Australian Art - General
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# 16370
PEARCE, Barry.
A century of Australian landscape : mood and moment.
Sydney: The Beagle Press, 1983. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, 96pp. illustrated throughout.
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# 15703
Gold fever! Life on the diggings 1851~1855
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1994. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp 15. Exhibition catalogue for a travelling exhibition presented by the National Library of Australia and Sovereign Hill.
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# 16269
Australian Art Society Second Annual Exhibition
Sydney : Australian Art Society, 1928. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (pencil numbers on cover), 19pp, 219 works exhibited. Lists works from 54 Australian artists.
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# 16293
URE SMITH, Sydney
Australian present day art [Signed by Keith Murdoch]
Sydney : Ure Smith Limited, [1943]. First edition. Octavo, decorated cloth boards (short tear at head of spine), front free endpaper with dedication from newspaper baron Keith Murdoch to the artist and poet Baroness Maie Casey, wife of diplomat Baron R.G. Casey, ‘Maie Casey from Keith Murdoch. One of the many realms in which you …
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# 15767
McCULLOCH, Alan
Artists of the Australian gold rush
Melbourne : Lansdowne Editions, 1977. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. xiii; 214, illustrated. A well researched and scholarly reference.
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# 16290
HAESE, Richard.
Rebels and Precursors. The revolutionary years in Australian art (signed copy)
Melbourne: Allen Lane, 1981. First edition. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, 324pp. extensively illustrated. Important work on the Angry Penguins, their contemporaries and influence on modern Australian art. Signed by the author Richard Haese, and Angry Penguins Max Harris and Barrett Reid.
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# 16291
[CANNING, Criss et al].
Artists. The Melbourne Art Exchange (signed)
Melbourne : Melbourne Art Exchange, 1987. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (spine sunned), pp. 80, wet stamp on the half-title, photographic portraits, illustrations. A promotional book fraturing sixteen traditional artists for the Melbourne commercial gallery. This copy is signed by five of the artists, John Lennox, Graeme Roche, Criss Canning, Piers Bateman and John Pointon. The …
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# 16282
BURTON, Barbara; SPLATT, William
100 masterpieces of Australian painting (Sidney Nolan’s copy)
/ notes on the artists by Barbara Burton, commentaries on plates by William Splatt ; introduced by William Splatt. Adelaide : Rigby, 1977, First edition. Quarto, cloth boards in dust jacket (sunned), Sidney Nolan’s copy, his ownership inscription ‘Nolan’ in ink on the front free-endpaper, 208 pp, illustrated with colour plates, clean and sound; loosely …
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# 16292
KERR, Joan
The dictionary of Australian artists.
Painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992. Thick quarto, boards in dustjacket (spine with a couple of short tears and a little sunned), pp. 889 extensively illustrated. An invaluable reference on colonial Australian artists.
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# 16275
[NOLAN]. HAYMAN, Patrick (editor)
The Painter & Sculptor
London : 1958 – 1963. Vol. 1, no. 1 – vol. 5, no. 4. Complete. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, each issue 32 pp., illustrated, light wear but an excellent set. A complete run of all twenty issues of this important and influential art journal, with the index, which critiques the modern art movement of the late …
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# 16081
[BREAD AND CHEESE CLUB]
Bohemia : the all Australian literary magazine
Melbourne : Bread and Cheese Club, 1939-40. First issue, April 1939 – Twelfth issue, March 1940. Twelve issues, folio, unbound, as issued; the later issues with masthead printed in red; the first issue printed on thin paper (wrappers detached and waterstained), the remaining issues on thick paper, all in very good condition. A run of …
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# 15948
HORNAGE, Bill
Ern Malley and the “Angry Penguins”
Being a review of the greatest hoax in Australia’s literary history, and the subsequent ‘Indecency Trial’. Lismore: W. Hornage, [1945]. Octavo, wrappers illustrated with a sour-faced penguin, 20pp, small tear to upper margin of front wrapper and most pages, a small puncture hole and occasional waterstaining. A scarce pamphlet, complete and overall an acceptable copy, …
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# 16071
CONIGRAVE, John Fairfax
South Australia : a sketch of its history & resources.
A handbook : compiled by John Fairfax Conigrave for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886. Octavo, contemporary black half-calf over cloth (scuffed), binder’s ticket of T. W. Taylor of Winnipeg, lithographed wrappers and title page bound in, pp. vi; [2]; folding map of Port Adelaide; 180; (14 – plates). Bound with : Official catalogue …
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# 15918
[ROBERTSON, Bryan]
Recent Australian painting. (Signed by John Olsen)
London : Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1961. Quarto, laminated illustrated wrappers (laminate lifting, as always), signed by artist John Olsen on the title page; approx 60pp., 23 black and white plates plus numerous portrait photographs. Foreword by Kenneth Clark, preface by Bryan Robertson, introduction by Robert Hughes. An important catalogue, this exhibition was the first major …
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# 15756
HAESE, Richard.
Rebels and Precursors. The revolutionary years in Australian art (deluxe edition)
Melbourne: Allen Lane, 1981. First edition. Quarto, quarter crushed morocco over cloth, spine in compartments, lettered in gilt, with contrasting title labels, 324pp. extensively illustrated. Important work on the Angry Penguins, their contemporaries and influence on modern Australian art. The deluxe edition, limited to 50 copies signed and numbered by the author Richard Haese. “This …
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# 15700
BUNBURY, Alisa
Arid arcadia : art of the Flinders Ranges
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2002. Quarto, laminated pictorial boards, pp. 208, illustrated. Monograph of exhibition collecting Australian and Indigenous artworks depicting the Flinders Ranges, from Aboriginal rock paintings, to Colonial artworks, to modern realist painters such as Hans Heysen and Jeffrey Smart.
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# 15637
HUGHES, Robert
The shock of the new : art and the century of change (signed copy)
London : British Broadcasting Corporation, 1980. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 424, illustrated. Signed on the half title. Hughes’ seminal account of the history of modern art.
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# 15424
Melba’s gift book of Australian art and literature
Melbourne : George Robertson, c. 1915. Quarto, lettered cloth, pp. 176, colour and black white plates. Fundraising book from the Great War “The entire profits from the sale of this book will be devoted by Madam Melba to the Belgian Relief Fund”. Literary contributors include Ethel Turner, Henry Lawson, Tarella Quin, Dorothea Mackellar, Edward Vidler, …
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# 15939
Catalogue of an exhibition of Australian and Pacific material from the Nan Kivell Collection
in the National Library of Australia. Arranged by the Libraries Board of South Australia for the Second Adelaide Festival of Arts, March 17 – 31, 1962. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, unpaginated, foreword by Prime Minister Menzies, lengthy catalogue, illustrations. A major exhibition of rare Australian books, watercolours and ephemera.
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# 14699
Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Forty-Five.
Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1932. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, 66pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, a fine copy. Features essay by Gabriel Thorne on the Future of the Theatre; an article on Will Ashton's Paintings by Lionel Lindsay, among others as well as …
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# 14660
HINDS, John (1950 - )
This ferral Australis!
How Terra Australis (a utopian terra nullius) became Ferral Australis (a dystopian terra numbskullius!) by Mr. John Hinds Esq. 2014 or … an ironic meta-narrative on the pluralist hybridity of the hegemonic colonialistic simulacra, referencing the semiotic intertextuality of a paradigmic Shakespearean narratology. A hyper-critical poststructuralist pastiche on the metaphysical extraction of urine! Melbourne : …
