Book Reviews
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Artists At Home
Spanning a range of material, painting, photography, installation, moving images, sculpture, fibre, and ceramics, Artists at Home steps inside the homes and studios of thirty-two women artists across Australia.
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Earth & Fire
Earth & Fire introduces the reader to forty-five active ceramicists, their thoughts, materials, and processes when working with their chosen medium.
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VISION: Art, Architecture and the National Gallery of Australia
The story of the conception of the National Gallery of Australia building – its design, construction and controversial aftermath.
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Australian Abstract
Amber Creswell Bell poses the question, “What is Abstract?” and delves into the practices of forty-one Australian abstract artists to find the answer in her fifth publication with Thames & Hudson.
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Liam Benson: Virtue Without Stain
'Liam Benson: Virtue Without Stain' presents sixty-seven images accompanied by essays that contextualise the artist's visual arts practice, which explores issues of masculinity.
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Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: Ready-made Ruin
'Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: Ready-made Ruin' is a definitive monograph documenting the celebrated artists’ work over the past two decades.
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Margo Lewers: no limits
In all aspects of her life "she embraced modernism not as a style but an ideology for a new way of living."
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Benjamin Gray | Extinct: Artistic Impressions of Our Lost Wildlife
Science and art collide to prove that all species have equal intrinsic value. This book mourns the loss of Australia’s unique native animals while celebrating their existence, diversity and significance.
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Jahnne Pasco-White: Kin
A three-year painting and drawing project by artist Jahnne Pasco-White, which the artist developed during a significant life-changing cycle of pregnancy, birth and new motherhood, is beautifully displayed and documented in this publication titled ‘Kin’.
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Dušan and Voitre Marek: Surrealists at sea
The subtle cloth-bound cover of this publication offers no visual cue to the intrigue that unfolds between its pages nor the exquisitely reproduced imagery of Dušan and Voitre’s artworks.
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Still Life: Contemporary Australian Painters
Amber Creswell Bell presents the work of 41 contemporary Australian artists whose artistic practices encompass or include the genre of still life painting.
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Stuart Spence: Yield
Australian artist and photographer Stuart Spence surrenders to the ‘imaginative possibilities’ of photography, capturing a potent tension between the known and the unknown.
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