Category Archives: Book

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.

Publication │ Elisabetta Sirani │ Adelina Modesti

February 13, 2023Book, Publication

Elisabetta Sirani by Adelina Modesti About the publication The first English-language book to present a full overview of the artist’s work that is both authoritative and accessible to art enthusiasts. Includes newly discovered and attributed paintings by Sirani. Elisabetta Sirani of Bologna (1638-1665) was one of the most innovative and prolific artists of the Bolognese School. Not only a painter, she was also a printmaker and a teacher. Based on extensive archival documentation and primary sources — including inventories, sale catalogues and her work diary — Elisabetta Sirani provides an overview of the life, work, critical fortune and legacy of […]

Publication │ The Time of the Landscape: On the Origins of the Aesthetic Revolution │ Jacques Rancière

February 13, 2023Book, Publication

The Time of the Landscape: On the Origins of the Aesthetic Revolution By Jacques Rancière │ Translated by Emiliano Battista About the Book The time of the landscape is not the time when people started describing gardens, mountains and lakes in poems or representing them in works of art: it is the time when the landscape imposed itself as a specific object of thought. It is the time when both the harmony of arranged gardens and the disharmony of wild nature led to a revolution in the criteria of the beautiful and in the meaning of the word “art.” It coincided […]

Book Launch │Bernard Smith’s “European Vision and the South Pacific” (3rd ed.) │ 1 December

October 31, 2022Book

Melbourne University Press and Art+Australia invite AAANZ membership to the launch of the third edition of “European Vision and the South Pacific” by Bernard Smith and edited by Sheridan Palmer Date and time Thursday 1 December 2022, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm (AEDT) Location The Reading Room, Fitzroy Town Hall, 201 Napier Street, Fitzroy, VIC Click here for the invitation RSVP essential you can do so here From Australia’s greatest art historian and pioneer of post-colonialism Bernard Smith comes a new edition of the Australian classic. Featuring a new introduction by Sheridan Palmer and Greg Lehman situates the book in a […]

Podcast | Paint it black | Caroline Baum’s ‘Life Sentences’ series

August 22, 2022Book

Caroline Baum’s ‘Life Sentences’ podcast series focuses on Australian biographers. In the recent episode titled ‘Paint it black’, ABC presenter Daniel Browning interviews Alec O’Halloran about his authorised biography of Pintupi artist Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, ‘The master from Marnpi’. You can listen to the podcast at this link https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/paint-it-black/id1559400094?i=1000571460968

Book | European Vision and the South Pacific Third Edition | Bernard Smith, Sheridan Palmer (editor)

August 22, 2022Book

From Australia’s greatest art historian and pioneer of post-colonialism Bernard Smith comes a new edition of the Australian classic. Featuring a new introduction by Sheridan Palmer and Greg Lehman. Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was arguably Australia’s greatest art historian and one of the most important humanist thinkers internationally on ideas concerning cultural contact. His European Vision and the South Pacific, first published in 1960, showed how the ideas of the Enlightenment and the empirical structuring of scientific and geographical knowledge during the great eighteenth-century voyages of discovery affected notions of identity-both for Europeans and the Indigenous peoples with whom they came in […]

Event | The master from Marnpi | Brunswick Library

July 15, 2022Book, Events

Join Dr Alec O’Halloran for a presentation: ‘The master from Marnpi’: the life story and art career of Pintupi man Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri Brunswick Library, Melbourne Thursday 28 July 2022, 7 – 8pm The master from Marnpi is the authorised biography of Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, a Pintupi man from the Western Desert who became an award-winning Papunya Tula artist. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Papunya Tula Artists, of which Namarari was a founding member. This illustrated public lecture is a free event, with registration required to reserve a seat: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/painting-stories-the-art-of-pintupi-man-mick-namarari-tickets-350228431667?aff=ebdsoporgprofile Everybody is most welcome. Enquiries: alec@alecohalloran.com