Jointly published by the National Gallery of Victoria and Macmillan Publishers Australia this book is the first publication to document in depth the nature, extent and history of the National Gallery of Victorias celebrated glass collection. Its author, and expert on the art of glass, Geoffrey Edwards, has selected the most magnificent works from the collection, each reproduced in colour, as the basis for a broader discussion of the history of glassmaking in the worlds leading production centres, from the ancient Mediterranean to the present day. With fine photographs by Garry Sommerfeld, this book provides a most spectacular visual array.

Art of Glass: Collection of National Gallery of Victoria

Edwards, Geoffrey

Arts & Photography

Macmillan Art Publishing

A collaboration between Col Madigan, srvivor of this World War II disaster, artist Jan Senbergs and historian Don Watson, this collector's book, with tipped-in colour plates, tells by words and images the horrific story of the sinking of HMAS Armidale in the Timor Sea, and the gruelling ordeal undergone by the survivors. The book is illustrated with a suite of drawings (now held in the National War memorial, Canberra) by Jan Senbergs and a memoir by Col Madigan. The powerful introductory essay is by award-winning historian and biographer, Don Watson.

Armidale '42: A survivor's Account

Watson, Don.

History & Criticism

This magnificent 566 page publication arranged by renowned contemporary Carlier Makigawa to celebrate the life and work of her husband, Akio Makigawa, is possibly the most resplendent volume ever dedicated to the creative triumphs of a sculptor living in Australia. From the highly specialised binding to the combination of gloss and uncoated pages, carrying the unique design and fine photography throughout the 1000 numbered copies, this book is a fitting tribute to a sculptor whose distinctive abstract forms became familiar to Australian art-lovers in the 1980's and 1990's and continue to invest many public spaces with their special qualities. Makigawa's abstract forms are shaped and composed with understated oriental finesse while the artist's hand is ever present in the surfaces of the stone. In his foreword, Edmund Capon describes his first meeting with the artist as ‘...an experience of gentle revelation.' and the artist's works as ‘...sublime in their tranquil presence and redolent with a quiet and traditional sense of Japanese formality, but, nonetheless, very much of our time and place.' Editor Jackie Cooper explains that Akio Makigawa's works and ideas are the subject of his book - ideas that he discussed at length with Garry Emery, John Gollings and herself between 1993 and the artist's death on Christmas Eve 1999. Carlier Makigawa is to be congratulated on her determination to see his remarkable book become a reality.

Akio Makigawa: Sculptor

Individual Artists

Jewish Museum of Australia

Melbourne's Jewish Museum of Australia has celebrated its 25 years with a remarkable book relating to its exhibitions and magnificent collections. This superbly designed book gives an uniquely Australian perpective on the 4000 year religion and culture of Judaism.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Melbourne's Jewish Museum of Australia has celebrated its 25 years with a remarkable book relating to its exhibitions and magnificent collections. This superbly designed book gives an uniquely Australian perpective on the 4000 year religion and culture of Judaism.

Jewish Musuem of Australia

The Melbourne-based photgrapher, Sonia Payes, has spent two years travelling to 60 contemporary artists' studios and homes - with one notable living as far away as Tuscany! Each of the sixty artists is captured in a large portrait and then receives a further six pages for an essay by a selected author and exciting photographs of them at work in their studios - or simply walking the dog, cooking dinner or climbing a tree! This spectacular large format, 400 page, highly sophisticated publication contains 60 short essays contributed by leading Australian arts writers, critis, and acedemics drawn from across the nation. Intended to showcase the work and studio conditions of leading Australian artists at the 2007 Venice Biennale in June this year, the publication is our most ambitious to date. It is simply stunning.

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Payes, Sonia

In this well-illustrated book Professor Bernard Smith, who is often referred to as the father of art history in Australia, condenses the arguments presented in an earlier publication Modernisms History, 1998) into a very accessible and helpful text will prove useful for students and arts-interested readers. He begins by listing and carefully explaining those terms which frequently occur in arts literature dealing with the modern period and then goes on to show that modernism has become an historical period with its art forms both 'institutionalised' and 'globalised'. Now an historical entity, art historys basic tools can be employed to explain and describe it. They include an investigation of the periods 'style', use of 'form' and attitudes to meaning. In his defence of art historys traditions and methodologies he argues that the period that encompasses modernism in the arts might now be known as The Formalesque .

The Formalesque

SMITH, BERNARD

Professor Jaynie Anderson is an internationally recognised scholar, renowned for her research and publications on the Italian masters. On this occasion she has concentrated on one painting, the National Gallery of Victorias famous Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra by Giambattista Tiepolo. This glorious work of art, considered a centre-piece of the collection has recently undergone restoration in preparation for the re-opening of the National Gallery on St. Kilda Road in December 2003. Jaynie Anderson has collected together a previously under-examined range of Tiepolos drawings and studies - and other versions of the theme by Tiepolo and other Italian artists. She has woven them into the spectacular history of the painting, its production and its various owners prior to coming to Australia (including the Hermitage in St. Petersburg) - not to mention the fascinating stories of Antony and Cleopatra and their suicides, which the author has researched and retells in great detail and considerable passion. The book concludes with a chapter written by the National Gallery of Victorias conservators, John Payne and Carl Villis.

Tiepolo's Cleopatra

ANDERSON,J.

History

Melbourne artist, Brian Kewley, was born in 1933 about 100 metres from Hamptons bayside beach. He has lived, sailed, fished and painted there all his life. The subjects of his paintings include Elwood, Point Ormond, St. Kilda and Port Melbourne, for it is these locations that have inspired his art. Many are painted on the spot in an attempt to capture the light, movement and dazzle of the water. Other subjects, like Brighton Beach, have been painted from an aerial perspective some, like the Sandringham Yacht Club, from the roof of his house. His subjects later extended to the Peninsula as far as Flinders and to the city of Melbourne which he painted from his office high up in 101 Collins Street. A veteran of more than 22 solo exhibitions since 1965, Brian Kewleys paintings evoke immense pleasure while they record the changes that Melbourne has undergone over past years. The book has more than 100 colour reproductions. Author, Ronald Millar, has written: Port Phillip is not just a useful subject for him; hes lived it. For him, its the local equivalent of Italys La Divine Costiera: The Heavenly Coast.

Bays and Beaches: The Art of Brian Kewley

MILLAR, Ronald

Donna Leslie, a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne, sets out to demonstrate how Aboriginal art has questioned the 'assimilationist' policies which prevailed in Australia from the 1930s to the 1970s. Her rigorous and sustained argument, supported by an impressive array of important visual images, reveals an extensive grasp of issues relating not only to the practice and history of art, but also in fields of anthropology, ethnology and sociology. The book is a rare presentation of aspects of the history of Aboriginal art from an Aboriginal perspective, and provides fresh ways of understanding Aboriginal experience. While the author acknowledges the problems faced by Aboriginal peoples, particularly those associated with the former policy of assimilation, her message is positive and encourages a deepening understanding of Aboriginal art, culture and peoples in the spirit of reconciliation. Moreover, she addresses the development of Aboriginal art in the modern Australian city, as well as in the more traditional environment of the land.

Aboriginal Art: Creativity and Assimilation

Leslie Donna

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Art of Glass: Collection of National Gallery of Victoria

Armidale '42: A survivor's Account

Akio Makigawa: Sculptor

Jewish Museum of Australia

Jewish Museum of Australia

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The Formalesque

Tiepolo's Cleopatra

Bays and Beaches: The Art of Brian Kewley

Aboriginal Art: Creativity and Assimilation