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# 35473
KLINGENDER, Tim
Sotheby’s Fine Contemporary and Aboriginal Art. Melbourne Tuesday 28 November 1995
Melbourne : Sotheby’s, 1995. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), illustrated card covers, pp 56; auction catalogue with 134 lots, most illustrated in colour, prices annotated in pen, price stapled on to title page, addenda catalogue stapled inside lower wrapper, a good copy.
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# 35332
McCORMICK, Alice; RHODES, Sarah
The artist’s lunch : at home with Australia’s most celebrated artists (with a signed drawing by Mirka Mora)
Text : Alice McCormick; photography : Sarah Rhodes. Foreword by Margaret Olley. Sydney : Murdoch Books, 2008. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (corners rubbed), pp. 231, illustrated. This copy with a full page inscription by Mirka Mora on the half-title, with a signed drawing of two angels. “Join photographer Sarah Rhodes and writer Alice McCormick as …
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# 35182
GORMAN, Clem and Therese
Intrépide : Australian women artists in early twentieth-century France
Melbourne : Monash University Publishing, 2020. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xl; 228, 16 leaves of colour plates, new copy. It is hard for us to imagine the oppressed lives of single women in the first half of the twentieth century. Yet a few determined Australian women took a leap into the unknown and carved careers …
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# 35153
[JERREMS, Carol et al.].
Woman 1975
Melbourne : Young Women’s Christian Association of Australia, 1975. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (cover image by Laurie Wilson, a little rubbed and marked, spine silverfishes with title written in black ink, pp. 160, illustrated. Foreword by Stella C. Watson, introduction by Jennie Boddington. ‘A permanent record of the exhibition of photographs entitled Woman, which was the …
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# 35040
LARWILL, David et al.
Roar again (multiple signed copy)
Mark Schaller, David Larwill, Mark Howson, Karan Hayman, Wayne Eager, Judi Singleton, Peter Ferguson, Jill Noble, Mike Nicholls, Sarah Faulkner, Andrew Ferguson, Pasquale Giardino : 22 August – 9 September 2001. Melbourne : Metro 5, 2001. Quarto, single card, folded, pp. [8], essay by David Thomas, illustrated. Signed on the upper wrapper by Mark Schaller, …
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# 35465
DAVIES, Alan; STANBURY, Peter
The mechanical eye in Australia: photography, 1841-1900
Melbourne : Oxford University Pres, 1985. First Edition. Quarto, publisher’s black cloth in fine dustjacket, illustrated endpapers, 270 pp, profusely illustrated, a fine copy of the most useful reference work on Australian colonial photography yet published, now scarce.
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# 34146
FAHY, Kevin et al.
Australian art pottery 1900 – 1950
Sydney : Casuarina Press, 2004. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, 362 pp. profusely illustrated. Limited to 2000 numbered copies. An essential reference, a fine copy, practically as new. ‘The result of a four year research project which has exposed a number of previously unheralded potters and re-assessed the work of others. The first major publication …
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# 35461
TAYLOR, Elena et al.
Australian impressionists in France
Melbourne, Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria, 2013. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. xiv, 177, illustrated. Australian Impressionists in France provides a new perspective on one of the best-known and loved periods in Australian art. It reveals for the first time the extent of Australian artists’ participation in the global movement of Impressionism, and examines …
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# 34974
FOLK, Saskia
Conform
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2004. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [144], illustrated. New copy. Photobook of street art in Australia, including works by Banksy, Anthony Lister, and others. City walls and public places provide ready-made surfaces for works by today’s migratory population of graffiti and stencil artists. This social commentary is an innovative art form. Saskia Folk …
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# 35393
EAGLE, Mary and MINCHIN, Jan
The George Bell School. Students, Friends, Influences.
Melbourne: Deutscher Fine Art and Sydney : Resolution Press, 1981. Quarto, blindstamped cloth in dustjacket (some handling wear including rubbing and creasing, small tear to head of spine), 272 pages, fully illustrated. Limited to 1000 numbered copies, featuring artists Eric Thake, Alan Sumner, Yvonne Atkinson, Geoff Jones, Jack Courier, Justin Gill, Sali Herman, Ian Armstrong, …
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# 35372
NORTON, Leonie
Women of flowers : botanical art in Australia from the 1830s to the 1960s
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2010. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 126, illustrated; light handling marks, bookplate to pastedown, a very good copy.
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# 35303
CRAMER, Sue
Centre five at Heide Park and Art Gallery
Melbourne : Heide Park and Art Gallery, c1984. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 29, illustrated. Works by Vincas Jomantas, Julius Kane, Inge King, Clifford Last, Lenton Parr, Norma Redpath, and Teisutis Zikaras. “Mounted in conjunction with the second Australian Sculpture Triennial”–Cover.
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# 35331
TUCKER, Albert et al
Angry Penguins and Melbourne realist painting in Melbourne in the 1940s
London : South Bank Centre, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (by Albert Tucker), pp. 176, illustrated throughout. A detailed monograph and exhibition catalogue.
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# 35325
GELLATLY, Kelly et al.
Heidelberg to Heide : creating an Australian landscape 1850-1950
Melbourne : Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2001. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 2000 copies.
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# 35318
EISLER, William and SMITH, Bernard
Terra Australis : the furthest shore.
Sydney : International Cultural Corporation of Australia Limited for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 239, crease to half-title, illustrated. A large scale exhibition on the history of the discovery and colonisation of the Australian continent, a detailed catalogue.