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Recovery: The Politics of Aboriginal Reform
$15.00 AUD
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Atua: Sacred Gods from Polynesia
$120.00 AUD
The Polynesian concept of atua -of gods, figurative objects and associated beliefs-developed over thousands of years and spread throughout the region. The superb examples of sculpture illustrated in this volume...
We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning
'Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. [...] A book I've been waiting my whole life to read.' Tommy Orange, author of There ThereAs...
Crocodile and Cassowary: Religious Art of the Upper Sepik River, New Guinea
$50.00 AUD
Author: Douglas NewtonBinding: SoftbackPublished: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markings It highlights the artistic richness found within small villages, showcasing works of art...
We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning
'Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. [...] A book I've been waiting my whole life to read.' Tommy Orange, author of There ThereAs...
Groote Eylandt Art: Leonhard Adam Ethnological Collection Part One
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Spiral binding,Few corners of the world preserve a cultural heritage as ancient and visually arresting as Groote...
Assignment New Guinea
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedLong before the modern world cast its shadow over the highlands and coastal villages of Papua New Guinea, a remarkable land of...
The Art Of Tahiti: And The Neighbouring Society, Austral And Cook Islands
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew regions of the world have captured the Western imagination quite like the islands of Polynesia, and The...
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schroedinger's cat. Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous...
Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat
Author: Benedicte Savoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial...
The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins
First published in 1964 The Lucky Country caused a sensation. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled...
Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity
The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism is a global phenomenon. Yet the reactions of Pacific peoples to this Western hegemony are diverse...
Patrol Into Yesterday: My New Guinea Years
$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedLong before Papua New Guinea emerged as an independent nation, one man walked its untamed highlands, jungles, and remote valleys...
Book Club Box - Fiction
$140.00 AUD
Join our amazing Book Club community in 2027 with our Book Club Box - Fiction. "Love this idea, enjoying a surprise each month, a great read and following the facebook...
Those Passions: On Art and Politics
'The decade's most stimulating art book' Financial Times A Guardian History Book of the Year 'For those, though, who relish brilliant analysis of painting - as well as former students...
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art stares into the dark heart of Australia's brutal colonial history and offers new insights into the first art of this country. Long...
Shoes for the Moscow Circus: From Foundries and Flagmakers to Stonemasons and Taxidermists
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Papunya: A Place Made After the Story
In 1971, a hopeful, young art teacher drove the long, lonely road from Alice Springs to the Aboriginal outpost settlement at Papunya. His name was Geoffrey Bardon. Eighteen months later,...
Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration And Convergence
$130.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat happens when cultures collide, migrate, and ultimately converge across centuries and continents? Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence presents the proceedings of the 32nd International...
What the Greeks Did for Us
An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a...
The Vital Decade: Ten Years Of Australian Art And Letters
$30.00 AUD
Author: Geoffrey Dutton And Max HarrisBinding: HardbackPublished: Penguin Books in association with Australian Letters, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling cultural history chronicles a pivotal ten-year span...
Australian National Gallery: An Introduction
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhen the Australian National Gallery opened its doors in Canberra in 1982, it represented not merely the inauguration of a building, but the crystallisation...
Australian Aboriginal Art: A Souvenir Book Of Aboriginal Art In The Australian National Gallery (SIGNED)
$80.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slight creasing to corners. Few artistic traditions carry the weight of sixty thousand years...
National Gallery of Australia: An Introduction to the Collection
Includes Australian art, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, Asian art, and international art.
Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial 2007
Presenting the work of thirty artists from each Australian state and territory, the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial demonstrates the incredible range of contemporary Indigenous art practice. The works included...
Present Tense: Anna Schwartz Gallery And Thirty-Five Years Of Contemporary Australian Art (SIGNED)
$100.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionFor thirty-five years, the Anna Schwartz Gallery has stood as one of Australia's most formidable...
Atlas of AI
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence-from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom "This study argues that [artificial intelligence] is neither artificial nor particularly intelligent. . . ....
Letters Of John Reed: Defining Australian Cultural Life 1920-1981
$50.00 AUD
Author: Barrett Reid And Nancy UnderhillBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne, Viking, 2001Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Excellent copy with small tear to the top of the DJ...
Tony Cragg (Bilingual edition): Infinite and Beautiful Forms
The works of the English master, one of the most celebrated figures of contemporary sculpture This volume is a tribute to sculpture, that magnificent obsession that has accompanied Tony Cragg...
The Australian Scapegoat: Towards An Antipodean Aesthetic (SIGNED)
$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to forge a truly Australian aesthetic in the shadow of European tradition —...
Cres Paper 2: Towards A National Aboriginal Congress
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA foundational work in Australian Indigenous policy studies, this research paper by H.C. Coombs...
A Spacious Central Location: Installations For Pica And The Cultural Centre
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the vibrant cultural heart of Perth, Western Australia, A Spacious Central Location: Installations for PICA and the...
Should We Fall to Ruin: New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a
When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off by their government as 'hostages...
Making Australian History
A bold and expansive history that traces the changing and contested project of Australia's national story. You will think about this country differently after reading this book. 'Clark brings a...
Anzart: Australian & New Zealand Artists In Edinburgh
$20.00 AUD
Author: Wystan CurnowBinding: PaperbackPublished: The Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAnzart: Australian & New Zealand Artists In Edinburgh...
Form In Indigenous Art: Schematisation In The Art Of Aboriginal Australia And Prehistoric Europe
$75.00 AUD
Author: Peter J. UckoBinding: HardbackPublished: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd, Humanities Press Inc., 1977Condition:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Mild...
The Company of Artists: The Origins of the Royal Academy of Arts in
On the wintry afternoon of Monday 28 November 1768, an architect and three artists were granted an audience with George III at St James's Palace; their mission, the foundation of...
The Winterthur Garden: Henry Francis Du Pont's Romance with the Land
Henry Francis du Pont spent many years perfecting his garden at Winterhur in Wilmington, Delaware, his home from his birth in 1880 until his death in 1969. The garden is...
Wind, Sand and Stars
In 1926 de Saint-Exupery began flying for the pioneering airline Lateco re - later known as Aeropostale - opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes....
The Quest For Grace
$10.00 AUD
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