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What Is Appropriation? An Anthology of Writings on Australian Art in the 1980s & 1990s
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRex Butler
Brisbane: Institute of Modern Art, 2004.“It was probably Ad Reinhardt, though it could have been Sherrie Levine or even Andy Warhol, who remarked that you only know you are doing something original when everybody else is doing it. This book explores this and other paradoxes raised by the practice of appropriation the quotation and use of other artists’ work that became widespread in the 1980s. Why was the practice so uniquely popular in Australia? What did it say about the relationship of Australian art to the art of other countries; about white art to Aboriginal art; and about contemporary art to the art of the past? How and why does appropriation fundamentally challenge habitual ways of looking at pictures and thinking about art? The essays and pictures in this book provide answers to these questions, but always in the knowledge that the enigma of appropriation remains.”
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Zoe: A 20th Century Woman
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEva Woodrow
Brisbane: Boolarong Publications, 1999.Inscribed “To Declan from Great Gramma, 16/7/2011”. Includes memorial booklet from the author’s funeral laid in.
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Peter Madden
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEvie Franzidis
Brisbane: Institute of Modern Art, 2011.“New Zealand collage artist Peter Madden draws much of his imagery from old issues of National Geographic. He plunders and reworks the magazine’s discredited ’empire of signs’ to forge his own. His surrealistic pictures, objects, and installations—with their watchmaker detail and intensity—have been described as ‘microcosms’ and ‘intricate kingdoms of flying forms’ Madden has one foot in the vanitas still-life tradition and the other in new-age thinking. On the one hand, he is death obsessed: a master of morbid decoupage. (Moths and butterflies—symbols of transient life—abound. His assemblages in bell jars suggest some Victorian taxidermist killing time in his parlour.) On the other hand, with his flocks, schools, and swarms of quivering animal energy, he revels in biodiversity and magic. Madden’s works manage to be at once morbid and abundant, rotting and blooming, creepy and fey. This book serveys Madden’s work of the last ten years.” Essay by Tessa Laird. Interview by Robert Leonard.
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Logical Unsanity: Literal Arts Journal (Issue 3, Spring 2008)
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYarran L. Jenkins
Brisbane: Logical Unsanity Books, 2008.A collection of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and contemporary surreal, fantastic, and psychedelic artwork, edited by Yarran L. Jenkins. Featuring the words of Terry Bisson, Alex Downs, John Sacelli, Joshua Beane, Hakim Bey, Yarran Jenkins, Karen Mezentsef, James Joehnline, David Mankey, Kirk A. C. Marshall, Tad Padaguan, Ben Walker, Charles Eisenstein, Shayne Keyles, David Beris Edwards, Sarah Kelly, and Brooke Alexander. The artworks of Joseph Larkin, Roy Villalobos, Ian Pyper, RIchard Powell, Jon Beinart, Kain White, Leszek Kostuj, Leou Leou, David Mankey, Cameron Gray, Bruce Rimell, Kenneth Appleby, Andrea Trenbeath Lowen, Sarah Elston, and Daniel Worth. ISSN: 1836-4535.
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My Descent from Soapbox to Senate
AU$190.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSenator Gordon Brown
Brisbane: Co-operative Press, 1953.Gordon Brown was a remarkable Australian political agitator, who by his own admission had no time for “the dominating and dictatorial do-littles who claim superiority over the working plugs.” Having stood up for those “working plugs” his whole life, it was only reluctantly that Brown was convinced to write an autobiography. But, filled as it is with honest and unapologetic lessons on what Australia needed, then and now, he wrote an Australian political biography that is also a true national classic.