Australian Art - General
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# 47567
[Various]
A collection of 58 zines : Australia, U.S.A., U.K.
Distort : not for everybody. Issue #16. West Hollywood, U.S.A. : Unicorn Records, 1981. Octavo, illustrated wrappers. HARMON, Debbie. Bad Mother: Vols 1-4. Melbourne : Debbie Quadri, 2004. Octavo, colour pictorial wrappers, numbered 314 of 1000. FLEETWOOD, Julian (ed.) The Sex Mook: What is our sex? Melbourne : Vignette Press, 2007. Octavo, colour pictorial wrappers. …
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# 47510
CROZIER, Cecily (editor); GLEESON, James, et al.
A Comment. October 1942. No. 13
Malvern East, Vic. : A Comment Publication, 1942. Royal octavo, self buff wrappers with linocut image by Irvine Green, staple bound, pp. [24], printed in black ink on buff paper, illustrations; including a tipped-in surrealist work by James Gleeson, includes text contributions by Brian Crozier, Geoffrey Dutton, James Gleeson, Elizabeth Galloway, Max Harris and others, …
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# 47661
QUILLEY, Geoff et al.
William Hodges 1744-1797 : the art of exploration
Edited by Geoff Quilley and John Bonehill. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press for the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 2004. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, spine slightly faded, pp. viii, 212, illustrated. Foreword by Sir David Attenborough. Catalogue to the exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 5 July-21 November 2004 and the Yale Center …
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# 47649
SMITH, Jason
Cutting through time. Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print
Geelong : Geelong Gallery, 2024. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 96, illustrated. Fine copy. Catalogue for the exhibition of the same name. Quickly sold out. ‘This exceptionally beautiful Geelong Gallery-curated exhibition will examine the influence of Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) on the famed contemporary Australian painter and printmaker, Cressida Campbell (born 1960), and on the …
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# 47615
SLATER, John
Through artists’ eyes : Australian suburbs and their cities 1919-1945 (hardcover)
Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2005. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket (reproducing a work by Colin Colahan), pp. xviii; 237, sunning to spine, extensively illustrated with hundreds of images. ‘Shows how artists recorded the coming of Modernity, and the lives of ordinary people at work and at leisure. This book also explores how, at a time …
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# 47608
REID, Barrie
Modern Australian Art. A Melbourne collection of paintings and drawings.
Edited, with an introduction, by Barrie Reid. Melbourne: Museum of Modern Art of Australia, 1958. Quarto, wrappers (waterstain to lower wrapper and the corner of several pages), 72 pages illustrated in black and white. The first publication of the Museum of Modern Art. Includes short essays, portrait photographs and reproductions of the work of: Charles …
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# 47594
McNALLY, M. J.
The art of the etcher
Sydney : Australian Painter-Etchers’ Society, circa 1930. Duodecimo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [24], lightly foxed, illustrated. Essay by M. J. McNally and reproductions of etchings by Sydney Long, Ella Dwyer, Squire Morgan, A. Henry Fullwood, Will Ashton, Jessie Traill, and others.
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![[EUGENE VON GUERARD]. Designing Place : An Archaeology of the Western District](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/06/2025_DSFB_3512-300x300.jpg)
# 47534
Lisa Byrne, Harriet Edquist & Laurene Vaughan (editors)
[EUGENE VON GUERARD]. Designing Place : An Archaeology of the Western District
Melbourne : Melbourne Books, 2010. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 160, illustrated. ‘ Designing Place is a beautifully produced book that brings together some of Australia’s foremost artists and intellectuals in a project that investigates the meaning of ‘place’ by focusing on the Western District of Victoria. The artworks include the Stony Rises Project and …
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# 47392
PORTER, Renée
Margaret Olley : painter, peer, mentor, muse (from the library of Criss Canning)
Sydney, NSW : National Trust, [2017]. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 118, illustrated. Provenance: Criss Canning, signed by her on the endpaper, acquired from the artist in 2023.
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# 47497
URE SMITH, Sydney (introduction)
The Exhibition of Australian Art to be held at the Galleries of the Royal Academy, London, 1923
Catalogue of the Exhibition held at the Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney, prior to sending the pictures to London. Sydney : Education Department, 1923. Octavo, lettered wrappers, detachable ticket on the title page intact, pp. [24], staples rusted, a few spots of foxing. Scarce. A related book was also published by Art in Australia. Includes …
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# 47477
WALSH, David et al.
Monanisms : Museum of Old and New Art
Hobart : Museum of Old and New Art, 2010. First edition. Quarto, lettered papered boards with cloth detailing, pp. xx; rotating volvelle, 386, CD-ROM inside lower board, illustrated, lacking the slipcase, but a fine copy of the landmark catalogue celebrating the launch of David Walsh’s iconic museum in Tasmania.
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# 47467
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 (this out of series). 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. …
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# 47460
GREGG, Simon
Spirits in the Bush : The Art of Gippsland (deluxe issue of the second edition)
Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2021. Second edition. Quarto, cloth with pictorial inlay, pp. 361, illustrated. Deluxe edition, in special cloth binding and buckram slipcase. ‘Spirits in the Bush surveys the art of Gippsland, from the colonial to the contemporary. This expansive, original and illuminating compendium leads readers on a journey through artistic and provincial …
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# 47454
OPPEN, Monica; LYSSIOTIS, Peter, et al.
The silent scream
Political and social comment in books by artists. Essays by Monica Oppen, Peter Lyssiotis, Walter Struve, Scott McQuire, Humphrey McQueen, Des Cowley. Sydney : Ant Press for Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem, 2011. Quarto, laminated card wrappers, 189 pp. fully illustrated. Produced to accompany the exhibition at Monash University Library of international and Australian artists’ books …
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# 47450
GREGG, Simon
Spirits in the Bush: The Art of Gippsland
Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 361 (very slight wave to text block), illustrated. ‘Spirits in the Bush surveys the art of Gippsland, from the colonial to the contemporary. This expansive, original and illuminating compendium leads readers on a journey through artistic and provincial history, interweaving the lives of residents and …
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# 47442
DRAFFIN, Nicholas
Australian woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s
Melbourne : Sun Books, 1976. First edition. Quarto, pictorial laminated card covers, 80 pp, illustrated in colour and black and white. Margaret Preston image upper wrapper. Includes work by Lionel Lindsay, Thea Proctor, Raymond McGrath, Ethel Spowers, Eric Thake, Hirschfield Mack etc.