The cottage is owned by a Mr. Bruto. Chris' parents rent it on condition that they keep out of his derelict estate next door. The parents go on a trip, Bella house-sits, and all's well until Chris climbs over the estate wall, finds a rose, and plucks it . . . This modern account of the old story, while losing none of its romance and mystery, demonstrates the power of pure, true love to overcome fear and heal deep wounds. The atmosphere of this retelling is augmented by powerful and striking pen and ink drawings by Claire Roberts based on, and augmented with, sketches by the author.

Beauty and the Beast

Grace Chetwin

Roberts, Claire

Chetwin, Grace

Feral Press, Inc.

With its lush and diverse landscapes, ancient ruins, and stunning architecture, China is a photographer’s dream. Exploring this visually rich and evocative country, Photography and China highlights Chinese photographers and subjects from the inception of photography to the present day.Drawing on works in museums, and archival and private collections across China, the United States, Europe, and Australia, Claire Roberts locates images from commercial, art, and documentary photography within the broader context of Chinese history. She focuses on the images as well as the studios and individuals who created them, describing the long tradition of Chinese artistic culture into which photography was first absorbed and subsequently expanded. As she recounts the stories of practitioners—from China and overseas—who were agents in that process of change, she also examines the commercial, political, and artistic purposes for which they used photography. Featuring one hundred striking, little-known images, Photography and China will make a significant contribution to photography, Chinese art, and twentieth-century history.

Photography and China (Exposures)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Reaktion Books

Earth, spirit, fire highlights the extraordinary creativity of male artists and craftsmen during the Choson dynasty (1392-1910). Together with essays by Australian and Korean scholars, this beautiful publication presents fine examples of Korean ceramics, painting, calligraphy and furniture drawn from the National Museum of Korea, the Ho-Am Art Museum and a small number of other institutions and private collectors in Korea. A co-production by the Powerhouse Museum &amp; Queensland Art Gallery.

Earth, Spirit, Fire: Korean Masterpieces of the Choson Dynasty

History & Criticism

Lund Humphries

The Great Wall of China consists of 13 essays divided into 6 themes on various aspects of the Walls. There is no single Wall but a series of smaller walls - the oldest is dated 688 BC, but the main construction was happening in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The book considers the Walls from historical, defensive, conservationist and touristic perspectives. It accompanies an exhibition held in the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. The text combines scholarly and accessible essays with interviews of local people's experience of the Walls.

The Great Wall of China

Barmé, Geremie R.

This book documents in letters, photos, and paintings a special friendship between two highly creative individuals who helped shape Chinese culture in the twentieth century―the revered traditional painter Huang Binhong (1865–1955) and the young, cosmopolitan critic and translator Fou Lei (1908–66). As one of China’s oldest and most distinguished artists in the 1940s and 1950s, Huang Binhong was committed to artistic continuity and reinvigoration of brush-and-ink painting. Fou Lei was a child of the New Culture Movement which repudiated many literati traditions, but reached out to Huang Binhong to discuss the possibilities for contemporary Chinese art amid the tides of war and Communist dictates of socialist realism as the guiding priority for cultural workers. Both were cultural mediators and translators of ideas and cultural expressions. Both had deep appreciation of the common origins of calligraphy and painting, rendering complex feelings with brush and ink. Their intimate artistic conversations over more than a decade depict their alienation and uncertainty amid China’s turbulent cultural politics.

Friendship in Art: Fou Lei and Huang Binhong

Hong Kong University Press