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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Double Displacement: Rex Butler on Queensland Art 1992-2016
A survey of Rex Butler’s texts on art from Queensland and artists such as Gordon Bennett, Tracey Moffatt, Richard Bell, and Ian Fairweather.
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Eugenia Raskopoulos: Vestiges of the Tongue
Eugenia Raskopoulos is surveyed in this weighty title with scholarly contributions and documentation that honours 30 years of work.
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Gary Heery: X Collaborative Portraits
Gary Heery explores the dichotomy of portraiture through the process of collaboration and negotiation between an artist and his subject.
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What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives
Australia’s leading theorists and artists ask ‘What is Performance Art?’ A rigorous reply from academic and lived experience with multiple points of entry, current and ongoing relevance.
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Ian North: ART | WORK | WORDS
Curators, art historians, a sociologist and a creative writer, each with a close association to artist, writer and museum professional, Ian North, discuss his multifaceted output.
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Amalia Pica: please listen hurry others speak better
Amalia Pica comments on the volume of human communication, and enables a better understanding of new dialogues (and miscommunication) between inter-species.
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The Artist As
'The Artist As' director, writer, choreographer, poet, archivist, forger and curator; among other roles.
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Katherine Kovacic: Painting in the Shadows
Katherine Kovacic samples from a unique palette to enliven the sometimes-predictable genre of crime-fiction using the Australian art world as a ground.
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Transformations
Natural history painters Harriet and Helena Scott's historical recollections are brought to life in drawings and paintings displayed throughout each chapter.
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Ghost History
Jenny Bolis captures the ephemerality of past and present, exploring the psychological space and narrative of a 19th-century manor and its contents.
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Nora Heysen: A Portrait
‘We lived art, talked art, drank art and the visitors were artists so that was my diet when I was young.’ – Nora Heysen
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Art after the Hipster: Identity Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics
'Art after the Hipster' is a considered analysis of the trajectory of the hipster; from its innovative origins to being mocked, and now normalised.
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