Art Books
Click here for a selection of art books published by or associated with Bandicoot Publishing. All are available for purchase.
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Fine Arts Fire Ants
Ian Friend’s compilation of autobiographical texts penned over several years while in England and Australia share the artist’s interests in music, poetry and cricket, his friendships, teachers and inspirations, and matters of concern within the visual arts.
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NOHARDATTACK: Lane Cormick
Daine Singer introduces artist Lane Cormick warmly in ‘NOHARDATTACK’, praising his endearing nature and unique approach to art making. Cormick is influenced by industrial aesthetics and structure, music, culture and life.
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Australiana to Zeitgeist: An A-Z of Contemporary Australian Art
Thematic chapters divide ‘Australiana to Zeitgeist: An A-Z of Contemporary Australian Art’. The title is a misnomer as it is a guide that reflects the author’s role as a gallerist in Melbourne in the ‘noughties’.
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Air: Ryan Hoffman
Ryan Hoffman participates in a new genre of painting that explores contrast between photographic representation and painterly application, a subject that has become prevalent with the popularity of the digital image.
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Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art Under Occupation
'Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art Under Occupation' looks closely at new and ongoing practices in a series of ‘micro-histories’ without the airs or definitive promises of a didactic social history or art book.
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The Redacted History of The Institute of Contextualism
'The Redacted History of The Institute of Contextualism' is a book produced by a group of artists creating a quiet social commentary on privacy. This title challenges, immediacy and a desire for constant validation.
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Nicholas Mangan: Limits to Growth
'Limits to Growth' is a survey catalogue accompanying Australian artist Nicholas Mangan’s recent touring exhibition of the same name, richly illustrated with four of Mangan’s most significant works of the past seven years, alongside a new commission.
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Ken Done: A Life Coloured In
Ken Done is a unique Australian artist known for his expressive use of colour, love and passion for painting the Australian landscape, scenes of Sydney Harbour and other iconic landmarks, beaches and the outback.
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Rayner Hoff: The life of a sculptor
Raynor Hoff (1894-1937) dominated sculptural production in Australia throughout the 1920s and 30s, creating works that were arranged socially, politically and culturally around the development of modernity. This biography reveals his ‘untold story’.
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Some Want Quietly by Drew Pettifer
Thirty-four intimate nude and portrait style images have been judiciously selected from 800 frames taken during a residency in Tokyo, 2014, where the artist invited straight and queer young male subjects into his studio.
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