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Crocodile Tears
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDouglas Huebler
Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery and CEPA Gallery, 1985.Brief fictions re-sounding from the proposal in Variable Piece #70: 1971 to photographically document the existence of everyone alive. Photographs of American conceptual artist Douglas Heubler’s Variable Piece #70, and found forgeries of works by Van Gogh, Matisse, and Degas, illustrating a disjointed screenplay. A reflection on the dark side of the art market.
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The Russian from Belfort: 37 Years Journey by Painter Nicolai Michoutouchkine in Oceania
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNicolai Michoutouchkine; Marie Claude Teissier-Landgraf
Vanuatu: Institute of Pacific Studies; Michoutouchkine-Pilioko Foundation; USP Complex; South Pacific Creative Arts Society, 1995.Nicolai Michoutouchkine (1929 – 2010) was a French artist, who spent much of his life in the Pacific where he collected native art and craft. He later arranged hundreds of exhibitions of his collection around the world. This copy inscribed by the artist in 1998 to curator Ross Searle. In green pen he has amended the number of the title on the wrappers to 41 years journey by painter Nicolai Michoutouchkine in Oceania.
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The Lip Anthology: An Australian Feminist Arts Journal, 1976 – 1984
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVivian Ziherl
Melbourne and Amsterdam: Macmillan Art Publishing and Kunstverein Publishing, 2013.“By reviewing the adventurous projects and artworks of a significant group of women involved with the LIP Collective based in Melbourne in the 1970s and 80s, this exciting anthology co-published by Kunstverein Publishing Amsterdam and Macmillan Art Publishing: Melbourne discloses for the first time the scope of the movement.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Midday Clock: Selected Poems and Drawings
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. A. Simpson
Melbourne: The Age and Macmillan Publishers Australia, 1999.“Based on the Book of Revelation, it traces a 4-year project by Melbourne based artist Irene Barberis. She studied ancient Apocalypses in famous manuscript collections in London and Paris, and then created her own contemporary versions using abstract and figurative images and new materials and techniques.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Homesickness: Nationalism in Australian Visual Culture
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTraudi Allen
Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2008. -
Imagination, Books & Community in Medieval Europe
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGregory Kratzmann
Melbourne: Macmillan and the State Library of Victoria, 2009.Papers of a Conference held at the State Library of Victoria, 29-31 May 2008. In conjunction with an exhibition The Medieval Imagination 28 March – 15 June 2008.
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The Art of Grahame King
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSasha Grishin; Grahame King
Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2005.“Grahame King’s life as an artist began with his mastery of the new art of colour reproduction as a photolithographic colour etcher in Melbourne in the 1930s. At the same time, study at the National Gallery Art School with George Bell assisted his development as a painter. After war service and travels abroad, King returned to Melbourne with his wife, the sculptor Inge King. The two held a number of joint exhibitions of paintings and sculptures in Australia throughout the 1950s and then, from c.1962 Grahame King turned his attention, increasingly, towards the art of lithography becoming a master in this field of printmaking. He has also devoted himself to promoting the art of lithography and printmaking generally through the Print Council of Australia. He is often called Australia’s patron saint of printmaking. The book examines his seven decades working as an artist in Melbourne and is lavishly illustrated with colour reproductions throughout.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnne Marsh
Melbourne: Macmillan, 2003.“Anne Marsh’s treatise on the art of photography traces its theoretical underpinning from the early debates between the rationalists and the fantasists, through psychoanalytical interpretations, to the theatre of desire. She investigates the role of photography in ghostly performances, the masking of desire, and high camp aesthetics – through to performance art and the role of the photographer as a gender terrorist – as in the work of Del LaGrace Volcano. The study concludes with notable examples of postmodern photography as they have occurred in the Australian context. This ground-breaking work by a leading Monash University academic will interest all students of photography and followers of recent trends in art and art theory.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Tutta la Solitudine che Meritate. Viaggio in Islanda
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClaudio Giunta; Giovanna Silva
Macerata and Milan: Quodlibet Humboldt, 2013.All the Solitude you Deserve. Trip to Iceland. With text by Claudio Giunta and photographs by Giovanna Silva. This is the story of a trip through Iceland detailing the history, culture, music, and books, illustrated with images of the magnificent landscape.
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Mike Brown 1938 – 1997: Paintings from the Estate
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMike Brown
Sydney and Melbourne: Watters Gallery and Charles Nodrum Gallery, 2002.Catalogue of an exhibition 24 April – 18 May 2002 at Watters Gallery and 4-22 June, 2002 at Charles Nodrum Gallery.
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Cameron Jamie
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCameron Jamie
Graz: Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, 2004.With essays by Gary Indiana, Mike Kelley, Edwin Pouncey, and Ralph Rugoff. Cameron Jamie (b. 1969) is an American artist and film maker who lives and works in France. His work analyses the structure of mythology in popular and vernacular culture and the extent that it influences fictional worlds and fictional personas. The book was published on the occasion of the exhibition JO, held at the Kunstlerhaus Graz from 10 October – 24 November 2004. Jamie’s film JO premiered in 2004.
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Zootopia: Posters from the Urban Jungle
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCraig Douglas; Beth Jackson
Brisbane: State Library of Queensland and Griffith University, 2005.Catalogue of an exhibition at Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University 2 April – 22 May 2005.
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Michel Boulange: Japon
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichel Boulange
Tokyo: Michel Boulange, No date.Michel Boulange is a French artist working in installation, landscape art, and jewellery. During the mid 1980’s he lived in Japan.
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Tokyo Transmission ’88
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYurakucho Seibu
Tokyo: Yurakucho Seibu, 1988.An exhibition of artists from around the world living in Japan.
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Tom of Finland: An Imaginary Sketchbook
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTom of Finland
Milano: Skira, 2022.“Tom of Finland undoubtedly counts among the great and truly influential artists of the latter 20th century. Through his iconic images, he almost single-handedly changed the way gay men were perceived by society, and — maybe even more important — how gay men perceived themselves. The massive oeuvre that he produced over the course of a career spanning nearly six decades is devoted almost entirely to this one topic: men, their bodies, and their spirits. This extraordinary consistency in subject-matter was matched by a life-long passion for the supreme discipline of freehand drawing. All he needed to create a universe of dazzlingly gorgeous hunks was a pencil and a sheet of paper. And he most likely drew every day of his life. Drawing, it seems, was an exercise for his restless imagination and desire. TomÂ’s world was populated by cowboys, mechanics, cops, punks and thugs – all indulging their desires with great camaraderie and without guilt or prejudice. This book assembles a cross-section of these characters as dreamt up by the artist in rough sketches or more carefully executed studies. Mostly they served as preliminary drawings for the highly finished works, many of which were intended for publication. The playful format of an imaginary sketch book lets the viewer take an intimate glance over the artistÂ’s shoulder and share in his exuberant joie de vivre.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Onomatopoeia: Its People and Surroundings
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Avery
Amsterdam: Frame Publishers, 2016.“In 2005 Charles Avery embarked on a lifelong project entitled The Islanders, a detailed description of the topography, cosmology and inhabitants of a fictional island, realised in drawings, objects and texts. The project can be read as a meditation on the central themes of philosophy and art as well as the colonization and ownership of the world of ideas. This book is a portrait of the people and culture of Onomatopoeia, capital city, port, and gateway to the Island.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDidier Ottinger
Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2011.Exhibition entry ticket laid in.
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The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J. R. Abbey
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. J. G. Alexander; A. C. De La Mere
London: Faber and Faber, 1969. -
Codex Seraphinianus
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLuigi Serafini
New York: Rizzoli, 2013.The deluxe 2013 edition of the ever mysterious Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini (1949-). Possibly an illustrated encyclopaedia of an alternate universe, Serafini has alluded that it is perhaps all just the thoughts of a cat passed through his hand. The Codex is written in an imaginary language and illustrated phantasmagorically throughout. This being the deluxe 2013 edition, being the second Rizzoli edition, expanding on their 2006 edition. The deluxe edition was published in an edition of 600 copies, of which this is number 70, signed and numbered by Serafini on a plate mounted to the colophon and includes the Decodex in the rear pocket, as well as a signed and numbered print, housed in a clamshell folder. This copy also with a copy of the standard edition of the only published volume of literary criticism in English on the Codex Seraphinianus, Confronting Serafini by Jordan Hunter (2017). Confronting Serafini is a 36 page saddle-stitched booklet bound with a treated page from the 2013 Rizzoli edition of the Codex, numbered 39 in an edition of 60.
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Codex Seraphinianus (2 Volumes)
AU$6,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLuigi Serafini
Milano: Franco Maria Ricci, 1981.The first edition of the ever mysterious Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini (1949-). Possibly an illustrated encyclopaedia of an alternate universe, Serafini has alluded that it is perhaps all just the thoughts of a cat passed through his hand. The Codex is written in an imaginary language and illustrated phantasmagorically throughout. This being the true first edition published in 2 volumes by Italian art publisher Franco Maria Ricci. This copy numbered 2295 and signed by Serafini to the colophon of volume 2, with the original trilingual letter from the editor laid in, together with a FMR catalogue, several photocopied Italian newspaper clippings related to the Codex, as well as the deluxe edition of the only published volume of literary criticism in English on the Codex Seraphinianus, Confronting Serafini by Jordan Hunter (2017), all housed in the original shipping cartons. Confronting Serafini is a 36 page book hand-bound with treated pages from the 2013 Rizzoli edition of the Codex, signed and numbered in a limited edition of 10, of which this is number 10.