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Inspirationist Mysticism and the Amana Community
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWallace C. Christen
Lockport: The Ogren Press, 1975.Study of the communal religious mysticism of the Amana Community in Iowa by Wallace C. Christen (1935-2013), at the time Assistant Professor at the Social Justice Institute, Lewis University, and himself an Inspirationist and Amana native.
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Atlas on the History of Spectacles (Volume 1)
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. Poulet
Bonn: Wayenborgh, 1978.Volume 1 only of the 2 volume set. Volume One being a catalogue of spectacles from the collections of Carl Zeiss, Otto Hallauer, and Pierre Marly. Translated from the German by Frederick C. Blodi with an introduction by Dr. Wolfgang Pfeiffer, ‘A Short History of Spectacles’ by H. W. Holtmann, and ‘A Contribution to the History of Contact Lenses’ by Hans-Walter Roth Ulm. This being one of the deluxe edition bound in half leather by K. N. W. Page & Co., Edinburgh.
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Post-Butt: The Power of the Image
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMelani De Luca
: Onomatopee, 2019.“Post-Butt analyses the virality of images in our mediated society. It is a case study around the image of female butts, bootys, and behinds, and their influence in media, society and art. The butt is the protagonist of mass-mediated culture, it is the democratic sex organ par excellence. The phenomenon of bootyfication exists in many contexts, as varied as the exploitation of the body in colonialism to 90s hiphop culture. Post-Butt goes through different periods in time and place, to analyse the political meaning of the usage of the image of the female buttocks. It discusses the role of the booty in varied cultural expressions such as film, Internet art, music videos, dance and plastic surgery; and aims to reflect on how our society is conditioned by viral images that do not only exist in the digital context, but have deep consequences on our physical world as well.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Alternative Way of Life: The First International Conference on Communal Living (Communes and Kibbutzim), Israel, 1981
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYehudit Agasi; Yoel Darom
Norwood: Kibbutz Studies Book Series, Norwood Editions, 1985.Kibbutz, Communal Society, and Alternative Social Policy Series Volume IX.
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The New Woman’s Survival Catalog
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKristen Grimstad; Susan Rennie
New York: Primary Information, 2019.“Published in 1973, The New WomanÂ’s Survival Catalog is a seminal survey of Second Wave feminist efforts, which, as the editors noted in their introduction, represented an ‘active attempt to reshape culture through changing values and consciousness’. Assembled by Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie in only five months, The New WomanÂ’s Survival Catalog makes a nod to Stewart BrandÂ’s influential Whole Earth Catalog to map a vast network of feminist alternative cultural activity in the 1970s. Grimstad and Rennie set out on a two month road trip in the summer of 1973, meeting and interviewing all the featured organisations and individuals, and gathering information and further references along the way to complete the publication. From arts organisations to bookstores and independent presses, health, parenting, and rape crisis centres, and educational, legal and financial resources, this book provides crucial insight into feminist initiatives and activism nationwide during the WomenÂ’s Movement. Styled as a sales catalog, The New WomanÂ’s Survival Catalog comprises listings and organisational descriptions, articles, and extensive illustrations, as well as a ‘Making the Book’ section, detailing the publicationÂ’s production.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Transparency is the new mystery
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMayumi Hosokura
[London]: MACK, 2016.“Transparency is the new mystery comprises twenty-two images of nudes and crystals, by Japanese photographer Mayumi Hosokura. The fragile silhouette of a hand, a coiled nude body, or the transfixing symmetry of crystalline minerals are shown in soft, translucent black and white images, held together by an enigmatic interior logic.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Ravedeath Convention
AU$70.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJan Philipzen
[Gent]: Art Paper Editions, 2020.“Started as a visual diary, Ravedeath Convention soon grew into a hybrid of autobiography and fiction. While love, joy and friendship are explored, violence and excess come about too, often captured only as traces and symptoms. A collision of different, occasionally mismatched, cultural symbols stresses the all-embracing blend of subcultures as a fundamental feature of our times. The first pictures taken at age thirteen, this series of black and white images is the edit of a continuous process of photographing, revisiting and reworking over a span of ten years. In the crippled prints the physical presence of body and photograph merge, celebrating human imperfection. The title references Tim HeckerÂ’s album ‘Ravedeath 1972′.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Garbage Man
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTal R
[Zurich]: Nieves and innen, 2021.“Garbage Man — could refer to Tal R himself as manic collector of what other people would perhaps refer to as refuse. Collecting and arranging of images is an integral component of his artistic practice and arises in its own manifestation from an inner necessity. The Yiddish word “Kolbojnik” (Waste, Remains) also runs through the work of the artist within the titling of many of his works. His collection, which can be found within the individual collages, consists of an eclectic mix of “primitive tribal art”, art history masterpieces, pornos, comics, private photos, childhood pictures, sketches and picture book illustrations, and was collected by Tal R over a period of 25 years. The works evoke in their pseudo-encyclopaedic phenomenon associations, Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas, or, to refer to another artist, the Atlas by Gerhard Richter. Similar to him, the arranged pieces within the collages from Garbage Man served and serve the artist also as templates for paintings and sculptures.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Tom of Finland: The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero
AU$70.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTom of Finland; F. Valentine Hooven III
New York: Cernunnos, 2020.“Tuoko Laaksonen, also known as Tom of Finland (1920-1991), was an iconic and provocative artist who rose to cult status in the international gay community and beyond for his work celebrating gay archetypes and masculinity during a time when being gay was taboo. Created in partnership with the Tom of Finland Estate, Tom of Finland: The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero is a beautifully detailed visual biography full of never or rarely seen documents from his archive. The text was completed just a few months before the death of the artist and was fully approved by him-making this book the only 100% approved biography of this gay legend responsible for creating the muscled, mustachioed gay archetype of the 1960s and ’70s.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Bee Book: Beekeeping Basics, Harvesting Honey, Beeswax, Candles and other Bee Business
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnn Cliff
Melbourne: Manna Press, 2010. -
Young People’s Songs for Annual Demonstration, 1922
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Salvation Army
[Melbourne]: Salvation Army Press, 1922.Sheet music, lyrics, and prayers for the Salvation Army Young People’s Annual Demonstration of 1922. The Y.P. Demonstrations were performances of song and prayer by children as part of the proceedings of annual Salvation Army Congresses. Newspaper reports indicate these demonstrations were performed by hundreds of children at a time, with one Sydney Congress reported to have over 600 children demonstrating.
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Riders in the Chariot
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLeonard Brown
Brisbane: Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 2021. -
Bolt
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDonna Marcus
Brisbane: Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 2017. -
Thinking Jewellery Two
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilhelm Lindemann; Theo Smeets
Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2020.“Thinking Jewellery Two reports on the differing perspectives in our quest to establish a theory of jewellery. The series Thinking Jewellery arose from the symposium series of the same name. Both are punctuated by exemplary specialist jewellery expertise alongside objective observations from academics on the phenomenon of jewellery.” (rear cover)
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You Can Have Your Permaculture and Eat It Too
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobin Clayfield
Conondale: Robin Clayfield, Earthcare Education, 2013.A cook book for gardeners, a gardening book for cooks, an inspirational reference for all things permacultural: edible flowers, healthy food, weeds and abundant plants, garden cosmetics, companion planting, bush tucker, kitchen crafts, garden gifts and income earners, garden designs, species lists, tips, exercises, after dinner games, and hundreds of mostly vegetarian recipes for people and plants.
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Wollun One: The Story of the Blanch Family
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBerice Blanch; Arthur Blanch
Gold Coast: Tamworth Music, 2004.“This is a book of many firsts which will keep you interested from beginning to end. This is a riveting story about the first Australian Country Music Family Arthur, Berice and Jewel Blanch. This book will strike a chord with music lovers of all ages, it features over 900 photos of artists like Keith Urban, Alan Jackson, Slim Dusty, Glen Campbell, Anne Murray and Johnny Cash.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Benedicta
AU$450.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSantiago Caruso
Argentina: Santiago Caruso, 2001.An early original artwork by Argentine symbolist and surreal artist Santiago Caruso (1982-). This work was later published as one of Caruso’s illustrations for a Spanish translation of The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter by Ambrose Bierce, ‘El Monje: Y La Hija Del Verduo’ (Barcelona: Libros del Zorro Rojo, 2011, p. 38).
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El Monje: Y La Hija Del Verduo
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAmbrose Bierce; Santiago Caruso
Barcelona: Libros del Zorro Rojo, 2011.Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was an American short story writer, critic, and poet who disappeared shortly after travelling to Mexico to aid rebels in the Mexican Revolution. Here translated into Spanish and accompanied by Santiago Caruso’s haunting illustrations, ‘The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter’ tells the folk-like story of two people forbidden to know one another yet bound together. For fans of Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. Inscribed ‘Ex Libris Alejandro Sotelo’ with an original drawing by Santiago Caruso on the title page.
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The Mantle of Surgery: The First Seventy-Five Years of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. W. Beasley
Melbourne: The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, 2002.Foreword by the Prince of Wales.
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AMG Gallery & News: Premiere Issue! Summer 1986
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn-Paul Kennington; Bob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1986.Catalogue of models from the later blatantly homoerotic years of Bob Mizer’s AMG, the physique photography powerhouse behind the most popular of beefcake magazines. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.