Category Archives: Book

Publication | Protecting Indigenous Art

September 16, 2024Book

In late September Melbourne University Press will release, Protecting Indigenous Art by Colin Golvan. Colin is a leading Intellectual Property senior barrister. The cases in the book really focus on protecting Indigenous rights and voice, which weaves into many of the wider conversations about giving voice to Indigenous peoples happening in Australia and overseas. Below are further details for you to review. Protecting Indigenous Art is essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of art, law and Indigenous rights as it outlines groundbreaking Aboriginal art copyright cases. Golvan, the legal mind behind them, has not only shaped the legal landscape but also championed the rights of Aboriginal artists’ rights within the western legal […]

Publication | All my Country: Batchelor Institute Art Collection

September 9, 2024Book

All my Country is the first substantive book on the little-known Batchelor Institute (BIITE) Art Collection, a unique cultural and artistic resource which has developed over the decades-long life of the Institute. The BIITE Art Collection comprises around 1000 artworks primarily by Indigenous artists from the Top End. The Collection began as a place-making initiative to make the campus more familiar to BIITE students, eventually becoming a more formalised entity with an advisory committee and curatorial roles, and supported by an artist-residency program. The title All my Country comes from the book’s editor-in-chief Dr Ngatkali Wendy Ludwig, a Kungarakan and […]

Publication | New Women’s Work

September 9, 2024Book

New Women’s Work is a celebration of women’s work. Often underappreciated and undervalued, craft has long been an expression of artistic endeavour for women. Often, it’s a skill transferred for generations, or it may be a livelihood or a way of connecting with an ancestral homeland. But crafts with feminized histories, such as weaving, knotmaking, needlework, quilting, ceramics, and basketry, have historically lacked serious consideration from the art world. New Women’s Work serves to challenge this by featuring 38 contemporary artists who identify as women or nonbinary, working to reposition women’s work techniques. These artists are carrying cultural legacies into the future, preserving history and […]

Publication │ Protecting Indigenous Art

July 15, 2024Book

Protecting Indigenous Art: From t-shirts to the flag by Colin Golvan Discover how copyright law is empowering Indigenous creatives There is the country non-Indigenous people can see, and then there is the country Indigenous people see that the rest of us can barely comprehend, but glimpse through the vivid colours, shapes and imagery of their artworks, and their visual recounting of ancient stories and settings. The unauthorised use of Indigenous artworks is a global industry that damages cultural integrity and harms the livelihoods of artists and their communities. While the western idea of private or individual ownership can be at […]

Book | The Adelaide Art Scene: Becoming contemporary 1939-2000

March 25, 2024Book

The Adelaide Art Scene: Becoming contemporary 1939-2000 Margot Osborne published by Wakefield Press, Adelaide 2023 in association with Guildhouse and Carrick Hill, with financial support of the South Australian Government’s Department of Premier and Cabinet through Arts South Australia. Hardback 744 pages, 325 illustrations ISBN 9781923042025 265 x 225mm RRP $120 This landmark anthology of new and archival writing on the Adelaide art scene across six decades is a compelling, multi-faceted account of the milieu in which progressive art evolved in Adelaide — through the roles of key artists and of landmark exhibitions, through bursts of maverick art criticism and […]

New Publication | Edgar Wind: Art and Embodiment

March 4, 2024Book

Edgar Wind: Art and Embodiment is a collection of essays which interrogates the career of Edgar Wind, the first professor in the history of art at Trinity College, Oxford. A German Jewish refugee of exceptional brilliance, the book explores his intellectual life between Germany, the United States and England. The editors, Jaynie Anderson, Bernardino Branca and Fabio Tononi have collaborated on every aspect of the book’s production. Read more about the publication here The book will be launched 16 April at Trinity College in Oxford. Read more here

PUBLICATION│CHRISTIAN WALLER STAINED GLASS: TOWARDS THE LIGHT

January 22, 2024Book

CHRISTIAN WALLER STAINED GLASS: TOWARDS THE LIGHT Caroline Miley Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, 2022 ISBN 9781922669476 Paperback 400 pp 251 ill. with slipcase $150 without $110 www.christianwallerstainedglass.com Born in 1895 to a tradesman father in a provincial gold-mining town in Victoria, Christian Waller’s rare talent was recognised as a girl. She studied at the National Gallery School and at the British centres of the Arts and Crafts stained glass revival. On her return she built a career patronised by architects, attracting more commissions than even her dedicated labour could manage. Her choice of medium, later illness and reclusive tendencies […]

Publication | Letters to a Critic

December 4, 2023Book

Melbourne University Press is about to release Letters to a Critic by Rodney James To celebrate, MUP are offering the below discounts on orders made by 12th December 2023 2+ copies: 15% off RRP 30+ copies: 25% off RRP 70+ copies: 35% off RRP Delivery is free on orders of $50+ To pre-order, please email dominika.greinert@unimelb.edu.au Your full delivery details. Number of copies you wish to order. A pre-order invoice will be sent. RRP $60 hardback format Described as ‘arguably the most influential Australian art critic of the last half of the twentieth century’, Alan McCulloch’s work-as illustrator, critic, gallery director and author-reflected […]

Publication | Barbara Tucker: The Art of Being

December 4, 2023Book

In early February Melbourne University Press is set to release, Barbara Tucker: The Art of Being by Hermina Burns. This will be available in limited print run, so we welcome preorders now. Admired by those who knew her distinctive life, her agency in managing and promoting the legacy of Albert Tucker, Barbara Tucker: The Art of Being sheds new light on Barbara Tucker’s advocacy of Albert Tucker’s art, her gift for friendship, her love of the Australian bush and her spiritual impulse. It provides the reader with witness accounts of Barbara’s life lived alongside Albert Tucker, one of the greatest Australian artists of the twentieth […]

Publication | Future Souths: Dialogues on Art, Place, and History, Discipline and Third Text

December 4, 2023Book

Future Souths: Dialogues on Art, Place, and History, Discipline and Third Text (Melbourne/Naarm and London, 2023) Available from: http://www.discipline.net.au Future Souths, initiated and introduced by Verónica Tello, is the culmination of an online dialogical project that began in 2017. Future Souths is written by eighteen authors from the Americas, Australia, Asia, South Africa and Europe, radically reconsidering the geo-spatial bases and biases of contemporary art history and discourse. It proposes a fluid, collective, contingent re-consideration of key art concepts from embodied and geo-located vantage points, perspectives, and experiences of the south. The dialogues explore methods, concepts, and theories grounded in the materialities of archives, histories, borders, […]