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Book Cover:  Art-Land-Story
By Christine Nicholls

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...

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...

Published: 04/06/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781876288419
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  Art-History-Place
By Christine Nicholls
In this text, recognised art expert Christine Nicholls looks at the astonishing diversity and visual power of Indigenous Australian art today and explores the traditons and influences that have shaped its development. CBCA Shortlisted Book, 2004.
In this text, recognised art expert Christine Nicholls looks at the astonishing diversity and visual power of Indigenous Australian art today and explores the traditons and influences that have shaped...
Published: 04/06/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781876288433
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  Burrup Rock Art: Ancient Aboriginal rock art of Burrup Peninsula and Dampier Archipelago
By Mike Donaldson

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...

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. ...

Published: 18/03/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780980589016
RRP: $150.00
Book Cover:  How To Look at a Painting
By Justin Paton
Justin Paton's Montana Award-winning and much-loved journey through the world of art, now in a superb new format. A true treasure for art-lovers.
Justin Paton's Montana Award-winning and much-loved journey through the world of art, now in a superb new format. A true treasure for art-lovers.
Published: 01/09/2008
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780958291606
RRP: $32.00
Book Cover:  Larrakitj
By Kerry Collection Stokes

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...

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...

Published: 23/02/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780957790681
RRP: $85.00
Book Cover:  Ka Tahi:Maori Fibre Techniques
Published: 05/09/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780790010106
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Art of Robyn Kahukiwa
By Robyn Kahukiwa

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.

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...

Published: 26/09/2005
Format:
ISBN: 9780790010137
RRP: $63.95
Book Cover:  Ukiyo-e
By Gian Carlo Calza

A comprehensive introduction to the hugely popular Japanese school of ukiyo-e.

A comprehensive introduction to the hugely popular Japanese school of ukiyo-e.

Published: 01/05/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714847948
RRP: $69.95
Book Cover:  Japonisme: Cultural Crossing between Japan and the West
By Lionel Lambourne

A broad survey of the West's extraordinary love affair with Japan.

A broad survey of the West's extraordinary love affair with Japan.

Published: 01/05/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714847979
RRP: $59.95
Book Cover:  Japan Style
By Gian Carlo Calza

This book offers a thorough examination of Japanese style.

This book offers a thorough examination of Japanese style.

Published: 30/11/2006
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714846248
RRP: $59.95
Book Cover: The Art Book
By Editors Phaidon

Winner of the Illustrated Book of the Year award in 1994, 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, it has received rave reviews from numerous newspapers and magazines and has made many appearances on the bestseller lists. Complemented by The 20th Century...

Winner of the Illustrated Book of the Year award in 1994, 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...

Published: 20/02/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714844879
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century
By Edward Sullivan

A comprehensive, authoritative survey of this increasingly popular and important field.

A comprehensive, authoritative survey of this increasingly popular and important field.

Published: 31/08/2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714839806
RRP: $59.95
Book Cover:  Aboriginal Art: a Survey of the Great Variety of Aboriginal Art
By Howard Morphy

For thousands of years, Australian Aborigines have been making art. A manifestation of the creative forces of Dreamtime, art is also a fundamental means of expressing individual and group identity. Howard Morphy surveys the great variety in Aboriginal art, showing the inter-relationships between such diverse art forms as body painting, dance, the decoration of weapons and utensils, and painting on...

For thousands of years, Australian Aborigines have been making art. A manifestation of the creative forces of Dreamtime, art is also a fundamental means of expressing individual and group identity. Howard...

Published: 31/10/1998
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714837529
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Neoclassicism: an insight into the richness and variety of this dynamic style
By David Irwin
An insight into the richness and variety of this dynamic style.
An insight into the richness and variety of this dynamic style.
Published: 31/07/1997
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714833699
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Before Time Today: Reinventing Tradition in Aurukun Aboriginal Art
By Sally Butler

What determines 'traditional' Aboriginal art in an era when modern media such as aluminium, acrylic paint and even cast-off fishing nets have become the media of choice for contemporary artists? What is the relationship between artworks that share similar forms, but whose ceremonial functions of the past wither beneath the imperatives of cultural and socio-economic survival in the twenty-first century? ...

What determines 'traditional' Aboriginal art in an era when modern media such as aluminium, acrylic paint and even cast-off fishing nets have become the media of choice for contemporary artists? What is...

Published: 03/09/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702238581
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  Before Time Today: Reinventing Tradition in Aurukun Aboriginal Art
Published: 03/01/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780702238628
RRP: $60.00
Book Cover:  Our Way: The Lockhart River Art Gang
By Sally Butler
Our Way: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Lockhart River introduces the unique and stunning art of a group of young Aboriginal artists from far north Queensland's Lockhart River community. Lockhart River is Australia's only remote youth-driven Aboriginal art initiative, and the rise to national and international recognition of a number of these artists is a unique and remarkable chapter in Australia's...
Our Way: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Lockhart River introduces the unique and stunning art of a group of young Aboriginal artists from far north Queensland's Lockhart River community. Lockhart River...
Published: 15/05/2007
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780702236341
RRP: $80.00
Book Cover:  Pounamu Treasures

Pounamu, or jade, is one of New Zealand's most treasured natural resources, celebrated for its rich beauty and significance to the Māori people. Pounamu Treasures: Ngā Taonga Pounamu is a simple and stylish collection of object photographs that honours the stone in its many forms.

Pounamu, or jade, is one of New Zealand's most treasured natural resources, celebrated for its rich beauty and significance to the Māori people. Pounamu Treasures: Ngā Taonga Pounamu is a simple...

Published: 22/08/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143568155
RRP: $24.99
Book Cover:  Maori Art
By Brian Brake

To Maori, the governing principle of mauri brings to all objects the power and prescience of a living spirit. Objects that are hand-crafted from wood, stone, shell, bone or pounamu are imbued with life by their creators. Conveying the mauri of an object through photography requires an exceptional talent, one focused on distilling the essential energy of the original piece through shades of lighting...

To Maori, the governing principle of mauri brings to all objects the power and prescience of a living spirit. Objects that are hand-crafted from wood, stone, shell, bone or pounamu are imbued with life...

Published: 28/03/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143565468
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover: The Principles of Uncertainty
By Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in this inimitable combination of image and text

An irresistible invitation to experience life through a beloved artist?s psyche, The Principles of Uncertainty is a compilation of Maira Kalman?s New York Times columns. Part personal narrative, part documentary, part travelogue, part chapbook, and all Kalman, these brilliant, whimsical paintings, ideas...

Maira Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in this inimitable combination of image and text

An irresistible invitation to experience life through a beloved artist?s psyche, The Principles of Uncertainty...

Published: 13/01/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143116462
RRP: $29.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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