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Bjelke Blues: Stories of Repression and Resistance in Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s Queensland, 1968-1987
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdwina Shaw
[Brisbane]: AndAlso Books, 2019. -
Gateways Through Light and Shadow: A True Relation of What Transpired Between Frater Ashen Chassan, His Scryer Benn mac Stiofan and the Spirits
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBryan Garner; Frater Ashen Chassan
Portland: Azoth Pres, 2019. -
’93: Punching the Light
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSimon Burstall
[Bologna]: Damiani, 2019.Photo documentation of the early 90s underground rave subsculture in Sydney, Australia, captured by the then 17 year old Simon Burstall.
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T*
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGiordano Bonora
Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2019.“This book is inspired by the pictures that Giordano Bonora, a young streetcar operator and aspiring photographer, took of Bologna’s small transgender community in 1980 (although it would be more correct to speak, in this case, of proto-Transgenderism). Reproduced here for the first time, these raw and gilded images reflect–during a period in Italy characterized by subversive movements and political revolts that were not just rooted in questions of identity–attempts made by T* people at a construction of the self outside the binary logic of the genotypically XY male/genotypically XX female.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy in the publisher’s plastic wrap.
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Yokoo Tadanori: Grand Theatre of Live Painting: Something’s Happening at the Museum Today
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYokoo Tadanori
[Kobe]: Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019.Published to accompany the 2019 exhibition dedicated to works that Tadanori created in front of live audiences. Tadanori thrives on the focus, and the energy, that painting in public provides and this catalogue includes photos of audiences observing the artist.
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Materia Oscura
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDanilo De Rossi
[Madrid]: Studio Danilo de Rossi, 2019.Photographs, digital renderings and texts by Italian architect and designer Danilo De Rossi. A projection of the future as imagined by the intersection of humankind and technology. Limited artists’ book, 100 signed and numbered copies, of which this is number 31.
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Helmut Newton: [SUMO]
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHelmut Newton; June Newton
Koln: Taschen, 2019.Published 20 years after the original SUMO, one the biggest feats of 20th century art publishing. Includes the Celebrating 20 Years of Sumo booklet.
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The Black Captain
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTeo Treloar
Brisbane: Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 2019. -
Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian Blomerth
New York: Anthology Editions, 2019.A visual history of the world’s first acid trip. With an introduction by Dennis McKenna. “Illustrator, musician and self-described “comic stripper” Brian Blomerth has spent years combining classic underground art styles with his bitingly irreverent visual wit in zines, comics, and album covers. With Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day, the artist has produced his most ambitious work to date: a historical account of the events of April 19, 1943, when Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann ingested an experimental dose of a new compound known as lysergic acid diethylamide and embarked on the world’s first acid trip. Combining an extraordinary true story told in journalistic detail with the artist’s gritty, timelessly Technicolor comix style, Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day is a testament to mind expansion and a stunningly original visual history.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Araki Effect
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFilippo Maggia; Nobuyoshi Araki
Milano: Skira, 2019.“Over 300 images by the most famous contemporary Japanese photographer from the 1960s to today. Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is known the world over for his controversial erotic portraits of Japanese women, often bound using the kinbaku (Japanese bondage) technique. A unique figure in contemporary photography, he has always found creative inspiration in his daily existence, without making any distinction between his personal life and public and professional practice. The Araki Effect offers a broad overview of his career: from the first series from 1963-1965, Satchin and His Brother Mabo, to Subway of Love, a large collection of images taken in the Tokyo subway between 1963 and 1972, the year he also made Autumn in Tokyo, which recounts the autumn he spent wandering through the city in the twilight hours. These are followed by Sentimental Night in Kyoto, less well-known than the famous Sentimental Journey, both tributes to his wife, Yoko; Balcony of Love, Death Reality, Tokyo Diary from 2017, and one of his latest collections, Araki’s Paradise from 2019. The power of Araki’s images lies precisely in the force they emanate, the essence of the feeling – be it pain or joy – that the Japanese master puts into every picture. Araki transforms the set into a stage on which only he and the subject exist.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Sistaaz of the Castle: SistaazHood: Trans Sex Work Support Group, Cape Town
AU$48.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJan Hoek; Duran Lantink; Gerda van de Glind; SistaazHood
[Ghent]: Art Paper Editions, 2019.“Jan Hoek, fashion designer Duran Lantink and trans sex worker organisation SistaazHood present ‘Sistaaz of the Castle’, an ongoing project about the colorful looks and lives of transgender sex workers that roam the streets of Cape Town, South Africa. Most of the girls are homeless, living under a bridge near Cape Town’s castle. The Sistaaz are eager activists, proud to be trans, proud to be a sex worker, and even prouder of their stunning sense of style. And they want it to be acknowledged. A series of photographs and a fashion collection based on the girls’ appearance and their ability to turn whatever they find into the most exuberant outfits was created. This has already resulted in a fashion show at Amsterdam Fashion Week (a show in Cape Town in still on the wish list) and a photo exhibition in Foam Amsterdam.” (publisher’s blurb)
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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 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 Woman’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 Woman’s Survival Catalog makes a nod to Stewart Brand’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 Women’s Movement. Styled as a sales catalog, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog comprises listings and organisational descriptions, articles, and extensive illustrations, as well as a ‘Making the Book’ section, detailing the publication’s production.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Who Is Michael Jang?
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Jang
[Los Angeles]: Atelier Editions, 2019.“San Francisco-based photographer Michael Jang spent nearly four decades working as a successful commercial portrait photographer. Unbeknownst to the world, however, he was simultaneously assembling a vast archive of thousands of remarkable images documenting, variously: college days, Hollywood celebrities, would-be weather presenters, San Francisco street scenes, his family, Bay Area punks and adolescent garage bands. Jang revealed nothing of his ever-expanding, eclectic archive for almost 40 years until 2001, when he submitted a number of images for consideration to San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art. Jang’s work attracted immediate acclaim, and for the past decade he has continued to unveil his considerable oeuvre in national and international exhibitions and monographs. The photographer’s first major monograph, Who Is Michael Jang? highlights Jang’s most important bodies of work. Introduced by his longtime collaborator and SFMOMA curator emerita of photography, Sandra Phillips, this volume offers readers a long-overdue introduction to Jang’s incredible images.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Australian Stingless Bees: A Guide to Sugarbag Beekeeping
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Klumpp
Brisbane: Earthling Enterprises, 2019.“Australian Stingless Bees: a guide to Sugarbag beekeeping by John Klumpp is a 120 page book packed with over 200 photos and illustrations. People tell us that it is easy to read, whimsical, engaging, amusing, and is crammed with useful information. Of particular interest is a comprehensive description of Klumppy’s Eduction (or budding) method for propagating hives, which requires minimal intervention in the colony, and offers a way to reduce the risk of exposing your colony to parasites and diseases, especially for hobbyists.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Behold!!! The Protong
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStanislav Szukalski; Glenn Bray; Lena Zwalve
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2019.“Extracts from the 39 volumes of my science “Zermatism,” based on new interpretations of petroglyphic communications, in which will be revealed the most precedent-shattering and up-turning of all notions on our origins. Including samplings from Anthropolitical Motivations, The Deluged Gods, and Listen to These Stones.” (publisher’s blurb) Introduction by Robert Williams, obituary by Ray Zone. Edited by Glenn Bray and Lena Zwalve.
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Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNeil Gaiman; Charles Vess
Burbank: DC Comics, 2019. -
A Spectator’s Guide to the Hemp Olympix (Australian Edition)
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlan Glover; S. Sorrensen
[Nimbin]: A Glover & Sorrenson, 2019.Informative guide to the sports and history of the annual Australian Hemp Olympix held as part of the Nimbin Mardi Grass.
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For Reading In The Bath
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCatulle Mendes
: Snuggly Books, 2019.“For Reading in the Bath, here presented in English for the first time in a delightful translation by Brian Stableford, is one of a number of risquae collections of ultra-short fiction produced by Catulle Mendaes (1841-1909) during the fin de siaecle. Always poetic, often perverse, and sometimes even chaste, these highly amusing, masterfully constructed tales of amour and immorality, featuring a large cast of Parisian characters, including the ubiquitous Valentin and the many women he pursues, are confections of great artistry that will be happily savored by anyone with a longing for suggestive treats.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Bent Street 3: Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing & Ideas
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTiffany Jones
Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan Press, 2019.“Bent Street is an annual publication that gathers essays, fiction, poetry, artwork, reflections, letters, blog posts, interviews, performance writing and rants to bring you ‘The Year in Queer’.” (from blurb)