Australian Art
Australian Art

Author: Andrew Sayers

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780192842145

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This comprehensive survey uniquely covers both Aboriginal art and that of European Australians, providing a revealing examination of the interaction between the two. Painting, bark art, photography, rock art, sculpture, and the decorative arts are all fully explored to present the rich texture of Australian art traditions. Well-known artists such as Margaret Preston, Rover Thomas, and Sidney Nolan are all discussed, as are the natural history illustrators, Aboriginal draughtsmen, and pastellists, whose work is only now being brought to light by new research. Taking the European colonization of the continent in 1788 as his starting point, Sayers highlights important issues concerning colonial art and women artists in this fascinating new story of Australian art.

An Opening
An Opening

Author: Stephanie Radok

Publisher: Wakefield Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1743050437

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Artist and writer Stephanie Radok possesses a unique international perspective. For over twenty years she has written about and witnessed the emergence of contemporary Aboriginal art and the responses of Australian art to global diasporas. In 'An Opening: Twelve love stories about art', Stephanie Radok takes us on a walk with her dog and finds that it is possible to re-imagine the suburb as the site of epiphanies and attachments. 'Art wants to enter our lives, yet it is a rare art writer who lets it do that. Writing with full personal disclosure, Stephanie Radok lets us in on her secret. Art c.

Fieldwork
Fieldwork

Author: Jason Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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Art created by today's Australian artists comprise s an exciting dimension in the international art scene.

Water Wind Art and Debate
Water Wind Art and Debate

Author: Gavin Birch

Publisher: Sydney University Press

Published: 2007-10-12

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1743329474

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The Australian community has become increasingly concerned about environmental issues, resulting in the Australian government placing a higher priority on global warming and climate change. This unique compilation, Water, Wind, Art and Debate highlights current research across a variety of Humanities and Science disciplines.

Histories of Old Ages
Histories of Old Ages

Author: Rhys M. Jones

Publisher: Pandanus Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13:

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The papers cover an appropriately wide range of topics, but most take up themes that have loomed large in Rhys' research. Perhaps foremost amongst these has been his career-long concern with the age, nature and impact of initial human colonization in Greater Australia.

Words for Country
Words for Country

Author: Tim Bonyhady

Publisher: UNSW Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780868406282

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Stories and phrases can powerfully shape the ways we experience and manage our environment. What languages have been used to characterise Australian landscapes and how have they influenced the way we see and treat our environment? How do stories take root in particular places? How do we find the right words for those parts of the country that matter to us? "Words for Country" answers these questions while exploring the inter-relationship between Australia's landscape and language. Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths have brought together a collection of essays whose subjects range from the Ord River in the far north-west to Antarctica in the south, from the centre to the coast, the prehistoric to the present. Their terrain is environmental and cultural, political and poetic. Words for Country reveals not just how language grows out of the landscape but how words and stories shape the places in which we live.

Building the Collection
Building the Collection

Author: National Gallery of Australia

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13:

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In the short period between the late 1960s, when the National Gallery of Australia project received the go-ahead from government, and its opening in 1982 the national collection of art took shape. Twenty years later, this book of essays tells how the various collections which make up the national collection came into being, and the way they continue to evolve. The authors include the Gallery's three directors and another three, young men when the Gallery opened, who are now gallery directors themselves. Others, close to the circumstances of the beginnings of the collections, provide insightful commentary. The stories included are as varied and full of interest as the collections themselves.

On Paper
On Paper

Author: Kirsty Grant

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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Sixty works on paper from over 20,000 reveal the depth of Australia's most important collection of Australian prints and drawings are dated from 1790 -2001. Every important artist is included in this rich repository and the publication shows the vitality of the artist in this country from the time of its first settlements.

Australian Artists Books
Australian Artists Books

Author: Alex Selenitsch

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13:

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Artists' books are works of art created in book form, or rather forms as there are a myriad of approaches such as pages in a box, scrolls, fold outs and even a Rolodex. They can be one-offs or produced in small editions. This primarily 20th-century practice drew greater interest in the 1960s from artists seeking alternative means to express their concepts and ideas. Australian Artists Books features twenty books. It discusses approaches to artists' books by Ian Burn, Robert Jacks, Bea Maddock, and Mike Parr, features an in-depth analysis of works by an additional sixteen artists, and includes an illustrated checklist. Writer Alex Selenitsch discusses how the books function as narrative rituals and the multiple views offered by these wonderful objects which literally unfold in time, are delightfully tactile, and use diverse techniques.