Category Archives: Book

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

Upcoming Title │ Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images │ Terry Smith

June 27, 2022Book

The upcoming title ‘Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images’ by Terry Smith Book Summary: Exploring viral imagery of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden, Black Lives Matter, as well as the rise of a “black aesthetic” in white artworlds, this book shows that iconopolitics — especially constellations of visual images — has become pervasive within contemporary life. It questions the implications for critical thought and political action. ‘Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images’ argues that imagery of all kinds has become a definitive force in the shaping of contemporary life. While immersed in public politics and […]

Call for Proposals │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM │Deadline Friday 22 April

April 9, 2022Book, Funding, News, Publication

AAANZ is calling for proposals for book publications from recently submitted doctorates in the fields of art history, art theory, art curatorship or art practice. This initiative has been developed by AAANZ in association with publishing house Taylor & Francis, with the intention of publishing a series of three monographs. The series will be divided into two rounds with proposals for the first two monographs selected in the first round in 2022. A Committee comprising of senior and early career art historians will select two recently completed PhD theses to be revised and published within the next two to three […]

Book | Space Practising Tools | Gail Hastings

April 30, 2021Book

Space Practising Tools by Gail Hastings with an introduction by Jon Roffe Space Practising Tools is much like a storybook. The main character is space. In the beginning, we fear it. As life goes on, we learn to ignore our fear and, as a consequence, we learn to ignore space. This makes it difficult to see space in three-dimensional art in which it is central. In Space Practising Tools, the artist Gail Hastings records a practical way to see and to work with ‘actual’ space in art. Her book documents spatial interactions through photographs, watercolours and diagrams of five space practising tools […]

Review | ‘Wild enchantment’: how Daniel Thomas’s writings conveyed the joy of art to Australians

December 11, 2020Book

‘Wild enchantment’: how Daniel Thomas’s writings conveyed the joy of art to Australians The Conversation 10 December, 2020 Editors Misha Ketchell Review Daniel Thomas, recent past: writing Australian art (Thames & Hudson Australia) In 1958, when the young Daniel Thomas was first appointed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the word “curator” was not in the Public Service Board lexicon. He felt his official title of “professional assistant” was inaccurate so he signed his letters “curatorial assistant”. read more Image Robert Walker, Daniel Thomas in his apartment at Elizabeth. Bay, from the Robert Walker archive 1965 black […]