Macmillan Art Publishing Catalogue 2014

Macmillan Art Publishing Complete Catalogue 2014

We are delighted to announce that Jenny Zimmer, Macmillan Art’s publisher, was honoured in the Queen’s birthday 2014 honours list. She was awarded a Member in the General Division (AM) for ‘significant service to the visual arts as an administrator, academic and publisher’. Working as an art publisher at Macmillan since 1997, Zimmer has been responsible for over 100 titles documenting Australian art.

Indigenous Australian Art Aboriginal Art

Creativity and Assimilation Donna Leslie Donna Leslie, an artist and art historian, explores Aboriginal art in relation to the effects of the policy of assimilation which prevailed in Australia from the 1930s to the 1970s. Her rigorous and sustained argument, supported by an impressive array of important visual images, reveals an extensive grasp of issues relating not only to the practice and history of art, but also in the fields of anthropology, ethnology and sociology.

This book is a rare presentation of aspects of the history of Aboriginal art from an Aboriginal perspective, and provides fresh ways of understanding Aboriginal experience. While the author acknowledges the challenges of histories relating to assimilation processes associated with the former policy, her message is positive since it encourages a deepening empathy with Aboriginal art, cultures and peoples. This book is a reaffirmation of Aboriginal cultural heritage which addresses the development of Aboriginal art and the ways in which we might better come to know and understand it.

AU$89.95 • NZ$105.00 • 295mm x 208mm • Hb • 320 pages • ISBN 9781921394003 • December 2008

Artists of the Western Desert Portraits 2006-11

Ken McGregor. Portraits by Greg Weight & Ken McGregor This is essentially a book of portrait studies of more than 80 senior artists of the Western Desert art movement. Each stunning full-page portrait, reproduced in duotone, is accompanied on its opposite page by an example of the artist’s work.

The photographers have made a number of journeys to significant Indigenous communities located west of Alice Springs and thence into the north of Western Australia – these include: Haasts Bluff, Kintore, Papunya, and Yuendumu to name a few. The story of the numerous meetings with the artists, including opportunities to create their portraits and consolidate friendships, is included in the book.

AU$79.95 • NZ$99.95 • 269mm x 218mm • Pb • 200 pages • ISBN 9781921394645 • August 2011

Ngurra Kuju Walyja — One Country, One People Stories from the Canning Stock Route A co-publication of FORM & Macmillan Art Publishing During five years of extensive research FORM’s Canning Stock Route Project has derived an extraordinary body of cultural and historical knowledge through a unique collaboration with Aboriginal artists and contributions from ten remote community arts and cultural organisations spanning the Western Desert.

This book – diversely articulated, dynamic with Indigenous voices, scholarly, insightful, visually breathtaking and comprised entirely of previously unpublished material – will be richly rewarding for all who wish to deepen their knowledge of the Country and its people. These may include lovers of contemporary Aboriginal art, history, culture, cartography, geography, archaeology, anthropology and 4WD adventure.

AU$120.00 • NZ$140.00 • 295mm x 244mm • Hb • 400 pages • ISBN 9781921394676 • October 2011

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Indigenous Australian Art

Power + Colour

New Painting from the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art Jane Raffan The enthralling power and colour of Aboriginal painting of Tjukurpa (law) and country has brought Aboriginal art to the forefront of contemporary art practice in Australia. Aboriginal art has also played an important role in the formulation of Indigenous Land Rights debates and Native title jurisprudence. 2012 marks the twentieth anniversary of the High Court of Australia’s decision in Mabo, which overturned the British doctrine of terra nullius (empty land) the false promise on which the colony was founded - and forever changed the legal landscape for Indigenous rights.

The thesis of Power + Colour: New Painting from the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art charts the history of Aboriginal art’s impact on Australian law, and explores the inextricable nexus of Aboriginal law and sense of self - an entirety that is inseparable from country. And, of course, Power + Colour is about strikingly beautiful contemporary paintings. Showcasing 129 works of art by 76 artists working across more than 25 communities nation-wide, this resplendent book exemplifies the diversity of expression within Aboriginal contemporary painting, and reveals, in nuance and detail, the breadth and depth of Aboriginal connectedness to country.

AU$125.00 • NZ$165.00 • 300mm x 240mm • Hb • 368 pages • ISBN 9781921394744 • November 2012

Tjanpi Desert Weavers Compiled by Penny Watson for the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council. Preface

by Professor Marcia Langton This totally heart-warming, extravagantly illustrated book traces the history of a wonderful desert art movement that has been developed by hundreds of Indigenous women form the Northern Territory and the northern regions of Western and South Australia. These women have discovered the joy of weaving the abundant grasses of their Country, first into baskets and then into extraordinary art works including the now famous Tjanpi Toyota, or the giant perentie (goanna) exhibited at Manchester Airport in the UK. The majority of the text, carefully compiled by Penny Watson, is direct quotations from the women, some translated from Indigenous languages.

This book will totally enhance those who wish to learn of the thoughts and creative ambitions of these wonderful women.

AU$79.95 • NZ$99.95 • 300mm x 244mm • Pb • 448 pages • ISBN 9781921394898 • March 2012

Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson Ken McGregor and Marie Geissler, with French translation by Flore Gregorini This large and sumptuously illustrated monograph presents the spectacular painting of a master colourist – Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson. A Pitjantjatjana elder who maintains his home and studio in Alice Springs, he still travels extensively across his ‘Country’ to fulfil traditional obligations. Watsons ‘Dreamtime’ stories, inherited from his family, relate to sites and geographical features within his ‘Country’ and all his paintings are of these designated places. While no two paintings are alike, the characteristics of each place can be recognised. Watson is now regarded as a major figure within the contemporary Indigenous art movement and his work is known overseas by virtue of his designs for ceiling panels in France’s Museé du quai Branly. An exhibition of his extraordinary abstract paintings will soon be held in Paris and, for this reason, the book contains a French translation of the text.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 304mm x 249mm • Hb • 208 pages • ISBN 9781921394430 • February 2011

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Australian Art & Artists Contemporary Australian Drawing 1 Janet McKenzie: with contributions by Irene Barberis and Christopher Heathcote Scotland-based Dr Janet McKenzie, long-term deputy editor of the renowned art journal Studio International, first published on Australian drawing with Macmillan back in 1986. Twenty-one years later she met Dr Irene Barberis, an Australian artist who was in the UK representing ‘Metasenta’, an international arts research organisation focused on drawing and based at Melbourne’s RMIT University. Dr Christopher Heathcote’s contribution also focuses on the teaching of drawing in Australia. Janet McKenzie visited Australia in 2008 to update her research and exercise a global perspective on the current state of drawing in this country. Her book introduces works by 78 selected artists from across the country. They include prominent figures such as Peter Booth, Allan Mitelman, John Olsen, Mirka Mora, Mike Parr, Kevin Lincoln, Jenny Watson, Jan Senbergs and Wendy Stavrianos, among many others.

Recognition of the importance of drawing has sometimes wavered in recent times, but most artists would agree that drawing, in whatever medium and however it is executed, is an essential process in the development of ideas leading to creative outcomes. Often, as art history suggests and this book demonstrates, drawing can be an art in and of itself.

This timely account of the art of drawing in Australia is lavishly illustrated and will have wide appeal.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 320mm x 250mm • Hb • 256 pages • ISBN 9781921394539 • March 2012

Encounters with Australian Modern Art Editor: Maudie Palmer. Text: Christopher Heathcote, Patrick McCaughey and Sarah Thomas Encounters with Australian Modern Art represents a vital milestone in the presentation of Australian art to a worldwide readership. It is published in French and English, and lavishly illustrated with more than 200 iconic images, many drawn from the collection of the TarraWarra museum of Art. Maudie Palmer, Director of the Museum and Editor of the book, devised its concept and selected the authors. They, like herself and the Besen’s, have witnessed first-hand the development of Australian Modernism during the second half of the twentieth century when the careers of its leading artist practitioners were firmly established. During those decades many of these became acknowledged national identites - some enjoying overseas acclaim.

The authors - Christopher Heathcote, Patrick McCaughey and Sarah Thomas - have each adopted a unique approach to their text, bringing fresh visions to our understanding of images that may sometimes look strange to us and the rest of the world. Most importantly, the diversity and content of the texts is firmly crystallised by enjoying the art works, all reproduced to the highest standards by Hermann, the volume’s Parisian publisher.

AU$89.95 • NZ$106.00 • 287mm x 231mm • Hb • 274 pages • ISBN 9781921394218 • November 2008

ROAR Re-viewed 30 Years On

Denise Morgan, with an introduction by Sasha Grishin Melbourne’s ROAR group of young artists emerged in the early 1980s as a rebellion against many of the mores of the then art world. They created wild and colourful paintings, drank beer instead of wine and set up studios and an exhibition space in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Now, thirty years later, the art of Wayne Eager, Sarah Faulkner, Andrew and Peter Ferguson, Pasquale Giardino, Karan Hayman, Ann Howie, Mark Howson, David Larwill, Michael Nicholls, Jill Noble, Mark Schaller and Judi Singleton has been both re-viewed and re-commissioned for an extraordinary book.

This huge and colourful volume is as inventive in its production values as this group’s approach to art deserves.

It also contains unique photographic spreads of the artists working in their studios. This exciting book will be a revelation to those who know of ROAR, and an introduction to those who missed the generation of the movement thirty years ago.

AU$150.00 • NZ$180.00 • 310mm x 300mm • Hb • 360 pages • ISBN 9781921394690 • June 2012

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Australian Art & Artists

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.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 343mm x 251mm • Hb • 224 pages • ISBN 9781876832773 • October 2006

Untitled

Portraits of Australian Artists Photographer Sonia Payes, and more than 50 authors This huge, richly illustrated publication provides sensitive, rare and enticing insights into the lives, works and unique studio environments of 60 significant artists. As artist Sonia Payes’ latest publication, it was timed to coincide with the 2007 Venice Biennale in which several of the book’s artists have represented Australia. It was received with enthusiasm in Venice and in London at the time, and has since gone into its second printing.

Two years in their compilation, and requiring travel across Australia and overseas, around 700 images offer outstanding visual descriptions of how and where individual Australian artists live and what fires their imagination.

The 400 spectacular pages are introduced by art critic and academic, Professor Ted Snell, and expertly designed

by Simon Strong. Commentary on each artist is provided by a prominent author, of whom more than fifty have participated.

AU$150.00 • NZ$180.00 • 315mm x 310mm • Hb • 400 pages • ISBN 9781876832285 • July 2007

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Individual Artists Andrew Sibley

An Epic of the Everyman David Thomas, with an introduction by Helen Elliott This richly detailed and colourfully-illustrated book explores, via a series of key themes, the work of Melbourne artist Andrew Sibley. A self-confessed obsessive with demonic energy and fierce determination to ‘live his art’, Sibley presents his ‘family’ of contemporary ‘everyman’ and ‘everywoman’, now more light-hearted than they once were in his earlier work. As Helen Elliott remarks: ‘There is every possibility of happiness in the world, the music plays, the people dance, the moon sparkles, the lovers love’. But, as David Thomas’s text reveals, in Sibley’s images not all is ever quite what is seems - human beings are a strange crowd, but there is little they can conceal from the artist with his insight into the human condition.

Sibley’s many portraits entered the Archibald Prize and the more recent landscape paintings are also treated in sections of the book. Nor is the political context neglected here. Altogether, a very thought-provoking monograph on an artist who has been surprising us for many decades.

AU$99.95 • NZ$125.00 • 350mm x 255mm • Hb • 176 pages • ISBN 9781876832155 • December 2004

Arnold Shore

Pioneer Modernist Rob Haysom Nearly every history of Australian modern art, and monographs dedicated to artists of the period, will refer to the writings of Arnold Shore. Deakin University academic, Rob Haysom, explores the background of the artist, the difficulties of his time, and the development of modernist ideas as new European trends gradually infiltrated the local scene. Shore’s flower studies and paintings of the Australian bush – particularly around Mt. Macedon – are rich in texture and exuberant in the application of paint to canvas.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 318mm x 246mm • Hb • 208 pages • ISBN 9781921394249 • September 2009

Art and Soul Flossie Peitsch

Contributions by Cresside Collette, Rosemary Crumlin, Megan Evans, Tony Fox, Peter Haffenden, Linda Maqueen, Mark Minchinton, Penny Mulvey, Patrick Negri, Neal Nuske, Thomas Peitsch, Claire Rankin, Maureen Ryan, Andrew Sibley, Russell Storer, Mike Stubbs and Val Webb Canadian-born and now New South Wales-based, Flossie Peitsch is both a noted visual artist and a mother of six. She is also an active community artist who has involved her family and hundreds of others in major art projects relating to Australia’s history and current ways of life. Using performance and installation art techniques, as well as traditional painting and drawing - and also women’s crafts of embroidery, tapestry and knitting - Flossie loses few opportunitites to engage the imagination and creativity of those involved in the projects and also those who witness them.

This is an intriguing and richly illustrated book focused on an extraordinarily vibrant and effective Australian artist who operates slightly outside the mainsteam.

AU$89.95 • NZ$100.00 • 320mm x 252mm • Hb • 128 pages • ISBN 9781876832711 • December 2006

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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.

AU$99.95 • NZ$110.00 • 343mm x 251mm • Hb • 160 pages • ISBN 9781876832599 • December 2005

The Art of Jock Clutterbuck Sasha Grishin. Co-published with Australian Galleries, Melbourne and Sydney Jock Clutterbuck is a remarkably accomplished sculptor and printmaker, whose distinctive abstract imagery is equally expressive in either medium. In his ‘Foreword’, Geoffrey Edwards describes Clutterbuck’s unique forms as possessing ‘… the elegant visual clarity and crisp ornament of an old astrolabe or suchlike scientific instrument’. Author Sasha Grishin explains that the artist is ‘… unusual in his preoccupation with mysticism in general and with theosophy and … arcane systems of knowledge’. The identifying characteristics of this artist’s works stretch throughout his entire oeuvre — dating from his student days at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in the 1960s, throughout his more than 25 years teaching at the Victorian College of the Arts, to the years since 2000 that he has been able to dedicate full-time to his art.

Clutterbuck’s first exhibitions were held at Tate Adams’ Crossley Gallery, Melbourne’s first dedicated printmaking venue, which from the 1950s to 1980s showed artists such as Fred Williams, George Baldessin and Hertha KlugePott. Today, Jock Clutterbuck exhibits at Australian Galleries, with whom this exquisite monograph, designed by Suzi Ditterich, is co-published.

AU$69.95 • NZ$89.95 • 240mm x 240mm • Pb • 192 pages • ISBN 9781921394768 • October 2013

The Art of Roger Kemp Christopher Heathcote The most publicly accessible art of the late Roger Kemp is perhaps those magnificent tapestries that hang in the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria on St. Kilda Road. This major figure of Australia’s post-war art world is the subject of Christopher Heathcote’s latest book. Of Kemp, he writes: ‘Throughout his adult life Roger Kemp was fascinated by weighty questions: Why do we exist? What is mankind’s relationship with Nature? Is there a cosmic order at play beyond physical things? He wanted to find value and meaning in the world, so he sifted through ideas from poetry, philosophy, science and religion, trying to make a coherent shape out of them.’ And so he developed his distinctive abstract paintings and a unique mode of thought which he regularly debated in memorable conversations with many people in the decades before he died. This revealing and richly illustrated biography and art monograph is long overdue.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 312mm x 246mm • Hb • 256 pages • ISBN 9781876832438 • December 2007

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.

AU$99.95 • NZ$125.00 • 345mm x 250mm • Hb • 172 pages • ISBN 9781876832964 • February 2002

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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.’

AU$49.95 • NZ$69.95 • 221mm x 218mm • Hb • 128 pages • ISBN 9781876832704 • October 2007

Brett Whiteley

A Sensual Line, 1957 - 67 Kathie Sutherland Kathie Sutherland’s scrupulously researched and expertly written account of Brett Whiteley’s formative decade, 1957 – 67, is essential reading for all who wish to better understand this charismatic artist and the development of his career.

This beautifully designed and sumptuously illustrated volume, tempting to both eye and mind, is an exemplary tribute to this legendary Australian artist who died in 1992 after a creative life lived to the full.

Sutherland’s study focuses on the early abstract works produced in Sydney, and then extends to a comprehensive account of the phenomenal success that followed with Whiteley’s transition to figuration after bursting onto the London art scene and creating his ‘Bathroom’ and ‘Christie’ series. The author has drawn on Whiteley’s republished notebooks and all available sources to create a comprehensive catalogue raisonné of paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures created during these years and now scattered throughout the world. She makes a powerful case for the undeniable fact that for Whiteley: ‘The catalyst for change and progression was expatriation.’

AU$130.00 • NZ$160.00 • 333mm x 264mm • Hb • 348 pages • ISBN 9781921394379 • April 2010

Bruno Leti The Matrix

Bruno Leti; Sasha Grishin; Anne Kirker; Chris Wallace-Crabbe; and Alan Loney As Professor Sasha Grishin writes, ‘The artist, the print and the matrix sounds more like a title for a Peter Greenaway film than a title for an essay on the art of Bruno Leti.’ In printmaking, the artform along with painting, photography and the making of artists’ books that has occupied Bruno Leti for the last half century, the matrix is the object that carries the image the artist has made with the intention of making an impression on a piece of paper when it is run through a press at high pressure. It might be a block of wood, a piece of linoleum, a slab of glass or a metal plate. The British Museum has made a practice of collecting not only famous artists’ prints, but also the matrices from which they were made. Bruno Leti has a studio full of old matrices, beautiful objects in themselves, even if they are no longer useful after a print has been editioned. This book celebrates the ‘Matrix’, with extraordinary photographs and illuminating texts.

AU$89.95 • NZ$120.00 • 300mm x 254mm • Hb • 148 pages • ISBN 9781921394300 • December 2010

Bruno Leti

Portrait of a Printmaker Sasha Grishin Bruno Leti is well known as a painter and creator of magnificent limited edition artists’ books, but is perhaps best known for his printmaking which encompasses a full range of techniques including etchings, collagraphs, woodcuts and lithographs – and, most especially, his magnificent monotypes.

Professor Sasha Grishin’s text captures the special qualities and themes of Leti’s prints as he constructs a profoundly sensitive ‘word portrait’ of an individual who has dedicated five decades to the art of printmaking.

AU$69.95 • NZ$89.95 • 290mm x 241mm • Pb • 192 pages • ISBN 9781921394713 • November 2011

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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.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 269mm x 251mm • Hb • 304 pages • ISBN 9781921394270 • March 2010

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.

AU$34.95 • NZ$44.95 • 206mm x 152mm • Pb • 144 pages • ISBN 9781876832681 • August 2004

Criss Canning: The Pursuit of Beauty Second Edition David Thomas This second edition and third printing of David Thomas’s account of Criss Canning’s life as an artist dedicated to the still-life genre provides up-to-date information and stunning reproductions of her works dating from 2006 to today— the oil paint was still drying on the last painting as the book went to press. If the earlier paintings demonstrated Canning’s creation of sensational compositional arrangements of ceramic vases, exotic fruits and the colours and textures of fresh flora gathered from her husband’s fabled Lambley Nursery, the later paintings introduce seashells and beautiful Venetian glasswares. A more pronounced philosophical introspection becomes evident, and closer inspection often reveals an image of the artist at her easel reflected in the glass vessels that hold the flowers.

As author David Thomas suggests, in these paintings ‘the pursuit of beauty’ is amply realised.

AU$110.00 • NZ$140.00 • 318mm x 252mm • Hb • 264 pages • ISBN 9781922252012 • November 2013

David Rankin

The New York Years Dore Ashton, with an Introduction by Peter Carey Renowned New York art historian and critic Dore Ashton’s new book on the Australian artist David Rankin’s ‘New York Years’ provides illuminating insights into the development of the numerous themes expressed in the paintings and sculptures he has created over recent decades. Its 288 richly illustrated pages amply document this range of ideas.

While Peter Carey’s introduction offers important glimpses of Rankin’s youth and earlier career in Australia, Ashton develops this narrative and then extends her analysis into subsequent years after his marriage to poet Lily Brett and their move to a New York still redolent with the influence of Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko and many others, about whom Ashton has written extensively.

Dore Ashton’s text is interspersed with extended quotes from the artist himself. These affirm the genesis of his art in a long-term investigation of Buddhist thinking and calligraphy, and knowledge of Western literary sources such as the writings of James Joyce, Primo Levi, Walter Benjamin and poets like the American Wallace Stevens.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 306mm x 244mm • Hb • 288 pages • ISBN 9781921394584 • July 2013

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Dean Bowen Argy-Bargy Sheridan Palmer Dean Bowen is a prominent Melbourne painter, sculptor and printmaker who is widely represented in major Australian and international collections. An artist with diverse talents, he produces whimsical, playful and at times humorous work. Dr Sheridan Palmer explores the recurrent themes found across the entire oeuvre and highlights Bowen’s extensive studio practice in a variety of media and techniques. The colourful, large format reproductions in this monograph delight the eye and amuse the mind providing guaranteed visual enjoyment.

AU$110.00 • NZ$135.00 • 315mm x 302mm • Hb • 192 pages • ISBN 9781921394225 • June 2009

Di Bresciani

Compositions in Colour Di Bresciani is well known in Australia and overseas as an artist, musician and educator.Contributors include Pam Kershaw, Piers Lane, Wanda Naeff, Maria Prendergast, Margaret Rutter, Berek Segan, Sue Smith, Frances Thomson, and David Williamson.

The paintings of Di Bresciani, artist and musician, are currently exhibited at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in Townsville to coincide with the renowned Australian Festival of Chamber Music.

Texts in this multiauthored, richly colour illustrated publication focus on relationships between music and art and colour and sound. The paintings reflect strong technical and personal development towards an individual style largely based on the exploration of colour and its perception - whether it be in music or art.

AU$99.95 • NZ$130.00

• 308mm x 246mm • Hb • 176 pages • ISBN 9781921394959 • August 2012

Earth to Sky: The Art of Victor Majzner Paintings, Drawings, Prints, 1966 - 2002

Leigh Astbury is a Senior Lecturer and teaches Art history in the School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies at Monash University Victor Majzner arrived in Australia in 1959 as a Jewish refugee from Russia. His career as a painter accelerated during the 1980s when, as a migrant seeking identity, he began to travel inland and study the antiquity of the ancient continent as well as forming close bonds with several important Aboriginal artists from the Warmun Community in the Northern Territory. His spectacular and unconventional paintings deal with issues of identity and, over recent years, with his developing sense of his Jewish heritage. Some paintings, more ‘surreal’ than his Australian landscapes, emerged from his late 1990s travels to the Negev Desert in Israel.

AU$99.95 • NZ$159.95 • 312mm x 254mm • Hb • 240 pages • ISBN 9781876832902 • November 2002

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.

AU$79.95 • NZ$89.95 • 282mm x 234mm • Hb • 192 pages • ISBN 9781876832292 • November 2006

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Fred Cress: Whispers Drawings 1958 - 2007 Ken McGregor Fred Cress, who died in 2009, was a Sydney artist who divided his time between Australia and rural France, where he maintained a second studio. He was a keen student of human nature. While his quizzical gaze detects the subjects those who flirt, chase, dance, banquet and otherwise engage in the whole gamut of human affairs - his drawing skills, honed over five decades, provided the means of recording them on paper or canvas.

This book is about drawing, and about the artist’s use of drawing to capture multiple nuances of human behaviour.

Cress was an Australian artist who subscribed to the tradition of artists like Rembrandt and Goya who sought to express aspects of the human condition as they saw it in their times. The more than 900 drawings reproduced in this book are arranged in series which date from the 1950s to the present.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 338mm x 251mm • Hb • 256 pages • ISBN 9781876832643 • May 2007

George Johnson World View

Christopher Heathcote et al.

George Johnson arrived in Australia from New Zealand in 1952 and in 1956 held his first exhibition of abstract painting in Melbourne. The book marks the artist’s 80th birthday and fifty years of singular dedication to philosophically-based abstract imagery. His work is uniquely consistent - rarely straying from compositions based on primary shapes and a limited range of colour preferences, but demostrating how these minimal means can, in combination, serve as surrogates for complex ideas. Additional contributors to the text include the artist’s brother, New Zealand poet Louis Johnson; Melbourne critic, the late Gary Catalano; and Melbourne philosopher, Patrick Hutchings.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 302mm x 249mm • Hb • 240 pages • ISBN 9781876832810 • October 2006

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.

AU$69.95 • NZ$74.95 • 292mm x 191mm • Pb • 144 pages • ISBN 9781876832889 • November 2005

In Praise of Landscape The Art of John Borrack Lucy Grace Ellem This magnificent book, authored by Lucy Ellem, outlines the life and career of a major proponent of the art of watercolour. John Borrack is a significant Australian landscape artist who has travelled the country recording its extraordinary land forms. The more than 270 pages are fully colour illustrated with hundreds of reproductions.

John Borrack, born in 1933 and a renowned Australian landscape painter whose career spans more than 50 years, continues to paint full-time in his studio north of Melbourne where the once rural landscape of the Plenty Valley is being overtaken by suburban development. His landscapes, mainly executed in water colour and lavishly reproduced in this book record the beauty of this region and then extend to many remote areas of the continent – particularly in the north – where extraordinary land formations range from the ‘picturesque’ to the ‘sublime’. He says, “lonely corners of Australia inspire an overwhelming sensation of space and distance. These places to which I am constantly drawn provide me with both a spiritual experience and the starting points for paintings.”

AU$99.95 • NZ$130.00 • 310mm x 245mm • Hb • 288 pages • ISBN 9781921394843 • November 2012

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Jason Benjamin What Binds Us Jack Marx Jason Benjamin is a young Australian painter whose career as an artist began in the US after studies at the Pratt Institute in New York. Since then, from his Sydney base, he has exhibited widely throughout Australia and has been a regular contributor to the Archibald Prize. His international career began in 2007 with an exhibition in Rome.

Benjamin’s subjects are drawn from those around him and the environment in which he dwells. While his paintings are loaded with atmosphere and are evocative of the emotions felt in the presence of his subjects, they conform to longheld traditions in western art. They are - in the final instance - landscapes, still-lifes and portraits. These are moody paintings, aptly titled and certain to draw empathetic responses from those who view them.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 302mm x 284mm • Hb • 196 pages • ISBN 9781876832650 • May 2005

John Olsen: Teeming with Life

His Complete Graphics 1955-2011, Second Edition Ken McGregor and Jeffrey Makin After an extensive search to locate any of John Olsen’s prints that may be missing from the first edition of this popular book, we are proud to announce a second edition which includes all of the artist’s etchings made since 2005 when this book was last published.

The recent etchings retain all the verve and joie de vivre that is associated with John Olsen’s art in whatever medium.

They include new frogs and a series entitled ‘Life Class’, with his witty interpretations of artists ‘drawing from the model’. Other recent works include his fabulous version of ‘Humpty Dumpty’.

AU$140.00 • NZ$170.00 • 351mm x 257mm • Hb • 304 pages • ISBN 9781921394683 • December 2011

Jörg Schmeisser

Bilder Der Reise – A man, who likes to draw Roger Butler, Eric Denker, Peter Haynes, Merryn Gates, Rudiger Joppien, Hendrik Kolenberg, Suzanne Knight, Akira Kurosaki, Howard Morphy, Sarina Noordhius-Fairfax, and Paul Wunderlich.

This splendidly illustrated, multi-colored publication serves as a fitting memorial to a much-admired Canberra-based artist, teacher and traveller who died in 2012 while still involved with the production of the book. A painter of the art of colour etching, his keenly observed studies of the world around him – whether in his birthplace, Germany, or in fairflung and ancient places in the Middle East, Far East and Australia – are rich in detail and often annotated in his own handwriting. He lets the etched line work on the spectator’s imagination – with poetic rewards for all who ponder.

Schemisser came to Australia in 1978 as head of the Printmaking Department of the Canberra School of Art. As such, he encouraged the development of a generation of young artists. His own works are keenly collected – particularly in Australia, Germany and Jpan. Co-published by SFA Press, Canberra, and Macmillan Art Publishing, this is a heartwarming account of an artistic life well-lived from a variety of scholarly and critical perspectives. The design and colour reproduction are both spectacular.

AU$69.95 • NZ$99.95 • 246mm x 246mm • Hb • 176 pages • ISBN 9781921394942 • February 2013

Joseph Henderson

Doyen of Glasgow Artists 1832-1908 Hilary Christie-Johnston Joseph Henderson’s contribution to the burgeoning Glasgow art world in the second half of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th was profound. Glasgow became a centre of artistic activity in the 1860s, due in part to the establishment of the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and the artists who formed the Glasgow Art Club of which Henderson was twice president. Among the artists most regularly reviewed in The Glasgow Herald and The Scotsman was Joseph Henderson whose early works encompassed portraiture and genre painting but who later became renowned for his seascapes and extraordinary rendition of the west coast of Scotland. These feature prominently in this richly coloured illustrated book which brings to life what Henderson called his ‘bit of the Ayrshire Coast’.

And yet today, knowledge of his contribution requires renewal. Perhaps overshadowed by his son-in-law, the better known William McTaggart, and vying for recognition with his three artist sons, one of whom became Director of the Glasgow School of Art, few remember that Henderson had many paintings hung at the Royal Academy in London and in 1896 was declared by his colleagues to be ‘the doyen of Glasgow artists’.

AU$79.95 • NZ$99.95 • 304mm x 240mm • Pb • 160 pages • ISBN 9781921394881 • July 2013

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Les Kossatz

The Art of Existence Introduced by Paul Guest, with essays by Darryl Jacskon, Ronald Millar, James Mollison and Zara Stanhope, and a biography by Diana Gribble As a sculptor, painter, printmaker, glass-artist and creator of extraordinary ideas and events, Les Kossatz has occupied a unique position within Australia’s art world for more than 40 years. Early recognition of his striking paintings of flags and other Pop Art images was followed in the 1970s by his remarkable sculptures of sheep caught in peculiar predicaments that echoed aspects of the universal human condition. He then went on to complete major sculpture commissions such as The Eternal Flame at the War Memorial in Canberra. He also contributed to the development of Australian sculpture through his teaching roles at RMIT and Monash Universities.

This significant, richly illustrated monograph was published to coincide with a major retrospective of the artist’s work curated by Zara Stanhope for Heide Museum of Modern Art in November 2008. A particularly interesting feature of the book is the illustrated biography compiled by Diana Gribble. It completes an all-together intriguing account of an artist’s journey to this point in time.

AU$120.00 • NZ$145.00 • 351mm x 251mm • Hb • 288 pages • ISBN 9781921394201 • December 2008

Robert Jacks

His Bloomsday Book Art works by Australian artist Robert Jacks, edited by Jenny Zimmer, with literary contributions by Peter Steele, Patrick McCaughey, Patrick Hutchings, Tate Adams, Frances Devlin-Glass and Petr Herel On 16 June 2004, the international community celebrated the centenary of ‘Bloomsday’. The epicentre of events was Dublin where the Australian artist, Robert Jacks, had been invited to exhibit his paintings at 15 Usher’s Island, once the home of James Joyce’s aunts and the building in which Joyce located The Dead, the final story of his Dubliners. This limited standard edition of 400 copies, each with a bookplate signed by the artist, uses colour and abstract shapes to symbolise the passing of one day, from morning to night. The day is 16 June 1904, when Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom junketed through Dublin and their adventures were recorded, for posterity, in Joyce’s Ulysses.

AU$89.95 • NZ$99.00 • 345mm x 251mm • Hb • 48 pages • ISBN 9781876832261 • August 2004

Searching for Gaia The Art of Guy Warren

Norbert Lynton, John McDonald, Guy Warren and Deborah Hart Guy Warren, in writing his own biography, offers an artist’s view of life and art in Sydney during the better part of the twentieth century. His entertaining text is reinforced by the words of eminent British art historian, Professor Norbert Lynton, who has long admired Warren’s paintings and those of Sydney art critic, John McDonald, who places the artist in context in the Australian landscape.

This colourful monograph documents the life and works of a Sydney artist who has witnessed the transition from modernism to post-modernism and practised both. Comprehensively illustrated in black & white and colour, the images are drawn from the artist’s entire career, beginning in pre-war Sydney, continued in war-time Bougainville, then in post-war England and, until now, in Sydney.

AU$89.95 • NZ$110.00 • 320mm x 227mm • Hb • 196 pages • ISBN 9781876832377 • December 2003

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.

AU$130.00 • NZ$160.00 • 315mm x 307mm • Hb • 332 pages • ISBN 9781921394140 • November 2009

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Vassilieff and His Art Felicity St John Moore Danila Vassilieff, a passionate, freedom-loving Cossack who burst upon the Australian art scene in the mid-1930s is, in this book, posited as the missing link in the story of 20th century painting in Australia. The author suggests that the emotionalism and originality of his art, and his unconventional lifestyle, had a leaving effect on the art of nolan, Tucker, Hester, Percival, Blackman, and Arthur Boyd. His imaginative response to the Australian landscape deepened this impact.

This critical survey of Vassilieff’s painting and sculture is richly illustrated and fully documented with catalogues of his creative output in both areas. It also provides the moving story of a legendary character who died poverty-stricken, in 1958, at the age of 60. His struggle to prove himself as an individual and an artist has all the ingredients of a novel.

AU$69.95 • NZ$89.95 • 300mm x 240mm • Pb • 240 pages • ISBN 9781921394874 • May 2012

Walters

Art of Realism & Abstraction David Thomas, with a foreword by the late Dr Joseph Brown Wes Walters has painted more than 200 portraits of notable Australians - including Arthur Boyd, Kerry Stokes, Kenneth Myer and Dame Elizabeth Murdoch. His abstract paintings, on the other hand, are inspired by the Australian landscape. These highly gestural abstracts have seldom been exhibited while much of his highly successful graphic design work executed in the 1960s and 70s will be immediately recognizable to those who once drove early Holden cars and ate Chiko rolls. David Thomas explores the background of this Ballarat-born artist and traces Walters’s career up to the retrospective exhibition launched concurrently with this book, in June 2009.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 297mm x 251mm • Hb • 184 pages • ISBN 9781921394065 • June 2009

Yosl Bergner

Art as a Meeting of Cultures Frank Klepner, with an introduction by Bernard Smith The painter Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna in 1920, arrived in Australia in 1937 and migrated to Israel in 1950.

Melbourne scholar, Frank Klepner, provides a richly-detailed history of Bergner’s Australian years and provides wellresearched and previously unpublished insights into the artist’s principal themes.

Bergner first exhibited with Arthur Boyd and Noel Counihan in Melbourne in 1939 and from then he developed an increasingly social-realist approach to painting. Today, he is one of Israel’s leading painters, but he continues to visit and exhibit works in Australia.

AU$69.95 • NZ$79.95 • 257mm x 174mm • Hb • 160 pages • ISBN 9781876832926 • October 2004

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Art Collections & Institutions Accounting for Taste

The Lowensteins Arts Management Collection Sasha Grishin Author Sasha Grishin has used a musical analogy to categorise the more than 250 lavishly reproduced artworks by 135 artists of Australia’s post-war years that are included in this book. Recalling the movements of a symphony, he divides the artworks into four ‘movements’: ‘Humanist Moderns’, ‘Formalist Moderns’, those for whom the landscape is relevant and, lastly, a variety of painters and sculptors more difficult to fit into a cohesive group. The ‘Prelude’ which introduces the book tells the story of accountant Tom Lowenstein who, with his partners, experimented in art collecting in the 1970s before – together with his son Evan and a colleague Adam Micmacher – establishing the present Lowensteins Arts Management Collection which currently hangs in Melbourne and Sydney. Befriending artists like John Olsen, Charles Blackman and Arthur Boyd, he was privvy to sound advice while he developed his own aesthetic judgement.

AU$99.95 • NZ$130.00 • 306mm x 245mm • Hb • 288 pages • ISBN 9781921394805 • December 2013

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.

AU$49.95 • NZ$59.95 • 275mm x 230mm • Hb • 112 pages • ISBN 9781876832353 • September 2005

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.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 315mm x 251mm • Hb • 208 pages • ISBN 9781921394324 • August 2011

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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.

AU$99.95 • NZ$125.00 • 249mm x 249mm • Pb • 208 pages • ISBN 9781921394454 • November 2010

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.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 279mm x 226mm • Hb • 440 pages • ISBN 9781876832469 • November 2005

Greek Vases

At The University of Melbourne Peter Connor and Heather Jackson The catalogue of the University of Melbourne’s superb collection of Greek vases is now published as a sumptuous, fully colour-illustrated, cloth-covered volume which will suit the needs of students, researchers and interested readers.

This book is a collector’s item, designed and produced to library specifications. It offers the complete scholarly apparatus for study of the vase collection, one of the finest in the country. It will prove valuable as a reference text wherever classics, archaeology or art are studied. The book is a product of one of the most outstanding Classical Studies departments in Australia and is destined for libraries throughout the world. It is the first volume in a series planned to feature various aspects of the University’s wider collection. Each vase, fully described and documented, appears in rich colour and detail. Styles and periods are introduced by contextualising photographs presented as dramatic double-page spreads. No effort has been spared to publish this collection as beautifully as these unique artifacts deserve.

AU$99.95 • NZ$153.95 • 320mm x 249mm • Hb • 208 pages • ISBN 9781876832070 • December 2000 CD • AU$49.95 • NZ$64.95 • ISBN 9781876832087

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Jewish Museum of Australia Jewish Museum of Australia Melbourne’s Jewish Museum of Australia has celebrated its 25 years with a remarkable book relating to its exhibitons and magnificient collections. This superbly designed book gives uniquely Australian perspective on the 4000 year religion and culture of Judaism.

AU$49.95 • NZ$62.00 • 282mm x 241mm • Pb • 200 pages • ISBN 9781875670444 • September 2008

Luminous Simplicity

The Architecture and Art of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta Romaldo Giurgola International multi-award winning architect, Romaldo Giurgoila (b. Rome, 1920) is best known in Australia as the principal architect of the New Parliament House in Canberra. His latest major work is St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta, a new Cathedral complex which incorporates the old 1857 building which was destroyed by fire in 1996.

The opening of the new Cathedral was celebrated on 29 November 2003. For Romaldo Giurgola this project provided an opportunity to reflect on his life’s work and to incorporate in the buildings, and the art works which were specially commissioned for them, the architectural principles he values most. He regards architecture as ‘… a symbolic expression of people’s cultural identities and aspirations’. With this in mind, he has created in Parramatta a singular masterpiece characterised by its simplicity, serenity and contemplative character.

This beautifully written and illustrated publication provides eloquent insights into the art of architecture and Romaldo Giurgola’s spatial philosophy.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 282mm x 241mm • Hb • 192 pages • ISBN 9781876832834 • June 2007

When You Think about Art

The Ewing & George Paton Gallery, 1971 - 2008 Edited by Helen Vivian, multi-authored The history of the George Paton Gallery established at the University of Melbourne, and administered by the Melbourne University Student Union, charts a very important period in contemporary art in Australia. This richly illustrated history provides an account of one of the most spirited art spaces in Melbourne. The book details exhibitions and events which influenced the development of the visual arts in Australia. It examines the dramatic changes which took place from the experimentation of the seventies to the impact of Postmodernism in the eighties, through to the greater integration of these disparate forces today.

AU$79.95 • NZ$95.95 • 277mm x 241mm • Pb • 288 pages • ISBN 9781921394027 • August 2008

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Art History & Cultural Studies Art and Humanist Ideals Contemporary Perspectives Compiled and introduced by William Kelly In a radical departure form the conventional art history text, this unique volume brings together a number of the world’s great artist/image-makers and thinkers on issues of art and its expression for contemporary humanity. With early seminal texts by novelist Thomas Mann, theologian Paul Tillich, and art historian Herbert Read as a foundation, the content then moves through late 20th century to post-September 11 material. It bridges grass-roots to academic cultural dialogue. Focusing on prints - limited editions, hand-pulled posters and photographs - it includes images from poster collectives, work by Peter Schumann from the ‘cheap art movement’, photographs by Judith Joy Ross, Dominic Hsieh and Nick Ut’s powerful image ‘Vietnam Napalm’. There are drawings and llimited edition prints by leading artist/ printmakers from Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and North and South America.

It is a book that intelligently celebrates the engagement of art with life - with issues of social justice, peace, human rights - paying tribute to the seldom acknowledged contribution of Modern Art to humanist thought. In so going, it reassesses what have been regional perspectives as compared to the world-wide contribution of humanist art.

AU$44.95 • NZ$59.95 • 244mm x 163mm • Hb • 288 pages • ISBN 9781876832254 • March 2003

The Blake Book

Art, Religion and Spirituality in Australia Rosemary Crumlin The Blake Prize for religious art has now withstood 60 years of controversy as critics from many walks of life have argued as to what, in these decades of Australia’s history, constitutes ‘religious art’.

Rosemary Crumlin’s richly illustrated book traces the changing styles of the literally thousands of entries to the Prize over six decades. These begin with winners of the prize in the 1950s who modelled their works on examples from Western art history and then extends to the decades when non-objectivity posed problems for those seeking religious imagery, through to the inclusion of Indigenous art and influences stemming from Asia and the Muslim world. This is a profoundly important history of a particular aspect of Australian art.

AU$69.95 • NZ$89.95 • 318mm x 247mm • Pb • 224 pages • ISBN 9781921394737 • October 2011

The Darkroom

Photography and the Theatre of Desire Anne Marsh Anne Marsh’s treatise on the art of photography traces its theoretical underpinning from the early debates between the rationalists and the fantasists, through psychoanalytical interpretations, to the theatre of desire. She investigates the role of photography in ‘ghostly performances’, the ‘masking of desire’ and ‘high camp aesthetics’ - through to ‘performance art’ and the role of the photographer as a ‘gender terrorist’ - as in the work of Del LaGrace Volcano.

The study concludes with notable examples of postmodern photography as they have occurred in the Australian context. This ground-breaking work by a leading Monash University academic will interest all students of photography and followers of recent trends in art and art theory.

AU$59.95 • NZ$75.00 • 234mm x 157mm • Hb • 336 pages • ISBN 9781876832780 • October 2003

Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment Australia - Oceania - Asia - Africa

Truus Daalder (text), Jeremy Daalder (photographs) The care with which this book has been prepared is simply astonishing. Its history began when Truus and Joost Daalder acquired their first examples of non-European ethnic body adornment around 1980, four years after their arrival in Adelaide. Creating this magnificent publication has involved much travel and research, and a passionate author – Truus Daalder, a collector born into a collector’s family.

Today the Daalder collection of ethnic jewellery numbers many hundreds of items, of which more than 500 appear in this book in glorious colour and with an expert photographer’s attention to presentation and detail. They are supplemented by close to 200 other objects selected from the world-renowned collections of items from Australian Aboriginal and Oceanic cultures shown in their designated Galleries at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide.

The text of the book offers concise but informative discussion of cultural and social contexts, considered comparisons, detailed analyses of the illustrated objects and useful political and geographic data.

AU$150.00 • NZ$195.00 • 325mm x 279mm • Hb • 420 pages • ISBN 9781921394287 • December 2009

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The Heritage of Eastern Turkey Antonio Sagona Melbourne University professor, Dr. Antonio Sagona, has conducted many seasons of excavation and survey work in eastern Turkey as Director of a University of Melbourne archaeological team. His extravagantly illustrated book traces the history of the region from the beginning of settled life (c. 11,000 - 5500 BC) to the spread of Islam and the resplendent Ottoman period that followed.

Among its fascinating subjects are details of the obsidian trade; the emergence of agriculture and stock-breeding; the development of metallurgy; the rise of a merchant class; the constant re-organisation of political boundaries under the Urartians, Hittites and Persians; the Roman and Christian periods; and the Arab Conquest followed by the invasion of the remarkable Selijuks and their wonderful arts.

The text is supported by rare and beautiful photography of the sites and monuments, and of artefacts produced by the many different peoples who have inhabited this fascinating geographic region. The lively and accessible text, and the visual impact of the photographs, guarantee that the book will intrigue readers who are curious about this littleknown and seldom-visited region in the far east of Turkey.

AU$89.95 • NZ$100.00 • 295mm x 203mm • Hb • 208 pages • ISBN 9781876832056 • November 2006

Homesickness

Nationalism in Australian Visual Culture Traudi Allen This timely and intelligent discussion focuses on the elusive nature of Australian nationalism as it is defined by visual images drawn from a vast variety of sources - some surprising and others regularly encountered in our daily lives.

From high art to popular kitsch, the more than 100 plates support the author’s feisty arguments which range from domestic issues related to the great Australian dream of suburban home ownership to the plight of those who have experienced difficulties in making a home here. As Allen declares, ‘The nationalist discourse is a multifarious and contradictory matter’, with many pitfalls, ambiguous stereotypes and questionable mythologies.

This densely detailed text is essential reading for all who wish to better understand Australia’s complex contemporary culture.

AU$59.95 • NZ$71.95 • 241mm x 170mm • Pb • 230 pages • ISBN 9781921394010 • September 2008

Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval Europe Edited by Gregory Kratzmann Introduced by means of comprehensive essays by Professor Jeffrey F. Hamburger of Harvard University and Margaret M. Manion of the University of Melbourne, this sumptuous volume presents the proceedings of a conference held at the State Library of Victoria in 2008 when that institution arranged an important exhibition of medieval manuscripts.

Learned papers presented by an array of prestigious scholars investigate topics such as travel, incarceration, purgatory, music, magic, history, worship and inheritance in the medieval world. Jeffrey Hamburger’s essay deals with changing conventions in the production of medieval books while Professor Manion describes the State Library’s remarkable exhibition.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 318mm x 251mm • Hb • 260 pages • ISBN 9781921394331 • May 2010

Letters of Pope Gregory Professor John R. C. Martyn, University of Melbourne, Australia During the time Gregory the Great served as Pope of the Catholic Church, from 590-604 AD, he sent more than 850 letters to contacts throughout the known world – often using travellers as letter-bearers. However it was a time of warfare in Italy, with invading bombards, and trade in slaves was lucrative – with agents quick to capture defenceless travellers. Official communication, like imperial or papal orders were sent via postal channels, by horsemen or fast boats, these too were often blocked by enemy armies. This book studies some forty Latin letters sent by Pope Gregory, copies of which are included in a manuscript held in the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne.

This unique Melbourne manuscript, with its colourful initials and rubrication of the titles comprises a series of folios removed in the 17th century and used by musicians in Worcester Cathedral to protect their musical scores. Rebound in the 20th century and put up for sale in London, the manuscript was purchased by the Classics Department of the University of Melbourne in the 1970s.

AU$79.95 • NZ$110.00 • 253mm x 174mm • Hb • 184 pages • ISBN 9781921394935 • July 2013

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The Lip Anthology

An Australian Feminist Arts Journal 1976-1984 Edited by Vivian Ziherl By reviewing the adventurous projects and artworks of a significant group of women involved with the Lip Collective based in Melbourne in the 1970s and 80s, this exciting anthology co-published by Kunstverein Publishing Amsterdam and Macmillan Art Publishing discloses for the first time the scope of the movement.

As editor Vivian Ziherl writers: “Lip magazine was self-published by women in Melbourne from 1976 to 1984 and stood as a lightning rod for Australian feminist artistic practice over the ‘Women Liberation’ era. The art and ideas expressed over Lip’s lifetime track, with ground-breaking moves into performance, ecology, social-engagement and labor politics, stood at an intersection with local realities. The Lip Anthology seeks a figuration of Lip as a composite feminist entity produced with relation to the situational conditions of its production.”

AU$49.95 • NZ$69.95 • 270mm x 190mm • Pb • 192 pages • ISBN 9781921394775 • July 2013

A Pavane for Another Time Emeritus Professor Bernard Smith pioneered the writing of art history in Australia Following art historian Bernard Smith’s award-winning autobiographical account of his earlier life (The Boy Adeodatus: The Portrait of a Lucky Young Bastard, first published in 1984) he now reflects on life in the 1940s. Themes recalling the period before the family departed for England in September 1948 include; courtship and marriage; forebodings of war and attitudes to Communism and Fascism; political involvement in cultural activities with artists and emigré European-trained art historians anxious to promote modern art and knowledge of art history (not taught in universities at that time) and early employment at the Art Gallery of New South Wales pioneering the arrangement of travelling exhibitions for regional centres.

Smith’s formative training as an art historian and critic is the important and recurring theme of this book. It encompasses his encounters at London’s Courtauld and Warburg Institutes with art historians Anthony Blunt, Ernst Gombrich, Rudolf Wittkower and many others; his introduction to art historical methodologies and insights (such as Gombrich’s insistence on the linkage between image and concept); and his obligatory ‘grand tours’ of a range of European cities and their museums, art works and architectural monuments.

AU$59.95 • NZ$69.95 • 240mm x 158mm • Hb • 480 pages • ISBN 9781876832667 • August 2002

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.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 315mm x 254mm • Hb • 208 pages • ISBN 9781921394171 • July 2010

Sound of Our Summer Seas Japan in Australia

Diane Menghetti, with illustrations by Tate Adams There is some evidence that Japanese people may have visited Australia before Europeans settled here. The Japanese government legalised emigration in 1866 and twenty-four passports to Australia were issued between 1868 and 1882.

The first Japanese settler to arrive in Queensland in the 1870s was a circus acrobat. By the end of the century nearly 4000 Japanese lived in Australia, and 88% of them in Queensland.

Few people realise that Townsville in North Queensland hosted the first Japanese Consuls based in Australia. They served their countrymen who were working in the pearling, trochus shell and sugar industries. The previously littleknown and fascinating story of Townsville’s Japanese Consuls, which is superbly illustrated by Townsville-based artist Tate Adams, will surprise and delight.

AU$39.95 • NZ$59.95 • 216mm x 211mm • Hb • 48 pages • ISBN 9781876832506 • May 2004

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.

AU$99.95 • NZ$120.00 • 312mm x 257mm • Hb • 192 pages • ISBN 9781876832445 • December 2003

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Literature & Biography Cosmic Collisions & Falling Bodies Barbara M. Moore and Roma McLaughlin This beautifully illustrated volume of eighteen poems by the late Barbara M. Moore takes the reader on an imaginary journey into space at first in search of the first ant on the moon (who travelled there on Apollo 11 in 1969, inside Armstrong’s jacket), and then on into the galaxy and its wonders. Of Galileo she writes: “He saw enough signs of a sun-centred universe / to topple Aristotle and split / the foundations of the known universe.” And Roma McLaughlin’s wonderful drawing of Galileo with his telescope, set against an Italian architectural vista, is just one of a series of images which equal the deeply imaginative qualities of the poems.

Barbara M. Moore died in late 2009 after a long and debilitating illness which she fought by engaging her mind. The book has been supported by the University of Melbourne where, in 2009, she completed an MA in the area of creative writing.

AU$34.95 • NZ$44.95 • 246mm x 175mm • Hb • 32 pages • ISBN 9781921394317 • June 2010

Critical Moments

Essays and Reviews on Art in Australia Jeffrey Makin Well known artist Jeffrey Makin has also served as an art critic over more than three decades, reviewing significant national and international exhibitions in major public galleries. He has also followed the careers of notable Australian artists and their exhibitions in the private gallery system throughout the nation.

This book is divided into fifteen sections, each of which explores a separate theme with more than 150 reviews of the artists whose works fall into the totality of these categories. The sections include ‘European Visions’, ‘Female Sensibilities’, ‘In the Abstract’, ‘Real and Surreal’ and others related to figuration, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and landscape painting. Taken as a whole, this book provides a unique survey of Australian art, from a painter-critic’s perspective.

AU$59.95 • NZ$79.95 • 249mm x 173mm • Pb • 328 pages • ISBN 9781921394195 • November 2011

The Dramas of Lajos Walder

Vase of Pompeii - Tyrataeus - Below Zero Lajos Walder, translated by Agnes Walder In the dramatic and tragic years of World War II, the Hungarian poet Lajos Walder was probably looking for a broader expression of his philosophical beliefs than poetry seemed to allow. Following Huxley, Aragon and Celine, he turned to prose. Drawing on his education in Greek and his love of theatre he penned plays with ‘… insights so pertinent, that they seem universally valid some six and a half decades later’.

Lajos Walder (1913-1945) was a well-known poet in 1930s Budapest, but his plays, written in the early 1940s, were not known until 1990 when they were first published in Hungarian and described by a major critic as ‘… uniquely beautiful creations of an original mind’. Lajos Walder died on 7 May 1945, the day of liberation and just four hours after walking out of the Death Camp of Gunskirchen: he was not yet 32 years of age. These plays should be staged. In the meantime, they may be read in Agnes Walder’s fine translations which evoke the essence and mood of her father’s time and capture his expressive literary style.

AU$49.95 • NZ$75.00 • 233mm x 160mm • Hb • 302 pages • ISBN 9781876832766 • July 2007

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.

AU$39.95 • NZ$49.95 • 195mm x 168mm • Hb • 188 pages • ISBN 9781876832513 • November 2005

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A Meeting of East and West Days Gone By, Volume Two Christine Wu Ramsay In Days Gone By, Volume 2: A Meeting of East and West, Christine Wu Ramsay continues the personal story of her life in an ever-widening world – as East meets West. The story is told with warmth, insight and her characteristic sense of humour. Presented with the realities of Western customs and values, she sets these against her changing perceptions of the traditions and philosophies of a matriarchal and extended Chinese family living in Singapore. Contrasts between East and West are highlighted when she takes a Western husband and they have two Eurasian children.

Photographs spanning a century, complement the author’s engaging and revealing description of studying, working and living in Asia, Australia, England and America from 1958 to 1983.

AU$74.95 • NZ$99.95 • 306mm x 246mm • Hb • 116 pages • ISBN 9781921394751 • May 2013

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.

AU$34.95 • NZ$44.95 • 194mm x 146mm • Hb • 128 pages • ISBN 9780958574372 • December 1999

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’.

AU$34.95 • NZ$44.95 • 240mm x 152mm • Hb • 48 pages • ISBN 9781876832094 • September 2004

Notes from the Shed Hanna Kay Hanna Kay describes her journal, begun in summer 2003, as a dialogue between one and oneself. She says: ‘Keeping a journal is like meeting this person inside me head-on’. And that person is an artist whose journal helps the reader understand something of the way an artist thinks. Both her journal and the paintings produced in her studio measure the passing of the seasons and the artist’s emotional empathy with the Australian landscape the and living things about her as she responds to the seasonal changes wrought by Nature.

She says: “The locals [in rural NSW] refer to my Studio as ‘the shed’. For me the 200 square metres framed by ironbark posts and corrugated iron, is a sanctuary in which I dare to experiment, question, or be idle. The solid structure and the five acres that surround it protect me from the world’s follies.” Her observations of the environment are recorded poetically, her own musing interspersed with references to world literature. The book is dedicated: ‘To Nature, while she’s still around’.

AU$59.95 • NZ$71.95 • 218mm x 168mm • Pb • 208 pages • ISBN 9781876832582 • August 2007

No Other Man, No Other Store The Extraordinary Life of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones: Painter, Patron and Patriot 1878 - 1958 Jenny Cullen, with an Introduction by Professor Geoffrey Blainey Sir Charles Lloyd Jones always wanted to be an artist and, in his youth, studied painting first at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and then at the Slade in London. As grandson of the founder of David Jones Ltd., he eventually returned from London to play many important roles in the firm – firstly by revolutionising its advertising and later as Chairman of the Board for almost 40 years until his death in 1958. If his innovative approach to many areas of retailing has become legendary, his contribution to the arts in Australia was equally profound. He shared with founder Sydney Ure Smith the publication of Art in Australia and The Home. He was appointed first Chairman of the ABC and an initial director of the Australian National Travel Association, now known as Tourism Australia. He became a long-term Trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW, established David Jones’ Art Gallery and helped bring local and overseas artists to increasingly arts-interested Australian audiences. All the while, he continued to paint – albeit on a very much part-time basis. This biography provides an exciting documentation of the life of a remarkable citizen, described in the title of the book as ‘Painter, Patron and Patriot’.

AU$110.00 • NZ$140.00 • 308mm x 246mm • Hb • 240 pages • ISBN 9781921394836 • June 2013

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Satires & Songs of an Upright Rabbit Jim Allen Deriving its title from Shakespeare’s line in Henry IV, ‘Away, you whoreson upright rabbit, away!’, Jim Allen’s selected poems are grouped under the following headings: Distant Lands, A Bestiary, The Breaking of Seals, Meditations, Lines of Resistance, Memories, A Company of Friends, Relationships, Comic Cuts, Tongues of Fire and Progression. As Jim Allen points out, poets are not saints - and many of these poems are pithy in the extreme.

Professor Bruce Johnson writes in his introduction: ‘In matters of social justice [Allen] has Blake’s capacity for savage jabs of outrage, and I conclude that, like Swift, he can hate humankind but dearly love people... Like his prose, these poems work most intensely for me when they are draped over the material world in which memory and emotion are invested.’ The former Professor of English at the University of New South Wales concludes that some of Jim Allen’s poetry is as fine as anything he has ever read.

AU$49.95 • NZ$64.95 • 236mm x 155mm • Hb • 200 pages • ISBN 9781921394096 • October 2008

Views from the Balcony

A Biography of Catherine Duncan Michael Keane This is the remarkable and revealing story of Catherine Duncan, a leading Australian actress and playwright during the golden years of radio, the winner – along with Peter Finch – of the 1947 Macquarie Award and Australia’s first official female film director: a woman with such belief in herself that she could begin a radio talk with the statement, “History begins with me!”

Replete with romance and adventure, this biography traces her early years in Melbourne, her association with the radical New Theatre, her several marriages and ultimate decision to spend more than half her life in Paris where she joined the vibrant literary and artistic circles of those decades. The book is illustrated with many of the important creative individuals with whom she associated during her extraordinary life.

AU$44.95 • NZ$59.95 • 234mm x 150mm • Pb • 224 pages • ISBN 9781921394577 •June 2011

We, the Twenty-Five Letters of the Alphabet Lajos Walder, translated by Agnes Walder The Hungarian Poet Lajos Walder (1913 - 1945), who chose the pseudonym Vándor, or wanderer, first came to notice in 1932 when he introduced himself to the editor of Anonymous, a Budapest-published literary magazine, with the following words: ‘My name is Lajos Vándor. I am a poet, a law student and a trainee worker at the knitting mills. To the proletarians I am a rotten bourgeois; to the bourgeois I am a stinking proletarian; to the petit-bourgeoisie I am an evil anarchist and to the anarchists I am a cowardly petit-bourgeoisie. And everybody is right, whatever they say about me. But I wrote a few masterpieces - these, the poets and les belles ames would call prose, and the prose writers and modern aesthetes would call poems. Take them and eat them, read them, and publish them; but first give me a cigarette because I left my cash register at home and I don’t have four cents in my pocket to buy a single fag.’

Walder’s poems are an accurate expression of their times; political tension and bizarre humour are juxtaposed in a manner concordant with the irreverent Da-da movement that after 1916 swept through the art and literary circles of pre-war Europe. The poems, translated by his daughter Agnes Walder, now resident in Sydney, are for the first time published in English.

AU$49.95 • NZ$59.95 • 240mm x 160mm • Hb • 160 pages • ISBN 9781876832025 September 2004

Where the Cool Warrichi Flows Jim Allen, with illustrations by Dell Hall The seven short stories included in this delightful book recall incidents from Jim Allen’s childhood spent in a mixedrace community in South Arfica’s rural Transvaal where his father opened a trading store. Born in 1925, Allen later studied English, Afrikaans, Latin and Greek at Witwatersrand University and English at Oxford. After migrating to Australia in 1962 he taught at the University of New South Wales. He dedicates his book to the three groups of people - Shangaan, Afrikaans and English-speaking - whose friendships and conflicts moulded him.

AU$34.95 • NZ$44.95 • 240mm x 160mm • Hb • 144 pages • ISBN 9781876832148 • May 2003

The Whispering Gallery Art into Poetry

Peter Steele, with a foreword by Gerard Vaughan Peter Steele’s book, The Whispering Gallery: Art into Poetry, follows his highly successful Plenty: Art into Poetry. It contains 55 poems, each prompted by a work of art in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. The art works are reproduced alongside poems for immediate reference and enjoyment.

Professor Peter Steele is a highly regarded Australian poet. His work has been applauded worldwide by poets and critics, including Peter Porter (England), the late Anthony Hecht (USA) and Seamus Heaney (Ireland). While the earlier Plenty: Art into Poetry is a work of beauty and distinction, which renders both poetry and art more accessible, eminent critics already consider The Whispering Gallery to be an exciting successor in which the author expands and deepens his imaginative exploration of words and images.

AU$89.95 • NZ$100.00 • 312mm x 249mm • Pb • 128 pages • ISBN 9781876832858 • May 2006

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Macmillan Mini Art Book Series With twenty-one titles now available, these little books make perfect gifts and lend themselves to counter display.

Each volume, though of pocket-book dimensions, includes 144 pages with many colour reproductions of the particular artists’ work, a biographical survey of the artist’s life and an explanatory text. High quality printing and binding is their hall-mark. Artists are chosen from across a wide spectrum of practices and philosophies, enabling younger artists to be showcased alongside established masters.

AU$34.95 • NZ$44.95 • 154mm x 130mm • Hb • 144 pages

Melinda Harper Mini Book #1

Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer Melinda Harper is a young artist who came into prominence in the 1990s as a member of the ‘Store 5’ group who actively sought to re-instate geometric abstraction in the contemporary art scene. Her subject matter is restricted to a simple vocabulary of pure abstract shapes and colours. Her paintings are a celebration of colour, forming a visual kaleidoscope painted in a systematic way and usually in groups and series. These precisely executed geometric compositions are visually dazzling, bold and expressive and are based on the repetition in different compositions of multicoloured irregular shapes.

ISBN 9781921394041 • April 2008

Jasper Knight Mini Book #2

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. Knight has painted the docklands of Melbourne and the piers and ferries of Sydney Harbour.

ISBN 9781921394034 • May 2008

Tim Storrier 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 selected as subjects the most dramatic and dangerous aspects of nature with the aim of inspiring pleasurable sensations of awe and terror in the spectator who view them at a safe distance - through art.

ISBN 9781921394126 • October 2008

Robert Jacks Mini Book #5

Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer This book provides an enticing overview of Robert Jacks’ paintings, sculptures and collages created between the 1950s and now. His work is abstract, but alludes sufficiently to music, architecture and forms in nature to trigger the imagination of the viewer while providing a sumptuous colour experience. Not all artists are masters of colour - but Jacks is a remarkable colourist whose sensibility in this area is rarely matched.

ISBN 9781921394157 • March 2009

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John Olsen

*Mini Book #6 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 life-class with its models and, of course, his famous frogs. In all these subjects we catch glimpses of the artist’s exuberant personality and his joyous approach to life.

ISBN 9781921394164 • August 2009 *Reprint under consideration

Adam Cullen Mini Book #7

Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer Adam Cullen emerged in the 1990s as the enfant terrible of the Sydney art-scene and a foremost exponent of ‘grunge’.

Despite descriptions of his work as crude, distasteful and grotesque, his paintings have been selected for many public collections and in 2000 he won the coveted Archibald Prize with his portrait of actor, David Wenham. Cullen’s palette is restricted to garish colours applied expressionistically to equally vivid coloured backgrounds. Sometimes they include hastily added text which demonstrates Cullen’s contempt for much that he observes in current society.

ISBN 9781921394232 • August 2009

Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri Mini Book #8

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.

ISBN 9781921394256 • August 2009

Criss Canning *Mini Book #9

Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer Criss Canning’s desirable book, The Pursuit of Beauty, showcases her beautiful canvases in which botanical art and still-life painting come together in a completely unique way. This mini-book focuses on Canning’s studies of her studio, with its extraordinary array of still-life objects, and the artist’s favourite flowers and botanical specimens. Many of the paintings have not been previously reproduced.

ISBN 9781921394485 • May 2011 *Reprint under consideration

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Inge King

*Mini Book #10 Judith Trimble Since coming to Australia, via London, in the early 1950s, Inge King has forged a remarkable reputation as a leading pioneer of contemporary sculpture. In this new addition to the Macmillan’s mini-art series, art historian Judith Trimble discusses King’s practice of producing maquettes and small-scale works as a preliminary to their possible fabrication as large-scale sculptures.This mini-book reproduces more than one hundred of King’s small-scale works and provides valuable insights into sculptural processes.

ISBN 9781921394263 • August 2009 *Reprint under consideration

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.

ISBN 9781921394447 • May 2010

Jim Pavlidis Mini Book #12 Megan Backhouse During a visit to Greece artist Jim Pavlidis and writer Megan Backhouse decided to explore in words and images the ambivalence of Greeks who migrated to Australia between 1954 and 1990, with some deciding to return permanently to their homeland. Interviews reveal that these people returned because they always intended to do so, or because they craved the simplicity of village or island life. However, they always missed the lifestyle of where they were not.

Jim Pavlidis’s sensitive portraits of these people appear alongside their stories.

ISBN 9781921394348 • May 2010

Anthony Lister Mini Book #13

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.

ISBN 9781921394386 • May 2010

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Charles Blackman Mini Book #14

Barry Dickens and Ken McGregor Sydney-born Charles Blackman has been a major figure on the Australian art scene since the 1950s when he joined the Melbourne ‘Drift’, befriending artists like Arthur Boyd, John Perceval, Joy Hester and Mirka Mora. He became involved with the ‘Antipodeans’ whose manifesto proclaimed the importance of figuration as opposed to the tide of international trends favouring abstraction. He would exhibit alongside many of his artist friends in the famous Whitechapel and Tate Gallery exhibitions in London in 1961-62.

ISBN 9781921394355 • May 2010

Tate Adams Mini Book #15

Frances Thomson and Jenny Zimmer Townsville-based artist Tate Adams is renowned for his wood engravings, a form of printmaking he first practised while illustrating limited edition books for Ireland’s famous Dolmen Press. In Australia, he initiated something of a revolution in the art of printmaking through his teaching at RMIT from 1960-1982, and his establishment of the Crossley Gallery. During the past decade he has moved from the miniature art of wood engraving to the painting of large scale gestural works executed in gouache on paper. The vitality of these recent works is astonishing.

ISBN 9781921394393 • May 2010

Anne Marie Graham Mini Book #16

Andrew Gaynor and Jenny Zimmer Highly regarded art historian and curator Jane Clark has described Anne Marie Graham’s art as a ‘celebration of life’.

Her lengthy career encompasses many more themes than the lush tropical landscapes featured in this mini-book.

She has brought her unique style to scenes from Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens and the arid inland as well as the streets and markets of France and Italy. Often they include figures, sometimes miniscule in relation to their surrounds but comfortable within their colourful environment.

ISBN 9781921394423 • May 2011

Bruno Leti

Mini Book #17 Alan Loney Unlike Bruno Leti’s monograph, The Matrix (Macmillan 2010), which presented aspects of his printmaking, this Mini Book features the artist’s paintings from the 1960s until now. Alan Loney’s essay examines Leti’s multi-faceted studio practice wherein he produces paintings, prints, artists books, drawings and photographs as integral parts of a working life devoted to the arts.

ISBN 9781921394492 • May 2011

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Rendi Liu

Mini Book #18 Jenny Zimmer Rendi (Tower) Liu was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, P.R. China in September 1960 and migrated to Melbourne in January 1990. A self-taught photographer, he began to practice the art form in 1980 and had his first works published in Nanjing in 1982. His photographs have since been exhibited in China, America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. The photographs of Australian native flowers contained in this book have been collated over the past twelve years during which he has undertaken extensive travel throughout the country in search of subjects.

ISBN 9781921394607 • May 2011

Tjanpi

Mini Book #19 Jennifer Mitchell, with Mary Pan, Pantjiti McKenzie and Narelle Holland Tjanpi Desert Weavers is comprised of hundreds of women living across the Northern Territory and the northern regions of South Australia and Western Australia. They delight in the creative activity of gathering native grasses into amazing objects which range from colourful baskets to wonderfully imaginative sculptures of aeroplanes, motor cars, people, birds and animals. Their full-sized Tjanpi Toyota has won a national art award, while other giant sculptures have travelled to European cities.

ISBN 9781921394478 • January 2012

Grahame King Mini Book #20 Jane Eckett Author Jane Eckett, in examining the role of drawing in an artist’s life, suggests that for Grahame King it represented much more than simply a means of describing the world. It was his way of learning about the world and then synthesising observation, thought, feeling and intuition. The book traces the many ways in which drawing led King to the arts of monotype and lithography in which he became a master printmaker.

ISBN 9781921394621 • January 2012

Sandra Bardas Mini Book #21

David Bardas and Ken McGregor David Bardas recalls how his wife, Sandra, who died in 2007, sought every opportunity to photograph the graffiti she spotted in Australian cities and international centres on their business trips around the world. He suggests that she recognised and empathised with the free spirit and rebelliousness of the mostly anonymous graffiti artists and their need to be seen and heard. An artist herself, and a mother of six, she was unafraid to speak out and was attracted by the colour and inventiveness demonstrated in the photographic images which are the subject of this book.

ISBN 9781921394669 • January 2012

Julian Meagher Mini Book #22 Ken McGregor The fact that Sydney artist Julian Meagher originally studied medicine might be deduced from the proliferation of body images in his paintings. From classical life drawing and persuasive portraiture studied in Italy and Sydney, Meagher has moved to the depiction of intricate tattoos on the backs, torsos, shoulders, arms and legs of male subjects. His Pop imagery also extends to festival scenes and the elevation of supermarket and liquor-shop packages and products to symbols of our times. This is thought-provoking art with a very original and timely edge.

ISBN 9781921394829 • January 2012

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New in 2014 Performance_Ritual_Document Anne Marsh Professor Anne Marsh’s meticulously researched and stunningly illustrated study of Australian performance art, and its documentation via photography and the electronic media, is essential reading for everyone intent on a better understanding of developments in contemporary art. Marsh draws upon international literature and criticism of the artform and applies this knowledge to the works of a range of artists who have dedicated decades of their lives to the expression of ideas through bodily performance. Such artists include Jill Orr, Mike Parr, Deborah Kelly, Peter Kennedy, Julie Rrap, Kevin Mortensen, Domenico de Clario, Nasin Nasr, Fiona McGregor, Sarah-Jane Norman, Stelarc, Ash Keating and many others, including New York based Australian, Theresa Byrnes. A most important publication.

AU$89.95 • NZ$100.00 • 272mm x 172mm • Hb • 272 pages • ISBN 9781921394973 • February 2014

The Art of Inge King Sculptor

Sasha Grishin This publication surveys the life’s work of an artist who arrived in Australia in the early 1950s having already undertaken art studies in Germany, England and Scotland. She had also travelled to America to witness, first hand, post-war developments in the New York art world. The extravagantly illustrated book, with wonderful photographs

by Mark Strizic, John Gollings, Jacqui Henshaw, Robin Whittle and others, attempts to document the majority of the artist’s sculptures and works on paper produced over her decades in this country. Included for special consideration in the text are sections on King’s major public commissions such as Forward Surge at the Victorian Arts Centre and Rings of Saturn at Heide Museum of Modern Art. By concentrating on the artist’s entire career, from art school studies in the 1930s to works produced as recently as 2012, this book is intended to be a singularly comprehensive coverage of the artist’s iconographic and stylistic development and a record of this 98 year-old’s creative life dedicated to the art of sculpture.

ISBN 9781922252005 • May 2014

John Olsen The Drawings

John Olsen and Ken McGregor This richly illustrated publication represents the author’s attempt to locate as many of John Olsen’s drawings as possible and Macmillan’s determination to reproduce them in a book which will serve as a companion to our previous monographs on the artist’s prints and paintings.

Olsen is an artist who believes drawing to be the fundamental skill of artistic production and whose artworks, whether paintings, prints or drawings, indicate a keen sense of observation of human and animal behaviour translated into lively and sometimes humorous compositions dependent on the drawn line. He is a living legend on the Australian art scene, who claims: “Drawing is important in every stage of an artist’s career. Drawing is the plank on which you build the architecture of your work. Drawing is a transferable energy, a life-force, and it entails many ways of observing…”

This book will inform and amuse as it reiterates the importance of drawing.

ISBN 9781921394812 • May 2014

The Art of Nyurapaya Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett)

Ralph Hobbs and Ken McGregor This book features hundreds of paintings by the distinguished Alice Springs-based artist known as Mrs Bennett. A special feature of the publication is the series of photographs showing Mrs Bennett’s methods of production - with the various applications of paint and its distribution over the canvas that lead to her readily recognisable personal style. This is a lavishly illustrated account of Mrs Bennett’s life and work and, as such, provides another important monograph dedicated to the achievements of individual Indigenous artists.

ISBN 9781921394362 • June 2014

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