Macmillan Art Publishing Complete Catalogue

Macmillan Art Publishing

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. $89.95, Hb, ISBN 9781921394003 Published 2008 320 pages

Indigenous Art at the Australian National University Editors: Nancy Sever and Claudette Chubb With a foreword by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Chubb, and essays by Professor Mick Dodson, Dr Mary Eagle, Professor Howard Morphy, Professor Jon Altman, Dr Luke Taylor, Professor Nicholas Peterson, Dr Alison French and Dr Melinda Hinkson – as well as a report on recent developments by Nancy Sever, Director of the University’s Collection – this book provides a veritable array of scholarly research prompted by Indigenous artworks in the Collection. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781921394294 Published 2009 208 pages, colour throughout

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 world-wide 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. Christopher Heathcote explores the art of the 1950s and 60s post-war reconstruction era. It witnessed the expansion of Australian suburbs and their growing populations of idiosyncratic urbanites. During these decades the earlier Australian landscape painting tradition survived and was further strengthened by the creations of artists like John Olsen and Fred Williams.

Patrick MacCaughey’s approach is both refreshing and revealing. He pairs artists such as Brett Whiteley and Fred Williams; John Brack and Roger Kemp, and John Olsen and Jeffrey Smart. Intriguing insights emerge as he explores the affinities and differences that exist between their approaches. Sarah Thomas had the complex task of drawing together the rich plurality of the changing art world from the mid-1980s, a time when women artists came to the fore. Her spectrum includes the introduction of the new technologies and the escalation of cultural connections within Australia and with Asia and the world at large.

Finally, and 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. $89.95, Hb, ISBN 9781921394218 Published 2008 274 pages, colour throughout

Australian Art & Artists

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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. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832773 Published 2006 224 pages

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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. $150.00, Hb, ISBN 9781876832285 Published 2007 400 pages

Look

Contemporary Australian Photography since 1980 Anne Marsh Look! represents over 150 artists with more than 400 colour plates. The book represents many years of close research by its author who is recognised for her work in this field, and for several earlier publications including The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire published by Macmillan in 2003. A series of scholarly essays accompany the extraordinary array of reproductions which bring to the viewer what must be one of the most comprehensive collections of Australian photographic art ever compiled. With the ever-expanding inclusion of photography and photographic components within the most exciting current trends in contemporary art, this major publication will be essential reading for those who wish to grasp the essence of art now. It also demonstrates the contribution of technologies in the area of photography and related arts. The transformation of possibilities has been rapid and a vital component of the diversity that characterises current art-making. $130.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394102 Published November 2010 400 pages, colour throughout

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Australian Art & Artists

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. $79.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832292 Published 2006 96 pages

Yvonne Audette

Paintings and Drawings, 1949 - 2003 Christopher Heathcote, Bruce Adams, Kirsty Grant, Gerard Vaughan, and Chris Wallace-Crabbe Yvonne Audette’s career as a painter and artist specialising in works on paper has now spanned nearly six decades. Starting out in Sydney where she attended art school and modelled for Max Dupain, she soon discovered Europe and lived and worked in Italy and Spain in the post-war years when abstract expressionism was the dominant new trend emanating from America. Audette exhibited successfully in Italy before returning to Australia where she continued her career as an abstract artist working in Melbourne.

The eminent art historians, Dr Christopher Heathcote in Melbourne and Sydney’s Dr Bruce Adams, have written perceptive essays on Audett’s career in Europe and Australia and Kirsty Grant and Dr Gerard Vaughan of the National Gallery of Victoria have contributed an essay on her drawings and works on paper. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832797 Published 2003 208 pages, illustrated in b&w and colour

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. $29.95, Pb, ISBN 9781876832681 Published 2004 144 pages, colour throughout

Individual Artists

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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 long-held 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. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832650 Published 2007 196 pages

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 well-researched 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. $69.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832926 Published 2004 160 pages, colour and b&w illustrations

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. $110.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394225 Published 2009 192 pages

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Individual Artists

Arthur Boyd & Saint Francis of Assisi Margaret Pont, with a preface by Padre Vincenzo Coli, an introduction by Margaret Manion and photographs by Christine Ramsay and others.

Arthur Boyd’s St. Francis of Assisi works have never been published in their entirety. This book, authored by Melbourne art historian Margaret Pont, is the first to grapple in a significant way with the importance of this hitherto under-examined theme in Arthur Boyd’s oeuvre.

Pont argues that Arthur Boyd’s attitudes towards his father, the potter and family patriarch Merric Boyd, may have drawn him to the Franciscan story. Boyd’s passionate portrayal of episodes from St. Francis’ life in three series - pastels, lithographs and tapestries - indicate the extreme importance of this subject matter to Boyd during his early years away from Australia. The book is richly illustrated with the St. Francis pastels shown at Australian Galleries, Melbourne, in 1965. The lithographs were produced in London and the huge tapestries, made in Portugal, are now in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. $89.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832803 Published 2004 144 pages, colour-illustrated throughout

Revelation/Apocalypse Anna Clabburn, Michelle Brown et al.

This unusual book - rich in colours, textures and symbolism - serves as a memento of the changing millennium. Based on The Book of Revelation, it traces a 4-year project by Melbourne-based artist Irene Barberis. She studied ancient Apocalypses in famous manuscript collections in London and Paris, then created her own contemporary version, using abstract and figurative images and new materials and techniques. It includes foldout pages and images printed on tracing-paper.

The book is introduced by Dr Michelle Brown, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Library, London. The stunning photographs of the artworks and the artist’s studio are by Garry Sommerfeld. $79.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832063 Published 2000 148 pages, colour throughout, with spectacular fold-out pages and translucencies

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. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832643 Published 2007 256 pages

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Graham Fransella Figures & Landscapes Jenny Zimmer et al.

British-born Graham Fransella has a rapidly growing reputation in Australia as a printmaker and painter whose idiosyncratic abstract compositions capture many aspects of the great outback with which viewers identify immediately. Reproductions from his sketchbooks, in which he reveals his exceptional ability as an observer of the human form, are a special feature of the book. It also includes interpretive essays by well-known Australian art critics Susan McCulloch and Peter Timms. $79.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832841 Published 2002 240 pages, 100 colour reproductions, 7 duotones, 48 b&w drawings

Mentonymy in Contemporary Art A New Paradigm

Denise Green is a New York-based Australian artist Denise Green witnessed the September 11 attack on New York’s World Trade Center from the window of her studio in Barick Street. Transfixed, she continued to paint. Applying pigment to canvas seemed to her the only way to function in the surreal context of this extraordinary and unthinkable event.

Denise Green traces her experience of living and working as an artist in New York for more than three decades. Arriving there in the 1970s, she developed new aesthetic attitudes in the company of important American artists - some of whom, including Alex Katz, Dorothea Rockburne, Frank Stella and Robert Motherwell, she interviews for the book. However, she attributes her overall development as an artist to a much wider spectrum of experience including her travels in India and her appreciation of the arts of Aboriginal Australia.

This book relates her unique experience of an ex-patriot artist whose paintings are now exhibited internationally. $79.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832216 Published 2005 140 pages, fully colour-illustrated throughout

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. $89.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832261 Published 2004 48 pages, some fold-out, bookplate signed by the artist, colour and b&w throughout

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Individual Artists

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 philosophicallybased 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. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832810 Published 2006 240 pages

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. $89.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832896 $69.95, Pb, ISBN 9781876832889 Published 2005 144 pages, b&w and colour reproductions throughout

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. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832438 Published 2007 256 pages

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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.’ $69.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832704 Published 2007 128 pages

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. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832599 Published 2005 160 pages, colour throughout

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 Les Kossatz’s career as an exhibiting artist can be traced back to as early as 1963. 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. $120.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394201 Published 2008 288 pages, colour throughout

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Individual Artists

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. $89.95, Hb, ISBN 9781921394300 Published November 2010 148 pages, colour throughout

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. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832902 Published 2002 240 pages, 150 colour reproductions, 130 b&w photos and drawings

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. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832964 Published 2002 172 pages, richly illustrated with more than 160 colour plates

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The Waste Land Suite Marilyn Peck is a Queensland-based, internationally recognised miniaturist Inspired by TS Eliot’s famous poem, The Waste Land, Marilyn Peck has created the 48 paintings in watercolour, most of them minuatures measuring 100 x 100mm and reproduced at the same size. These appear alongside her texts which echo the sentiments expressed by Eliot but are evoked from her own memories and experience of growing up in Australia.

The book has a foreword by Gold Coast identity and English scholar, the late John R. Barrie, and an introduction by Queensland art critic Gordon Foulds. The colourful miniatures are rich in archetypal symbolism and, as miniatures, are attractively formatted against a light dusting of gold.

This Queensland artist has received numerous awards for her miniatures and, more recently, for her poetry. $69.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832629 Published 2004 112 pages, 58 reproductions, colour throughout

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. $89.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832711 Published 2006 128 pages

Anthony Pryor

Sculpture & Drawings, 1974 - 1991 Jenny Zimmer et al.

This is the story of the remarkable achievements of a gifted young sculptor who did not live to see his last major work, the 19-metre high sculpture The Legend, installed at the entrance to the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Multi-authored, the book offers essays on the various aspects of his career. Writers include Joanna Capon, Judith Trimble, Daryl Jackson and others. The more than 200 photographs, including photographic essays by John Gollings and Viki Petherbridge, cover almost the complete oeuvre, with the sculptures photographed in Pryor’s studio, in art galleries and the public spaces where they are installed. Many are captured from several angles.

Anthony Pryor’s life and works provide a role model for young people with ambitions in the creative arts. $69.95, Pb, ISBN 9780958574334 Published 1999 224 pages, colour throughout, copiously illustrated

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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. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781921394270 Published March 2010 304 pages, colour throughout

Rhythms of Life

The Art of Andrew Rogers Ken Scarlett et al.

A street corner in Vienna, Machupicchu in the Andes, the Arava Desert, a New Jersey sculpture park, the Southbank of the Yarra, and Californian and Mornington Peninsula vineyards - just a few locations that offer testimony to Andrew Rogers’ sculptural activity over the past decades.

This lavishly illustrated publication authored by Ken Scarlett, one of Australia’s leading sculpture critics, surveys the entire range and production of Rogers’ bronze sculptures and monumental stone geoglyphs. Additional contributions from writers including Edmund Capon, Igor Aronov, Idit Porat, Edmund P. Pillsbury, Kathryn Walt Hall and Peter Marboe, and brief quotations from several critics, extend the commentary on key aspects of Rogers’ practice - such as the organic principles on which most of his sculptural forms are based and the significance of his stone-built desert geoglyphs.

The book is also a tribute to the many colleagues, with their vast range of skills, who have assisted in so many ways with the production, photography and installation of the sculptures. Others have generously supported their creation and placement. For this reason the book contains numerous photographs of foundry and installation activities and of some of the people who have contributed to Rogers’ sculptural journey. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832612 Published 2003 288 pages, colour throughout, more than 400 images

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. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781921394249 Published 2009 208 pages, colour throughout

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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. The text explores Sibley’s recent themes such as ‘Beautiful Human Zoo’ with it’s miriad of foibles, ‘Saint Down Under’ - people like lolly-pop ladies and ‘Madonnas’ of the rotary-hoist - and ‘The Artist in Love’, the latter presented via Sibley’s quirky visual interpretations of popular songs. His 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. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832155 Published 2004 176 pages, colour-illustrated throughout

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. $130.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394140 Published 2009 332 pages, colour throughout

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. $99.95, Hb ISBN 9781921394065 Published 2009 184 pages, colour throughout

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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. $89.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832377 Published 2003 196 pages, comprehensively illustrated in b&w and colour

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. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781921394430 Published November 2010 208 pages, colour throughout

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. She explains: ‘His professional success during this period was nothing short of meteoric. Although completely unknown when he arrived in the UK in late 1960, in less than two years – by March 1962 – this brash young artist could boast of representation in the Tate, Victoria and Albert and British Contemporary Art collections and, by 1964, in other national collections from Wellington to Washington.’

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.’ $130.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394379 Published March 2010 348 pages, colour throughout

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Zimmer

Glass Artist Klaus Zimmer, with an introduction by Johannes Schreiter and essays by Geoffrey Edwards, Patrick Hutchings, Alex Selenitsch and Caroline Swash This is the story of a migrant, and an artist. When Klaus Zimmer arrived in Australlia in 1952 his sole possessions were a half empty rucksack and a diploma of graphic art from Berlin. In Adelaide he found the diploma useless and a two-year contract with the South Australian railways an obstacle to starting a career in art. Who could tell that he would later become a pioneer of the studio glass movement in Australia, contributing to many exhibitions in Australia and overseas and instrumental in organising the first major overseas travelling exhibition of Australian and New Zealand studio glass. Touring Germany, France and Switzerland, a high point of the exhibition was its installation in historic Chartres. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832124 Published 2000 240 pages, full colour

Bracelet ‘Java la Grande’ Robert Baines In 2005, Robert Baines, an acclaimed Australian goldsmith known worldwide for his fine artistry - often incorporating ancient goldworking techniques - made an extraordinary gold bracelet that was exhibited in Lisbon’s Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga on the occasion of an international symposium. This unusual book, in some ways a fiction - and journey of the imagination as alluring as the bracelet itself - tells the story of the artefact’s imaginary origins to its complex technical fabrication. Above all, the book demonstrates the importance of wit and playfulness within the creative art process. $59.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832537 Published 2006 56 pages

A Communion to the Trees Robert Preston, with an introduction by Jenny Zimmer This collector’s edition limited to 100 copies reproduces a unique illuminated manuscript created in Australia by Townsville-based artist, Robert Preston. The text, A Communion to the Trees, is drawn from the Gospels of the Essenes, a sect living in Palestine in Biblical times. Robert Preston draws inspiration from the vegetation of tropical north Queensland in his finely worked illuminations. This beautiful edition, produced to the highest quality, would make an unusual and very opulent gift or presentation to mark a special occasion. $165.00, Hb, ISBN 9781876832551 Published 2003 24 large pages, opening out to almost a metre, special edition, cloth-bound, gold-blocked with slip case

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Macmillan Mini Art Book Series With fifteen titles now available, and more in the works, these little books make perfect gifts and lend themselves to counter display. Art lovers and book collectors will need to watch carefully for new titles if they wish to collect all numbers in this ongoing series.

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.

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 work has also been included in many major exhibitions of abstract art: the ‘Legacy of Op Art’ at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; ‘Perspecta’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and ‘Primavera’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

Harper’s 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. She explores this interplay of geometric structures by using variations of size and the positioning of the blocks of colours within all-over patterns. Harper’s purpose is also to use these geometric patterns to create the illusion of movement. $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394041 Published 2008 144 pages

Jasper Knight Mini Book #2

Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer 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.

He skilfully depicts the old trucks, the discarded heavy earth-moving equipment and the smashed bodies of expensive motor vehicles. The rusting iron structures that once supported heavy industry, old piers and cargo wharfs, the ferry landings around well-used harbours, the crumbling facades of derelict buildings, lonesome chimneys, cranes and other abandoned machinery are his subjects. Knight has painted the docklands of Melbourne and the piers and ferries of Sydney Harbour. In 2006 he painted fourteen works that were exhibited in London under the title ‘An Island in the Sun’. This series was painted in and around the old discarded Renault car factory at Ile Seguin, an island in the River Seine at Boulogne-Billancourt on the western edge of Paris.

Tim Storrier

$35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394034 Published 2008 144 pages

Mini Book #4*

Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer 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, like the German Romantic Caspar David Friedrich, 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. Storrier, the individual, can be abrupt and peppery, and some suggest that his fiery landscapes indicate an artist ‘painting out his anger’. However, Storrier’s art is more an observation of natural vistas of ocean, sunrise and night-sky with transient themes selected from the banality of modern human survival and communication. $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394126 Published 2008 144 pages

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Robert Jacks Mini Book #5

Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer This addition to the Macmillan Mini Art Book series provides an enticing overview of Robert Jacks’ paintings, sculptures and collages created between the 1950s and now. The text takes in his formative years in Melbourne, the long and fruitful sojourn in New York which brought him into contact with artists and musicians including Bruce Marden, Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and John Lennon, and his return to Australia in 1978.

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.

Apart from the rich reproductions of art works, readers of this book are provided with numerous views of Jacks’ studio. This environment is replete with clues relating to the family of forms and colours regularly encountered in his paintings and sculptures, but most clearly catalogued in the collages. Jacks’ Mini Book is a resplendent addition to Macmillan’s growing series.

John Olsen Mini Book #6

$35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394157 Published 2009 144 pages

Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer 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 lifeclass 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.

A special feature of his mini-book is the choice of artworks which often incorporate Olsen’s quirky self-portraits – sometimes hidden in the lines of a landscape and only to be discovered after intense scrutiny. Owners of this mini-book are invited to find him in the images, and thus become aware of how often the artist becomes so thoroughly immersed in the subject he is addressing that he is tempted to paint himself into the picture. $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394164 Published 2009 144 pages

Adam Cullen Mini Book #7

Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer Adam Cullen, subject of one of the latest volumes in the Macmillan Mini-Art Series, 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, and his predilection for ‘lowlife’ subject matter, 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.

The addition of this book to Macmillan’s on-going series of Mini-Art books provides collectors with another approach to the art of today – one which is not flattering, but is acutely aware of contemporary issues and is not afraid to present these raw realities through the art of painting. $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394232 Published 2009 144 pages

Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri Mini Book #8

Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer 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. $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394256 Published 2009 144 pages

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Criss Canning Mini Book #9

Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer Macmillan has already published two editions of Criss Canning’s desirable book, The Pursuit of Beauty, authored by David Thomas, and is planning a third edition to showcase 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. $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394485 Published December 2010* 144 pages

*Mini Book #9 was previously omitted

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. $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394263 Published 2009 144 pages

Yannima Tommy Watson Mini Book #11

Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer 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. No wonder he was commissioned in 2005 to create a work for installation in the Musée du quai Branly, Paris. When the museum opened in 2006 his painting was seen to be enlarged and reproduced on stainless steel tiles adorning a ceiling within the building. $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394447 Published May 2010 144 pages

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! These stories succinctly encapsulate the universal human experience of migration.

Jim Pavlidis’s sensitive portraits of these people appear alongside their stories. $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394348 Published May 2010 144 pages

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Anthony Lister Mini Book #13

Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer 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.

He says: “I’m not trying to change the world, I’m just reacting to the world that’s trying to change me.” His imagery, and the media from which it is drawn, reflects the prescience of Marshall McLuhan’s predictions half a century ago. $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394386 Published May 2010 144 pages

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.

Noted in the 1950s and 60s for his ‘School Girl’ series and the mesmerising ‘Alice in Wonderland’ paintings, he is widely represented in Australian and overseas collections. $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394355 Published May 2010 144 pages

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 the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1960-1982, and his establishment of the Crossley Gallery with early exhibitions of prints by artists such as Fred Williams, John Brack, George Baldessin and many others. He also established, with George Baldessin, the Lyre Bird Press for the publication of limited edition artists’ books.

During the past decade he has moved from the miniature art of wood engraving, in which he is an internationally acknowledged master, to the painting of large scale gestural works executed in gouache on paper. The vitality of these recent works is astonishing. $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394393 Published May 2010 144 pages

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. Graham says: “I use colour as a major vehicle for mood.” In this mini-book we are treated to the moods of tropical North Queensland which Graham has visited many times over the last decades. $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394423 Published December 2010 144 pages

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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. $99.95, Pb, ISBN 9781921394454 Published November 2010 208 pages

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. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781921394324 Published December 2010 208 pages, colour throughout

Art of Glass

Glass in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria Geoffrey Edwards Jointly published by the National Gallery of Victoria and Macmillan Publishers Australia this book is the first publication to document in depth the nature, extent and history of the National Gallery of Victoria’s celebrated glass collection. Its author, and expert on the art of glass, Geoffrey Edwards, has selected the most magnificent works from the collection, each reproduced in colour, as the basis for a broader discussion of the history of glassmaking in the world’s leading production centres, from the ancient Mediterranean to the present day.

With fine photographs by Garry Sommerfeld, this book provides a most spectacular visual array. $69.95, Pb, ISBN 9780958574310 $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9780958574327 Published 1998 208 pages, lavishly illustrated, colour throughout

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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 richly-illustrated 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. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832070 $45.00, CD, ISBN 9781876832087 Published 2000 208 pages, colour throughout

Cypriot Antiquities

At The University of Melbourne Sally Salter, with an introduction by Robert Merrilees The University of Melbourne’s collection of Cypriot Antiquities was largely established and developed between the 1930s and 1960s by the late Professor J. R. Stewart, Director of the Melbourne Cyprus Expedition. Largely ceramic and extending from the Bronze Age to the Roman, Sally Salter’s comprehensive research into the collection makes this book a fitting companion volume to Greek Vases in the Collection of the University of Melbourne, by Peter Connor and Heather Jackson.

With more than 110 of the 370 separately accessioned entries previously unpublished, Sally Salter’s scholarly catalogue is a welcome contribution to international work in this field, bringing to worldwide attention a comprehensive collection never before published in its entirety. Magnificent colour photography of the artefacts and location shots of Cypriot sites add to the allure of this beautiful book which will prove essential to museums, collectors and all interested in this fascinating civilization and its material evidence. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832698 Published 2008 192 pages, colour throughout

Tate Adams and the Crossley Gallery 1966 - 1980

Jenny Zimmer et al.

When, in 1966, Tate Adams opened up his Crossley Gallery in a lane off Bourke Street, Melbourne, he pioneered the importation of contemporary Japanese prints by masters such as Munakata and Sasajima. These were shown alongside those of emerging local artist printmakers including at that time Fred Williams, Roger Kemp, George Baldessin, Bea Maddock and many others. This productive collision of cultures soon established the Crossley Gallery and its associated activities - such as the Crossley Print Workshop - as the hub of activity in this art form. The book contains memoirs of those associated with the Gallery and features prints shown or commissioned by Tate Adams - a leading printmaker himself. It provides firsthand insights into a previously under-examined aspect of the development of contemporary art in Australia. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832728 Published 2003 240 pages, illustrated with 150 images in colour and b&w

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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. $49.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832353 Published 2005 112 pages, colour throughout

When You Think about Art

The Ewing & George Paton Galleries, 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. $79.95, Pb, ISBN 9781921394027 Published 2008 288 pages

Creating: The Victorian College of the Arts Joseph Pascoe The exciting story of the VCA’s first 25 years is enriched by interviews with its founding figures and a wealth of photographs covering the activities of present and past students and staff of the Schools of Art, Music, Drama, Dance, Film and Television, Studies in the Creative Arts and the VCA Secondary School.

The book traces the development of the Schools through the reminiscences and achievements of numerous individuals who have epitomised the arts and arts education in Australia. This book would be an inspirational gift for any young person seeking to embark on a career in the visual or performing arts, including film and television. $45.00, Pb, ISBN 9780958574389 $79.95, Hb, ISBN 9780958574396 Published 2000 176 pages, lavishly illustrated in colour and duotone throughout

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A Place Across the River

The Story of the Building of the Victorian Arts Centre Vicki Fairfax Vicki Fairfax’s account of the struggle to build an Arts Centre for all Victorians located in the heart of Melbourne makes for very exciting reading. Set against problems ranging from identifying and securing a site to seeing it completed and in operating mode many years later, the story provides insights into the generosity, creativity and vision of the many people involved.

This book, with its hundreds of historic photos, plans and drawings will interest arts academics and architectural enthusiasts alike. $79.95, Pb, ISBN 9781876832131 $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832193 Published 2002 240 pages, illustrated with more than 300 colour and b&w images

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. These have been developed over many decades from the time of his education in Italy through to academic post and architectural projects undertaken in the USA, Europe, Australia and Asia. 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. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832834 Published 2007 192 pages

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. $49.95, Pb, ISBN 9781875670444 $79.95, Hb, ISBN 9781875670451 Published 2008 200 pages

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Art of Australia Volume 1

John McDonald In this first volume of a brilliant new history of Australian art, John McDonald, the highly-regarded art critic of the Sydney Morning Herald, takes us from the times of pre-history, settlement and exploration, to the end of the colonial era.

In the first comprehensive overview of the field since the 1960s, McDonald reassesses the reputations of many leading artists, and links their achievements with the broader patterns of social history and ideas.

Along with in-depth discussions of major works, the narrative teems with characters and anecdotes from the era of the First Fleet to that of the Australian Impressionists. The story of Australian art is told in a more vivid and engaging style than ever before, in a lavishly illustrated book destined to take its place as the definitive work on the subject. $125.00, Hb, ISBN 9781405038690 Published 2008 656 pages Published by Pan Macmillan Art

Garden of a Lifetime

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch at Cruden Farm Anne Latreille Almost 80 years ago, Keith Murdoch gave his young bride a wedding present that would be of very special significance throughout the intervening years, a small grazing property on the outskirts of Melbourne. They called it Cruden Farm, and it was here that their family grew up and the garden evolved. A born gardener, with a practical “hands-on” approach, an eye for beauty, and a passion for trees and flowers, Dame Elisabeth calls it her Garden of a Lifetime.

Edna Walling’s late 1920s plans for the circular lawn, walled gardens and world-renowned sweeping avenue of lemon-scented eucalypts were implemented in the 1930s when some of the majestic trees, like the huge oaks and elms that form the structure of the garden, were planted. Dame Elisabeth then created the silver and white borders extending from the house and later, assisted by Michael Morrison, developed the Cottage Garden, the Garden for Homeless Plants, and the spectacular floral Picking Garden.

This beautifully colour-illustrated book traces the history of the garden’s creation and guides the reader around its spectacular features, while entries for the months of the year give practical hints on upkeep. $59.95, Pb, ISBN 9781876832049 Published 2007 192 pages Published by Pan Macmillan Art

Dames, Principal Boys... and All That A History of Pantomime in Australia

Viola Tait, with a prologue by Barry Humphries The publication of Dames, Principal Boys... and All That realised the author’s long-time ambition to chronicle this remarkable art form as it developed in Australia. Commenting on pantomime’s beginnings in Britain, then surveying its highlights here, Viola Tait’s account is both revelatory and nostalgic. It recalls days gone by when adults and children eagerly anticipated the Christmas pantomime and were exhilarated by the idiosyncratic dialogue and the humourous antics of the star performers - from Australian-born Nellie Stewart, darling of Drury Lane, to popular figures like Gladys Moncrieff, Roy Rene and Graham Kennedy.

Barry Humphries’ imaginative introduction to the book focuses on a major thread which is maintained throughout the text - the curious pantomime tradition of men appearing as ‘Dames’ and women as ‘Principal Boys’. The many photographs of these much loved characters is one of the most exciting aspects of the book. $39.95, Pb, ISBN 9781876832308 $79.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832247 Published 2002 240 pages, 320 illustrations, colour and b&w Published by Pan Macmillan Art

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Armidale ‘42

A Survivor’s Account Don Watson, Col Madigan and Jan Senbergs A collaboration between Col Madigan, survivor of this World War II marine disaster, artist Jan Senbergs and historian Don Watson, this collectors’ book, with tipped-in colour plates, tells by words and images the horrific story of the sinking of HMAS Armidale in the Timor Sea, and the gruelling ordeal undergone by the survivors.

The book is illustrated with drawings by Jan Senbergs and Col Madigan and has a powerful introductory essay by Don Watson. It accompanied a travelling exhibition of The Armidale Drawings shown at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, in 2001. $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9780958574365 Published 1999 96 pages, tipped-in colour plates

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. $59.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832780 Published 2003 336 pages, illustrated in b&w and colour with 70 photographic images

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 with contributions

by Lucy R. Lippard, Barry Schwartz, Suzi Gablik, Vaclav Havel, Philippa Hobbs, Elizabeth Rankin, Günter Grass, Doreen Mellor, Douglas Kellner, Robert Godfrey, Ricardo Levins Morales, Nigel Spivey and others. 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. $39.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832254 Published 2003 288 pages, 50 images in b&w and colour

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Art History & Cultural Studies

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. $59.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832667 Published 2002 480 pages, 122 b&w photos

The Formalesque

A Guide to Modern Art and Its History Bernard Smith In this well-illustrated book Professor Bernard Smith, who is often referred to as ‘the father of art history in Australia’, condenses the arguments presented in an earlier publication, Modernism’s History (1998), into a very accessible and helpful text which will prove useful for students and arts-interested readers. He begins by listing and carefully explaining those terms which frequently occur in arts literature dealing with the modern period and then goes on to show that ‘modernism’ has become an historical period with its art forms both ‘institutionalised’ and ‘globalised’. Now an historical entity, art history’s basic tools can be employed to explain and describe it. They include an investigation of the period’s ‘style’, use of ‘form’ and attitudes to ‘meaning’. In his defence of art history’s traditions and methodologies he argues that the period that encompasses ‘modernism’ in the arts might now be known as The Formalesque. $79.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832339 Published 2007 135 pages

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. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832469 Published 2005 440 pages, fully-illustrated in rich colour throughout

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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. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781921394331 Published May 2010 260 pages

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.

The book concludes with a chapter written by the National Gallery of Victoria’s conservators, John Payne and Carl Villis. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832445 Published 2003 192 pages, illustrated in b&w and colour

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.

Unusually, the book starts in Australia and completes its journey in Africa. While the early emphasis on the ethnic, geographic, and cultural background of Australian and Pacific ornaments discloses much hitherto inaccessible information, Truus Daalder’s scholarship is equally fastidious and illuminating when applied to objects from Indonesia, South East Asia, China, the Himalayas, India, Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. Collectors and readers will welcome the thoughtful attention Truus Daalder has paid to the existing literature on ethnic jewellery and adornment, and will value the new knowledge she presents of the rare examples which this collection contributes to the world-wide corpus, such as the many never before shown ornaments from Aboriginal Australia, New Guinea, and other Oceanic islands.

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. $175.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394287 Published 2009 420 pages, more than 700 colour photographs

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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 little-known and seldom-visited region in the far east of Turkey. $89.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832056 Published 2006 208 pages, colour throughout, with rare photographs and illustrations

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.

The major geo-political groupings of the region are discussed within each timeperiod. This has not been easy give that over this century borders have changed and countries have been renamed. But Alison Carroll, with her many years of experience and travel throughout the region as Director of Asialink’s Arts Program, is in an excellent position to provide this long-awaited study. $99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781921394171 Published July 2010 208 pages, colour throughout

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. $59.95, Pb, ISBN 9781921394010 Published 2008 230 pages

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Roses and Red Earth Polish Folk Art in Australia Edited by Maria Wronska-Friend With an introductory essay by renowned Polish author Aleksander Jackowski, and contributions by Dr. Maria Wronska-Friend and Professor Jerzy Smolicz, this attractive book contextualises Poland’s folk art traditions and examines their continuing influence on Polish-born artists working in Australia. The publication documents an important Queensland collection of Polish folk art and presents contemporary works by a number of recognised Polish-born artists now living in Australia. It complements an exhibition of the same name arranged and toured by the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville. $45.00, Hb, ISBN 9781876832186 Published 2000 128 pages, colour throughout

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 little-known and fascinating story of Townsville’s Japanese Consuls, which is superbly illustrated by Townsville-based artist Tate Adams, will surprise and delight. $39.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832506 Published 2004 48 pages, illustrated with rare photographs and hand-drawn images

Days Gone By

Growing up in Penang Christine Wu Ramsay Dr. Christine Ramsay describes the history of her Chinese Hakka family who migrate to Malaya before the end of the nineteenth century and, by the good fortune of operating tin-mines and rubber plantations, established for themselves a luxurious lifestyle which included education in the west, art nouveau mansions on Penang’s waterfront, fashionable cars and entertainment - and a great deal of mahjong!

This book, illustrated with sepia photographs, offers glimpses into aspects of Chinese extended family life which will intrigue and entertain. It also features deorative patterns assembled from rare examples of the historic ceramic titles used on the walls and floors of early twentieth century Penang mansions. The author left Penang in the 1960s to study science in Australia and has now achieved sufficient ‘distance’ to look back, objectively, on these ‘days gone by’. $39.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832735 Published 2003 248 pages, illustrated in colour and duotone with archival photographs

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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. $39.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832513 Published 2005 188 pages, illustrated

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 mixed-race 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.

‘What my sister Dell and I have set out to do is to recover a lost world - in fact, two worlds: one, arising out of memories of our childhood on the farm, Marite, in the Eastern Transvaal in South Africa from the time of the Great Depression till the beginning of the Second World War: the other, including the South African War (‘Boer War’), 1900-1902, but reaching back in time to the early 1880s before my parents were born, a time when my great uncle, E. L. (Lil) Banger, adventured up northward from Durban, fired a shot at the Pietermaritzburg town hall clock to test his first rifle, and began his life as a hunter and trader, eventually buying the farm Marite for half-a-crown a morgen in 1908. In 1921 my father, R. C. Allen, joined his uncle at Marite as a partner in his native trading store. They used a purple letterhead figuring a handsome bushbuck ram reclining, and the words BANGER AND ALLEN. They also had an antique Remington typewriter.’ $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781876832148 Published 2003 144 pages, illustrated with line-drawings and now historic photographs

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.

This is no slim volume of verse. Introduced by the colour-illustrated poem, Midnight Meditation, it contains 141 poems together with indexes of titles and first lines. Ranging between the expression of deep disgust to intense love, each poem makes its point without an excess of words. $49.95, Hb, ISBN 9781921394096 Published 2008 200 pages

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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 (19131945) 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. $49.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832766 Published 2007 302 pages

We, the Twenty-Five Letters of the Alphabet Lajos Walder, translatedby 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. $49.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832025 Published 2004 160 pages

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’. $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781876832094 Published 2004 48 pages

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Notes from the Shed A Journal 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 iron-bark 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’. $59.95, Pb, ISBN 9781876832582 Published 2007 208 pages

Plenty: Art into Poetry Peter Steele, with an introduction by Patrick McCaughey Apart from his Personal Chair in English at the University of Melbourne, Peter Steele has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Alberta, Georgetown, Washington and Loyola, Chicago. An esteemed Australian poet, he is intensely interested in the process whereby literary works are produced by contemplating masterpieces of painting or sculpture.

Outstanding poets, from Homer to Auden, have followed this tradition.

The fifty-two poems in this book have been inspired by artworks Peter Steele has admired during his world travels. The renowned Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, has written of Steele’s book: ‘It is a work of great drive, shine and abundance, at once liberated and intense, a combination of intellectual rigour and imaginative spree. It deepens and widens the course of Peter Steele’s own poetry, and since it presents the pictures that inspired the poems, it will invite readers to a new and complex experience.’ $89.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832971 Published 2003 128 pages, 52 colour images of major art works

The Whispering Gallery Art into Poetry

Peter Steele, with a foreword by Gerard Vaughan Peter Steele’s new 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. $89.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832858 Published 2006 128 pages, with high-quality colour reproductions of 55 artworks

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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. $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9780958574372 Published 1999 128 pages

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. $35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394317 Published June 2010 32 pages, illustrated throughout

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Fast Flowers, Long Journeys, Cold Funerals Poems by Rudi Krausmann and drawings by Garry Shead Salzburg-born Sydney poet, Rudi Krausmann, muses upon fellow poets - both Australian and international - and famous writers, philosophers and artists in a series of 60 short verses which are accompanied (but not illustrated) by equally succinct and pithy drawings by noted Sydney artist Garry Shead. Together, poet and artist explore the idiosyncracies and vicissitudes of human nature and of creative lives through the medium of this elegantly bound collectors’ edition. $69.95, Hb, ISBN 9781876832476 Published 2006 128 pages, text in English and German

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Forthcoming Publications Among exciting publications to appear in 2011 are two books - a monograph and a Mini Book - presenting the Tjanpi Desert Weavers of Northern Australia. These lavishly-illustrated accounts of an extraordinary women’s art movement have been compiled by project manager Penny Watson for the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council.

Tjanpi Monograph

Tjanpi Mini Book

Penny Watson

Penny Watson

$99.95, Hb, ISBN 9781921394461 Publishing June 2011 256 pages

$35.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394478 Publishing June 2011 144 pages

Other publications planned for 2011 include third and expanded editions of Criss Canning: The Pursuit of Beauty and Teeming with Life: John Olsen; His Complete Graphics, 1957 - 2011, both extremely popular books. Macmillan will extend its Mini Book series and release a major publication on Australian drawing authored by Janet McKenzie, et al.

A Message From Jenny Zimmer, Art Publisher Macmillan Art Publishing enjoys and appreciates the opportunity to assist - through its comprehensive distribution networks - a greater awareness of the visual arts and Australian culture both at home and overseas. We are grateful to all those associated with our books, in whatever capacity, and aim to make 2011 a significant year for art publications.

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