Category Archives: Book

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, […]

Publication | Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art

December 4, 2023Book

Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art (Routledge 2023) edited by Sarah Scott (ANU), Helen McDonald (Melbourne) and Caroline Jordan (Latrobe) is a collection of essays that examines art resulting from cross-cultural interactions between First Nations and non-Indigenous people, from British invasion up to now. Terry Smith, Emeritus Professor of Art History (Sydney) writes: Truth-telling and reconciliation between First Nations and those who have since arrived has become the priority for all Australians, in all aspects of our lives and work. Awareness of this fact has been two centuries, and more, in the making. Indigenous art has been crucial to […]

Publication offer | MUP | $20 books until 30th November 2023

November 6, 2023Book

In celebration of another successful year of book publishing, Melbourne University Press are offering the below list of titles for $20 a copy. This offer is valid until 30th November 2023. To pre-order, please email Dominika Greinert dominika.greinert@unimelb.edu.au Your full delivery details. Please note, we require a street address. No PO Boxes. The books you wish to order. Number of copies you wish to order. MUP will send you a pre-order invoice. Delivery is free to one address for orders $50+, otherwise a delivery fee of $7.50 applies. ISBN Book Title Author 9780522850246 Facing North Volume 2 Edwards, Peter; Goldsworthy, David; 9780522856347 Killing Sparrow, […]

Book | Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East

June 16, 2023Book

Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East By Byung-Chul Han Translated by Daniel Steuer About the Book Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence but on absence. The difference between essence and absence is the difference between being and path, between dwelling and wandering. Drawing on this fundamental distinction, Byung-Chul Han explores the differences between Western and Far Eastern philosophy, aesthetics, architecture and art, shedding fresh light on a culture of […]

PUBLICATION │ Monumental Disruptions │ Bronwyn Carlson and Terri Farrelly

February 27, 2023Book, Publication

Published on 20 February 2023, Bronwyn Carlson and Terri Farrelly’s book Monumental Disruptions: Aboriginal People and Colonial Commemorations in So-Called Australia (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2023) asks what place colonial memorials have in contemporary Australia: Do we remove, destroy or amend? Monumental Disruptions investigates how these memorials have been viewed, and are viewed, by First Nations people to find a way forward. It has been reviewed by AAANZ member Nikolas Orr in Patterns of Prejudice and is available for purchase online at AIATSIS.