Australia and Oceania
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Australian Art (Oxford History of Art)
by Andrew Sayers  Publisher Comments This comprehensive survey uniquely covers both Aboriginal art and that of European Australians, providing a revealing examination of the interaction between the two. Painting, bark art, photography, rock art, sculpture, and the decorative arts are all...
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Papunya: A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement
by Geoffrey Bardon Synopsis Papunya: A Place Made After the Story is a first-hand account of the artists and the works emanating from Papunya: birthplace of the Western Desert Painting Movement. Based on the exquisitely recorded notes and drawings of Geoffrey Bardon, the man who...
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Aboriginal Art 2ND Edition
by Wally Caruana Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-230) and index....
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Colliding Worlds: First Contact in the Western Desert 1932-1984
by Philip Batty Synopsis The first book about initial contacts of Aborigina l and European for a lay audience....
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Aboriginal Art
by Wally Caruana Synopsis Aboriginal artists today practice in the world's longest continuous tradition of art. Widely sought after, Aboriginal art has now taken its place in the collections of the great museums and galleries. This is the first concise survey of the full range of...
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Speculation
by Brian Butler Publisher Comments After participating in the 2001, 2003 and 2005 Venice Biennales, the New Zealand Arts Council discovered that the state government might not grant sufficient funding to send an artist to the 2007 edition of the fair. Therefore, a team of eight of the...
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Art in Australia from Colonization to Postmodernism (World of Art)
by Christopher Allen Synopsis This is an overview of the important developments of Australian artists in all media. It traces the history of Australian art from the beginning, portraying the objective conditions of a society transplanted to a remote and strange place, and explaining...
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Perspectives Arts of the Pacific Islands (Perspectives)
by Anne Dalleva Publisher Comments The islands of the Pacific seem so exotic to the Western imagination and their art and culture are little known. Anne D'Alleva visits Island Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, and New Guinea, surveying traditional and contemporary arts -- sculptures...
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Aboriginal Art A&i (Art & Ideas)
by Howard Morphy Synopsis Uses a contextual approach to show the interrelationships between such diverse art forms as body painting, dance, the decoration of weapons and utensils, and paintings on bark, board and canvas. Illustrated with many examples, Morphy shows why Aboriginal...
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Peripheral Vision
by Charles Green Synopsis Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970-1994 is an introduction to the ideas current in Australian art from the 1970s onwards, providing a summary of issues that are still in flux. The broad narrative of recent visual practice is mapped...
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Design in Australia 1800-1970
by Michael Bogle Publisher Comments This investigation of design explores the experience of poets, painters, critics, museum curators, and journalists to illustrate the vitality of the discipline....
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Public sculpture in Australia
by Michael Hedger Synopsis This authoritative book provides a critical survey of public sculpture installed in Australia since colonial times. Major sections include war memorials, ranging from Boer War and World War I memorials through to contemporary minimalism; commemorative...
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19th Century Australian Art in the National Gallery of Victoria
by Terence Lane Publisher Comments One of the most attractive features of this lush book is the thoughtful combination of paintings, prints, photographs, ceramic works, and sculptures. Extensive use of contemporary and literary sources acquaint the reader with the artists' intentions and...
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Rock Art of the Dreamtime
by Josephine Flood Publisher Comments The first new overview of Australian Aboriginal rock art for nearly forty years, written by an archaeologist. As well as major bodies of rock art, this book features many previously unpublished discoveries. With a special focus on the hitherto neglected...
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Roar!: Art Collective
by Traudl Allen Synopsis In 1982 a group of art students, still in their teens and early twenties, decided to take matters into their own hands. Rather than pit themselves against the conventions of an established system and lose, they challenged it by rejecting its means and...
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One Sun One Moon: Aboriginal Art in Australia
by Hetti (edt) Perkins
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Contemporary Aboriginal Art: A Guide to the Rebirth of an Ancient Culture
by Susan McCulloch
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Islands Contemporary Installations
by Kate Davidson
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Pacific Parallels: Artists & Landscape in New Zealand, 1840-1990
by Charles C Eldredge Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 171) and index....
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Modernism and Feminism
by Helen Topliss Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-227) and index....
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