Category Archives: Publication

Magazine | Garland #34 The Street

April 8, 2024Publication

Garland is a platform for stories about what we make across the wider world. Each issue of the magazine reaches more than 50,000 readers. So far, we’ve published 1722 articles by 853 writers from 78 countries. The Street is the first issue of the Together Spaces series that features the role of makers in creating spaces where we come together. We need this more than ever as we retreat into our private bubbles. According to editor Kevin Murray, “Work made for the street—for the public eye—can help reactivate our urban commons. In this issue, we share stories that demonstrate the creative capacity of […]

Article │‘The First Homosexuals’: Connecting Australian art and design to the world

February 5, 2024Publication

There is little written about queer Australian art before 1930. Peter McNeil FAHA shares his contribution to the groundbreaking global art exhibition, The First Homosexuals, and discusses the fragmented, solitary and quiet history of queer Australian artists pre-1930. Read the article here https://humanities.org.au/power-of-the-humanities/australian-queer-art-and-design-pre-1930/

PUBLICATION OFFER | MUP | $20 BOOKS UNTIL 30TH NOVEMBER 2023

November 27, 2023Publication

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, Jeff 9780522861242 Gangland […]

Book Launch │ Elisabetta Sirani

July 24, 2023Publication

Elisabetta Sirani Adelina Modesti This insightful volume is the first authoritative and accessible English-language book to explore the life and legacy of Elisabetta Sirani, one of the most celebrated women artists of the seventeenth-century. Elisabetta Sirani (1638–1665)—painter, printmaker, and teacher—was one of the most innovative and prolific artists of the Bolognese school. The daughter of a painter, she hailed from a city whose university had educated women since the Middle Ages and that celebrated the cult of Saint Catherine of Bologna, who was known for her skill as a painter and illuminator—ideal conditions to encourage the training and patronage of […]

Call for artist book submissions | 10th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2024

May 22, 2023Exhibition, Publication

About the Project: The “10th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2024” is a unique non-commercial cultural project. The purpose of the Artist’s Book Triennial is to promote artist’s books, creators of artist’s books from all over the world; to connect in one big art family galleries, publishers, editors and printers of fine art & limited editions, the greater general public, collectors and individual artists. The “10th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2024″ is a relevant an educational interdisciplinary art project that introduces the diversity of ideas, structures, forms and book bindings of the “artist’s book” of world artists. The “10th […]

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 | Bruno Leti by Thomas Middlemost

July 15, 2022Publication

Melbourne University Press is releasing this October Bruno Leti by Thomas Middlemost. To celebrate, MUP are offering discounts on pre-orders. This book not only lets the reader travel swiftly through beauteous image, and some wonderful text through the life of an exceptional late career artist who’s work is just as vital as it was in the 1970’s, but also through the diverse locations of that art; from the small town in Italy of Roccantica, of his birth, and his visits to Rome as a child, to his home town of Melbourne; a family, the surrounding city scapes, markets and gardens, to America, […]

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 […]