Macmillan Art Publishing Catalogue 2013

Macmillan Art

Publishing

Complete Catalogue

2013

Contents

Indigenous Australian Art 1

Australian Art & Artists 5

Individual Artists 9

Art Collections & Institutions 29

Art History & Cultural Studies 35

Art & Literature 44

Macmillan Mini Art Books 51

Indigenous Australian Art

AU$89.95 • NZ$105.00 295mm x 208mm

Hb • 320 pages ISBN 9781921394003

December 2008

Aboriginal ArtCreativity and Assimilation

Donna Leslie

Donna Leslie, an artist and art historian, explores Aboriginal art in relation to the effects of the policy of assimilation which prevailed in Australia from the 1930s to the 1970s. Her rigorous and sustained argument, supported by an impressive array of important visual images, reveals an extensive grasp of issues relating not only to the practice and history of art, but also in the fields of anthropology, ethnology and sociology.

This book is a rare presentation of aspects of the history of Aboriginal art from an Aboriginal perspective, and provides fresh ways of understanding Aboriginal experience. While the author acknowledges the challenges of histories relating to assimilation processes associated with the former policy, her message is positive since it encourages a deepening empathy with Aboriginal art, cultures and peoples. This book is a reaffirmation of Aboriginal cultural heritage which addresses the development of Aboriginal art and the ways in which we might better come to know and understand it.

Artists of the Western DesertPortraits 2006-11

Ken McGregor. Portraits by Greg Weight & Ken McGregor

This is essentially a book of portrait studies of more than 80 senior artists of the Western Desert art movement. Each stunning full-page portrait, reproduced in duotone, is accompanied on its opposite page by an example of the artist’s work.

The photographers have made a number of journeys to significant Indigenous communities located west of Alice Springs and thence into the north of Western Australia – these include: Haasts Bluff, Kintore, Papunya, and Yuendumu to name a few. The story of the numerous meetings with the artists, including opportunities to create their portraits and consolidate friendships, is included in the book.

AU$79.95 • NZ$99.95 269mm x 218mmPb • 200 pages ISBN 9781921394645August 2011

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AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00315mm x 251mmHb • 208 pages

ISBN 9781921394294December 2009

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Indigenous Art at the Australian National UniversityEditors: Nancy Sever and Claudette Chubb

With a foreword by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Chubb, and essays by Professor Mick Dodson, Dr Mary Eagle, Professor Howard Morphy, Professor Jon Altman, Dr Luke Taylor, Professor Nicholas Peterson, Dr Alison French and Dr Melinda Hinkson – as well as a report on recent developments by Nancy Sever, Director of the University’s Collection – this book provides a veritable array of scholarly research prompted by Indigenous artworks in the Collection.

Ngurra Kuju Walyja One Country, One PeopleStories from the Canning Stock Route

A co-publication of FORM & Macmillan Art Publishing

During five years of extensive research FORM’s Canning Stock Route Project has derived an extraordinary body of cultural and historical knowledge through a unique collaboration with Aboriginal artists and contributions from ten remote community arts and cultural organisations spanning the Western Desert.

This book – diversely articulated, dynamic with Indigenous voices, scholarly, insightful, visually breathtaking and comprised entirely of previously unpublished material – will be richly rewarding for all who wish to deepen their knowledge of the Country and its people. These may include lovers of contemporary Aboriginal art, history, culture, cartography, geography, archaeology, anthropology and 4WD adventure.

AU$120.00 • NZ$140.00295mm x 244mmHb • 400 pagesISBN 9781921394676October 2011

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AU$125.00 • NZ$165.00300mm x 240mm

Hb • 368 pagesISBN 9781921394744

November 2012

Power + ColourNew Painting from the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art

Jane Raffan

The enthralling power and colour of Aboriginal painting of Tjukurpa (law) and country has brought Aboriginal art to the forefront of contemporary art practice in Australia. Aboriginal art has also played an important role in the formulation of Indigenous Land Rights debates and Native title jurisprudence. 2012 marks the twentieth anniversary of the High Court of Australia’s decision in Mabo, which overturned the British doctrine of terra nullius (empty land) - the false promise on which the colony was founded - and forever changed the legal landscape for Indigenous rights.

The thesis of Power + Colour: New Painting from the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art charts the history of Aboriginal art’s impact on Australian law, and explores the inextricable nexus of Aboriginal law and sense of self - an entirety that is inseparable from country. And, of course, Power + Colour is about strikingly beautiful contemporary paintings. Showcasing 129 works of art by 76 artists working across more than 25 communities nation-wide, this resplendent book exemplifies the diversity of expression within Aboriginal contemporary painting, and reveals, in nuance and detail, the breadth and depth of Aboriginal connectedness to country.

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AU$79.95 • NZ$99.95300mm x 244mm

Pb • 448 pagesISBN 9781921394898

March 2012

Hb • AU$110.00 • NZ$130.00ISBN 9781921394461

Tjanpi Desert WeaversCompiled by Penny Watson for the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council. Preface by Professor Marcia Langton

This totally heart-warming, extravagantly illustrated book traces the history of a wonderful desert art movement that has been developed by hundreds of Indigenous women form the Northern Territory and the northern regions of Western and South Australia. These women have discovered the joy of weaving the abundant grasses of their Country, first into baskets and then into extraordinary art works including the now famous Tjanpi Toyota, or the giant perentie (goanna) exhibited at Manchester Airport in the UK.

The majority of the text, carefully compiled by Penny Watson, is direct quotations from the women, some translated from Indigenous languages.

This book will totally enhance those who wish to learn of the thoughts and creative ambitions of these wonderful women.

Yannima Pikarli Tommy WatsonKen McGregor and Marie Geissler, with French translation by Flore Gregorini

This large and sumptuously illustrated monograph presents the spectacular painting of a master colourist – Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson. A Pitjantjatjana elder who maintains his home and studio in Alice Springs, he still travels extensively across his ‘Country’ to fulfil traditional obligations. Watsons ‘Dreamtime’ stories, inherited from his family, relate to sites and geographical features within his ‘Country’ and all his paintings are of these designated places. While no two paintings are alike, the characteristics of each place can be recognised. Watson is now regarded as a major figure within the contemporary Indigenous art movement and his work is known overseas by virtue of his designs for ceiling panels in France’s Museé du quai Branly. An exhibition of his extraordinary abstract paintings will soon be held in Paris and, for this reason, the book contains a French translation of the text.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00304mm x 249mmHb • 208 pagesISBN 9781921394430February 2011colour throughout

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Australian Art & Artists

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00320mm x 250mm

Hb • 256 pagesISBN 9781921394539

March 2012

Contemporary Australian Drawing 1Janet McKenzie: with contributions by Irene Barberis and Christopher Heathcote

Scotland-based Dr Janet McKenzie, long-term deputy editor of the renowned art journal Studio International, first published on Australian drawing with Macmillan back in 1986. Twenty-one years later she met Dr Irene Barberis, an Australian artist who was in the UK representing ‘Metasenta’, an international arts research organisation focused on drawing and based at Melbourne’s RMIT University. Dr Christopher Heathcote’s contribution also focuses on the teaching of drawing in Australia.

Janet McKenzie visited Australia in 2008 to update her research and exercise a global perspective on the current state of drawing in this country. Her book introduces works by 78 selected artists from across the country. They include prominent figures such as Peter Booth, Allan Mitelman, John Olsen, Mirka Mora, Mike Parr, Kevin Lincoln, Jenny Watson, Jan Senbergs and Wendy Stavrianos, among many others.

Recognition of the importance of drawing has sometimes wavered in recent times, but most artists would agree that drawing, in whatever medium and however it is executed, is an essential process in the development of ideas leading to creative outcomes. Often, as art history suggests and this book demonstrates, drawing can be an art in and of itself.

This timely account of the art of drawing in Australia is lavishly illustrated and will have wide appeal.

Encounters with Australian Modern ArtEditor: Maudie Palmer. Text: Christopher Heathcote, Patrick McCaughey and Sarah Thomas

Encounters with Australian Modern Art represents a vital milestone in the presentation of Australian art to a world-wide readership. It is published in French and English, and lavishly illustrated with more than 200 iconic images, many drawn from the collection of the TarraWarra museum of Art. Maudie Palmer, Director of the Museum and Editor of the book, devised its concept and selected the authors. They, like herself and the Besen’s, have witnessed first-hand the development of Australian Modernism during the second half of the twentieth century when the careers of its leading artist practitioners were firmly established. During those decades many of these became acknowledged national identites - some enjoying overseas acclaim.

The authors - Christopher Heathcote, Patrick McCaughey and Sarah Thomas - have each adopted a unique approach to their text, bringing fresh visions to our understanding of images that may sometimes look strange to us and the rest of the world. Most importantly, the diversity and content of the texts is firmly crystallised by enjoying the art works, all reproduced to the highest standards by Hermann, the volume’s Parisian publisher. AU$89.95 • NZ$106.00

287mm x 231mmHb • 274 pagesISBN 9781921394218November 2008colour throughout

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AU$110.00 • NZ$135.00304mm x 248mm

Hb • 320 pagesISBN 9781921394416

December 2012

Hot SpringsThe Northern Territory and Contemporary Australian Artists

Daena Murray, with introduction by Nicolas Rothwell.

Dr. Daena Murray, former and now Emeritus Curator of the Museum and Art Gallery of The Northern Territory, has collected together an extraordinary range of contemporary artworks with qualities that clearly identify them with the Northern Territory.

Created by both indigenous and non-indigenous artists resident and active in the Northern Territory, these artworks share characteristics that include references and responses to the land and its unique colours and geographic formations; to the diverse culture and cultural changes that have occurred; to specialist local developments in various art forms such as printmaking, woven constructions in natural materials, site specific installation art and sculpture; and to Darwinian origins.

Daena Murray’s richly detailed and well informed text, with introduction by Nicolas Rothwell, appears alongside the chosen artworks which are beautifully reproduced in this idiosyncratic publication which addresses the influences a particular region can have on its art and artists.

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ISBN 9781921394102December 2010

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LookContemporary Australian Photography since 1980

Anne Marsh

Look! represents over 150 artists with more than 400 colour plates. The book represents many years of close research by its author who is recognised for her work in this field, and for several earlier publications including The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire published by Macmillan in 2003. A series of scholarly essays accompany the extraordinary array of reproductions which bring to the viewer what must be one of the most comprehensive collections of Australian photographic art ever compiled.

With the ever-expanding inclusion of photography and photographic components within the most exciting current trends in contemporary art, this major publication will be essential reading for those who wish to grasp the essence of art now. It also demonstrates the contribution of technologies in the area of photography and related arts. The transformation of possibilities has been rapid and a vital component of the diversity that characterises current art-making.

ROAR Re-viewed30 Years On

Denise Morgan, with an introduction by Sasha Grishin

Melbourne’s ROAR group of young artists emerged in the early 1980s as a rebellion against many of the mores of the then art world. They created wild and colourful paintings, drank beer instead of wine and set up studios and an exhibition space in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Now, thirty years later, the art of Wayne Eager, Sarah Faulkner, Andrew and Peter Ferguson, Pasquale Giardino, Karan Hayman, Ann Howie, Mark Howson, David Larwill, Michael Nicholls, Jill Noble, Mark Schaller and Judi Singleton has been both re-viewed and re-commissioned for an extraordinary book.

This huge and colourful volume is as inventive in its production values as this group’s approach to art deserves. It also contains unique photographic spreads of the artists working in their studios. This exciting book will be a revelation to those who know of ROAR, and an introduction to those who missed the generation of the movement thirty years ago.

AU$150.00 • NZ$180.00310mm x 300mmHb • 360 pagesISBN 9781921394690June 2012

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AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00343mm x 251mm

Hb • 224 pagesISBN 9781876832773

October 2006

Unfinished JourneyEdited by Ken McGregor

This book documents recent journeys to far-flung destinations throughout the world by thirteen Australian artists charged with the mission of recording their experiences in their own unique artistic terms. Each artist contributes ten or more images of the art works they subsequently created. This is a big exciting book which offers a rich array of images, travel tales and telling insights into the minds of artists as they create images based on travel impressions.

UntitledPortraits of Australian Artists

Photographer Sonia Payes, and more than 50 authors

This huge, richly illustrated publication provides sensitive, rare and enticing insights into the lives, works and unique studio environments of 60 significant artists. As artist Sonia Payes’ latest publication, it was timed to coincide with the 2007 Venice Biennale in which several of the book’s artists have represented Australia. It was received with enthusiasm in Venice and in London at the time, and has since gone into its second printing.

Two years in their compilation, and requiring travel across Australia and overseas, around 700 images offer outstanding visual descriptions of how and where individual Australian artists live and what fires their imagination. The 400 spectacular pages are introduced by art critic and academic, Professor Ted Snell, and expertly designed by Simon Strong. Commentary on each artist is provided by a prominent author, of whom more than fifty have participated.

AU$150.00 • NZ$180.00315mm x 310mmHb • 400 pagesISBN 9781876832285July 2007

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Individual Artists

AU$99.95 • NZ$125.00350mm x 255mm

Hb • 176 pagesISBN 9781876832155

December 2004colour-illustrated throughout

Andrew SibleyAn Epic of the Everyman

David Thomas, with an introduction by Helen Elliott

This richly detailed and colourfully-illustrated book explores, via a series of key themes, the work of Melbourne artist Andrew Sibley. A self-confessed obsessive with demonic energy and fierce determination to ‘live his art’, Sibley presents his ‘family’ of contemporary ‘everyman’ and ‘everywoman’, now more light-hearted than they once were in his earlier work. As Helen Elliott remarks: ‘There is every possibility of happiness in the world, the music plays, the people dance, the moon sparkles, the lovers love’. But, as David Thomas’s text reveals, in Sibley’s images not all is ever quite what is seems - human beings are a strange crowd, but there is little they can conceal from the artist with his insight into the human condition.

The text explores Sibley’s recent themes such as ‘Beautiful Human Zoo’ with it’s miriad of foibles, ‘Saint Down Under’ - people like lolly-pop ladies and ‘Madonnas’ of the rotary-hoist - and ‘The Artist in Love’, the latter presented via Sibley’s quirky visual interpretations of popular songs. His many portraits entered the Archibald Prize and the more recent landscape paintings are also treated in sections of the book. Nor is the political context neglected here. Altogether, a very thought provoking monograph on an artist who has been surprising us for many decades.

Anthony PryorSculpture & Drawings, 1974 - 1991

Jenny Zimmer et al.

This is the story of the remarkable achievements of a gifted young sculptor who did not live to see his last major work, the 19-metre high sculpture The Legend, installed at the entrance to the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Multi-authored, the book offers essays on the various aspects of his career. Writers include Joanna Capon, Judith Trimble, Daryl Jackson and others. The more than 200 photographs, including photographic essays by John Gollings and Viki Petherbridge, cover almost the complete oeuvre, with the sculptures photographed in Pryor’s studio, in art galleries and the public spaces where they are installed. Many are captured from several angles.

Anthony Pryor’s life and works provide a role model for young people with ambitions in the creative arts.

AU$69.95 • NZ$99.95295mm x 244mmPb • 224 pagesISBN 9780958574334December 1999colour throughout • copiously illustrated=

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ISBN 9781921394249September 2009

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Arnold ShorePioneer Modernist

Rob Haysom

Nearly every history of Australian modern art, and monographs dedicated to artists of the period, will refer to the writings of Arnold Shore. Deakin University academic, Rob Haysom, explores the background of the artist, the difficulties of his time, and the development of modernist ideas as new European trends gradually infiltrated the local scene. Shore’s flower studies and paintings of the Australian bush – particularly around Mt. Macedon – are rich in texture and exuberant in the application of paint to canvas.

Art and SoulFlossie Peitsch

Contributions by Cresside Collette, Rosemary Crumlin, Megan Evans, Tony Fox, Peter Haffenden, Linda Maqueen, Mark Minchinton, Penny Mulvey, Patrick Negri, Neal Nuske, Thomas Peitsch, Claire Rankin, Maureen Ryan, Andrew Sibley, Russell Storer, Mike Stubbs and Val Webb

Canadian-born and now New South Wales-based, Flossie Peitsch is both a noted visual artist and a mother of six. She is also an active community artist who has involved her family and hundreds of others in major art projects relating to Australia’s history and current ways of life. Using performance and installation art techniques, as well as traditional painting and drawing - and also women’s crafts of embroidery, tapestry and knitting - Flossie loses few opportunitites to engage the imagination and creativity of those involved in the projects and also those who witness them.

This is an intriguing and richly illustrated book focused on an extraordinarily vibrant and effective Australian artist who operates slightly outside the mainsteam.

AU$89.95 • NZ$100.00320mm x 252mmHb • 128 pagesISBN 9781876832711December 2006

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Individual Artists

AU$99.95 • NZ$110.00343mm x 251mm

Hb • 160 pagesISBN 9781876832599

December 2005colour throughout

The Art of Grahame KingSasha Grishin with contributions by Roger Butler, Libby Bright, Caroline Field, Martin King, Anne Virgo and Jenny Zimmer

Grahame King’s life as an artist began with his mastery of the new art of colour reproduction as a photolithographic colour etcher in Melbourne in the 1930s. At the same time, study at the National Gallery Art School with George Bell assisted his development as a painter. After war service and travels abroad, King returned to Melbourne with his wife, the sculptor Inge King. The two held a number of joint exhibitions of paintings and sculptures in Australia throughout the 1950s and then, from c.1962 Grahame King turned his attention, increasingly, towards the art of lithography becoming a master in this field of printmaking. He has also devoted himself to promoting the art of lithography and printmaking generally through the Print Council of Australia. He is often called Australia’s ‘patron saint of printmaking’.

The book examines his seven decades working as an artist in Melbourne and is lavishly illustrated with colour reproductions throughout.

The Art of Roger KempChristopher Heathcote

The most publicly accessible art of the late Roger Kemp is perhaps those magnificent tapestries that hang in the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria on St. Kilda Road. This major figure of Australia’s post-war art world is the subject of Christopher Heathcote’s latest book. Of Kemp, he writes: ‘Throughout his adult life Roger Kemp was fascinated by weighty questions: Why do we exist? What is mankind’s relationship with Nature? Is there a cosmic order at play beyond physical things? He wanted to find value and meaning in the world, so he sifted through ideas from poetry, philosophy, science and religion, trying to make a coherent shape out of them.’ And so he developed his distinctive abstract paintings and a unique mode of thought which he regularly debated in memorable conversations with many people in the decades before he died. This revealing and richly illustrated biography and art monograph is long overdue.


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Individual Artists

AU$89.95 • NZ$110.00259mm x 254mm

Hb • 144 pagesISBN 9781876832803

December 2004colour-illustrated throughout

Arthur Boyd & Saint Francis of AssisiMargaret Pont, with a preface by Padre Vincenzo Coli, an introduction by Margaret Manion and photographs by Christine Ramsay and others

Arthur Boyd’s St. Francis of Assisi works have never been published in their entirety. This book, authored by Melbourne art historian Margaret Pont, is the first to grapple in a significant way with the importance of this hitherto under-examined theme in Arthur Boyd’s oeuvre.

Pont argues that Arthur Boyd’s attitudes towards his father, the potter and family patriarch Merric Boyd, may have drawn him to the Franciscan story. Boyd’s passionate portrayal of episodes from St. Francis’ life in three series - pastels, lithographs and tapestries - indicate the extreme importance of this subject matter to Boyd during his early years away from Australia. The book is richly illustrated with the St. Francis pastels shown at Australian Galleries, Melbourne, in 1965. The lithographs were produced in London and the huge tapestries, made in Portugal, are now in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Australia FelixLandscapes by Jeffrey Makin

With an essay by Christopher Heathcote

This spectacular book traces the career of an inveterate landscape artist who takes pride in continuing a specific painting tradition that dates from Chinese antiquity and sixteenth century Europe before its introduction to Australia. He paints plein air, setting up his easel in favoured locations - particularly near waterfalls or from vantage points that offer views of mountain ranges or fertile valleys. His aim is to evoke in the painting a sense of genius loci, or spirit of place. In doing so, he proudly offers the viewer landscape vistas and images of unique geographic features that Australians and tourists to this country will want to visit.

Dr Christopher Heathcote’s scholarly essay provides a history of landscape painting and positions the artist within it.

AU$99.95 • NZ$125.00345mm x 250mmHb • 172 pagesISBN 9781876832964February 2002richly illustrated with more than 160 colour plates

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Individual Artists

AU$49.95 • NZ$69.95221mm x 218mm

Hb • 128 pagesISBN 9781876832704

October 2007

Bays and BeachesPort Phillip and Westernport Bays

Ronald Millar and Brian Kewley

Melbourne artist Brian Kewley was born in 1933 about 100 metres from Hampton’s bayside beach. He has lived, sailed, fished and painted there all his life. The subjects of his paintings include Elwood, Point Ormond, St. Kilda and Port Melbourne, for it is these locations that have inspired his art. Many are painted on the spot in an attempt to capture the light, movement and dazzle of the water. Other subjects, like Brighton Beach, have been painted from an aerial perspective - some, like the Sandringham Yacht Club, from the roof of his house. His subjects later extended to the Peninsula - as far as Flinders - and to the city of Melbourne which he painted from his office high up in 101 Collins Street.

A veteran of more than 22 solo exhibitions since 1965, Brian Kewley’s paintings evoke immense pleasure while they record the changes that Melbourne has undergone over past years. The book has more than 100 colour reproductions. Author Ronald Millar, has written: ‘Port Phillip is not just a useful subject for him; he’s lived it. For him, it’s the local equivalent of Italy’s La Divine Costiera: The Heavenly Coast.’

Bracelet ‘Java la Grande’Robert Baines

In 2005, Robert Baines, an acclaimed Australian goldsmith known worldwide for his fine artistry - often incorporating ancient goldworking techniques - made an extraordinary gold bracelet that was exhibited in Lisbon’s Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga on the occasion of an international symposium. This unusual book, in some ways a fiction - and journey of the imagination as alluring as the bracelet itself - tells the story of the artefact’s imaginary origins to its complex technical fabrication. Above all, the book demonstrates the importance of wit and playfulness within the creative art process.


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Individual Artists

AU$130.00 • NZ$160.00333mm x 264mm

Hb • 348 pagesISBN 9781921394379

April 2010colour throughout

Brett WhiteleyA Sensual Line, 1957 - 67

Kathie Sutherland

Kathie Sutherland’s scrupulously researched and expertly written account of Brett Whiteley’s formative decade, 1957 – 67, is essential reading for all who wish to better understand this charismatic artist and the development of his career. This beautifully designed and sumptuously illustrated volume, tempting to both eye and mind, is an exemplary tribute to this legendary Australian artist who died in 1992 after a creative life lived to the full.

Sutherland’s study focuses on the early abstract works produced in Sydney, and then extends to a comprehensive account of the phenomenal success that followed with Whiteley’s transition to figuration after bursting onto the London art scene and creating his ‘Bathroom’ and ‘Christie’ series. She explains: ‘His professional success during this period was nothing short of meteoric. Although completely unknown when he arrived in the UK in late 1960, in less than two years – by March 1962 – this brash young artist could boast of representation in the Tate, Victoria and Albert and British Contemporary Art collections and, by 1964, in other national collections from Wellington to Washington.’

The author has drawn on Whiteley’s republished notebooks and all available sources to create a comprehensive catalogue raisonné of paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures created during these years and now scattered throughout the world. She makes a powerful case for the undeniable fact that for Whiteley: ‘The catalyst for change and progression was expatriation.’

Bruno LetiThe Matrix

Bruno Leti; Sasha Grishin; Anne Kirker; Chris Wallace-Crabbe; and Alan Loney

As Professor Sasha Grishin writes, ‘The artist, the print and the matrix sounds more like a title for a Peter Greenaway film than a title for an essay on the art of Bruno Leti.’ In printmaking, the artform along with painting, photography and the making of artists’ books that has occupied Bruno Leti for the last half century, the matrix is the object that carries the image the artist has made with the intention of making an impression on a piece of paper when it is run through a press at high pressure. It might be a block of wood, a piece of linoleum, a slab of glass or a metal plate. The British Museum has made a practice of collecting not only famous artists’ prints, but also the matrices from which they were made. Bruno Leti has a studio full of old matrices, beautiful objects in themselves, even if they are no longer useful after a print has been editioned. This book celebrates the ‘Matrix’, with extraordinary photographs and illuminating texts.

AU$89.95 • NZ$120.00300mm x 254mmHb • 148 pagesISBN 9781921394300December 2010colour throughout

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AU$69.95 • NZ$89.95290mm x 241mm

Pb • 192 pagesISBN 9781921394713

November 2011

Bruno LetiPortrait of a Printmaker

Sasha Grishin

Bruno Leti is well known as a painter and creator of magnificent limited edition artists’ books, but is perhaps best known for his printmaking which encompasses a full range of techniques including etchings, collagraphs, woodcuts and lithographs – and, most especially, his magnificent monotypes.

Professor Sasha Grishin’s text captures the special qualities and themes of Leti’s prints as he constructs a profoundly sensitive ‘word portrait’ of an individual who has dedicated five decades to the art of printmaking.

Captured in TimeJourneys with My Camera

Christine Wu Ramsay

This book, offering two hundred and fifty beautiful photographic studies, spans the years 1986 - 2006. Each image captures a special moment at a certain place in Australasia, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Each image is unique and can never be re-captured.

Christine Wu Ramsay’s excursion into photography began when she established Raya Gallery in Melbourne – one of the first to exhibit the works of modern artists from the Asian region. With an eye for detail and atmosphere, she brings a unique sensibility to her captured moments, producing photographs that stir memories in anyone who has travelled the world and creating a desire to travel in those who have not yet done so. The photographs in this book provide pure visual pleasure, for they are works of art created by an astute observer of humanity’s cultural achievements.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00269mm x 251mmHb • 304 pagesISBN 9781921394270March 2010colour throughout

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Individual Artists

AU$165.00 • NZ$206.00250mm x 1000mm

Hb • 24 pagesISBN 9781876832551

January 2003large pages, opening out to almost a metre

cloth-bound, gold-blocked with slip casespecial edition

A Communion to the TreesRobert Preston, with an introduction by Jenny Zimmer

This collector’s edition limited to 100 copies reproduces a unique illuminated manuscript created in Australia by Townsville-based artist, Robert Preston. The text, A Communion to the Trees, is drawn from the Gospels of the Essenes, a sect living in Palestine in Biblical times. Robert Preston draws inspiration from the vegetation of tropical north Queensland in his finely worked illuminations. This beautiful edition, produced to the highest quality, would make an unusual and very opulent gift or presentation to mark a special occasion.

ConformSaskia Folk, young Melbourne-based photographer

City walls and public places provide ready-made surfaces for works by today’s migratory population of graffiti and stencil artists. They travel the world, leaving their usually anonymous messages for people to contemplate and consider in forming their understanding of the world in which we now live. This social commentary is an innovative art-form. Often it captures the spectator’s imagination by means of its off-beat humour. It is subversive, and it is free. Saskia Folk has photographed it wherever she has found it - on walls, footpaths, street signs and car bodies. Her arrangement of the book’s pages is both witty and engaging - and a work of art in itself.

AU$34.95 • NZ$44.95206mm x 152mmPb • 144 pagesISBN 9781876832681August 2004colour throughout

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AU$110.00 • NZ$135.00315mm x 302mm

Hb • 192 pagesISBN 9781921394225

June 2009

Dean BowenArgy-Bargy

Sheridan Palmer

Dean Bowen is a prominent Melbourne painter, sculptor and printmaker who is widely represented in major Australian and international collections. An artist with diverse talents, he produces whimsical, playful and at times humorous work. Dr Sheridan Palmer explores the recurrent themes found across the entire oeuvre and highlights Bowen’s extensive studio practice in a variety of media and techniques. The colourful, large format reproductions in this monograph delight the eye and amuse the mind providing guaranteed visual enjoyment.

Di BrescianiCompositions in Colour

Di Bresciani is well known in Australia and overseas as an artist, musician and educator.Contributors include Pam Kershaw, Piers Lane, Wanda Naeff, Maria Prendergast, Margaret Rutter, Berek Segan, Sue Smith, Frances Thomson, and David Williamson.

The paintings of Di Bresciani, artist and musician, are currently exhibited at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in Townsville to coincide with the renowned Australian Festival of Chamber Music.

Texts in this multiauthored, richly colour illustrated publication focus on relationships between music and art and colour and sound. The paintings reflect strong technical and personal development towards an individual style largely based on the exploration of colour and its perception - whether it be in music or art.

AU$99.95 • NZ$130.00308mm x 246mmHb • 176 pagesISBN 9781921394959August 2012

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ISBN 9781876832902November 2002

150 colour reproductions • 130 b&w phtoos and drawings

Earth to Sky: The Art of Victor MajznerPaintings, Drawings, Prints, 1966 - 2002

Leigh Astbury is a Senior Lecturer and teaches Art history in the School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies at Monash University

Victor Majzner arrived in Australia in 1959 as a Jewish refugee from Russia. His career as a painter accelerated during the 1980s when, as a migrant seeking identity, he began to travel inland and study the antiquity of the ancient continent as well as forming close bonds with several important Aboriginal artists from the Warmun Community in the Northern Territory. His spectacular and unconventional paintings deal with issues of identity and, over recent years, with his developing sense of his Jewish heritage. Some paintings, more ‘surreal’ than his Australian landscapes, emerged from his late 1990s travels to the Negev Desert in Israel.

The First VinesForty-Three Wood Engravings

Tate Adams, with a foreword by John Olsen and an introduction by Len Evans

Tate Adams produced the 43 wood-engravings of pioneering Australian wineries over the six years leading up to the nation’s bicentenary celebrations in 1988. Each winery would have been one hundred or more years old at that time. Today, these exquisite wood engravings only exist in proof editions held at the State Library of Queensland. This, their first publication for a wider readership, is a joint initiative of the State Library of Queensland and Macmillan Art Publishing.

Tate Adams’ unique interpretation of each of these historic wineries and their surrounding vineyards, executed in the age-old technique of wood-engraving, is sure to delight and intrigue wine-lovers throughout the country.

AU$79.95 • NZ$89.95282mm x 234mmHb • 192 pagesISBN 9781876832292November 2006

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ISBN 9781876832643May 2007

Fred Cress: WhispersDrawings 1958 - 2007

Ken McGregor

Fred Cress, who died in 2009, was a Sydney artist who divided his time between Australia and rural France, where he maintained a second studio. He was a keen student of human nature. While his quizzical gaze detects the subjects - those who flirt, chase, dance, banquet and otherwise engage in the whole gamut of human affairs - his drawing skills, honed over five decades, provided the means of recording them on paper or canvas.

This book is about drawing, and about the artist’s use of drawing to capture multiple nuances of human behaviour. Cress was an Australian artist who subscribed to the tradition of artists like Rembrandt and Goya who sought to express aspects of the human condition as they saw it in their times. The more than 900 drawings reproduced in this book are arranged in series which date from the 1950s to the present.

George JohnsonWorld View

Christopher Heathcote et al.

George Johnson arrived in Australia from New Zealand in 1952 and in 1956 held his first exhibition of abstract painting in Melbourne. The book marks the artist’s 80th birthday and fifty years of singular dedication to philosophically-based abstract imagery. His work is uniquely consistent - rarely straying from compositions based on primary shapes and a limited range of colour preferences, but demostrating how these minimal means can, in combination, serve as surrogates for complex ideas. Additional contributors to the text include the artist’s brother, New Zealand poet Louis Johnson; Melbourne critic, the late Gary Catalano; and Melbourne philosopher, Patrick Hutchings.


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100 colour reproductions 7 duotones, 48 b&w drawings

Graham FransellaFigures & Landscapes

Jenny Zimmer et al

British-born Graham Fransella has a rapidly growing reputation in Australia as a printmaker and painter whose idiosyncratic abstract compositions capture many aspects of the great outback with which viewers identify immediately. Reproductions from his sketchbooks, in which he reveals his exceptional ability as an observer of the human form, are a special feature of the book. It also includes interpretive essays by well-known Australian art critics Susan McCulloch and Peter Timms.

Great Music MakersLouis Kahan, with an introduction by Michael Shmith and an essay by Narelle Symes

‘Photography is excellent at providing evidence of the physical side of [musical] interpretation … however, to really portray the spirit of the musician, it takes an artist of fine talent, great experience and with feelings sympathetic to his subjects and their subjects.’ And the late Louis Kahan was such an artist.

Not many Australian artists could boast of designing clothes for Josephine Baker and Colette in Paris in the 1920s or having served in the French Foreign Legion. Austrian-born, and more than 50 years in Australia, Kahan sketched and painted musicians over most of this time. Toscanini sketched in Paris 1928; Witold Malcuzynski in Perth in 1948; the young Pavarotti here in 1965; the conductors Sirs Adrian Boult and Malcolm Sargent and Igor Stravinsky - they are all there and many more. The more than 80 portraits of musicians are held in the collection of the Victorian Arts Centre for local and international visitors to see and appreciate. This book records them for a worldwide audience.

AU$69.95 • NZ$74.95292mm x 191mmPb • 144 pagesISBN 9781876832889November 2005

Hb • AU$89.95 • NZ$100.00ISBN 9781876832896

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In Praise of LandscapeThe Art of John Borrack

Lucy Grace Ellem

This magnificent book, authored by Lucy Ellem, outlines the life and career of a major proponent of the art of watercolour. John Borrack is a significant Australian landscape artist who has travelled the country recording its extraordinary land forms. The more than 270 pages are fully colour illustrated with hundreds of reproductions.

John Borrack, born in 1933 and a renowned Australian landscape painter whose career spans more than 50 years, continues to paint full-time in his studio north of Melbourne where the once rural landscape of the Plenty Valley is being overtaken by suburban development.

His landscapes, mainly executed in water colour and lavishly reproduced in this book record the beauty of this region and then extend to many remote areas of the continent – particularly in the north – where extraordinary land formations range from the ‘picturesque’ to the ‘sublime’. He says, “lonely corners of Australia inspire an overwhelming sensation of space and distance. These places to which I am constantly drawn provide me with both a spiritual experience and the starting points for paintings.”

Author, Lucy Ellem, an art historian who studied at The University of Melbourne before undertaking post-graduate research at Yale and then lecturing at La Trobe University, provides an eloquent account of the artist’s career, connecting his paintings with the longer tradition of landscape painting – and in particular, in watercolours.

An Interpretation of This TitleNietzsche, Darwin and the Paradox of Content (Volume 1)

Waiting For - (Texts for Nothing)Samuel Beckett, in Play (Volume 2)

Joseph Kosuth

This two-volume set documents installations by acclaimed American artist Joseph Kosuth which have been commissioned by Juliana Engberg of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne, Australia. The first was shown in the Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburg in 2009 and later at Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, while the second was shown at ACCA, Melbourne, in the summer of 2010-2011.

Joseph Kosuth’s work, executed principally in text formed of neon lighting, first appeared in the 1960s and has consistently explored the role of language and its meanings in art. His forty years enquiry has led to commissions and publications throughout Europe, the Americas, and Asia – including five Documenta(s) and six Venice Biennale(s). He lives in Rome and new York City.

The two volumes contain texts by Joseph Kosuth, Jualan Engberg of ACCA, and Pat Fisher from the Talbot Rice Gallery as well as significant essays by John Welchman, noted Art historian and Professor of Modern History at the University of California, San Diego, and Ronald Jones, an artist and critic who leads the Experience Design Group at Konstfack University College in Stockholm.The photography of the installations is stunning.

AU$79.95 • NZ$99.95218mm x 215mmHb • 184 pagesISBN 9781921394553October 2011case bound with belly-band • two volume set

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AU$99.95 • NZ$130.00310mm x 245mm

Hb • 288 pagesISBN 9781921394843

November 2012

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AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00302mm x 284mm

Hb • 196 pagesISBN 9781876832650

May 2005

Jason BenjaminWhat Binds Us

Jack Marx

Jason Benjamin is a young Australian painter whose career as an artist began in the US after studies at the Pratt Institute in New York. Since then, from his Sydney base, he has exhibited widely throughout Australia and has been a regular contributor to the Archibald Prize. His international career began in 2007 with an exhibition in Rome. Benjamin’s subjects are drawn from those around him and the environment in which he dwells. While his paintings are loaded with atmosphere and are evocative of the emotions felt in the presence of his subjects, they conform to long-held traditions in western art. They are - in the final instance - landscapes, still-lifes and portraits. These are moody paintings, aptly titled and certain to draw empathetic responses from those who view them.

John Olsen: Teeming with LifeHis Complete Graphics 1955-2011 Second Edition

Ken McGregor and Jeffrey Makin

After an extensive search to locate any of John Olsen’s prints that may be missing from the first edition of this popular book, we are proud to announce a second edition which includes all of the artist’s etchings made since 2005 when this book was last published.

The recent etchings retain all the verve and joie de vivre that is associated with John Olsen’s art in whatever medium. They include new frogs and a series entitled ‘Life Class’, with his witty interpretations of artists ‘drawing from the model’. Other recent works include his fabulous version of ‘Humpty Dumpty’.


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ISBN 9781921394201December 2008

colour throughout

Les KossatzThe Art of Existence

Introduced by Paul Guest, with essays by Darryl Jacskon, Ronald Millar, James Mollison and Zara Stanhope, and a biography by Diana Gribble

Les Kossatz’s career as an exhibiting artist can be traced back to as early as 1963. As a sculptor, painter, printmaker, glass-artist and creator of extraordinary ideas and events, Les Kossatz has occupied a unique position within Australia’s art world for more than 40 years.

Early recognition of his striking paintings of flags and other Pop Art images was followed in the 1970s by his remarkable sculptures of sheep caught in peculiar predicaments that echoed aspects of the universal human condition. He then went on to complete major sculpture commissions such as The Eternal Flame at the War Memorial in Canberra. He also contributed to the development of Australian sculpture through his teaching roles at RMIT and Monash Universities.

This significant, richly illustrated monograph was published to coincide with a major retrospective of the artist’s work curated by Zara Stanhope for Heide Museum of Modern Art in November 2008. A particularly interesting feature of the book is the illustrated biography compiled by Diana Gribble. It completes an all-together intriguing account of an artist’s journey to this point in time.

Metonymy in Contemporary ArtA New Paradigm

Denise Green is a New York-based Australian artist

Denise Green witnessed the September 11 attack on New York’s World Trade Center from the window of her studio in Barick Street. Transfixed, she continued to paint. Applying pigment to canvas seemed to her the only way to function in the surreal context of this extraordinary and unthinkable event.

Denise Green traces her experience of living and working as an artist in New York for more than three decades. Arriving there in the 1970s, she developed new aesthetic attitudes in the company of important American artists - some of whom, including Alex Katz, Dorothea Rockburne, Frank Stella and Robert Motherwell, she interviews for the book. However, she attributes her overall development as an artist to a much wider spectrum of experience including her travels in India and her appreciation of the arts of Aboriginal Australia. This book relates her unique experience of an ex-patriot artist whose paintings are now exhibited internationally.

AU$79.95 • NZ$125.00239mm x 203mmHb • 140 pagesISBN 9781876832216July 2005fully colour-illustrated throughout

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AU$79.95 • NZ$100.00277mm x 249mm

Hb • 148 pages ISBN 9781876832063

December 2000colour throughout with spectacular fold-out pages

and translucencies

Revelation/ApocalypseAnna Clabburn, Michelle Brown et al

This unusual book - rich in colours, textures and symbolism - serves as a memento of the changing millennium. Based on The Book of Revelation, it traces a 4-year project by Melbourne-based artist Irene Barberis. She studied ancient Apocalypses in famous manuscript collections in London and Paris, then created her own contemporary version, using abstract and figurative images and new materials and techniques. It includes fold-out pages and images printed on tracing-paper.

The book is introduced by Dr Michelle Brown, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Library, London. The stunning photographs of the artworks and the artist’s studio are by Garry Sommerfeld.

Rhythms of LifeThe Art of Andrew Rogers

Ken Scarlett et al

A street corner in Vienna, Machupicchu in the Andes, the Arava Desert, a New Jersey sculpture park, the Southbank of the Yarra, and Californian and Mornington Peninsula vineyards - just a few locations that offer testimony to Andrew Rogers’ sculptural activity over the past decades.

This lavishly illustrated publication authored by Ken Scarlett, one of Australia’s leading sculpture critics, surveys the entire range and production of Rogers’ bronze sculptures and monumental stone geoglyphs. Additional contributions from writers including Edmund Capon, Igor Aronov, Idit Porat, Edmund P. Pillsbury, Kathryn Walt Hall and Peter Marboe, and brief quotations from several critics, extend the commentary on key aspects of Rogers’ practice - such as the organic principles on which most of his sculptural forms are based and the significance of his stone-built desert geoglyphs.

The book is also a tribute to the many colleagues, with their vast range of skills, who have assisted in so many ways with the production, photography and installation of the sculptures. Others have generously supported their creation and placement. For this reason the book contains numerous photographs of foundry and installation activities and of some of the people who have contributed to Rogers’ sculptural journey. AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00

343mm x 251mmHb • 288 pagesISBN 9781876832612May 2003colour throughout • more than 400 images

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AU$89.95 • NZ$99.00345mm x 251mm

Hb • 48 pagesISBN 9781876832261

August 2004fold-out pages • colour & b&w throughout

bookplate signed by the artist

Robert JacksHis Bloomsday Book

Art works by Australian artist Robert Jacks, edited by Jenny Zimmer, with literary contributions by Peter Steele, Patrick McCaughey, Patrick Hutchings, Tate Adams, Frances Devlin-Glass and Petr Herel

On 16 June 2004, the international community celebrated the centenary of ‘Bloomsday’. The epicentre of events was Dublin where the Australian artist, Robert Jacks, had been invited to exhibit his paintings at 15 Usher’s Island, once the home of James Joyce’s aunts and the building in which Joyce located The Dead, the final story of his Dubliners. This limited standard edition of 400 copies, each with a bookplate signed by the artist, uses colour and abstract shapes to symbolise the passing of one day, from morning to night. The day is 16 June 1904, when Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom junketed through Dublin and their adventures were recorded, for posterity, in Joyce’s Ulysses.

Searching for GaiaThe Art of Guy Warren

Norbert Lynton, John McDonald, Guy Warren and Deborah Hart

Guy Warren, in writing his own biography, offers an artist’s view of life and art in Sydney during the better part of the twentieth century. His entertaining text is reinforced by the words of eminent British art historian, Professor Norbert Lynton, who has long admired Warren’s paintings and those of Sydney art critic, John McDonald, who places the artist in context in the Australian landscape.

This colourful monograph documents the life and works of a Sydney artist who has witnessed the transition from modernism to post-modernism and practised both. Comprehensively illustrated in black & white and colour, the images are drawn from the artist’s entire career, beginning in pre-war Sydney, continued in war-time Bougainville, then in post-war England and, until now, in Sydney.

AU$89.95 • NZ$110.00320mm x 227mmHb • 196 pages ISBN 9781876832377December 2003comprehensively illustrated in b&w and colour

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AU$130.00 • NZ$160.00315mm x 307mm

Hb • 332 pagesISBN 9781921394140

November 2009colour throughout

Tim StorrierMoments

William Wright and Jenny ZImmer, with a foreword by Edmund Capon

Edmund Capon, Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, has observed that Tim Storrier’s ‘visions and sensibilities are acute responses to his place, to the flat landscape of Australia in which the horizon is low and the sky is vast.’ But Storrier’s treatment of the landscape is quite unique – often animated by a blazing fire-line or used as a stage-set for capturing memories and intimations of human mortality.

This 332 page, large format volume reproduces Storrier’s paintings, drawings, photographs and constructions on a huge scale – some images folding out to nearly a metre-wide and reproduced in finite detail. William Wright, in interviewing the artist, touches upon the meaning of some of the works that appear to imply criticism of the media and modern communications systems. Then, surprisingly, the book begins with Storrier’s latest and as yet unexhibited work. It introduces several highly dramatic portraits, including one of himself.

This is a visually stunning book which will prompt considerable thought about the environment and the human condition as it is interpreted by a leading Australian artist.

Vassilieff and His ArtFelicity St John Moore

Danila Vassilieff, a passionate, freedom-loving Cossack who burst upon the Australian art scene in the mid-1930s is, in this book, posited as the missing link in the story of 20th century painting in Australia. The author suggests that the emotionalism and originality of his art, and his unconventional lifestyle, had a leaving effect on the art of nolan, Tucker, Hester, Percival, Blackman, and Arthur Boyd. His imaginative response to the Australian landscape deepened this impact.

This critical survey of Vassilieff’s painting and sculture is richly illustrated and fully documented with catalogues of his creative output in both areas. It also provides the moving story of a legendary character who died poverty-stricken, in 1958, at the age of 60. His struggle to prove himself as an individual and an artist has all the ingredients of a novel.

AU$69.95 • NZ$89.95300mm x 240mmPb • 240 pagesISBN 9781921394874May 2012copiously illustrated

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AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00297mm x 251mm

Hb • 184 pagesISBN 9781921394065

June 2009colour throughout

WaltersArt of Realism & Abstraction

David Thomas, with a foreword by the late Dr Joseph Brown

Wes Walters has painted more than 200 portraits of notable Australians - including Arthur Boyd, Kerry Stokes, Kenneth Myer and Dame Elizabeth Murdoch. His abstract paintings, on the other hand, are inspired by the Australian landscape. These highly gestural abstracts have seldom been exhibited while much of his highly successful graphic design work executed in the 1960s and 70s will be immediately recognizable to those who once drove early Holden cars and ate Chiko rolls. David Thomas explores the background of this Ballarat-born artist and traces Walters’s career up to the retrospective exhibition launched concurrently with this book, in June 2009.

The Waste Land SuiteMarilyn Peck is a Queensland-based, internationally recognised miniaturist

Inspired by TS Eliot’s famous poem, The Waste Land, Marilyn Peck has created the 48 paintings in watercolour, most of them minuatures measuring 100 x 100mm and reproduced at the same size. These appear alongside her texts which echo the sentiments expressed by Eliot but are evoked from her own memories and experience of growing up in Australia. The book has a foreword by Gold Coast identity and English scholar, the late John R. Barrie, and an introduction by Queensland art critic Gordon Foulds. The colourful miniatures are rich in archetypal symbolism and, as miniatures, are attractively formatted against a light dusting of gold.

This Queensland artist has received numerous awards for her miniatures and, more recently, for her poetry.

AU$69.95 • NZ$79.95226mm x 212mmHb • 112 pagesISBN 9781876832629August 200458 reproductions • colour throughout

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AU$69.95 • NZ$79.95257mm x 174mm

Hb • 160 pagesISBN 9781876832926

October 2004colour and b&w illustrations

Yosl BergnerArt as a Meeting of Cultures

Frank Klepner, with an introduction by Bernard Smith

The painter Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna in 1920, arrived in Australia in 1937 and migrated to Israel in 1950. Melbourne scholar, Frank Klepner, provides a richly-detailed history of Bergner’s Australian years and provides well-researched and previously unpublished insights into the artist’s principal themes.

Bergner first exhibited with Arthur Boyd and Noel Counihan in Melbourne in 1939 and from then he developed an increasingly social-realist approach to painting. Today, he is one of Israel’s leading painters, but he continues to visit and exhibit works in Australia.

ZimmerGlass Artist

Klaus Zimmer, with an introduction by Johannes Schreiter and essays by Geoffrey Edwards, Patrick Hutchings, Alex Selenitsch and Caroline Swash

This is the story of a migrant, and an artist. When Klaus Zimmer arrived in Australlia in 1952 his sole possessions were a half empty rucksack and a diploma of graphic art from Berlin. In Adelaide he found the diploma useless and a two-year contract with the South Australian railways an obstacle to starting a career in art. Who could tell that he would later become a pioneer of the studio glass movement in Australia, contributing to many exhibitions in Australia and overseas and instrumental in organising the first major overseas travelling exhibition of Australian and New Zealand studio glass. Touring Germany, France and Switzerland, a high point of the exhibition was its installation in historic Chartres.

AU$99.95 • NZ$153.95267mm x 256mmHb • 240 pagesISBN 9781876832124December 2000full colour throughout

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Art of GlassGlass in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria

Geoffrey Edwards

Jointly published by the National Gallery of Victoria and Macmillan Publishers Australia this book is the first publication to document in depth the nature, extent and history of the National Gallery of Victoria’s celebrated glass collection. Its author, and expert on the art of glass, Geoffrey Edwards, has selected the most magnificent works from the collection, each reproduced in colour, as the basis for a broader discussion of the history of glassmaking in the world’s leading production centres, from the ancient Mediterranean to the present day.

With fine photographs by Garry Sommerfeld, this book provides a most spectacular visual array.

Claiming GroundTwenty-Five Years of Tasmania’s Art for Public Building Scheme

Edited by Noel Frankham, with text by Deborah Malor and designed by Justy Phillips

Published by Quintus Publishing Limited, a joint initiative of Arts Tasmania and the University of Tasmania, this book showcases 80 of the more than 800 works of art commissioned under the Tasmanian Governments’ ‘Art for Public Buildings Scheme’. The 112 pages feature more than 250 stunning colour photographs of the art works in situ and are testimony to the creativity of Tasmania’s artists and the thriving art context in general.

AU$49.95 • NZ$59.95275mm x 230mmHb • 112 pagesISBN 9781876832353September 2005colour throughout

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Pb • 208 pagesISBN 9780958574310

December 1998

Hb • AU$99.95 • NZ$125.00ISBN 9780958574327


The Coppin Grove Collection of Sandra and David BardasDavid Bardas and Jenny Zimmer, with an introduction by Dr Gerard Vaughan

This comprehensively illustrated volume tells the story of two people – Sandra Bardas (née Smorgon) and David Bardas – who inherited from their parents a deep appreciation of the visual arts and were convinced of the importance of having art around them in the family home. They did not set out to form a collection but now, half a century later, that is undoubtedly what it is. The artworks they bought, usually by mutual consent and with great enthusiasm, were acquired from local galleries or discovered while on business trips abroad. Today they form a fascinating assemblage featuring many important works by European modernists from the Post Impressionists to the School of Paris.

Represented are artists such as Cézanne, Picasso, Braque, Signac, Derain, Bonnard, Léger and Vlaminck, alongside many Australian artists.

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ISBN 9781921394324August 2011

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Cypriot AntiquitiesAt The University of Melbourne

Sally Salter, with an introduction by Robert Merrilees

The University of Melbourne’s collection of Cypriot Antiquities was largely established and developed between the 1930s and 1960s by the late Professor J. R. Stewart, Director of the Melbourne Cyprus Expedition. Largely ceramic and extending from the Bronze Age to the Roman, Sally Salter’s comprehensive research into the collection makes this book a fitting companion volume to Greek Vases in the Collection of the University of Melbourne, by Peter Connor and Heather Jackson.

With more than 110 of the 370 separately accessioned entries previously unpublished, Sally Salter’s scholarly catalogue is a welcome contribution to international work in this field, bringing to worldwide attention a comprehensive collection never before published in its entirety. Magnificent colour photography of the artefacts and location shots of Cypriot sites add to the allure of this beautiful book which will prove essential to museums, collectors and all interested in this fascinating civilization and its material evidence.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00318mm x 254mmHb • 192 pagesISBN 9781876832698September 2008colour throughout


AU$99.95 • NZ$125.00249mm x 249mm

Pb • 208 pages ISBN 9781921394454

November 2010

Elgee ParkSculpture in the LandscapeSecond Edition

Ken Scarlett, with an introduction by Rupert Myer and photographs by Mark Chew

Elgee Park, located at Merricks North on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, is renowned for its Quarter Horse Stud and the historic Elgee Park Winery. The five hectares of special varieties probably represent the earliest surviving vineyard in this distinctive wine-growing area. However, over the past 30 years, Baillieu Myer and his family have added yet another dimension to the property by collection more than forty large-scale outdoor works by sculptors such as Clement Meadmore, Ron Robertson-Swann, Robert Klippel, Inge King, Lenton Parr, Geoffrey Bartlett, Bruce Armstrong, David Wilson and many others.

Author Ken Scarlett has arranged the sculptures in this book according to where they are located if undertaking a series of separate walks around the farm. The sculptures, their landscape settings, daily activities and the beautiful gardens of Elgee Park are the subjects of Mark Chew’s dramatic photographs taken over all four seasons of the year.

This expanded second edition includes an updated text and all the sculptures commissioned since the first edition published in 2004.

The Felton Illuminated ManuscriptsIn the National Gallery of Victoria

Margaret M. Manion, with an introduction by Andrew Grimwade and Gerard Vaughan

Emeritus Professor Margaret Manion is an acknowledged world expert on illuminated manuscripts. In this extravagantly colour-illustrated volume she brings her scholarship to the study of five major manuscripts purchased between 1922 and 1960 for the National Gallery of Victoria under the terms of the Felton Bequest.

These books: The Gospel Book of Theophanes (c. 1125-50); The Strozzi-Acciaiuoli Hours (1496); The Aspremont-Kievraing Hours (c. 1300); The Wharncliffe Hours (c. 1475-80); and The Melbourne Livy (c. 1399) are each of exceptional quality and it is due to the remarkable foresight of the Felton advisors that we have them in Australia.

The author sets each manuscript within its art-historical context and fully details each of the five programmes of illumination. Specially photographed for this publication, the illuminated pages and copious details of each manuscript are gloriously reproduced in full-colour. This book is an essential illustrated text for specialists and collectors in the field and for all who enjoy and appreciate the art of the book and its history.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00279mm x 226mmHb • 440 pagesISBN 9781876832469November 2005fully-illustrated in rich colour throughout

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Greek VasesAt The University of Melbourne

Peter Connor and Heather Jackson

The catalogue of the University of Melbourne’s superb collection of Greek vases is now published as a sumptuous, fully colour-illustrated, cloth-covered volume which will suit the needs of students, researchers and interested readers.

This richly-illustrated book is a collector’s item, designed and produced to library specifications. It offers the complete scholarly apparatus for study of the vase collection, one of the finest in the country. It will prove valuable as a reference text wherever classics, archaeology or art are studied. The book is a product of one of the most outstanding Classical Studies departments in Australia and is destined for libraries throughout the world. It is the first volume in a series planned to feature various aspects of the University’s wider collection.

Each vase, fully described and documented, appears in rich colour and detail. Styles and periods are introduced by contextualising photographs presented as dramatic double-page spreads. No effort has been spared to publish this collection as beautifully as these unique artifacts deserve.

H20 Architects to 2012Introduced by Elizabeth Jarrelly. Designed by Brian Sadgrove.

The buildings of H20 architects Tim Hurburgh and Mark O’Dwyer have been praised for their design commitment to sustainability, playfulness and their intelligent responses to a variety of sites and purposes. These architects practice what they call ‘expressive modernism’ in their design which are predominantly for schools, government buildings and universities. No two alike, the buildings can be brilliantly coloured like Avondale Heights Library and Learning Centre or rough and timbered like RMIT’s Textile Faculty in South Brunswick. Swinburne and Deakin Universities have also benefited from H20’s unique designs, as has Victoria’s State Emergency Service Headquarters. This is architecture with a difference – beautifully illustrated in the book.

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AU$99.95 • NZ$153.95320mm x 249mm

Hb • 208 pagesISBN 9781876832070

December 2000

CD • AU$49.95 • NZ$64.95ISBN 9781876832087

AU$39.95 • NZ$69.95268mm x 225mmPb • 96 pagesISBN 9781921394980December 2012


Jewish Museum of AustraliaJewish Museum of Australia

Melbourne’s Jewish Museum of Australia has celebrated its 25 years with a remarkable book relating to its exhibitons and magnificient collections. This superbly designed book gives uniquely Australian perspective on the 4000 year religion and culture of Judaism.

Luminous SimplicityThe Architecture and Art of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta

Romaldo Giurgola

International multi-award winning architect, Romaldo Giurgoila (b. Rome, 1920) is best known in Australia as the principal architect of the New Parliament House in Canberra. His latest major work is St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta, a new Cathedral complex which incorporates the old 1857 building which was destroyed by fire in 1996. The opening of the new Cathedral was celebrated on 29 November 2003.

For Romaldo Giurgola this project provided an opportunity to reflect on his life’s work and to incorporate in the buildings, and the art works which were specially commissioned for them, the architectural principles he values most. These have been developed over many decades from the time of his education in Italy through to academic post and architectural projects undertaken in the USA, Europe, Australia and Asia. He regards architecture as ‘… a symbolic expression of people’s cultural identities and aspirations’. With this in mind, he has created in Parramatta a singular masterpiece characterised by its simplicity, serenity and contemplative character.

This beautifully written and illustrated publication provides eloquent insights into the art of architecture and Romaldo Giurgola’s spatial philosophy.

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AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00282mm x 241mmHb • 192 pagesISBN 9781876832834June 2007

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Hb • AU$79.95 • NZ$100.00ISBN 9781875670451


Tate Adams and the Crossley Gallery1966 - 1980

Jenny Zimmer et al

When, in 1966, Tate Adams opened up his Crossley Gallery in a lane off Bourke Street, Melbourne, he pioneered the importation of contemporary Japanese prints by masters such as Munakata and Sasajima. These were shown alongside those of emerging local artist printmakers including at that time Fred Williams, Roger Kemp, George Baldessin, Bea Maddock and many others. This productive collision of cultures soon established the Crossley Gallery and its associated activities - such as the Crossley Print Workshop - as the hub of activity in this art form.

The book contains memoirs of those associated with the Gallery and features prints shown or commissioned by Tate Adams - a leading printmaker himself. It provides first-hand insights into a previously under-examined aspect of the development of contemporary art in Australia.

When You Think about ArtThe Ewing & George Paton Gallery, 1971 - 2008

Edited by Helen Vivian, multi-authored

The history of the George Paton Gallery established at the University of Melbourne, and administered by the Melbourne University Student Union, charts a very important period in contemporary art in Australia. This richly illustrated history provides an account of one of the most spirited art spaces in Melbourne. The book details exhibitions and events which influenced the development of the visual arts in Australia. It examines the dramatic changes which took place from the experimentation of the seventies to the impact of Postmodernism in the eighties, through to the greater integration of these disparate forces today.

AU$99.95 • NZ$148.50265mm x 257mm

Hb • 240 pagesISBN 9781876832728

July 2003illustrated with 150 images in colour and b&w

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AU$79.95 • NZ$95.95277mm x 241mmPb • 288 pagesISBN 9781921394027August 2008

Art History & Cultural Studies

AU$35.00 • NZ$50.00242mm x 248mm

Hb • 96 pagesISBN 9780958574365

December 1999tipped-in colour plates

Armidale ‘42A Survivor’s Account

Don Watson, Col Madigan and Jan Senbergs

A collaboration between Col Madigan, survivor of this World War II marine disaster, artist Jan Senbergs and historian Don Watson, this collectors’ book, with tipped-in colour plates, tells by words and images the horrific story of the sinking of HMAS Armidale in the Timor Sea, and the gruelling ordeal undergone by the survivors. The book is illustrated with drawings by Jan Senbergs and Col Madigan and has a powerful introductory essay by Don Watson. It accompanied a travelling exhibition of The Armidale Drawings shown at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, in 2001.

Art and Humanist IdealsContemporary Perspectives

Compiled and introduced by William Kelly

In a radical departure form the conventional art history text, this unique volume brings together a number of the world’s great artist/image-makers and thinkers on issues of art and its expression for contemporary humanity. With early seminal texts by novelist Thomas Mann, theologian Paul Tillich, and art historian Herbert Read as a foundation, the content then moves through late 20th century to post-September 11 material with contributions by Lucy R. Lippard, Barry Schwartz, Suzi Gablik, Vaclav Havel, Philippa Hobbs, Elizabeth Rankin, Günter Grass, Doreen Mellor, Douglas Kellner, Robert Godfrey, Ricardo Levins Morales, Nigel Spivey and others. It bridges grass-roots to academic cultural dialogue. Focusing on prints - limited editions, hand-pulled posters and photographs - it includes images from poster collectives, work by Peter Schumann from the ‘cheap art movement’, photographs by Judith Joy Ross, Dominic Hsieh and Nick Ut’s powerful image ‘Vietnam Napalm’. There are drawings and llimited edition prints by leading artist/printmakers from Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and North and South America.

It is a book that intelligently celebrates the engagement of art with life - with issues of social justice, peace, human rights - paying tribute to the seldom acknowledged contribution of Modern Art to humanist thought. In so going, it reassesses what have been regional perspectives as compared to the world-wide contribution of humanist art.

AU$44.95 • NZ$59.95244mm x 163mmHb • 288 pagesISBN 9781876832254March 200350 images in b&w and colour

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Art of AustraliaVolume 1

John McDonald

In this first volume of a brilliant new history of Australian art, John McDonald, the highly-regarded art critic of the Sydney Morning Herald, takes us from the times of pre-history, settlement and exploration, to the end of the colonial era. In the first comprehensive overview of the field since the 1960s, McDonald reassesses the reputations of many leading artists, and links their achievements with the broader patterns of social history and ideas.

Along with in-depth discussions of major works, the narrative teems with characters and anecdotes from the era of the First Fleet to that of the Australian Impressionists. The story of Australian art is told in a more vivid and engaging style than ever before, in a lavishly illustrated book destined to take its place as the definitive work on the subject.

The Blake BookArt, Religion and Spirituality in Australia

Rosemary Crumlin

The Blake Prize for religious art has now withstood 60 years of controversy as critics from many walks of life have argued as to what, in these decades of Australia’s history, constitutes ‘religious art’.

Rosemary Crumlin’s richly illustrated book traces the changing styles of the literally thousands of entries to the Prize over six decades. These begin with winners of the prize in the 1950s who modelled their works on examples from Western art history and then extends to the decades when non-objectivity posed problems for those seeking religious imagery, through to the inclusion of Indigenous art and influences stemming from Asia and the Muslim world. This is a profoundly important history of a particular aspect of Australian art.

AU$69.95 • NZ$89.95318mm x 247mmPb • 224 pagesISBN 9781921394737October 2011

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Dames, Principal Boys... and All ThatA History of Pantomime in Australia

Viola Tait, with a prologue by Barry Humphries

The publication of Dames, Principal Boys... and All That realised the author’s long-time ambition to chronicle this remarkable art form as it developed in Australia. Commenting on pantomime’s beginnings in Britain, then surveying its highlights here, Viola Tait’s account is both revelatory and nostalgic. It recalls days gone by when adults and children eagerly anticipated the Christmas pantomime and were exhilarated by the idiosyncratic dialogue and the humourous antics of the star performers - from Australian-born Nellie Stewart, darling of Drury Lane, to popular figures like Gladys Moncrieff, Roy Rene and Graham Kennedy.

Barry Humphries’ imaginative introduction to the book focuses on a major thread which is maintained throughout the text - the curious pantomime tradition of men appearing as ‘Dames’ and women as ‘Principal Boys’. The many photographs of these much loved characters is one of the most exciting aspects of the book.

The DarkroomPhotography and the Theatre of Desire

Anne Marsh

Anne Marsh’s treatise on the art of photography traces its theoretical underpinning from the early debates between the rationalists and the fantasists, through psychoanalytical interpretations, to the theatre of desire. She investigates the role of photography in ‘ghostly performances’, the ‘masking of desire’ and ‘high camp aesthetics’ - through to ‘performance art’ and the role of the photographer as a ‘gender terrorist’ - as in the work of Del LaGrace Volcano.

The study concludes with notable examples of postmodern photography as they have occurred in the Australian context. This ground-breaking work by a leading Monash University academic will interest all students of photography and followers of recent trends in art and art theory.

AU$59.95 • NZ$75.00234mm x 157mmHb • 336 pagesISBN 9781876832780October 2003illustrated in b&w and colour with 70 photographic images

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Hb • 248 pagesISBN 9781876832735

October 2003illustrated in colour and duotone

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Days Gone ByGrowing up in Penang

Christine Wu Ramsay

Dr. Christine Ramsay describes the history of her Chinese Hakka family who migrate to Malaya before the end of the nineteenth century and, by the good fortune of operating tin-mines and rubber plantations, established for themselves a luxurious lifestyle which included education in the west, art nouveau mansions on Penang’s waterfront, fashionable cars and entertainment - and a great deal of mahjong!

This book, illustrated with sepia photographs, offers glimpses into aspects of Chinese extended family life which will intrigue and entertain. It also features deorative patterns assembled from rare examples of the historic ceramic titles used on the walls and floors of early twentieth century Penang mansions. The author left Penang in the 1960s to study science in Australia and has now achieved sufficient ‘distance’ to look back, objectively, on these ‘days gone by’.

Ethnic Jewellery and AdornmentAustralia - Oceania - Asia - Africa

Truus Daalder (text), Jeremy Daalder (photographs)

The care with which this book has been prepared is simply astonishing. Its history began when Truus and Joost Daalder acquired their first examples of non-European ethnic body adornment around 1980, four years after their arrival in Adelaide. Creating this magnificent publication has involved much travel and research, and a passionate author – Truus Daalder, a collector born into a collector’s family.

Today the Daalder collection of ethnic jewellery numbers many hundreds of items, of which more than 500 appear in this book in glorious colour and with an expert photographer’s attention to presentation and detail. They are supplemented by close to 200 other objects selected from the world-renowned collections of items from Australian Aboriginal and Oceanic cultures shown in their designated Galleries at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide.

Unusually, the book starts in Australia and completes its journey in Africa. While the early emphasis on the ethnic, geographic, and cultural background of Australian and Pacific ornaments discloses much hitherto inaccessible information, Truus Daalder’s scholarship is equally fastidious and illuminating when applied to objects from Indonesia, South East Asia, China, the Himalayas, India, Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

The text of the book offers concise but informative discussion of cultural and social contexts, considered comparisons, detailed analyses of the illustrated objects and useful political and geographic data.

AU$175.00 • NZ$210.00325mm x 279mmHb • 420 pagesISBN 9781921394287December 2009more than 700 colour photographs

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September 2007

The FormalesqueA Guide to Modern Art and Its History

Bernard Smith

In this well-illustrated book Professor Bernard Smith, who is often referred to as ‘the father of art history in Australia’, condenses the arguments presented in an earlier publication, Modernism’s History (1998), into a very accessible and helpful text which will prove useful for students and arts-interested readers. He begins by listing and carefully explaining those terms which frequently occur in arts literature dealing with the modern period and then goes on to show that ‘modernism’ has become an historical period with its art forms both ‘institutionalised’ and ‘globalised’.

Now an historical entity, art history’s basic tools can be employed to explain and describe it. They include an investigation of the period’s ‘style’, use of ‘form’ and attitudes to ‘meaning’. In his defence of art history’s traditions and methodologies he argues that the period that encompasses ‘modernism’ in the arts might now be known as The Formalesque.

Garden of a LifetimeDame Elisabeth Murdoch at Cruden Farm

Anne Latreille

Almost 80 years ago, Keith Murdoch gave his young bride a wedding present that would be of very special significance throughout the intervening years, a small grazing property on the outskirts of Melbourne. They called it Cruden Farm, and it was here that their family grew up and the garden evolved. A born gardener, with a practical “hands-on” approach, an eye for beauty, and a passion for trees and flowers, Dame Elisabeth calls it her Garden of a Lifetime.

Edna Walling’s late 1920s plans for the circular lawn, walled gardens and world-renowned sweeping avenue of lemon-scented eucalypts were implemented in the 1930s when some of the majestic trees, like the huge oaks and elms that form the structure of the garden, were planted. Dame Elisabeth then created the silver and white borders extending from the house and later, assisted by Michael Morrison, developed the Cottage Garden, the Garden for Homeless Plants, and the spectacular floral Picking Garden.

This beautifully colour-illustrated book traces the history of the garden’s creation and guides the reader around its spectacular features, while entries for the months of the year give practical hints on upkeep.

AU$59.95 • NZ$75.00287mm x 221mmPb • 192 pagesISBN 9781876832049February 2007published by Pan Macmillan Art

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November 2006colour throughout

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The Heritage of Eastern TurkeyAntonio Sagona

Melbourne University professor, Dr. Antonio Sagona, has conducted many seasons of excavation and survey work in eastern Turkey as Director of a University of Melbourne archaeological team. His extravagantly illustrated book traces the history of the region from the beginning of settled life (c. 11,000 - 5500 BC) to the spread of Islam and the resplendent Ottoman period that followed.

Among its fascinating subjects are details of the obsidian trade; the emergence of agriculture and stock-breeding; the development of metallurgy; the rise of a merchant class; the constant re-organisation of political boundaries under the Urartians, Hittites and Persians; the Roman and Christian periods; and the Arab Conquest followed by the invasion of the remarkable Selijuks and their wonderful arts.

The text is supported by rare and beautiful photography of the sites and monuments, and of artefacts produced by the many different peoples who have inhabited this fascinating geographic region. The lively and accessible text, and the visual impact of the photographs, guarantee that the book will intrigue readers who are curious about this little-known and seldom-visited region in the far east of Turkey.

HomesicknessNationalism in Australian Visual Culture

Traudi Allen

This timely and intelligent discussion focuses on the elusive nature of Australian nationalism as it is defined by visual images drawn from a vast variety of sources - some surprising and others regularly encountered in our daily lives. From high art to popular kitsch, the more than 100 plates support the author’s feisty arguments which range from domestic issues related to the great Australian dream of suburban home ownership to the plight of those who have experienced difficulties in making a home here. As Allen declares, ‘The nationalist discourse is a multifarious and contradictory matter’, with many pitfalls, ambiguous stereotypes and questionable mythologies.

This densely detailed text is essential reading for all who wish to better understand Australia’s complex contemporary culture.

AU$59.95 • NZ$71.95241mm x 170mmPb • 230 pages ISBN 9781921394010September 2008

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Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval EuropeEdited by Gregory Kratzmann

Introduced by means of comprehensive essays by Professor Jeffrey F. Hamburger of Harvard University and Margaret M. Manion of the University of Melbourne, this sumptuous volume presents the proceedings of a conference held at the State Library of Victoria in 2008 when that institution arranged an important exhibition of medieval manuscripts. Learned papers presented by an array of prestigious scholars investigate topics such as travel, incarceration, purgatory, music, magic, history, worship and inheritance in the medieval world. Jeffrey Hamburger’s essay deals with changing conventions in the production of medieval books while Professor Manion describes the State Library’s remarkable exhibition.

A Pavane for Another TimeEmeritus Professor Bernard Smith pioneered the writing of art history in Australia

Following art historian Bernard Smith’s award-winning autobiographical account of his earlier life (The Boy Adeodatus: The Portrait of a Lucky Young Bastard, first published in 1984) he now reflects on life in the 1940s. Themes recalling the period before the family departed for England in September 1948 include; courtship and marriage; forebodings of war and attitudes to Communism and Fascism; political involvement in cultural activities with artists and emigré European-trained art historians anxious to promote modern art and knowledge of art history (not taught in universities at that time) and early employment at the Art Gallery of New South Wales pioneering the arrangement of travelling exhibitions for regional centres.

Smith’s formative training as an art historian and critic is the important and recurring theme of this book. It encompasses his encounters at London’s Courtauld and Warburg Institutes with art historians Anthony Blunt, Ernst Gombrich, Rudolf Wittkower and many others; his introduction to art historical methodologies and insights (such as Gombrich’s insistence on the linkage between image and concept); and his obligatory ‘grand tours’ of a range of European cities and their museums, art works and architectural monuments.

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The Revolutionary CenturyArt in Asia, 1900-2000

Alison Carroll

This book, with nearly 200 colour plates, aims to introduce the major themes and practices of art in Asia over the years 1900-2000. While national art histories have been written, there has not been an overview across the whole region – exposing the major themes that affected the art of individual countries within the whole geographic context. It was a century of change, and the focus is on the developments in art and art practice, particularly those adapted from outside. Beginning with a broad overview of the nature of art in Asia in the twentieth century, it is followed by a cross-region study divided into four parts: the setting leading in from the 19th century; the decades 1900-1940; followed by the period between World War II and 1960; and finally the years from 1960-2000.

The major geo-political groupings of the region are discussed within each time-period. This has not been easy give that over this century borders have changed and countries have been renamed. But Alison Carroll, with her many years of experience and travel throughout the region as Director of Asialink’s Arts Program, is in an excellent position to provide this long-awaited study.

Roses and Red EarthPolish Folk Art in Australia

Edited by Maria Wronska-Friend

With an introductory essay by renowned Polish author Aleksander Jackowski, and contributions by Dr. Maria Wronska-Friend and Professor Jerzy Smolicz, this attractive book contextualises Poland’s folk art traditions and examines their continuing influence on Polish-born artists working in Australia. The publication documents an important Queensland collection of Polish folk art and presents contemporary works by a number of recognised Polish-born artists now living in Australia. It complements an exhibition of the same name arranged and toured by the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville.

AU$49.95 • NZ$64.95227mm x 198mmHb • 128 pagesISBN 9781876832186December 2000colour throughout

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Hb • 48 pagesISBN 9781876832506

May 2004illustrated with rare photographs

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Sound of Our Summer SeasJapan in Australia

Diane Menghetti, with illustrations by Tate Adams

There is some evidence that Japanese people may have visited Australia before Europeans settled here. The Japanese government legalised emigration in 1866 and twenty-four passports to Australia were issued between 1868 and 1882. The first Japanese settler to arrive in Queensland in the 1870s was a circus acrobat. By the end of the century nearly 4000 Japanese lived in Australia, and 88% of them in Queensland.

Few people realise that Townsville in North Queensland hosted the first Japanese Consuls based in Australia. They served their countrymen who were working in the pearling, trochus shell and sugar industries. The previously little-known and fascinating story of Townsville’s Japanese Consuls, which is superbly illustrated by Townsville-based artist Tate Adams, will surprise and delight.

Tiepolo’s CleopatraJaynie Anderson et al

Professor Jaynie Anderson is an internationally recognised scholar, renowned for her research and publications on the Italian masters. On this occasion she has concentrated on one painting, the National Gallery of Victoria’s famous Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra by Giambattista Tiepolo. This glorious work of art, considered a centrepiece of the collection underwent restoration in preparation for the re-opening of the National Gallery on St. Kilda Road in Melbourne in December 2003.

Jaynie Anderson has collected together a previously under-examined range of Tiepolo’s drawings and studies - and other versions of the theme by Tiepolo and other Italian artists. She has woven them into the spectacular history of the painting, its production and its various owners prior to coming to Australia (including the Hermitage in St. Petersburg) - not to mention the fascinating stories of Antony and Cleopatra and their suicides, which the author has researched and retells in great detail and considerable passion.

The book concludes with a chapter written by the National Gallery of Victoria’s conservators, John Payne and Carl Villis.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00312mm x 257mmHb • 192 pagesISBN 9781876832445December 2003illustrated in b&w and colour

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Hb • 32 pagesISBN 9781921394317

June 2010illustrated throughout

Cosmic Collisions & Falling BodiesBarbara M. Moore and Roma McLaughlin

This beautifully illustrated volume of eighteen poems by the late Barbara M. Moore takes the reader on an imaginary journey into space at first in search of the first ant on the moon (who travelled there on Apollo 11 in 1969, inside Armstrong’s jacket), and then on into the galaxy and its wonders. Of Galileo she writes: “He saw enough signs of a sun-centred universe / to topple Aristotle and split / the foundations of the known universe.” And Roma McLaughlin’s wonderful drawing of Galileo with his telescope, set against an Italian architectural vista, is just one of a series of images which equal the deeply imaginative qualities of the poems.

Barbara M. Moore died in late 2009 after a long and debilitating illness which she fought by engaging her mind. The book has been supported by the University of Melbourne where, in 2009, she completed an MA in the area of creative writing.

Critical MomentsEssays and Reviews on Art in Australia

Jeffrey Makin

Well known artist Jeffrey Makin has also served as an art critic over more than three decades, reviewing significant national and international exhibitions in major public galleries. He has also followed the careers of notable Australian artists and their exhibitions in the private gallery system throughout the nation.

This book is divided into fifteen sections, each of which explores a separate theme with more than 150 reviews of the artists whose works fall into the totality of these categories. The sections include ‘European Visions’, ‘Female Sensibilities’, ‘In the Abstract’, ‘Real and Surreal’ and others related to figuration, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and landscape painting. Taken as a whole, this book provides a unique survey of Australian art, from a painter-critic’s perspective.

AU$59.95 • NZ$79.95249mm x 173mmPb • 328 pagesISBN 9781921394195November 2011

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February 2012

Denise GreenAn Artist’s Odyssey

Denise Green, with contributions by Richard Kalina, Frances Lindsay, Anthony Bond, Peter Timms, Roland Mönig, Christoph Trepesch, Lily Wei and Ingrid Periz

Co-published by Macmillan and the University of Minnesota Press, this book traces the career of Brisbane-born, New York-based artist Denise Green, who has developed an international reputation as an exhibiting artist.

Ingrid Periz claims that there is a genre-blurring quality to this book, combining as it does: autobiographical accounts; formal analysis; friendly chat; art history; and critical commentary. On the library shelf, she thinks it could sit alongside Judy Chicago’s Through the Flower, James Elkins’ What Painting Is, and the recollections of Australian expatriates like Jill Kerr Conway or Clive James. It is also a guide book for young artists looking for models of career development.

The Dramas of Lajos WalderVase of Pompeii - Tyrataeus - Below Zero

Lajos Walder, translated by Agnes Walder

In the dramatic and tragic years of World War II, the Hungarian poet Lajos Walder was probably looking for a broader expression of his philosophical beliefs than poetry seemed to allow. Following Huxley, Aragon and Celine, he turned to prose. Drawing on his education in Greek and his love of theatre he penned plays with ‘… insights so pertinent, that they seem universally valid some six and a half decades later’.

Lajos Walder (1913-1945) was a well-known poet in 1930s Budapest, but his plays, written in the early 1940s, were not known until 1990 when they were first published in Hungarian and described by a major critic as ‘… uniquely beautiful creations of an original mind’. Lajos Walder died on 7 May 1945, the day of liberation and just four hours after walking out of the Death Camp of Gunskirchen: he was not yet 32 years of age. These plays should be staged. In the meantime, they may be read in Agnes Walder’s fine translations which evoke the essence and mood of her father’s time and capture his expressive literary style.

AU$49.95 • NZ$75.00233mm x 160mmHb • 302 pagesISBN 9781876832766July 2007

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November 2005illustrated

Limited RecallA Fictional Autobiography

Ken Scarlett

Ken Scarlett, one of Australia’s best known curators and writers on sculpture, has this time written and illustrated a series of 30 short stories which draw upon his imagined and real experiences of life from adolescence through to the present. The stories are light-hearted, humorous, sometimes satirical and occasionally focused on the art-world as he found it during his career as a sculptor, art educationalist, curator and world traveller.

The Midday ClockSelected Poems and Drawings

R.A. Simpson

This desirable volume of selected and new poems by R. A. Simpson is beautifully presented with reproductions of drawings by the Australian acclaimed poet. Jointly published by Melbourne’s The Age newspaper, where Simpson was poetry editor for several decades, and Macmillan, it has introductions by poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe and critic Andrew Clarke.


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September 2004

My Life Among WesternersThe Subjective Ethnography of an Immoderate Mother

Agnes Walder

Agnes Walder’s long poem is a comment on Western society from a member of another ‘tribe’ - the tribe of mothers who have children with disabilities. The social conditions alluded to in this poem depict the period between the 1970s and 1990s when children with disabilities were segregated. It is a passionate critique of Western philosophical attitudes whereby the ‘ideal’ is associated with ‘perfection’.

NewsFast Flowers • Long Journeys • Cold Funerals

Poems by Rudi Krausmann and drawings by Garry Shead

Salzburg-born Sydney poet, Rudi Krausmann, muses upon fellow poets - both Australian and international - and famous writers, philosophers and artists in a series of 60 short verses which are accompanied (but not illustrated) by equally succinct and pithy drawings by noted Sydney artist Garry Shead. Together, poet and artist explore the idiosyncracies and vicissitudes of human nature and of creative lives through the medium of this elegantly bound collectors’ edition.

AU$69.95 • NZ$79.95175mm x 202mmHb • 128 pagesISBN 9781876832476May 2006text in English and German

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AU$59.95 • NZ$71.95218mm x 168mmPb • 208 pages

ISBN 9781876832582August 2007

Notes from the ShedA Journal

Hanna Kay

Hanna Kay describes her journal, begun in summer 2003, as a dialogue between one and oneself. She says: ‘Keeping a journal is like meeting this person inside me head-on’. And that person is an artist whose journal helps the reader understand something of the way an artist thinks. Both her journal and the paintings produced in her studio measure the passing of the seasons and the artist’s emotional empathy with the Australian landscape the and living things about her as she responds to the seasonal changes wrought by Nature.

She says: “The locals [in rural NSW] refer to my Studio as ‘the shed’. For me the 200 square metres framed by iron-bark posts and corrugated iron, is a sanctuary in which I dare to experiment, question, or be idle. The solid structure and the five acres that surround it protect me from the world’s follies.” Her observations of the environment are recorded poetically, her own musing interspersed with references to world literature. The book is dedicated: ‘To Nature, while she’s still around’.

Satires & Songs of an Upright RabbitJim Allen

Deriving its title from Shakespeare’s line in Henry IV, ‘Away, you whoreson upright rabbit, away!’, Jim Allen’s selected poems are grouped under the following headings: Distant Lands, A Bestiary, The Breaking of Seals, Meditations, Lines of Resistance, Memories, A Company of Friends, Relationships, Comic Cuts, Tongues of Fire and Progression. As Jim Allen points out, poets are not saints - and many of these poems are pithy in the extreme.

Professor Bruce Johnson writes in his introduction: ‘In matters of social justice [Allen] has Blake’s capacity for savage jabs of outrage, and I conclude that, like Swift, he can hate humankind but dearly love people... Like his prose, these poems work most intensely for me when they are draped over the material world in which memory and emotion are invested.’ The former Professor of English at the University of New South Wales concludes that some of Jim Allen’s poetry is as fine as anything he has ever read.

This is no slim volume of verse. Introduced by the colour-illustrated poem, Midnight Meditation, it contains 141 poems together with indexes of titles and first lines. Ranging between the expression of deep disgust to intense love, each poem makes its point without an excess of words. AU$49.95 • NZ$65.00

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June 2011

Views from the BalconyA Biography of Catherine Duncan

Michael Keane

This is the remarkable and revealing story of Catherine Duncan, a leading Australian actress and playwright during the golden years of radio, the winner – along with Peter Finch – of the 1947 Macquarie Award and Australia’s first official female film director: a woman with such belief in herself that she could begin a radio talk with the statement, “History begins with me!”

Replete with romance and adventure, this biography traces her early years in Melbourne, her association with the radical New Theatre, her several marriages and ultimate decision to spend more than half her life in Paris where she joined the vibrant literary and artistic circles of those decades. The book is illustrated with many of the important creative individuals with whom she associated during her extraordinary life.

We, the Twenty-Five Letters of the AlphabetLajos Walder, translatedby Agnes Walder

The Hungarian Poet Lajos Walder (1913 - 1945), who chose the pseudonym Vándor, or wanderer, first came to notice in 1932 when he introduced himself to the editor of Anonymous, a Budapest-published literary magazine, with the following words:

‘My name is Lajos Vándor. I am a poet, a law student and a trainee worker at the knitting mills. To the proletarians I am a rotten bourgeois; to the bourgeois I am a stinking proletarian; to the petit-bourgeoisie I am an evil anarchist and to the anarchists I am a cowardly petit-bourgeoisie. And everybody is right, whatever they say about me. But I wrote a few masterpieces - these, the poets and les belles ames would call prose, and the prose writers and modern aesthetes would call poems. Take them and eat them, read them, and publish them; but first give me a cigarette because I left my cash register at home and I don’t have four cents in my pocket to buy a single fag.’

Walder’s poems are an accurate expression of their times; political tension and bizarre humour are juxtaposed in a manner concordant with the irreverent Da-da movement that after 1916 swept through the art and literary circles of pre-war Europe. The poems, translated by his daughter Agnes Walder, now resident in Sydney, are for the first time published in English.

AU$49.95 • NZ$59.95240mm x 160mmHb • 160 pagesISBN 9781876832025September 2004

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Hb • 144 pagesISBN 9781876832148

May 2003illustrated with line-drawings

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Where the Cool Warrichi FlowsJim Allen, with illustrations by Dell Hall

The seven short stories included in this delightful book recall incidents from Jim Allen’s childhood spent in a mixed-race community in South Arfica’s rural Transvaal where his father opened a trading store. Born in 1925, Allen later studied English, Afrikaans, Latin and Greek at Witwatersrand University and English at Oxford. After migrating to Australia in 1962 he taught at the University of New South Wales. He dedicates his book to the three groups of people - Shangaan, Afrikaans and English-speaking - whose friendships and conflicts moulded him.

‘What my sister Dell and I have set out to do is to recover a lost world - in fact, two worlds: one, arising out of memories of our childhood on the farm, Marite, in the Eastern Transvaal in South Africa from the time of the Great Depression till the beginning of the Second World War: the other, including the South African War (‘Boer War’), 1900-1902, but reaching back in time to the early 1880s before my parents were born, a time when my great uncle, E. L. (Lil) Banger, adventured up northward from Durban, fired a shot at the Pietermaritzburg town hall clock to test his first rifle, and began his life as a hunter and trader, eventually buying the farm Marite for half-a-crown a morgen in 1908. In 1921 my father, R. C. Allen, joined his uncle at Marite as a partner in his native trading store. They used a purple letterhead figuring a handsome bushbuck ram reclining, and the words BANGER AND ALLEN. They also had an antique Remington typewriter.’

The Whispering GalleryArt into Poetry

Peter Steele, with a foreword by Gerard Vaughan

Peter Steele’s book, The Whispering Gallery: Art into Poetry, follows his highly successful Plenty: Art into Poetry. It contains 55 poems, each prompted by a work of art in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. The art works are reproduced alongside poems for immediate reference and enjoyment.

Professor Peter Steele is a highly regarded Australian poet. His work has been applauded worldwide by poets and critics, including Peter Porter (England), the late Anthony Hecht (USA) and Seamus Heaney (Ireland). While the earlier Plenty: Art into Poetry is a work of beauty and distinction, which renders both poetry and art more accessible, eminent critics already consider The Whispering Gallery to be an exciting successor in which the author expands and deepens his imaginative exploration of words and images.

AU$89.95 • NZ$100.00312mm x 249mmPb • 128 pagesISBN 9781876832858May 2006with high-quality colour reproductions of 55 artworks

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Macmillan Mini Art Book Series

With twenty-one titles now available, and more in the works, these little books make perfect gifts and lend themselves to counter display. Art lovers and book collectors will need to watch carefully for new titles if they wish to collect all numbers in this ongoing series.

Each volume, though of pocket-book dimensions, includes 144 pages with many colour reproductions of the particular artists’ work, a biographical survey of the artist’s life and an explanatory text. High quality printing and binding is their hall-mark. Artists are chosen from across a wide spectrum of practices and philosophies, enabling younger artists to be showcased alongside established masters.

AU$34.95 • NZ$44.95 • 154mm x 130mm • Hb • 144 pages

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Jasper KnightMini Book #2

Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer

Jasper Knight is a young artist who belongs to that group of individuals sometimes described as ‘junk poets’. He gathers his inspiration and builds his art from the throwaway detritus of urban society. In a sense, his art is both a celebration and a critique of consumerism. Most of Knight’s iconography can be found in the decaying areas of once thriving industrial docklands. He skilfully depicts the old trucks, the discarded heavy earth-moving equipment and the smashed bodies of expensive motor vehicles. The rusting iron structures that once supported heavy industry, old piers and cargo wharfs, the ferry landings around well-used harbours, the crumbling facades of derelict buildings, lonesome chimneys, cranes and other abandoned machinery are his subjects.

Knight has painted the docklands of Melbourne and the piers and ferries of Sydney Harbour. In 2006 he painted fourteen works that were exhibited in London under the title ‘An Island in the Sun’. This series was painted in and around the old discarded Renault car factory at Ile Seguin, an island in the River Seine at Boulogne-Billancourt on the western edge of Paris.

ISBN 9781921394126October 2008

Tim StorrierMini Book #4


Tim Storrier, among Australia’s most highly-regarded and best-selling painters, remains enigmatic. his paintings, which combine the traditional genres of landscape and still-life, executed at a masterly level, are at once beautiful and frightening. It seems he adheres to the eighteenth-century European aesthetic of ‘The Sublime’ wherein artists, like the German Romantic Caspar David Friedrich, selected as subjects the most dramatic and dangerous aspects of nature with the aim of inspiring pleasurable sensations of awe and terror in the spectator who view them at a safe distance - through art.

Storrier, the individual, can be abrupt and peppery, and some suggest that his fiery landscapes indicate an artist ‘painting out his anger’. However, Storrier’s art is more an observation of natural vistas of ocean, sunrise and night-sky with transient themes selected from the banality of modern human survival and communication.


Melinda HarperMini Book #1


Melinda Harper is a young artist who came into prominence in the 1990s as a member of the ‘Store 5’ group who actively sought to re-instate geometric abstraction in the contemporary art scene. Her work has also been included in many major exhibitions of abstract art: the ‘Legacy of Op Art’ at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; ‘Perspecta’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and ‘Primavera’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

Harper’s subject matter is restricted to a simple vocabulary of pure abstract shapes and colours. Her paintings are a celebration of colour, forming a visual kaleidoscope painted in a systematic way and usually in groups and series. These precisely executed geometric compositions are visually dazzling, bold and expressive and are based on the repetition in different compositions of multicoloured irregular shapes. She explores this interplay of geometric structures by using variations of size and the positioning of the blocks of colours within all-over patterns. Harper’s purpose is also to use these geometric patterns to create the illusion of movement.ISBN 9781921394041

April 2008


Robert JacksMini Book #5


This addition to the Macmillan Mini Art Book series provides an enticing overview of Robert Jacks’ paintings, sculptures and collages created between the 1950s and now. The text takes in his formative years in Melbourne, the long and fruitful sojourn in New York which brought him into contact with artists and musicians including Bruce Marden, Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and John Lennon, and his return to Australia in 1978.

His work is abstract, but alludes sufficiently to music, architecture and forms in nature to trigger the imagination of the viewer while providing a sumptuous colour experience. Not all artists are masters of colour - but Jacks is a remarkable colourist whose sensibility in this area is rarely matched.

Apart from the rich reproductions of art works, readers of this book are provided with numerous views of Jacks’ studio. This environment is replete with clues relating to the family of forms and colours regularly encountered in his paintings and sculptures, but most clearly catalogued in the collages. Jacks’ mini-book is a resplendent addition to Macmillan’s growing series.

ISBN 9781921394157March 2009

ISBN 9781921394164August 2009

John OlsenMini Book #6


This Macmillan Mini Art Book features a variety of works by this much favoured senior Australian artist. Drawings, prints and paintings are arranged according to familiar Olsen themes with sections devoted to the landscape, the kitchen and culinary subjects, birds and animals, the life-class with its models and, of course, his famous frogs. In all these subjects we catch glimpses of the artist’s exuberant personality and his joyous approach to life.

A special feature of his mini-book is the choice of artworks which often incorporate Olsen’s quirky self-portraits – sometimes hidden in the lines of a landscape and only to be discovered after intense scrutiny. Owners of this mini-book are invited to find him in the images, and thus become aware of how often the artist becomes so thoroughly immersed in the subject he is addressing that he is tempted to paint himself into the picture.

ISBN 9781921394232August 2009

Adam CullenMini Book #7


Adam Cullen, subject of one of this volume in the Macmillan Mini Art Series, emerged in the 1990s as the enfant terrible of the Sydney art-scene and a foremost exponent of ‘grunge’. Despite descriptions of his work as crude, distasteful and grotesque, and his predilection for ‘low-life’ subject matter, his paintings have been selected for many public collections and in 2000 he won the coveted Archibald Prize with his portrait of actor, David Wenham.

Cullen’s palette is restricted to garish colours applied expressionistically to equally vivid coloured backgrounds. Sometimes they include hastily added text which demonstrates Cullen’s contempt for much that he observes in current society.

The addition of this book to Macmillan’s on-going series of mini-art books provides collectors with another approach to the art of today – one which is not flattering, but is acutely aware of contemporary issues and is not afraid to present these raw realities through the art of painting.

Bill Whiskey TjapaltjarriMini Book #8


This is the first volume in Macmillan’s Mini-Art series to feature the work of an Indigenous artist. Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri’s paintings all bear the same title, ‘Rockholes and Country near the Olgas’. They describe in his own unique manner a Dreamtime story about the creation of the landscape and its features which has been passed down through generations of ancestors.

ISBN 9781921394256August 2009

ISBN 9781921394485May 2011

Criss CanningMini Book #9


Macmillan has already published two editions of Criss Canning’s desirable book, The Pursuit of Beauty, authored by David Thomas, and is planning a third edition to showcase her beautiful canvases in which botanical art and still-life painting come together in a completely unique way. This mini-book focuses on Canning’s studies of her studio, with its extraordinary array of still-life objects, and the artist’s favourite flowers and botanical specimens. Many of the paintings have not been previously reproduced.

ISBN 9781921394263August 2009

Inge KingMini Book #10

Judith Trimble

Since coming to Australia, via London, in the early 1950s, Inge King has forged a remarkable reputation as a leading pioneer of contemporary sculpture. In this new addition to the Macmillan’s mini-art series, art historian Judith Trimble discusses King’s practice of producing maquettes and small-scale works as a preliminary to their possible fabrication as large-scale sculptures.This mini-book reproduces more than one hundred of King’s small-scale works and provides valuable insights into sculptural processes.



Yannima Tommy WatsonMini Book #11


Yannima Tommy Watson is a Pitjantjatjara man who in 2001 was one of the founding artists of the Irrunytju Art Centre. He paints the Dreamtime stories of his ‘country’ inherited from his family. As an elder he travels widely across Pitjantjatjara lands to fulfil his obligations. His painting might be described in abstract expressionist terms as exploiting a virtual ‘geography of sensation’. The colours and abstract shapes are stunningly beautiful. No wonder he was commissioned in 2005 to create a work for installation in the Musée du quai Branly, Paris. When the museum opened in 2006 his painting was seen to be enlarged and reproduced on stainless steel tiles adorning a ceiling within the building.

ISBN 9781921394447May 2010

ISBN 9781921394348May 2010

Jim PavlidisMini Book #12

Megan Backhouse

During a visit to Greece artist Jim Pavlidis and writer Megan Backhouse decided to explore in words and images the ambivalence of Greeks who migrated to Australia between 1954 and 1990, with some deciding to return permanently to their homeland. Interviews reveal that these people returned because they always intended to do so, or because they craved the simplicity of village or island life. However, they always missed the lifestyle of where they were not! These stories succinctly encapsulate the universal human experience of migration.

Jim Pavlidis’s sensitive portraits of these people appear alongside their stories.

ISBN 9781921394386May 2010

Anthony ListerMini Book #13


New York-based Australian artist Anthony Lister began his career in Brisbane where he studied at the Queensland College of the Arts and helped pioneer the stencil and street art movement in that city. Lister’s art could be seen as a reincarnation of the American Pop Art movement of the 1960s but, instead of mass market commodities, Lister draws upon the mass media and its superheroes who have helped shape new attitudes and ways of seeing within global society.

He says: “I’m not trying to change the world, I’m just reacting to the world that’s trying to change me.” His imagery, and the media from which it is drawn, reflects the prescience of Marshall McLuhan’s predictions half a century ago.

Charles BlackmanMini Book #14

Barry Dickens and Ken McGregor

Sydney-born Charles Blackman has been a major figure on the Australian art scene since the 1950s when he joined the Melbourne ‘Drift’, befriending artists like Arthur Boyd, John Perceval, Joy Hester and Mirka Mora. He became involved with the ‘Antipodeans’ whose manifesto proclaimed the importance of figuration as opposed to the tide of international trends favouring abstraction. He would exhibit alongside many of his artist friends in the famous Whitechapel and Tate Gallery exhibitions in London in 1961-62.

Noted in the 1950s and 60s for his ‘School Girl’ series and the mesmerising ‘Alice in Wonderland’ paintings, he is widely represented in Australian and overseas collections.

ISBN 9781921394355May 2010

ISBN 9781921394393May 2010

Tate AdamsMini Book #15

Frances Thomson and Jenny Zimmer

Townsville-based artist Tate Adams is renowned for his wood engravings, a form of printmaking he first practised while illustrating limited edition books for Ireland’s famous Dolmen Press. In Australia, he initiated something of a revolution in the art of printmaking through his teaching at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1960-1982, and his establishment of the Crossley Gallery with early exhibitions of prints by artists such as Fred Williams, John Brack, George Baldessin and many others. He also established, with George Baldessin, the Lyre Bird Press for the publication of limited edition artists’ books.

During the past decade he has moved from the miniature art of wood engraving, in which he is an internationally acknowledged master, to the painting of large scale gestural works executed in gouache on paper. The vitality of these recent works is astonishing.

ISBN 9781921394423May 2011

Anne Marie GrahamMini Book #16

Andrew Gaynor and Jenny Zimmer

Highly regarded art historian and curator Jane Clark has described Anne Marie Graham’s art as a ‘celebration of life’. Her lengthy career encompasses many more themes than the lush tropical landscapes featured in this mini-book. She has brought her unique style to scenes from Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens and the arid inland as well as the streets and markets of France and Italy. Often they include figures, sometimes miniscule in relation to their surrounds but comfortable within their colourful environment.

Graham says: “I use colour as a major vehicle for mood.” In this mini-book we are treated to the moods of tropical North Queensland which Graham has visited many times over the last decades.



Bruno LetiMini Book #17

Alan Loney

Unlike Bruno Leti’s monograph, The Matrix (Macmillan 2010, which presented aspects of his printmaking, this Mini Book features the artist’s paintings from the 19060s until now. Alan Loney’s essay examines Leti’s multi-faceted studio practice wherein he produces paintings, prints, artists books, drawings and photographs as integral parts of a working life devoted to the arts.

However, the author’s major theme is the development of Leti’s paintings from the energetically gestural works of his early career to the multi-panelled minimalism of recent years. Many of the paintings in this book have been neither exhibited nor reproduced. Most are landscape-based, but presented as richly coloured lyrical abstractions which project a poetic appeal to the senses through colour, texture and gesture.

ISBN 9781921394492May 2011

ISBN 9781921394607May 2011

Rendi LiuMini Book #18

Jenny Zimmer

Rendi (Tower) Liu was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, P.R. China in September 1960 and migrated to Melbourne in January 1990. The name ‘Tower’ is a translation from his Chinese name ‘Di’ into English for easy pronunciation. A self-taught photographer, he began to practice the art form in 1980 and had his first works published in Nanjing in 1982. His photographs have since been exhibited in China, America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. In 1997 he was the winner of a nation-wide photography competition for Landcare Australia.

The photographs of Australian native flowers contained in this book have been collated over the past twelve years during which he has undertaken extensive travel throughout the country in search of subjects. Rendi’s commitment and passion for the Australian landscape and native flowers, and his acute response to their shapes, colours, structures and forms, is clearly expressed within these beautifully presented photographs.

ISBN 9781921394478January 2012

TjanpiMini Book #19

Jennifer Mitchell, with Mary Pan, Pantjiti McKenzie and Narelle Holland

This delightful book is the first in Macmillan’s Mini-Art series to be authored by a group of Indigenous women, who are themselves represented in the range of artworks throughout its colourful pages.

Tjanpi Desert Weavers is comprised of hundreds of women living across the Northern Territory and the northern regions of South Australia and Western Australia. They are unified under the auspices of the Ngaanyatjara Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council based in Alice Springs. They delight in the creative activity of gathering native grasses into amazing objects which range from colourful baskets to wonderfully imaginative sculptures of aeroplanes, motor cars, people, birds and animals. Their full-sized Tjanpi Toyota has won a national art award, while other giant sculptures have travelled to European cities.

Grahame KingMini Book #20

Jane Eckett

Author Jane Eckett, in examining the role of drawing in an artist’s life, suggests that for Grahame King it represented much more than simply a means of describing the world. It was his way of learning about the world and then synthesising observation, thought, feeling and intuition. The book traces the many ways in which drawing led King to the arts of monotype and lithography in which he became a master printmaker.

The book begins with 1940s sketches of soldiers, shearers and dockworkers and then moves on to his wonderful pen and wash jottings of European architecture and scenery encountered during his travels in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The images reveal the artist’s transition to printmaking techniques which exploit the confidence with colour, line and form that the constant practice of drawing helps to generate. His later ink and wash studies of Phillip Island penguins have all the fine gestural qualities of Oriental calligraphy.

ISBN 9781921394621January 2012

ISBN 9781921394669January 2012

Sandra BardasMini Book #21

David Bardas and Ken McGregor

David Bardas recalls how his wife, Sandra Bardas, who died in 2007, sought every opportunity to photograph the graffiti she spotted in Australian cities and international centres on their business trips around the world. Her interest dates back to the 1990s, before the art form’s current popularity and entry into the art market. He suggests that she recognised and empathised with the free spirit and rebelliousness of the mostly anonymous graffiti artists and their need to be seen and heard. An artist herself, and a mother of six, she was unafraid to speak out and was attracted by the colour and inventiveness demonstrated in the photographic images which are the subject of this book.

Ken McGregor comments on current examples of stencil and graffiti in Melbourne laneways and how stencil artists’ works are now attracting art collectors.

ISBN 9781921394829January 2012

Julian MeagherMini Book #22

Ken McGregor

The fact that Sydney artist Julian Meagher originally studied medicine might be deduced from the proliferation of body images in his paintings. From classical life drawing and persuasive portraiture studied in Italy and Sydney, Meagher has moved to the depiction of intricate tattoos on the backs, torsos, shoulders, arms and legs of male subjects. This might be seen as a new episode of Pop art with the globalisation of cultural practices originating in the East—particularly Japan, where Meagher has frequently travelled. His Pop imagery also extends to festival scenes and the elevation of supermarket and liquor-shop packages and products to symbols of our times.

This is thought-provoking art with a very original and timely edge.


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