Australian Art - General
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# 45524
JESSOP, Clytie
The thirties and Australia
Sydney : S. H. Ervin Museum and Gallery, 1980. Quarto (295 x 21 mm), illustrated self-wrappers (lightly creased, lower wrapper with tiny price in biro), pp. 20, illustrated with art deco works by Vera Blackburn, Charles Meere, Dorrit Black, Max Dupain and Harold Cazneaux. Catalogue of 112 works. Scarce exhibition catalogue on art deco in …
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# 45485
CATALANO, Gary
The years of hope. Australian art and criticism 1959 – 1968
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1981. Octavo, boards in illustrated dustjacket, light handling wear, pp. 216, illustrated.
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# 45515
JONES, Shar
Early painters of Australia 1788-1880
Sydney : Bay Books, [1988]. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (spine sunned, light edge wear), pp. 208, illustrated. A survey of early Australian painting from 1788 to 1880 in which social influences and trends in art are well explained. Although many of the works featured are amateur in approach, the historical viewpoint is interesting and the …
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# 45514
GRISHIN, Sasha
Australian printmaking in the 1990s : artist printmakers, 1990-1995
Sydney, NSW : Craftsman House : G+B Arts International, 1997.Quarto, boards in dustjacket (spine slightly sunned), cover by Bruno Leti, pp. 336, illustrated, a fine copy. Includes works by Rick Amor, Dean Bowen, G. W. Bot, John Wolseley, Judy Watson, Lin Onus, Gordon Bennett, Petr Herel, Aida Tomescu, Davida Allen, John Coburn, Marian Crawford, Brian …
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# 45496
BONYHADY, Tim and SAYERS, Andrew (editors)
Heads of the People. A portrait of Colonial Australia.
Canberra : National Portrait Gallery, 2000. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lightly marked, one corner creased), pp. vi; 150, illustrated. Includes portraits of indigenous Australians.
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# 45492
LAWLOR, Adrian (1889-1969)
[MODERNISM] Arquebus
Melbourne : The Ruskin Press, 1937. First edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s printed card wrappers with French flaps (edges and spine sunned); pp. 218; bottom and fore-edges uncut, contents clean. ‘In 1921 Lawlor began writing literary articles, poetry and stories which were published in a variety of journals including the Bulletin, Vision and New Triad. Having achieved …
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# 45489
TOPLISS, Helen.
The artists’ camps : plein air painting in Melbourne 1885-1898
Melbourne : Monash University Gallery, 1984. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 80, illustrated. An important survey of Australian impressionism, a very good copy.
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# 45463
HAMMOND, Victoria and PEERS, Juliet
Completing the picture : women artists and the Heidelberg era
Melbourne : Artmoves, 1992. First edition. Quarto (310 x 220 mm), illustrated wrappers, 88pp., illustrated in colour and b/w.; light handling marks, light foxing to preliminaries. Excellent reference on a lesser researched school of painters, including A.M.E. Bale, Emma Minnie Boyd, Dora Meeson, Clara Southern, Violet Teague and May Vale; Iso Rae; Jane Price and …
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# 45451
HAMMOND, Victoria
A century of Australian women artists, 1840s-1940s
Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, corner creased, pp. 96, colour illustrations throughout. Catalogue of works by female Australian artists between 1840 and 1940. Features an essay by Victoria Hammond. Includes works by May Gibbs, Clarice Beckett, Violet Teague, Grace Crowley, Margaret Preston, Christian Waller, Ruby Lind, Olive Cotton, Ethel Carrick Fox, …
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# 45446
[HESTER, Joy]; BURKE, Janine
Joy Hester
Melbourne : Greenhouse Publications, 1983. Folio, hardcover in dustjacket, pp 184, illustrated. A very good copy of the detailed monograph on Hester.
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# 45059
WORTHLEY, Boyce (editor)
The Torch. Published annually by the Adelaide Teachers’ College. Vol. XIX, December, 1939. (Extensively signed copy)
Adelaide : Printed at The Hassell Press, 1939. Small quarto, original textured paper wrappers with yapp edges (minor edge wear), upper wrapper with design in blue and silver; pp 44, viii; illustrated with numerous reproductions of linocuts by student artists and photographic plates; this copy is that of Vin Mansell, General Secretary of the Students’ …
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# 45425
McLEAN, Ian
Double Nation. A History of Australian Art
London : Reaction Books, 2023. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 304, illustrated. New copy. ‘In this major new account Ian McLean traces the history of Australian art, from colonial art practice to the search for a national art in the twentieth century. Two key themes structure the narrative: the transformation of a British art …
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# 45396
WOMEN 150
150 Victorian women artists
Produced by Women 150. Melbourne : Women 150, 1985. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (by Michelle Ely), pp. 162, illustrated. A survey of contemporary women’s art in Victoria. Essay by Julie Ewington.
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# 45392
PLANT, Simon
1956 : Melbourne, modernity and the XVI Olympiad
Melbourne : Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, spine sunned, pp. 111, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. ‘The Museum of Modern Art at Heide present the exhibition of 1956: Melbourne, Modernity and the XVI Olympiad which continues the Museum’s commitment to investigating the motivations and forces which make …
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# 45391
HAMMOND, Victoria
Australian ceramics
Shepparton Art Gallery, 1987. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated in colour. Twentieth century Australian studio pottery.
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# 45381
Print Council of Australia
Contemporary Australian Printmakers 1
[Melbourne] : Print Council of Australia, [1979]. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 52, illustrations throughout. Profiles on 35 Australian printmakers,