New art & design books

Emily Kam Kngwarray

Kelli Cole, Hettie Perkins, Jennifer Green (eds)

A comprehensive and richly illustrated publication celebrating the timeless art of Emily Kam Kngwarray — a pre-eminent Australian artist and one of the most significant painters of the 20th century.

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Letters to a Critic

Rodney James

Australian art through the letters of leading critic Alan McCulloch

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Ken Whisson: Painting and Drawing

Quentin Sprague

A richly illustrated study of Australian modernist painter Ken Whisson's life and work.

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Vincent Namatjira

'Welcome to the past, present and future. I stand side-by-side with my great-grandfather, who I never met - two painters from the centre of this country, standing up and making…

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The Bird Art of William T. Cooper

Wendy Cooper

William T. Cooper is considered a master painter of birds. He painted them for many books, mainly bird monographs. He also created many individual paintings of various species that appealed…

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Ikuntji Textiles

Chrischona Schmidt (ed.)

Ikuntji Artists presents Ikuntji Textiles, a book about the development of the designs, their stories and the artists behind them, and the collaborations.

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Ornament is Not a Crime

Rebecca L. Gross

The distinctive visual language, bright colours and unexpected materials of the 80s postmodernists are making a comeback. After decades of minimalism, mid-century modern and Scandinavian design, a new wave of…

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Art Monsters

Lauren Elkin

A landmark feminist intervention - a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them.

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Iwantja

Iwantja Artists

Located on a small ridge at the edge of the Indulkana Ranges, approximately 575 kilometres south of Alice Springs, Iwantja Arts art centre is home to some of Australia's most…

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Colin Lanceley: Earthly Delights

National Art School

Earthly Delights surveys the significant creative achievements of Colin Lanceley (1938-2015) over five decades from the 1960s to 2012.

This exhibition traces the evolution of his work from the early…

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John Olsen: Goya’s Dog

National Art School

John Olsen: Goya's Dog spans eight decades of the artist's practice, from the 1950s, when he first visited Spain, to the present.

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Joan Didion: What She Means

Joan Didion, Hilton Als (ed.), Connie Butler (ed.)

An exploration of the visual corollary to Didion’s life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics – including artists from Helen Lundeberg to…

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Memories of Degas

George Moore, Walter Sickert

This volume brings together ground-breaking and intensely personal memoirs of Degas, by Moore, the first writer in English on Impressionism, and Sickert, one of the finest English followers of Degas.

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Handmade Modernism: Artisanal Design in Mexico, 1952-2022

A treasure trove of Mexican modernist design uniting craft and industry from the past seven decades.

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Vibrant Botanical Painting

Jarnie Godwin

This lavish book celebrates the timeless beauty of some of our most loved flowers, and explains how they can be admired and captured in vibrant watercolour.

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Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts

How Moholy-Nagy anticipated and critiqued the hyperstimulation of the digital age.

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Millais: A Sketch

Marion Harry Spielmann, Sir John Everett Millais

Reprinted for the first time since 1889, this is the first biography and considered appraisal of one of England’s most prodigiously talented painters.

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Hope in Hell: A History of Darlinghurst Gaol and the National Art School

Deborah Beck

Hope in Hell is a rich visual account of one of the oldest and best-preserved examples of colonial Sydney architecture, the Darlinghurst Gaol. A place steeped in Australia's early, brutal…

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Marina Abramovic: Nomadic Journey and Spirit of Places

Marina Abramovic

Never before published, this self-curated, intensely personal collection of travel notes and sketches by the world's most revered performance artist offers readers a kind of iconography of Abramovic's daring and…

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Lives of Rubens

Giovanni Baglione, Joachim von Sandrart, Roger de Piles

The brilliance of Peter Paul Rubens’ career changed forever the perceptions of painting and painters. These three biographies of the artist show the impact of his life and art on…

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Lucio Fontana

Enrico Crispolti, Luca Massimo Barbero

This catalogue accompanies a Lucio Fontana exhibition at the Tornabuoni Gallery in Rome, with essays by Enrico Crispolti, Luca Massimo Barbero, Caterina Toschi and Piero Dorazio. Text in English and…

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Captivate: Stories from National Art School and Darlinghurst Gaol

In 2022 the National Art School celebrated two important milestones: the 100-year anniversary of the Art School's presence on its current site in Darlinghurst, and 200 years since the first…

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Ink & Paper

George A. Walker

George A. Walker is one of Canada's foremost woodcut artists. Over the past 40 years Walker has created more than 1,000 wood engravings to illustrate seven wordless books and countless…

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Grayson Perry: Smash Hits

Grayson Perry, Victoria Coren Mitchell, Patrick Elliott, Tor Scott

Grayson Perry is one of Britain's most celebrated contemporary artists and cultural figures. This book, which includes first sight of new and previously unpublished works, is published to accompany the…

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Cobra: A Pictorial and Poetic Revolution

Piet Thomas

The COBRA group's anarchic story is not just an important strand in art history - it remains as lively as ever and has inspired all sorts of artists who were…

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From Antwerp to Amsterdam

Koenraad Jonckheere, Micha Leeflang, Sven Van Dorst, e.a.

Discover how Flemish and Brabant masters made the Netherlands great. Includes paintings by Joos Van Cleve, Pieter Aertsen, Maarten De Vos, Frans Floris, Frans Hals, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van…

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Modernist Icons

A celebration of mid-century modern interiors, architecture, and design.

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Country Style: Country Homes in Australia, Volume 2

Country Style

In Country Style's new book, Country Homes in Australia, Volume II, we take you inside the most beautiful regional homes and discover the stories of the people who…

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Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color

Heidi Gustafson

Art meets science in this guide to creating color with earth’s extraordinary pigments and exploring their fascinating uses today and throughout history Part anthropological study, part art book, and part…

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Ceramics: An Atlas of Forms

Glenn Barkley

What can we learn about the Roman empire from an amphora made in 200 BC? How can a simple, unadorned cup made in 1945 tell us so much about history…

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Regenerative Fashion

Safia Minney

Fashion has been inspired by nature for centuries, yet its impacts are now devastating people and planet.

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Dot Circle and Frame: The Making of Papunya Tula art

John Kean

A startling, vibrant, radical new form of desert art arrived in Papunya Tula in 1971, anchored and inherited in ceremony; stimulated by the twentieth century and painting onto canvas.

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Daisy Chain

Daisy Chain is the first reference for the highly discerning reader. Created by fashion industry veterans Phillip Duncan and Charles Desselle, this lushly produced, bi-annual from Damiani offers an authoritative…

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Contemporary Art

Natalie Rudd

An essential account of contemporary art that identifies key themes and approaches, providing the reader with a clear understanding of the contexts in which art is being made today.

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Earth & Fire

Kylie Johnson, Tiffany Johnson

From clay to kiln and everything in-between, this book is an exploration into the techniques and processes of over forty-five working ceramicists.

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Australian Abstract

Amber Creswell Bell

There is no single neat definition of abstract art. It makes no attempt to represent reality; instead it has its own visual language using shape, colour and form with no…

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The Wide World of Graffiti

Alan Ket

A guide to the art, artists, and culture of graffiti from the 1970s to today, as told by the taggers themselves

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The Kitchen Shelf

Cressida Campbell

Published to accompany the exhibition Cressida Campbell at the National Gallery of Australia this beautiful colouring book, featuring Campbell's extraordinary work The Kitchen Shelf, is suited to aspiring colourists young…

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Lost in Palm Springs

Dr Greer Honeywill

On a chance visit to Palm Springs, the author was immediately drawn to the desert gardens and the beautiful lines of the modernist houses from that post-war era. At once…

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The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World

Jennifer Higgie

The first major work of art history to focus on women artists and their engagement with the spirit world, by one of the foremost art writers at work today

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Fashion at the Edge

Caroline Evans

Now back in print, this seminal publication offers an unexpected discussion of cutting-edge fashion in the 1990s and its relation to deep cultural anxieties

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Bush Flowers

Cassandra Hamilton, Michael Pavlou

Bush Flowers will give you everything you need to bring Australian native plants into your home, and to see the bush around you in all its beauty.

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Artists at Home: Inside the creative spaces of 32 female artists in Australia

Karina Pires Hanna

Over thirty extraordinary women invite us behind the creative curtain, sharing stories of breaking into the art world in Australia, their challenges, processes and inspirations, and achieving a balance in…

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Portraits

W. H. Chong

W. H. Chong has designed books for Text Publishing since its inception, but he has also been making other art all that time. The 300 portraits in this book are…

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Tasmania Living: Quiet, Conscious Living in Australia’s South

Joan-Maree Hargreaves, Marita Bullock

Tasmania does for Australia what the Nordic countries do for Europe.

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How Art Can Change Your Life

Susie Hodge

Offering helpful guidance, this illustrated handbook introduces new ways of viewing art and shows how anyone can use art to work through difficult emotions and improve their mental state.

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China Adorned: Ritual and Custom of Ancient Cultures

Qiyao Deng, Kat Vinton

A rich visual encyclopaedia of the fashion, adornment and rituals of Chinese ethnic minority groups, through the full cycle of life events.

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Bruno Leti: Series: A life of images

Thomas Middlemost,Bruno Leti

Bruno Leti - Series lays bare a life of art, of intertwined visual and theoretical revelations, inspirations and chance encounters, prudently curated for the joy of discovery

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New art & design books

Emily Kam Kngwarray

Letters to a Critic

Ken Whisson: Painting and Drawing

Vincent Namatjira

The Bird Art of William T. Cooper

Ikuntji Textiles

Ornament is Not a Crime

Art Monsters

Iwantja

Colin Lanceley: Earthly Delights

John Olsen: Goya’s Dog

Joan Didion: What She Means

Memories of Degas

Handmade Modernism: Artisanal Design in Mexico, 1952-2022

Vibrant Botanical Painting

Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts

Millais: A Sketch

Hope in Hell: A History of Darlinghurst Gaol and the National Art School

Marina Abramovic: Nomadic Journey and Spirit of Places

Lives of Rubens

Lucio Fontana

Captivate: Stories from National Art School and Darlinghurst Gaol

Ink & Paper

Grayson Perry: Smash Hits

Cobra: A Pictorial and Poetic Revolution

From Antwerp to Amsterdam

Modernist Icons

Country Style: Country Homes in Australia, Volume 2

Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color

Ceramics: An Atlas of Forms

Regenerative Fashion

Dot Circle and Frame: The Making of Papunya Tula art

Daisy Chain

Contemporary Art

Earth & Fire

Australian Abstract

The Wide World of Graffiti

The Kitchen Shelf

Lost in Palm Springs

The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World

Fashion at the Edge

Bush Flowers

Artists at Home: Inside the creative spaces of 32 female artists in Australia

Portraits

Tasmania Living: Quiet, Conscious Living in Australia’s South

How Art Can Change Your Life

China Adorned: Ritual and Custom of Ancient Cultures

Bruno Leti: Series: A life of images