Australian Art - General
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# 46296
DAVIES, Alan; STANBURY, Peter
The mechanical eye in Australia: photography, 1841-1900.
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985. First printing. Quarto (290 x 220 mm), publisher’s black cloth in dust jacket (scattered foxing to inside of jacket); illustrated endpapers, 270 pp, profusely illustrated; contents clean throughout; a very good copy of the most useful reference work on Australian colonial photography yet published, now very scarce.
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# 46125
LOCK-WEIR, Tracey
Misty moderns : Australian tonalists 1915-1950
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (illustrating a work by Clarice Beckett), pp. 144, illustrated. A fine copy. Seminal exhibition of Australian modernism featuring the works of Clarice Beckett, Max Meldrum, Percy Leason, William Frater, Roland Wakelin, Colin Colahan, Polly Hurry, and others.
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# 46267
CRAMER, Sue
Inhibodress 1970 – 1972
Brisbane : Institute of Modern Art, 1989. Quarto, lettered wrappers (lightly marked), pp. 78, illustrated. Works by Tim Johnson, Peter Kennedy, Mike Parr.
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# 46242
HAMMOND, Victoria
A century of Australian women artists, 1840s-1940s
Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 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, Bessie Gibson, …
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# 46221
[HESTER, Joy]; BURKE, Janine
Joy Hester
Melbourne : Greenhouse Publications, 1983. Folio, hardcover in dustjacket, slight edge wear, pp 184, illustrated. A very good copy of the detailed monograph on Hester.
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# 46218
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Ladies in landscapes
[Ballarat : Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1974]. Quarto, brown wrappers, a little marked, pp. 20, some pictures and illustrations. Catalogue of works features in the “Ladies in Landscapes” exhibition.
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# 46158
GRISHIN, Sasha
Contemporary Australian Printmaking : an interpretative history.
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1995. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 192, illustrated.
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# 45963
FOLEY, Fiona et al.
Sense : Ki-Won Park, Kyung-Hee Shin, Fiona Foley, Geoff Lowe.
Seoul : Whanki Museum and Melbourne : The Asialink Centre at the University of Melbourne and the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 1997. Four volumes, octavo, lettered wrappers, each approximately50 pages, illustrated, text in English and Korean. Printed in editions of 1000 and 1500 copies. The complete set of catalogues for the contemporary artists’ exhibition …
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# 45899
BARNETT, P. Neville
Australian book-plates and book-plates of interest to Australia
Sydney : privately printed [Beacon Press], 1950. The standard edition, limited to 200 copies signed by the author. Quarto, papered boards in dust jacket, 280 pp, extensively illustrated with bookplates, some of which are original graphics tipped-in; a fine copy of this magnificent showcase of Australian bookplates. Artists include Norman Lindsay, Adrian Feint, Alan Jordan, …
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# 45996
MORGAN, Denise
ROAR re-viewed 30 years on
with an introduction by Sasha Grishin. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2011. Quarto, cloth-covered boards with paste-down illustration, stitching exposed on spine with title (as issued), illustrated thoroughly throughout, text by Denise Morgan. The pink boards variant. A publication on the Melbourne Roar Studios and the artists who were its contigents. Sasha Grishin not only descirbed ROAR …
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# 45800
[STREETON, Arthur; LINDSAY, Norman et al]
The Baldwin Spencer collection of Australian pictures and works of art
Melbourne : Fine Art Society, 1919. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (lightly marked, edges chipped), 32 pp., 20 plates (some tipped-in colour plates), including Norman Lindsay and others. Edition limited to 350 copies. Foreword by H. Desbrowe-Annear. Limited edition catalogue of the auction held on May 19-21, 1919 at the Fine Art Society’s Galleries, Melbourne, listing 313 …
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# 45798
GRAY, Anne and HESSON, Angela, editors
She-Oak and Sunlight : Australian Impressionism
Anne Gray and Angela Hesson (editors) and contributors. Melbourne, Victoria : Thames & Hudson Australia & National Gallery of Victoria, 2021. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. viii, 289, illustrated. New copy. From the publisher’s website: “The Australian Impressionists are among the most loved figures of Australian art, and their work has long formed an imaginative backdrop …
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# 45791
ADAMS, Tate; ZIMMER, Jenny
The Crossley Gallery 1966-1980
Editor Jenny Zimmer; with an introduction by Patrick McCaughey. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2003. Quarto silver-lettered cloth in dustjacket, pp. 220, illustrated throughout. As new copy, mint condition. ‘This book presents the genesis of Tate Adam’s remarkable influence on art in Australia. From the spring of a tiny space in a side street of central Melbourne …
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# 45692
LLOYD, Michael et al.
Surrealism : revolution by night
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 1993. Folio, boards in dustjacket, pp. xii; 330, extensively illustrated with examples of Australian and international surrealist works, a touch of foxing to edges else a fine copy of the scarce hardcover edition.
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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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# 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’ …