Macmillan Art Publishing Complete Catalogue 2014

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Macmillan Art Publishing
Complete Catalogue 2014
We are delighted to announce that
Jenny Zimmer, Macmillan Art’s
publisher, was honoured in the
Queen’s birthday 2014 honours
list. She was awarded a Member
in the General Division (AM) for
‘significant service to the visual
arts as an administrator, academic
and publisher’. Working as an art
publisher at Macmillan since 1997,
Zimmer has been responsible for over
100 titles documenting Australian art.
Indigenous Australian Art
Aboriginal Art
Creativity 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.
AU$89.95 • NZ$105.00 • 295mm x 208mm • Hb • 320 pages • ISBN 9781921394003 • December 2008
Artists of the Western Desert
Portraits 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 218mm • Pb • 200 pages • ISBN 9781921394645 • August 2011
Ngurra Kuju Walyja — One Country, One People
Stories 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$140.00 • 295mm x 244mm • Hb • 400 pages • ISBN 9781921394676 • October 2011
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Power + Colour
New 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.
AU$125.00 • NZ$165.00 • 300mm x 240mm • Hb • 368 pages • ISBN 9781921394744 • November 2012
Tjanpi Desert Weavers
Compiled 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.
AU$79.95 • NZ$99.95 • 300mm x 244mm • Pb • 448 pages • ISBN 9781921394898 • March 2012
Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson
Ken 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$120.00 • 304mm x 249mm • Hb • 208 pages • ISBN 9781921394430 • February 2011
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Australian Art & Artists
Contemporary Australian Drawing 1
Janet 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.
AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 320mm x 250mm • Hb • 256 pages • ISBN 9781921394539 • March 2012
Encounters with Australian Modern Art
Editor: 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 worldwide 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.
ROAR Re-viewed
30 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$180.00 • 310mm x 300mm • Hb • 360 pages • ISBN 9781921394690 • June 2012
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Unfinished Journey
Edited 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.
Untitled
Portraits 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$180.00 • 315mm x 310mm • Hb • 400 pages • ISBN 9781876832285 • July 2007
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Individual Artists
Andrew Sibley
An 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.
Sibley’s 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.
Arnold Shore
Pioneer 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.
AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 318mm x 246mm • Hb • 208 pages • ISBN 9781921394249 • September 2009
Art and Soul
Flossie 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.
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Individual Artists
The Art of Grahame King
Sasha 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 Jock Clutterbuck
Sasha Grishin. Co-published with Australian Galleries, Melbourne and Sydney
Jock Clutterbuck is a remarkably accomplished sculptor and printmaker, whose distinctive abstract imagery is equally
expressive in either medium. In his ‘Foreword’, Geoffrey Edwards describes Clutterbuck’s unique forms as possessing
‘… the elegant visual clarity and crisp ornament of an old astrolabe or suchlike scientific instrument’. Author Sasha
Grishin explains that the artist is ‘… unusual in his preoccupation with mysticism in general and with theosophy and
… arcane systems of knowledge’. The identifying characteristics of this artist’s works stretch throughout his entire
oeuvre — dating from his student days at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in the 1960s, throughout his
more than 25 years teaching at the Victorian College of the Arts, to the years since 2000 that he has been able to
dedicate full-time to his art.
Clutterbuck’s first exhibitions were held at Tate Adams’ Crossley Gallery, Melbourne’s first dedicated printmaking
venue, which from the 1950s to 1980s showed artists such as Fred Williams, George Baldessin and Hertha KlugePott. Today, Jock Clutterbuck exhibits at Australian Galleries, with whom this exquisite monograph, designed by Suzi
Ditterich, is co-published.
AU$69.95 • NZ$89.95 • 240mm x 240mm • Pb • 192 pages • ISBN 9781921394768 • October 2013
The Art of Roger Kemp
Christopher 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.
Australia Felix
Landscapes 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.
Individual Artists
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Bays and Beaches
Port 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.’
Brett Whiteley
A 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. 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.’
AU$130.00 • NZ$160.00 • 333mm x 264mm • Hb • 348 pages • ISBN 9781921394379 • April 2010
Bruno Leti
The 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.
Bruno Leti
Portrait 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.
AU$69.95 • NZ$89.95 • 290mm x 241mm • Pb • 192 pages • ISBN 9781921394713 • November 2011
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Individual Artists
Captured in Time
Journeys 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.
Conform
Saskia 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.
Criss Canning: The Pursuit of Beauty
Second Edition
David Thomas
This second edition and third printing of David Thomas’s account of Criss Canning’s life as an artist dedicated to the
still-life genre provides up-to-date information and stunning reproductions of her works dating from 2006 to today—
the oil paint was still drying on the last painting as the book went to press. If the earlier paintings demonstrated
Canning’s creation of sensational compositional arrangements of ceramic vases, exotic fruits and the colours and
textures of fresh flora gathered from her husband’s fabled Lambley Nursery, the later paintings introduce seashells
and beautiful Venetian glasswares. A more pronounced philosophical introspection becomes evident, and closer
inspection often reveals an image of the artist at her easel reflected in the glass vessels that hold the flowers.
As author David Thomas suggests, in these paintings ‘the pursuit of beauty’ is amply realised.
David Rankin
The New York Years
Dore Ashton, with an Introduction by Peter Carey
Renowned New York art historian and critic Dore Ashton’s new book on the Australian artist David Rankin’s ‘New York
Years’ provides illuminating insights into the development of the numerous themes expressed in the paintings and
sculptures he has created over recent decades. Its 288 richly illustrated pages amply document this range of ideas.
While Peter Carey’s introduction offers important glimpses of Rankin’s youth and earlier career in Australia, Ashton
develops this narrative and then extends her analysis into subsequent years after his marriage to poet Lily Brett and
their move to a New York still redolent with the influence of Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko and many others, about
whom Ashton has written extensively.
Dore Ashton’s text is interspersed with extended quotes from the artist himself. These affirm the genesis of his art in
a long-term investigation of Buddhist thinking and calligraphy, and knowledge of Western literary sources such as the
writings of James Joyce, Primo Levi, Walter Benjamin and poets like the American Wallace Stevens.
Individual Artists
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Dean Bowen
Argy-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 Bresciani
Compositions 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$130.00
• 308mm x 246mm • Hb • 176 pages • ISBN 9781921394959 • August 2012
Earth to Sky: The Art of Victor Majzner
Paintings, 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 Vines
Forty-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.
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Individual Artists
Fred Cress: Whispers
Drawings 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.
AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 338mm x 251mm • Hb • 256 pages • ISBN 9781876832643 • May 2007
George Johnson
World 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.
Great Music Makers
Louis 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.
In Praise of Landscape
The 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.”
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Jason Benjamin
What 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 longheld 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 Life
His 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’.
Jörg Schmeisser
Bilder Der Reise – A man, who likes to draw
Roger Butler, Eric Denker, Peter Haynes, Merryn Gates, Rudiger Joppien, Hendrik Kolenberg, Suzanne
Knight, Akira Kurosaki, Howard Morphy, Sarina Noordhius-Fairfax, and Paul Wunderlich.
This splendidly illustrated, multi-colored publication serves as a fitting memorial to a much-admired Canberra-based
artist, teacher and traveller who died in 2012 while still involved with the production of the book. A painter of the art
of colour etching, his keenly observed studies of the world around him – whether in his birthplace, Germany, or in fairflung and ancient places in the Middle East, Far East and Australia – are rich in detail and often annotated in his own
handwriting. He lets the etched line work on the spectator’s imagination – with poetic rewards for all who ponder.
Schemisser came to Australia in 1978 as head of the Printmaking Department of the Canberra School of Art. As such,
he encouraged the development of a generation of young artists. His own works are keenly collected – particularly
in Australia, Germany and Jpan. Co-published by SFA Press, Canberra, and Macmillan Art Publishing, this is a
heartwarming account of an artistic life well-lived from a variety of scholarly and critical perspectives. The design and
colour reproduction are both spectacular.
Joseph Henderson
Doyen of Glasgow Artists 1832-1908
Hilary Christie-Johnston
Joseph Henderson’s contribution to the burgeoning Glasgow art world in the second half of the 19th century and
the first years of the 20th was profound. Glasgow became a centre of artistic activity in the 1860s, due in part to the
establishment of the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and the artists who formed the Glasgow Art Club of which
Henderson was twice president. Among the artists most regularly reviewed in The Glasgow Herald and The Scotsman
was Joseph Henderson whose early works encompassed portraiture and genre painting but who later became
renowned for his seascapes and extraordinary rendition of the west coast of Scotland. These feature prominently in
this richly coloured illustrated book which brings to life what Henderson called his ‘bit of the Ayrshire Coast’.
And yet today, knowledge of his contribution requires renewal. Perhaps overshadowed by his son-in-law, the better
known William McTaggart, and vying for recognition with his three artist sons, one of whom became Director of the
Glasgow School of Art, few remember that Henderson had many paintings hung at the Royal Academy in London and
in 1896 was declared by his colleagues to be ‘the doyen of Glasgow artists’.
AU$79.95 • NZ$99.95 • 304mm x 240mm • Pb • 160 pages • ISBN 9781921394881 • July 2013
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Individual Artists
Les Kossatz
The 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
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.
Robert Jacks
His 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.
AU$89.95 • NZ$99.00 • 345mm x 251mm • Hb • 48 pages • ISBN 9781876832261 • August 2004
Searching for Gaia
The 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.
Tim Storrier
Moments
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.
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Vassilieff and His Art
Felicity 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$89.95 • 300mm x 240mm • Pb • 240 pages • ISBN 9781921394874 • May 2012
Walters
Art 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.
Yosl Bergner
Art 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 wellresearched 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.
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Art Collections & Institutions
Accounting for Taste
The Lowensteins Arts Management Collection
Sasha Grishin
Author Sasha Grishin has used a musical analogy to categorise the more than 250 lavishly reproduced artworks by
135 artists of Australia’s post-war years that are included in this book. Recalling the movements of a symphony, he
divides the artworks into four ‘movements’: ‘Humanist Moderns’, ‘Formalist Moderns’, those for whom the landscape
is relevant and, lastly, a variety of painters and sculptors more difficult to fit into a cohesive group. The ‘Prelude’
which introduces the book tells the story of accountant Tom Lowenstein who, with his partners, experimented in
art collecting in the 1970s before – together with his son Evan and a colleague Adam Micmacher – establishing the
present Lowensteins Arts Management Collection which currently hangs in Melbourne and Sydney. Befriending
artists like John Olsen, Charles Blackman and Arthur Boyd, he was privvy to sound advice while he developed his own
aesthetic judgement.
Claiming Ground
Twenty-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.
The Coppin Grove Collection of Sandra and David Bardas
David 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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Elgee Park
Sculpture in the Landscape, Second 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 Manuscripts
In 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.
Greek Vases
At 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 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.
CD • AU$49.95 • NZ$64.95 • ISBN 9781876832087
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Jewish Museum of Australia
Jewish 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.
AU$49.95 • NZ$62.00 • 282mm x 241mm • Pb • 200 pages • ISBN 9781875670444 • September 2008
Luminous Simplicity
The 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. 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.
When You Think about Art
The 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.
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Art History & Cultural Studies
Art and Humanist Ideals
Contemporary 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. 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.
The Blake Book
Art, 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$89.95 • 318mm x 247mm • Pb • 224 pages • ISBN 9781921394737 • October 2011
The Darkroom
Photography 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.
Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment
Australia - 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.
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.
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The Heritage of Eastern Turkey
Antonio 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 littleknown and seldom-visited region in the far east of Turkey.
Homesickness
Nationalism 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$71.95 • 241mm x 170mm • Pb • 230 pages • ISBN 9781921394010 • September 2008
Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval
Europe
Edited 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.
Letters of Pope Gregory
Professor John R. C. Martyn, University of Melbourne, Australia
During the time Gregory the Great served as Pope of the Catholic Church, from 590-604 AD, he sent more than 850
letters to contacts throughout the known world – often using travellers as letter-bearers. However it was a time of
warfare in Italy, with invading bombards, and trade in slaves was lucrative – with agents quick to capture defenceless
travellers. Official communication, like imperial or papal orders were sent via postal channels, by horsemen or fast
boats, these too were often blocked by enemy armies. This book studies some forty Latin letters sent by Pope
Gregory, copies of which are included in a manuscript held in the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of
Melbourne.
This unique Melbourne manuscript, with its colourful initials and rubrication of the titles comprises a series of folios
removed in the 17th century and used by musicians in Worcester Cathedral to protect their musical scores. Rebound
in the 20th century and put up for sale in London, the manuscript was purchased by the Classics Department of the
University of Melbourne in the 1970s.
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The Lip Anthology
An Australian Feminist Arts Journal 1976-1984
Edited by Vivian Ziherl
By reviewing the adventurous projects and artworks of a significant group of women involved with the Lip Collective
based in Melbourne in the 1970s and 80s, this exciting anthology co-published by Kunstverein Publishing Amsterdam
and Macmillan Art Publishing discloses for the first time the scope of the movement.
As editor Vivian Ziherl writers: “Lip magazine was self-published by women in Melbourne from 1976 to 1984 and stood
as a lightning rod for Australian feminist artistic practice over the ‘Women Liberation’ era. The art and ideas expressed
over Lip’s lifetime track, with ground-breaking moves into performance, ecology, social-engagement and labor
politics, stood at an intersection with local realities. The Lip Anthology seeks a figuration of Lip as a composite feminist
entity produced with relation to the situational conditions of its production.”
AU$49.95 • NZ$69.95 • 270mm x 190mm • Pb • 192 pages • ISBN 9781921394775 • July 2013
A Pavane for Another Time
Emeritus 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.
The Revolutionary Century
Art 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.
Sound of Our Summer Seas
Japan 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 littleknown and fascinating story of Townsville’s Japanese Consuls, which is superbly illustrated by Townsville-based artist
Tate Adams, will surprise and delight.
Tiepolo’s Cleopatra
Jaynie 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.
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Literature & Biography
Cosmic Collisions & Falling Bodies
Barbara 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 Moments
Essays 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.
The Dramas of Lajos Walder
Vase 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.
Limited Recall
A 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.
Art History & Cultural Studies / Literature & Biography
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A Meeting of East and West
Days Gone By, Volume Two
Christine Wu Ramsay
In Days Gone By, Volume 2: A Meeting of East and West, Christine Wu Ramsay continues the personal story of her life
in an ever-widening world – as East meets West. The story is told with warmth, insight and her characteristic sense of
humour. Presented with the realities of Western customs and values, she sets these against her changing perceptions
of the traditions and philosophies of a matriarchal and extended Chinese family living in Singapore. Contrasts
between East and West are highlighted when she takes a Western husband and they have two Eurasian children.
Photographs spanning a century, complement the author’s engaging and revealing description of studying, working
and living in Asia, Australia, England and America from 1958 to 1983.
The Midday Clock
Selected 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.
My Life Among Westerners
The 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’.
Notes from the Shed
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 ironbark 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’.
No Other Man, No Other Store
The Extraordinary Life of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones: Painter, Patron and Patriot 1878 - 1958
Jenny Cullen, with an Introduction by Professor Geoffrey Blainey
Sir Charles Lloyd Jones always wanted to be an artist and, in his youth, studied painting first at the Julian Ashton Art
School in Sydney and then at the Slade in London. As grandson of the founder of David Jones Ltd., he eventually returned
from London to play many important roles in the firm – firstly by revolutionising its advertising and later as Chairman of
the Board for almost 40 years until his death in 1958. If his innovative approach to many areas of retailing has become
legendary, his contribution to the arts in Australia was equally profound. He shared with founder Sydney Ure Smith the
publication of Art in Australia and The Home. He was appointed first Chairman of the ABC and an initial director of the
Australian National Travel Association, now known as Tourism Australia. He became a long-term Trustee of the Art Gallery
of NSW, established David Jones’ Art Gallery and helped bring local and overseas artists to increasingly arts-interested
Australian audiences. All the while, he continued to paint – albeit on a very much part-time basis. This biography provides an
exciting documentation of the life of a remarkable citizen, described in the title of the book as ‘Painter, Patron and Patriot’.
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Satires & Songs of an Upright Rabbit
Jim 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.
Views from the Balcony
A 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.
AU$44.95 • NZ$59.95 • 234mm x 150mm • Pb • 224 pages • ISBN 9781921394577 •June 2011
We, the Twenty-Five Letters of the Alphabet
Lajos Walder, translated by 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$59.95 • 240mm x 160mm • Hb • 160 pages • ISBN 9781876832025 September 2004
Where the Cool Warrichi Flows
Jim 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 mixedrace 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.
The Whispering Gallery
Art 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$100.00 • 312mm x 249mm • Pb • 128 pages • ISBN 9781876832858 • May 2006
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Macmillan Mini Art Book Series
With twenty-one titles now available, these little books make perfect gifts and lend themselves to counter display.
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
Melinda Harper
Mini Book #1
Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer
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 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.
ISBN 9781921394041 • April 2008
Jasper Knight
Mini Book #2
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. Knight has painted the docklands of Melbourne and the piers and ferries of Sydney
Harbour.
ISBN 9781921394034 • May 2008
Tim Storrier
Mini 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
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.
ISBN 9781921394126 • October 2008
Robert Jacks
Mini Book #5
This book provides an enticing overview of Robert Jacks’ paintings, sculptures and collages created between the
1950s and now. 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.
ISBN 9781921394157 • March 2009
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Macmillan Mini Art Books
John Olsen
*Mini 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.
ISBN 9781921394164 • August 2009
*Reprint under consideration
Adam Cullen
Mini Book #7
Adam Cullen 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, 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.
ISBN 9781921394232 • August 2009
Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri
Mini 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 9781921394256 • August 2009
Criss Canning
*Mini Book #9
Criss Canning’s desirable book, The Pursuit of Beauty, showcases 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 9781921394485 • May 2011
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Inge King
*Mini 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.
ISBN 9781921394263 • August 2009
Yannima Tommy Watson
Mini 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.
ISBN 9781921394447 • May 2010
Jim Pavlidis
Mini 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.
Jim Pavlidis’s sensitive portraits of these people appear alongside their stories.
ISBN 9781921394348 • May 2010
Anthony Lister
Mini 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.
ISBN 9781921394386 • May 2010
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Charles Blackman
Mini 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.
ISBN 9781921394355 • May 2010
Tate Adams
Mini 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 RMIT from 1960-1982, and his establishment of the
Crossley Gallery. During the past decade he has moved from the miniature art of wood engraving to the painting of
large scale gestural works executed in gouache on paper. The vitality of these recent works is astonishing.
ISBN 9781921394393 • May 2010
Anne Marie Graham
Mini 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.
ISBN 9781921394423 • May 2011
Bruno Leti
Mini 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 1960s 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.
ISBN 9781921394492 • May 2011
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Rendi Liu
Mini 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. 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. 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.
ISBN 9781921394607 • May 2011
Tjanpi
Mini Book #19
Jennifer Mitchell, with Mary Pan, Pantjiti McKenzie and Narelle Holland
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 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.
ISBN 9781921394478 • January 2012
Grahame King
Mini 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.
ISBN 9781921394621 • January 2012
Sandra Bardas
Mini Book #21
David Bardas and Ken McGregor
David Bardas recalls how his wife, Sandra, 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. 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.
ISBN 9781921394669 • January 2012
Julian Meagher
Mini 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. 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.
ISBN 9781921394829 • January 2012
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New in 2014
Performance_Ritual_Document
Anne Marsh
Professor Anne Marsh’s meticulously researched and stunningly illustrated study of Australian performance art, and
its documentation via photography and the electronic media, is essential reading for everyone intent on a better
understanding of developments in contemporary art. Marsh draws upon international literature and criticism of the
artform and applies this knowledge to the works of a range of artists who have dedicated decades of their lives to the
expression of ideas through bodily performance. Such artists include Jill Orr, Mike Parr, Deborah Kelly, Peter Kennedy,
Julie Rrap, Kevin Mortensen, Domenico de Clario, Nasin Nasr, Fiona McGregor, Sarah-Jane Norman, Stelarc, Ash Keating
and many others, including New York based Australian, Theresa Byrnes. A most important publication.
The Art of Inge King
Sculptor
Sasha Grishin
This publication surveys the life’s work of an artist who arrived in Australia in the early 1950s having already
undertaken art studies in Germany, England and Scotland. She had also travelled to America to witness, first hand,
post-war developments in the New York art world. The extravagantly illustrated book, with wonderful photographs
by Mark Strizic, John Gollings, Jacqui Henshaw, Robin Whittle and others, attempts to document the majority of the
artist’s sculptures and works on paper produced over her decades in this country. Included for special consideration in
the text are sections on King’s major public commissions such as Forward Surge at the Victorian Arts Centre and Rings
of Saturn at Heide Museum of Modern Art.
By concentrating on the artist’s entire career, from art school studies in the 1930s to works produced as recently
as 2012, this book is intended to be a singularly comprehensive coverage of the artist’s iconographic and stylistic
development and a record of this 98 year-old’s creative life dedicated to the art of sculpture.
ISBN 9781922252005 • May 2014
John Olsen
The Drawings
John Olsen and Ken McGregor
This richly illustrated publication represents the author’s attempt to locate as many of John Olsen’s drawings as
possible and Macmillan’s determination to reproduce them in a book which will serve as a companion to our previous
monographs on the artist’s prints and paintings.
Olsen is an artist who believes drawing to be the fundamental skill of artistic production and whose artworks, whether
paintings, prints or drawings, indicate a keen sense of observation of human and animal behaviour translated into
lively and sometimes humorous compositions dependent on the drawn line. He is a living legend on the Australian art
scene, who claims: “Drawing is important in every stage of an artist’s career. Drawing is the plank on which you build
the architecture of your work. Drawing is a transferable energy, a life-force, and it entails many ways of observing…”
This book will inform and amuse as it reiterates the importance of drawing.
ISBN 9781921394812 • May 2014
The Art of Nyurapaya Nampitjinpa
(Mrs Bennett)
Ralph Hobbs and Ken McGregor
This book features hundreds of paintings by the distinguished Alice Springs-based artist known as Mrs Bennett. A special feature of the
publication is the series of photographs showing Mrs Bennett’s methods of production - with the various applications of paint and its
distribution over the canvas that lead to her readily recognisable personal style. This is a lavishly illustrated account of Mrs Bennett’s life and
work and, as such, provides another important monograph dedicated to the achievements of individual Indigenous artists.
ISBN 9781921394362 • June 2014
New in 2014
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