Books from National Gallery of Australia
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Community Development Employment Projects Scheme and Racial Discrimination
By Australia. Race Discrimination CommissionerCommunity Development Employment Projects Scheme and Racial Discrimination
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Putting Your Young Men in the Mud: Change, Continuity, and the Australian Infantry Battalion
By Alan RyanPutting Your Young Men in the Mud: Change, Continuity, and the Australian Infantry Battalion
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The Mastery of Literacy and Numeracy: Final Report
By John P. Keeves, S. F. BourkeAnalytics, q.v. annotation.
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The Book of Kells and the Art of Illumination: An Exhibition Under the Patronage of Mary McAleese, President of Ireland...
By National Gallery of AustraliaThe Book of Kells and the Art of Illumination brings together the Gospel of St. Mark from the 1200-year-old Irish masterpiece with a selection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts which...
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Transformations: The Language of Craft
By Robert BellThis Australian perspective on the field of international contemporary decorative arts and design documents and illustrates recent works from approximately sixty leading artists working in the field of glass, ceramics,...
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Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly: The Ned Kelly Paintings in the National Gallery of Australia
By Andrew Sayers, Sidney Nolan, Murray Bail"Sidney Nolan built a compelling narrative around the figure of Ned Kelly, the colourful and wronged anti-hero in his homemade armour, and the comic-opera police who pursue him through the...
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Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
By Anthony WhiteThe self-portraits of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo are renowned for their dream-like quality and emotional intensity. Kahlo overcame injury and personal hardship to become one of the world's most important...
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Sean Scully: Body of Light
By National Gallery of Australia, Sean ScullyIncluding eight essays by various critics and curators, this is a beautifully bound and produced catalogue of the Sean Scully show at the National Gallery of Australia.
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Kastom: Art of Vanuatu
By National Gallery of AustraliaKastom: Arts of Vanuatu showcases an impressive array of traditional arts through a program of field collecting occurred on the islands of Ambrym and Malakula. Central to many traditional practices,...
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Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia
By National Gallery of Australia, Anne GrayThis broad-sweeping survey of the National Gallery's paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and decorative arts and design collections features more than 400 works. Indigenous and non-Indigenous works are represented, with...
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Life, Death & Magic: 2000 Years of Southeast Asian Ancestral Art
By Robyn J. MaxwellFor thousands of years across mainland and island Southeast Asia, the deification of significant ancestors and the veneration of spirits of nature has formed the basis of traditional beliefs. These...
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Printed Images by Australian Artists 1885-1955
By National Gallery of Australia, Roger Butler"This volume follows printmaking through a seventy-year period, from the latter part of the ninteenth century as the print, freed from its reproductive bonds, became a vehicle for pure artistic...
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Material Culture: Aspects of Contemporary Australian Craft and Design
By Robert BellOutlining aspects of contemporary Australian craft and design, this book focuses on recent works in ceramics, glass, textiles, furniture, jewellery and metal.
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Turner to Monet: The Triumph of Landscape Painting
By Ron Radford, Christine Dixon, Lucina A. WardThis book presents a new look at landscape painting in the nineteenth century as it transformed from the depiction of known places to explorations of mood and time passing. Masterpieces...
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The Art of Collaboration: The Big Americans
By Jane KinsmanThis book celebrates master printer Kenneth Tyler's creative collaboration with key artists of the post-war American art scene. It reproduces works in the National Gallery's collection of editioned original prints,...
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European Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Ireland
By National Gallery of Ireland, National Gallery of AustraliaEuropean Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Ireland
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Building the Collection
By National Gallery of Australia, Pauline GreenIn the short period between the late 1960s, when the National Gallery of Australia project received the go-ahead from government, and its opening in 1982 the national collection of art...
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French Paintings from the Musée Fabre, Montpellier
By National Gallery of Australia, Sylvain AmicThis volume featuring the collection of the Musee Fabre spans three centuries and includes works by 55 of the greatest French painters including Nicolas Poussin, Jaques-Louis David, Eugene Delacroix, Edgar...
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Varilaku: Pacific Arts from the Solomon Islands
By Crispin Howarth, Deborah WaiteThrough the finest traditional Solomon Islands art in Australia's museums and galleries, Varilaku explores kastom beliefs in ancestral ghosts, the world of spirit beings, ocean-bound raiding expeditions, and the Indigenous...
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Black Robe, White Mist: Art of the Japanese Buddhist Nun Rengetsu
By Robyn J. Maxwell, Rengetsu, Melanie EastburnRengetsu (1791-1875), whose name translates as Lotus Moon, was a Japanese Buddhist nun whose tragic life inspired extraordinary creativity. One of a very few successful female artists in nineteenth-century Japan,...