Australian Art - General
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# 23104
VIDLER, Edward A. (editor)
Art & letters. Hassell’s Australian miscellany
Adelaide : The Hassell Press, [1922]. First Edition. Quarto, papered boards (with label that the sale benefits returned soldiers), black and white and colour plates; original stiff illustrated boards, a very good copy. Includes contributions from Hans Heysen, Vance Palmer, Hugh McCrae, Lionel Lindsay, John Shirlow, Victor Cobb, Henri van Raalte, Napier Waller, Arthur Streeton, …
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# 23101
WILSON, Gavin
Escape artists : modernists in the tropics
Cairns : Cairns Regional Gallery, 1998. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 185, illustrated. Artists include Ray Crooke, Sidney Nolan, John Olsen, Fred Williams, Brett Whiteley, Tony Tuckson, Frank Hinder, Donald Friend, Ian Fairweather etc.
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# 23202
GRAY, Anne
Out of the West. Western Australian art 1830s to 1930s.
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2011. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 52, previous owner’s name to endpaper, illustrated.
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# 23201
McDONALD, John
Federation. Australian art and society 1901 – 2001.
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2000. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 264, extensively illustrated. Exhibition catalogue. “Federation is the most comprehensive survey of Australian art since the Bicentennial exhibitions of 1988. It juxtaposes familiar icons of Australian art alongside unusual and little-known works to chart the growth of a distinctively Australian culture. It features landscapes …
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# 23196
BUTLER, Roger.
Australian prints in the Australian National Gallery
Canberra : Australian National Gallery, 1985. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 56, illustrated with images by Lewin, Rodius, Gillray, von Guerard, Roberts, Lindsay, Conder, Bunny, Trail, Preaston, Spowers, Waller, Brack, Williams, Boyd, etc.
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# 23187
HOLDEN, Robert
Cover up. The art of magazine covers in Australia
Canberra : National Library of Australia, self-wrappers, pp. 12, illustrated. Stunning art deco designs by Thea Proctor, Adrian Feint, Hera Roberts et al.
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# 23069
ARKLEY, Howard et al
Downtown : Ruscha, Rooney, Arkley.
Melbourne : Museum of Modern Art Heide, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Suburbia through the eyes of Ed Ruscha, Robert Rooney and Howard Arkley. From the library of art historian Leigh Astbury, signed by him on the front free endpaper.
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# 23151
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, 272 pages, fully illustrated, light foxing to edges. Limited to 1000 numbered copies, featuring artists Eric Thake, Alan Sumner, Yvonne Atkinson, Geoff Jones, Jack Courier, Justin Gill, Sali Herman, Ian Armstrong, Fred Williams, Harry Rosengrave, Len French, Constance Stokes, Russell …
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# 23055
Sydney Ure Smith
Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Twenty-Seven. Elioth Gruner Number.
Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1929. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers (damage on edges of wrappers), unpaginated (minor foxxing throughout), illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, a fine copy. A special edition of Art in Australia devoted to the Recent Work of Elioth Gruner, with13 colour …
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# 23054
Sydney Ure Smith
Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Twenty-Five. Harold Herbert Number.
Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1928. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, unpaginated, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, a fine copy. A special edition of Art in Australia showcasing Harold Herbert’s Watercolours, with13 colour plates, 13 monochrome plates, 3 etchings and 6 pencil drawings reproduced within. …
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# 23053
[URE SMITH, Sydney].
Society of Artists Exhibition : 1922.
Sydney : Art in Australia, 1922. Quarto, decorated papered boards, unpaginated (minor foxxing), 52 plates (many tipped-in colour plates), advertisements. A very good copy. Includes illustrations by Norman Lindsay, Hans Heysen, Elioth Gruner, Thea Proctor, Penleigh Boyd, Roy de Maistre, Hilda Rix-Nicholas, Grace Crowley, Adrian Feint, Lionel Lindsay etc.
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# 22723
CRUMLIN, Rosemary
Beyond belief. Modern art and the religious imagination.
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1998. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 208, illustrated. Published in association with an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 24 April-26 July, 1998. Artists include Francis Bacon – Max Beckmann – John Bellany – Arthur Boyd – Leonora Carrington – Marc Chagall – Max Ernst – Frida …
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# 22808
CRAMER, Sue
Less is more : minimal + post-minimal in Australian art
Melbourne : Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2012. The exhibition examined the late modernist movement of Minimal art and its counterpoint Post-Minimalism within Australian art, which spanned from the 1960s until today. Artists include Robert Jacks, John Nixon, Robert Hunter etc.
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# 22756
CROMBIE, Isobel and VAN WYK, Susan
Second sight. Australian photography in the National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2002. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. 124, illustrated. The first book to celebrate the breadth and richness of the Australian photographs in the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection and, in so doing, also recognises the creative history of the medium.
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# 22877
JERREMS, Carol et al
Australian Photographers The Philip Morris Collection
Melbourne : Philip Morris, 1979. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 108, illustrated throughout with photographs by Carol Jerrems, Roger Scott, Jon Lewis, Micky Allan, Athol Shmith, Max Dupain, Fiona Hall, Rennie Ellis etc.
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# 22909
KENEALLY, Thomas et alia
Australia
London : Royal Academy of Arts, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 318, illustrated. Marking the first major survey of Australian art in the United Kingdom for 50 years, this catalogue spans more than 200 years from 1800 to the present day and seeks to uncover the fascinating social and cultural evolution of a nation …