Australian Art - General
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# 28373
BASTIAN, Elisabeth
The artist as designer
Sydney : Sydney College of Advanced Education, 1985. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [28], illustrated. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Nov. 9-30, 1985. Essay by Elisabeth Bastian. Focusses on Australian and international artists’ commercial design work, including stamps, posters and dustjackets for books.
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# 28361
GRISHIN, Sasha et al.
Paradise possessed : The Rex Nan Kivell collection
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1998. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 78, illustrated. A fine collection of colonial Australian and Pacific art. Essays to accompany the exhibition Paradise possessed: the Rex Nan Kivell collection, which has been prepared to celebrate the centenary of Nan Kivell’s birth on 8 April 1898.
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# 28383
KERR, Joan
The dictionary of Australian artists.
Painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992. Reprinted 1993. Thick quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 889 extensively illustrated. An invaluable reference on colonial Australian artists. A fine copy.
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# 28351
KLEPAC, Lou
Australian Painters of the Twentieth Century (signed copy)
Selected and edited by Lou Klepac. Sydney: The Beagle Press, 2000. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, 241pp. illustrated. Includes chapters on important artists such as John Brack, Margaret Preston, Ian Fairweather, Brett Whiteley, Jeffrey Smart, Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan amongst others. A fine copy in near-mint condition, signed by Lou Klepac, art historian, author and …
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# 28319
JACKS, Robert et al.
The Field
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1968. Folio, plain white card wrappers with die-cut title, 94 pp, extensively illustrated; light finger markings, but a very good copy. Catalogue for the exhibition held 21 August – 28 September, 1968, curated by Brian Finemore. The seminal exhibition of twentieth century abstraction in Australia, featuring colour-field works by …
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# 28318
The Field revisited
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria 2018. Two volumes in plastic slipcase, quarto, each with diecut wrappers, the first volume being a 144 page monograph on the seminal exhibition of Australian modernism held in 1968, the second volume being a 96 page facsimile of the rare original 1968 catalogue. As new condition. ‘The National Gallery …
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# 28254
RADFORD, Ron; HYLTON, Jane
Australian colonial art : 1800 – 1900
Adelaide : Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 216 pp. illustrated. As new copy. An excellent survey of Australian colonial art reproducing important works by Eugene von Guerard, Nicholas Chevalier, John Lewin, Conrad Martens, John Glover, Robert Dowling, Alexander Schramm, Martha Berkley, Tom Roberts, David Davies, W. C. Piguenit, Arthuir …
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# 28202
AMBRUS, Caroline
Australian women artists : first fleet to 1945 : history, hearsay and her say (signed copy)
Canberra : Irrepressible Press, 1992. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 246, illustrated. Signed by Ambrus on the title page. A fine copy. “This book is about the four generations of women artists who worked on the cultural fringes of Australian art from the First Fleet to the end of World War 11. The author traces …
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# 28219
FILMER, Veronica
Making their mark : colonial artists of the Western District
Geelong : Geelong Art Gallery, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 46, some colour illustrations. Catalogue of 69 works from the exhibition. A fine copy.
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# 28197
HARTRICK, Elizabeth
The Magic Lantern in Colonial Australia and New Zealand
Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2017. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 192, illustrated. New copy ‘This book brings to life the story of the magic lantern in colonial Australia and New Zealand. It describes the extraordinarily wide use of magic lantern images and technology across the colonies’ – the publisher
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# 28196
RADFORD, Ron and HYLTON, Jane
Modern Australian women : paintings & prints 1925-1945.
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2000. Quarto, laminated wrappers (light creasing to lower wrapper), pp. 144, illustrated throughout with colour plates of works by the artists Jean Appleton, Gwen Barringer, Clarice Beckett, Dorrit Black, Elise Blumann, Stella Bowen, Lina Bryans, Ethel Carrick (Fox), Dora Chapman, Sybil Craig, Grace Crowley, Anne Dangar, Bessie Davidson, …
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# 28185
SCARDAMAGLIA, Amanda
Printed on Stone : the lithographs of Charles Troedel.
Melbourne : Melbourne Books, 2020. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 256, illustrated with more than 70 colour prints from the Troedel archive, plus full reproduction of all 24 plates of The Melbourne Album (lithographic views of Melbourne from 1863–1864) plus select images from the New South Wales Album (1878). New copy. This book is the first to …
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# 28122
[ARKLEY, Howard]. LINDSAY, Robert
Vox Pop – into the eighties
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1983. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Howard Arkley, pp. 56, illustrated. Preface by Patrick McCaughey, text by Robert Lindsay. Includes works by Davida Allan, Howard Arkley, Peter Booth, Juan Davila, Fraser Fair, Dale Hickey, David Larwill, Victor Rubin, Gareth Sansom, Imants Tillers, Jenny Watson, Peter Tyndall, Jan Murray, Paul Boston, …
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# 28072
WARD, Peter and Susan
In a different light : Australian artists working in Italy
Brisbane : University of Queensland Press, 1991. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 144, illustrated. Slight moisture wave to fore edge. Includes works by Ken Whisson, Justin O’Brien, Jeffrey Smart, Peter Schipperheyn, Keith Looby, Lorri Whiting, Peter Blizzard and others.
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# 28069
KIRBY, Sandy
Sight lines : women’s art and feminist perspectives in Australia
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1992. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket (by Sue Rogers), pp. 157, endpapers slightly tones, else a very good copy. Sight lines creates a context for understanding by explaining how various aspects of arts feminism are manifested in the groupings, activities, issues and ideas which have engaged female artists from the 70’s. …
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# 28110
LEWIS-JONES, Huw, et al.
Explorers’ Sketchbooks : The Art of Discovery & Adventure
London : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2016. Oblong quarto, laminated boards, cloth spine, pp. 320, extensively illustrated. New copy. Includes works by Roald Amundsen, Thomas Baines, Ludwig Becker, Charles Darwin, James Cook, Bruce Chatwin, Eugene von Guerard, William Hodges, Marianne North, Sydney Parkinson, Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Abel Tasman, James Wallis, John White and …