Rick Amor

Gavin Fry

Hardback, 216pp, fully illustrated, colour

PUBLISHER: The Beagle Press

ISBN: 0947349529

2008

$120 + postage and handling

Untitled. Portraits of Australian Artists

Sonia Payes

Hardback, 394pp, fully illustrated, colour

PUBLISHER: Macmillan Art Publishing

ISBN: 978 1 876832 28 5

2007

Untitled. catches 60 Australian painters, sculptors, printmakers and photographers within the idiosyncratic environments that help to shape their work.
Often this is the artist’s studio, that special space which is so essential to the creative life. Professor Ted Snell’s Introduction to the book provides an historic overview of the role of the studio as it has evolved over time. Another fifty-two leading authors and art world figures who, like the artists, have been selected from across the nation, have contributed the short essays that accompany each artist’s six-page section of the book.

The compilation of 700 or so images, requiring Sonia Payes’ travel across Australia and overseas, are sensitively revealing of the range of identities who inhabit the pages of the book.

Accordingly, the most compelling pages are those devoted to her full-page, sometimes double-page, portraits of the artists. These demonstrate Payes’ uncanny ability to convey insights into the colourful personalities who contribute so much to Australia’s visual arts culture.

$150 + postage and handling

The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art

Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch

and Emily McCulloch Childs

Hardback, 1216pp, fully illustrated, with over 700 colour images

PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Publishing

ISBN: 0 522 85317 X

McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art has been the 'bible' of Australian art for almost forty years.

Now completely revised and updated, the NEW McCulloch's includes more than 8000 entries on Australian artists, art movements, groups, prizes, awards, exhibitions and galleries; an extensive section on Australia's Aboriginal art with detailed information on artists, community arts centres and regions; and more than 1500 new entries on contemporary artists and art styles.

Lavishly illustrated, this book documents and analyses Australian and Aboriginal art from the famous to the obscure, the colonial to the contemporary. Both a scholarly reference and a book to browse, it is the essential book for professionals, art collectors, students and all interested in the vibrant art of Australia.

$295 + postage and handling

David Keeling

David Hansen

Hardback, 64 pages

PUBLISHER: Quintus Publlishings

ISBN: 987 0 9775572 4 0

David Keeling is a painter fully grounded in western art's long history of classicism, the tradition which runs from Botticelli to Poussin, from Puvis de Chavannes to De Chirico. He uses that artistic language – a combination of figuration, narrative and landscape – to describe Australia’s shorter and sadder history of invasion and ecological destruction. From the bleak, denuded hillscapes of the 1990s, with their isolated markers of civilisation – houses, gates dining tables, curtains – to the more recent, richly-patterned treescapes of the Narawntapu National Park, Keeling’s work uncovers and expresses the beautiful, tragic, surreal poetry of the Tasmanian environment.

$39.95 + postage and handling

STUDIO: Australian Painterson the Nature of Creativity

R. Ian Lloyd and John McDonald

Hardback, 283 pages

PUBLISHER: R. Ian Lloyd Productions

ISBN: 978 981 05 7456 6

For the artist, the studio is the engine room of his or her creativity. It is both playground and prison cell, the place where long, long days are spent wrestling with the Muse. For the public the artist’s studio is a mysterious and magical place where an infinite diversity of images are brought to life. STUDIO: Australian Painters on the Nature of Creativity showcases 61 important painters working in their studio environment.

The aim was to capture a broad cross-section of artists from all over Australia, working in a variety of styles, as well as traditional Aboriginal painters. Photographic portraits by National Geographic photographer, R. Ian Lloyd, reveal the artist’s working environment in fascinating detail, whether it be an inner city loft, a kitchen table or the sandy earth of the Outback. Art critic, John McDonald, provides profiles of individual artists, examining the way their studio space affects and stimulates their creativity,

$80.00 + postage and handling

Our Way: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from

Lockhart River

Sally Butler

Hardback, 136 pages

PUBLISHER: University of Queensland

ISBN: 978 0 7022 3634 1

Our Way: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Lockhart River introduces the unique art of a group of young Aboriginal artists from far north Queensland's Lockhart River community. Lockhart River is Australia's only remote youth-driven Aboriginal art initiative, and the rise to national and international recognition of a number of a number of these artists is a remarkable chapter in Australia's art history. Their art is about 'Sandbeach' culture and community and its spectacular wilderness environment in Cape York Peninsula. But is it also a worldly art of the twenty-first century that shows the global scope of Aboriginal cultural expression today.

Lockhart River art is always about the community, but each artist approaches this communal identity in distinctive and innovative ways. Their art is a beguiling insight into how individuality and community can coexist in the contemporary life of Aboriginal people. Our Way brings all of this extraordinary art together in the one place for the first time.

$80.00 + postage and handling

Voyage and Landfall: The Art of Jan Senbergs

Patrick McCaughey

Hardback, 233 pages

PUBLISHER: The Miegunyah Press

ISBN: 0 522 85182 7

Voyage and Landfall is the first monograph on Jan Senbergs. Luminously illustrated, with more than two hundred paintings and drawings, it uncovers an underlying pattern in Senbergs' life and art between the search for experience – the voyages – and its rendering in the studio – the landfalls.

In Voyage and Landfall renowned critic and art historian Patrick McCaughey traces Senbergs' journey, his developments an artist and his distinctive interpretation of the Australian landscape. This warm and insightful chronicle of Senbergs' life provides a richly illustrated, comprehensive overview of his work, his sources of inspiration and his significant contribution of Australian art.

$59.95 + postage and handling

Kevin Lincoln: art and life

Hendrik Kolenberg

Hardback, 109 pages

*Boxed Deluxe Edition including choice of two limited prints signed by the artist also available

PUBLISHER: Niagara Publishing
ISBN 1 920857 19 2

Although Kevin Lincoln is not as well known as some of his contemporaries, over the last decade or so, his consistently distinctive imagery has won high praise as part of the growing and contradictory terrain of contemporary Australian art.

The development in his work from expressive social realism to still life, self portraits and abstraction is interesting in itself, but the largest canvases of his mature work have an elegiac quality that sets him apart. He is a broad, spare an instinctive painter in oil and gouache, a rigorous and vivacious draughtsman and a consummate printmaker with a formidable oeuvre of almost 400 prints to date. How he uses ink, charcoal and paint is as personal as handwriting – tactile and seductive, it has become his trademark. The reductive simplicity of his work and the metaphysics of its imagery, can offer welcome respite in our collective search for order and tranquility.

$70.00    + postage and handling (hardback)

$330.00  + postage and handling (Deluxe Edition)

Common Sense

Martin Parr

Hardback, 160 pages

PUBLISHER: Dewi Lewis Publishing

ISBN 1899235078

Common Sense combines extravagantly lurid and luscious colour with Parr's trademark sense of irony. Though hilariously funny-as always with Parr's work-there is a sharp and biting edge to the humour. He highlights the minutiae of everyday contemporary life-hamburgers, cigarette butts, tacky gifts, furry slippers and dime store combs-that have been taken around the world. These photographs are "documentary"-moments in a world culture.

$99.00 + postage and handling

Martin Parr by Val Williams

Val Williams

Paper back, 352pp 441 col 156 b&w photos

PUBLISHER: Phaidon

ISBN 0 7148 4389 X

This Martin Parr retrospective is rich in the wit and colour that Parr's work is best known for, but also offers the first serious assessment of the career of this major contemporary photographer. Parr combines an urge to document with a bemusement about social behaviour. Author Val Williams, a distinguished writer and curator, considers his better known later work in the context of his full career and in so doing shows how Parr's photographs have highlighted political and social change over the last thirty years.

While Parr began his career in Britain, he now has a large international following. This book offers the overview that many have eagerly awaited. It features fascinating previously unpublished early work, his startling and original 1974 installation Home Sweet Home, early black-and-white photographs of the people and places of Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire where he lived and worked in the 1970s, photographs from Ireland and Salford, and of course a selection of the very best images from all his published books including The Last Resort, The Cost of Living, Signs of the Times and Think of England (published by Phaidon). With unlimited access to Parr's archives and quoting from extensive interviews, Val Williams charts Parr's life and career, revealing insights into his influences and attitudes and assessing his importance within the worlds of art and photography.

$69.95 + postage and handling

Fashion Magazine by Martin Parr

Martin Parr

Softcover, 180 colour photographs

PUBLISHER: Magnum Photos

ISBN 2 9524102 0 9

Fashion Magazine by Martin Parr is a collector's item pubished by Magnum photos. It is 100% Martin Parr: he did all of the fashion shoots as well as the illustrations for the magazine section and for the advertisements. Almost half of the photographs are brand new and produced especially for this publication. Under the editorial direction of Laurence Benaim – editor in chief of Stiletto magazine – and of Martin Bethenod – director of Fiac art fair – prestigious personalities were invited to comment on these images: Christian Lacroix, Sonia Rykiel, Jean Charles de Castelbajac, Victoire de Castellane, or Tamsin Blanchard, just to mention a few, were willing to pay tribute to this atypical artist by sharing their views on his pictures.

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The Photobook: A History

Volume 1

Martin Parr and Gerry Badger

Hardback 320 pp c.850 col & b&w illus.

PUBLISHER: Phaidon

ISBN 0 7148 4285 0

While the history of photography is a well-established canon, much less critical attention has been directed at the phenomenon of the photobook, which for many photographers is perhaps the most significant vehicle for the display of their work and the communication of their vision to a mass audience. In the first of two volumes, both co-edited by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the photobook, from its inception at the dawn of photography in the early nineteenth century through to the radical Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and 70s, by way of the modernist and propaganda books of the 1930s and 40s.

In his introduction, Badger argues that the photobook is one of the most significant photographic genres due to the extent of its distribution and level of availability, and contests the traditional notion that the history of photography is best represented by the original print. This study provides an important corrective to the traditional history of photography. The selection of photographers made by Badger and Parr challenges the popular canon, and their survey of the history of the photobook reveals a secret web of influence and interrelationships between photographers and photographic movements around the world.

The book is divided into a series of thematic and broadly chronological chapters, each featuring a general introductory text providing background information and highlighting the dominant political and artistic influences on the photobook in the period, followed by more detailed discussion of the individual photobooks. The chapter texts are followed by spreads and images from over 200 books, which provide the central means of telling the history of the photobook. Chosen by Parr and Badger, these illustrations show around 200 of the most artistically and culturally important photobooks in three dimensions, with the cover or jacket and a selection of spreads from the book shown. Volume One also features an illuminating and provocative introduction, ‘The Photobook: Between the Film and the Novel' by Badger, which is accompanied by a preface written by Parr.

Martin Parr: Boring Postcards

Edited by Martin Parr

Hardback, 176 pp, 120 colour photographs

PUBLISHER: Phaidon

ISBN 0 7148 3895 0

Parr has been collecting postcards for twenty years, and here is the cream of his collection – his boring postcards. With no introduction or commentary of any kind, Parr's boring postcards are reproduced straight: they are exactly what they say they are, namely boring picture postcards showing boring photographs of boring places … presumably for boring people to buy to send to their boring friends. All of them are shot in Britain, taking us on a boring tour of its motorways, ring roads, traffic interchanges, bus stations, pedestrian precincts, factories, housing estates, airports, caravan sites, convalescent homes and shopping centres. Some attempt to idealize their subjects, only to fail dismally. Others lack any apparent purpose or interest … but the resultant collection of photographic images is wholly compelling.

Boring Postcards is multi-layered: a commentary on British architecture, social life and identity, a record of a folk photography which is today being appropriated by the most fashionable photographers (including Parr), an exercise in sublime minimalism … and, above all, a richly comic photographic entertainment.

Ian Abdulla: Elvis has entered the building

Text by Stephen Fox and Janet Maughan

Hardback, 104 pages

ISBN 1 86254 618 5

Well, all I want to be seen is a quiet lad, interesting and someone who knows about history along the river, the way I grew up and about family and things like that.

For a painter who wishes to be remembered as a ‘quiet lad', Ian Abdulla has been creating quite a stir over the past 15 years. He is recognised as one of Australia's most distinctive and appealing contemporary visual artists.

Tony Bevan: Paintings 2000–2003

Marco Livingstone and Tony Bevan

Hardback, 80 pages

PUBLISHER: Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London

ISBN: 1900 829 134

Rick Amor: Standing in the shadows

Robert Lindsay

Paperback, 124 pages

PUBLISHER: McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park

ISBN 0 9578963 6 0

This extensive catalogue was published to accompany a major survey exhibition of Rick Amor's painting and sculpture at the McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park in 2005. Alongside numerous colour illustrations, there is an insightful essay by Robert Lindsay.

$40.00 + postage and handling (paperback)

$80.00 + postage and handling (hardback)

The Making of A House

Janne Faulkner and Harley Anstee

Hardback, 178 pages

Available in both small and large formats

PUBLISHER: Hardie Grants Books

ISBN: 1 74066 089 7

Our ideal of the house starts very early in life. A house is where we grow up, and holds many memories of family times together and meals shared. It's where, as children, we watch and learn the arts of cooking and gardening and the preciousness of books and music.

In Janne Faulkner and Harley Anstee's experience, the success of the house comes from the owner. If the house is tailored to meet the needs of its   occupants, it s one that shouts wellbeing, easy comfort and happiness. It is the one place you can make uniquely your own.

The Making of a House takes you on a journey through a house, from first impressions at the front door, and then through each room. The result is well lived in, comfortable rooms.

As designers, Janne and Harley are aware that no two households share the same requirements, so the books offer a range of possible options. Though different, the philosophy of each is the same:   your ideas and personality must shine through. Forget the rules, and think about how you want to use the rooms.

Tradition Today: Indigenous Art in Australia

Hetti Perkins

Paperback, 208 pages

PUBLISHER: Art Gallery of New South Wales

The most accessible and well illustrated survey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art from early works to the art of today. With 77 entries organised A-Z by artist with language group, 1-3 images per entry, photo of artist where applicable, introduction and map, glossary, index and bibliography. Contributors include, Howard Morphy, Hannah Fink, Hetti Perkins, Eric Kjellgren and Luke Taylor.

Saltwater: Yirrkala Bark Paintings of the Sea Country
6 artists’ statements and an essay by Djon Mundine OAM
Paperback 112 pages
PUBLISHER: Buku-Larrngay Mulka Centre

The works in this book are a bold statement of the Yolnu people’s beliefs. These paintings are based around the importance of the sea and the Ancestral Crocodile. Together, the works act as a collective voice for the indigenous people of far North Australian, reaffirming the importance of the land, sea and wildlife to their culture and beliefs.

$40.00 + postage and handling

Lina Byrans : Rare modern 1909 - 2000
Gillian Forward
Hardback 214 pages
The Meigunyah press, 2003
ISBN 0552285037-5

Lina Bryans – unconventional, generous, beautiful – was an influential artist of the modernist movement in Australia, and a key player in the cultural life of Melbourne. Often overlooked in her own time, Bryans is now being recognised as a significant figure in Australian art.