Art Books
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# 47171
BELL, Richard
Richard Bell : Positivity (signed copy)
Brisbane : Institute of Modern Art, c. 2007. Brisbane aboriginal artist Richard Bell’s work develops out of protest politics, responding to a history of oppression and discrimination. While he challenges non-aboriginal artists who appropriate aboriginal imagery, he is an appropriation artist himself, borrowing from artists like Imants Tillers and Emily Kngwarreye to score his points. His …
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# 47170
JENBERGS, Jan; McCAUGHEY, Patrick
Voyage and landfall : the art of Jan Senbergs
Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2006. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 234, numerous illustrations.
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# 47169
REEDER, Stephanie Owen
The Vision Splendid (signed copy)
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2011. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, lower board slightly creased, pp. 174, illustrated. Colonial art in the National Library of Australia. Signed by the author on the title page.
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# 47162
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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# 47161
ADAMS, Jeanie
Crafts from Aurukun : design for a local environment
Aurukun, Queensland : Aurukun Community Incorporated, 1986. Octavo (210 x 160 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, 28 pp., line-drawn illustrations throughout; lightly marked, else fine.
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# 46392
WARHOL, Andy (1928 - 1987)
The philosophy of Andy Warhol. (From A to B and back again). (Signed copy with drawing of a Campbell’s Soup can)
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First edition. Octavo, boards in dust jacket, pp 241; a fine copy; the half-title is signed and inscribed by Warhol, accompanied by an original pen drawing by the artist of a Campbell’s Tomato Soup can, his most iconic image. Andy Warhol’s seminal self-analysing memoir, filled with his reflections of …
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# 47111
ESCHER, M. C.
M. C. Escher : 16 facsimile prints.
With an introduction by J. L. Locher, former Director of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Baarn [The Netherlands] : The Escher Foundation, 2008. Sixteen museum quality giclee reproduction prints of some of Escher’s most iconic images, printed on 310 gsm. handmade and acid-free German Etching paper from Hahnemühle, each 650 x 550 mm, accompanied by a …
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# 47043
Sydney Ure Smith
Art in Australia (complete set)
Art in Australia. Series 1, No. 1 – Series 4, No. 6 (1916 – 1942). Completes set. Series 1 (11 issues, quarto), Series 2 (2 issues, large quarto), Series 3 (80 issues, quarto), Series 4 (6 issues, large quarto). Illustrated wrappers, occasional chipping and flecking, extensively illustrated, tipped-in plates, a very good set. The most …
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# 46883
FORD, Sue (1943-2009)
Lajamunu women holding discussion with Hazel Hawke at Barunga, Northern Territory, 1988
Gelatin print, 40 x 60 cm; artist’s proof (from edition of 5); unmounted; fine condition. An important documentary photograph by acclaimed Australian feminist photographer, Sue Ford (1943-2009). Provenance: Gift of Sue Ford to her friend, Virginia Fraser (c.1989). Estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator. For an insightful analysis of Ford’s …
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# 47090
DEACON, Destiny (1957-2024)
Under the spell of the tall poppies : from the series “Oz” (1998)
Bubblejet print from Polaroid photograph, 32.0 x 26.0 cm (sheet 42.0 x 29.5 cm); printed by the artist, not signed; light crease to the right of centre, else fine; unframed. This image from Indigenous artist Destiny Deacon’s digitally-printed Oz series was originally issued in an edition of 15, in a large format. This smaller scale …
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# 24450
GIBBS, May (1877-1969)
Bib and Bub : their adventures.
Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Quarto, publisher’s decorated cloth (rubbed along lower edge upper board), dust jacket with colour illustrations (very slight rubbing to extremities), pictorial endpapers, contemporary gift inscription in pencil to half-title, title page (small wet stamp of previous owner), pp. 79; (1), coloured panelled illustrations throughout; a fine copy. ‘Rare: …
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# 47066
HINKSON, Melinda
Remembering the future : Warlpiri life through the prism of drawing
Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press [AIATSIS], 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xi, 178, illustrated. ‘What can a collection of drawings reveal about their makers? Crayon drawings collected by anthropologists provide an illuminating prism through which to explore how the Warlpiri people of Central Australia have seen their place in the world and have been …
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# 46588
LINDSAY, Norman
Norman Lindsay water colour book
Eighteen reproductions in colour from original watercolours with an appreciation of the medium by Norman Lindsay and a biographical survey of the artist’s life and work by Godfrey Blunden. Sydney : The Springwood Press, 1939. Quarto, embossed green cloth in dustjacket (small chip to head of spine, scattered foxing), warm gift inscription (in both pen …
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# 46886
HAMER, Heather (1885 - 1962)
Old Sinhalese nursery rhymes and folk songs
Collected and illustrated by Heather Hamer. With a Foreword by Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike, K.C.M.G. Ceylon : The Colombo Apothecaries Co., Ltd., 1935. Quarto, gilt-lettered diced road, lightly scuffed and worn, pp. [36], illustrated with twelve full page black and white illustrations by Hamer, with tissue guards, illustrating in modernist style the nursery rhymes. Heather …
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# 46931
[CRUIKSHANK]. MAYHEW, Henry, editor
The Comic Almanack and Diary 1851 (coloured version)
Illustrated by George Cruikshank and H. G. Hine. London: David Bogue, 1851. Octavo, gilt-decorated flush cut cloth covered boards (dulled), text block slightly cracked, pp. 64, 24 (adverts.), extensively illustrated throughout, folding frontispiece by Cruikshank, fine original hand colouring. The frontispiece is an etching measuring 165 x 410mm, titled ‘Probable effects of over female emigration, …
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# 47056
HINDS, John (1950 - )
The English Suite : a new catalogue of nostalgic wallpapers designed for the Antipodes
Melbourne : the artist, 2012. Elephant folio (580 mm tall), lettered cloth, title page, preface, 14 leaves of designs stencilled in colour, which reference traditional English patterns and iconography, but have been re-designed to reflect a contemporary theme or topic, ostensibly as prototypes for wallpapers for distribution in the Antipodes. A printed sheet of notes …