Penguin Books Australia

Indigenous Australian art today is recognised throughout Australia and the world for its strength and vitality. In her book Art, Land, Story, Christine Nicholls looks at some of the traditions this art has come from and emphasises the continuous links between Indigenous art, place and The Dreaming the central core of Indigenous law and religion.

Sections on body painting, art from the central and western...

Bring a gallery of more than 2,500 of the world's most influential paintings and sculptures ever created into your home and learn everything you need to know about art history.

At last!  A book showcasing the Aboriginal rock art of Western Australia's Burrup Peninsula.

Western Australia contains some of the oldest, most prolific, and most spectacular rock art in the world.  Some of the art probably dates from about 40,000 years ago, and much dates from around the last ice age which peaked 20,000 years ago.

On the Australian Heritage-listed Burrup Peninsula and surrounding...

In the proudly ancient Yolngu heartlands larrakitj were used to contain the bones of the deceased during mortuary ceremonies. Today, artists from Arnhem Land's Buku-Larrnggay Mulka arts centre produce modern larrakitj for the education of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.

Collected for a decade, the larrakitj collection of 110 Yolngu memorial poles from north-east Arnhem form a special part of...

Since the early 1970s Robyn Kahukiwa's art has sought to answer questions of identity, ancestry and rights that are central to the Maori experience in Aotearoa New Zealand, and equally relevant to all indigenous peoples of the world. Her corpus engages in territory such as colonialism and the dispossession of indigenous people, motherhood and blood-ties, social custom and mythology.

Winner of the Illustrated Book of the Year award in 1994, the first edition of the The Art Book has been an outstanding success and has become a well-known landmark in the art book world.

Now published in over 20 different languages and in mini, midi, and hardback formats, The Art Book has received rave reviews from numerous newspapers and magazines and has made many appearances on the bestseller lists...

In the mid-1980s the sprouting of new movements that had driven modern art since the nineteenth century finally went dormant, sputtering out with a few last half-hearted labels ('pattern painting', 'neo-geo', 'commodity art'). But this was not the end of art history – far from it.  In the years since, art's creative development has remained more vibrant than ever, resulting in a diversity...

Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) founded his own design company, Craftsman Workshops, with his brother in upstate New York in 1898. The company was highly successful through the 1920s and eventually became a national enterprise with retail stores in New York, Boston, and Washington, DC.

Conceptual art marks a major turning point in late twentieth-century art. An art of ideas - which can be written, published, performed, fabricated, or which can simply remain inside your head - it is also an art of questions. Since its emergence in the mid 1960s, it has challenged our precepts about not only art but society, politics and the media. An international movement, Conceptual art encompasses...

Dada developed in distinct periods and locations, providing the structure of the book. From Europe and New York during the First World War it spread to Eastern Europe and Japan in the 1920s. Its re-emergence as Neo-Dada in the 1950s and influence on Fluxus in the 1960s was linked to emigres such as Marcel Duchamp and Hans Richter.

Diener & Diener is an international architecture office located in Basel, Switzerland. They are known for their sophisticated, subtle take on Modernism, which combines intellectually rigorous thinking about urbanism, history and materiality with an unpretentious, practical approach to design. Diener & Diener are well-known in particular for their simple yet sophisticated residential complexes...