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  • Action Man Story

    # 46817

    HOWARD, Ian (1947 - )

    Action Man Story

    Montreal : the artist, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a hint of foxing), 40pp. with offset lithographed photographic images and text throughout. An important early experimental artist’s book created by the Australian artist while completing a master’s degree in Canada. Like much of his work, this book draws on Howard background in the military, it is …

  • Criss Canning : Instagram moments (from the library of Criss Canning)

    # 46826

    CANNING, Criss

    Criss Canning : Instagram moments (from the library of Criss Canning)

    Unpublished : the artist, 2020. Oblong quarto, illustrated boards, approximately 160 pages, illustrated with photographs taken from the artist’s Instagram account, documenting her painting, home, garden and travels. Printed in an edition of 10 copies for family. A self-published book of reminiscences and inspiration created by Criss Canning during the COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia in …

  • Between two worlds : Escher x Nendo

    # 46878

    ESCHER, M. C.

    Between two worlds : Escher x Nendo

    Melbourne, Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria, 2018. Quarto, boards in slipcase, a few light marks, pp. 325, illustrated. A very good second hand copy. Originally released at the retail price of $49.95, this book won the Best Designed Fully-illustrated Book Under $50, and Designers’ Choice Book of the Year awards from the Australian Book Designers …

  • S.T. Gill & his audiences

    # 46917

    GRISHIN, Sasha

    S.T. Gill & his audiences

    Canberra, ACT ; [Melbourne] : National Library of Australia Publishing in Association with the State Library of Victoria, 2015. Quarto, illustrated cloth, pp. 255, illustrated, a fine copy. ‘Samuel Thomas Gill, or STG as he was universally known, was Australia’s most significant and popular artist of the mid-nineteenth century. For his contemporaries he epitomised ‘Marvellous …

  • Ethel Carrick (Mrs. E. Phillips Fox)

    # 46877

    [CARRICK, Ethel]. ZUBANS, Ruth

    Ethel Carrick (Mrs. E. Phillips Fox)

    A retrospective exhibition. Geelong, Victoria : Geelong Art Gallery, 1979. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, unpaginated, illustrated with 57 plates in black & white, catalogue for the travelling retrospective exhibition of the works of Ethel Carrick [Carrick Fox].  

  • Patricia Piccinini : once upon a time

    # 46875

    MESSENGER, Jane

    Patricia Piccinini : once upon a time

    Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2011. Folio, illustrated boards in plastic carry case (light handling wear), pp. 148, illustrated. Surveys the career of one of Australia’s pre-eminent contemporary artists. This is the first major book on Piccinini and is designed to reflect the scale and detail of her varied practice. Published on the occasion …

  • One Sun One Moon : Aboriginal Art in Australia

    # 46896

    PERKINS, Hetti et al.

    One Sun One Moon : Aboriginal Art in Australia

    Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2007. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 368, illustrated. This copy is still sealed in the publisher’s shrink-wrap, but it has a small amount of loss at the foot of the spine where perhaps it was dropped, and as such is sold as a reference copy. ‘Aboriginal art …

  • Grace Crowley : being modern

    # 46895

    TAYLOR, Elena

    Grace Crowley : being modern

    Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2006. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated, previous owner’s name to half-title, a fine copy.   .

  • Men of Yesterday : a social history of the Western District of Victoria, 1834-1890

    # 46847

    KIDDLE, Margaret

    Men of Yesterday : a social history of the Western District of Victoria, 1834-1890

    Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1967 (reprint). Octavo, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (edges lightly rubbed, short tear t lower panel), maps to endpapers, pp. xviii; 573, illustrated. A fine copy.

  • Sidney Nolan. Works on paper from the '60s and '70s : mixed media paintings, lithographs and screenprints.

    # 46849

    NOLAN, Sidney

    Sidney Nolan. Works on paper from the ’60s and ’70s : mixed media paintings, lithographs and screenprints.

    Melbourne : Bridget McDonnell Gallery, 1997. Quarto, exhibition catalogue, folded card, three panels, pp. [6], illustrated. Price list enclosed.

  • Aspendale Beach : an artists' haven

    # 46851

    JAMES, Rodney

    Aspendale Beach : an artists’ haven

    Mornington : Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, wraparound banner, one corner creased, pp. 54, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 650 copies.

  • La Trobe's Jolimont : a walk around my garden.

    # 46850

    BOTHAM, Helen

    La Trobe’s Jolimont : a walk around my garden.

    Melbourne : C.J. La Trobe Society and Australian Garden History Society, 2006. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 36, illustrated. A study of one of the first planted gardens in colonial Melbourne.

  • Criss Canning

    # 46868

    CANNING, Criss

    Criss Canning

    October 19th – October 29th 1989. Melbourne Art Exchange. Quarto, illustrated card wrappers, unpaginated, 28 colour plates a fine copy.

  • The dictionary of Australian artists

    # 46894

    KERR, Joan

    The dictionary of Australian artists

    Painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992. First edition. Thick quarto, boards in dustjacket, slight corner wear, pp. 889, extensively illustrated. An invaluable reference on colonial Australian artists. A fine copy. An invaluable reference on colonial Australian art, with much information not found online.  

  • Permanent revolution : Mike Brown and the Australian avant-garde 1953-1997

    # 46892

    HAESE, Richard

    Permanent revolution : Mike Brown and the Australian avant-garde 1953-1997

    Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2011. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, light sunning to spine, pp. 297, illustrated. As the only Australian artist to have been successfully prosecuted for obscenity, Mike Brown is considered one of Australia’s most controversial figures. This captivating book offers a comprehensive account of this outspoken artist’s life and work. Brown’s imitation realism …

  • Joy Hester and Friends

    # 46891

    HART, Deborah

    Joy Hester and Friends

    Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2001. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, pp. 136, illustrated. Detailed monograph from a major survey exhibition.