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Nothing If Not Critical, Selected Essays On Art and Artists
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A lengthy selection of essays on artists and art movements from a broad selection of historical and contemporary era including Baroque, Renaissance, 19th Century, Pre-Raphaelite, 20th Century, Modernism, Mid-Century, late 20th Century European and American art.
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A history of the authors life as an artist, teacher, and political activist in Australia.
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A study of the field of Community Arts in Australia and the history of the Community Arts Board.
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An illustrated survey of the work of the Guerrilla Girls with interviews, an essay by Whitney Chadwick, and four pull-out postcards by the Guerrilla Girls.
feminist art, political art, urban art, street art, activism, posters
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A survey of theories, practices and documents that outlines the origins of US and European Idea Art of the 1960s and 1970s.
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solo and group exhibitions, spiritual art, political art, portraiture, iwd exhibitions, collaborative prectice, collective practice
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Essays on feminist art, art history, criticism and museum practices in 1990s Australia by writers, academics, artists.
indigenous art, political art, gender, represenation, museology, photography, installation, graphic design, collaborative practices
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History of the Society, founded in 1902, told through the stories of three generations of artists. Includes original research, unpublished primary sources and photographs and over 300 biographies of members.
china painting, portraiture, self-portraiture, flower painting, sculpture, print making, art and craft
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Arising from research for an exhibition of the same name, which toured Australia 1981- 1982 the book covers the work of 45 amateur and professional photographers and their lives as innovators and travellers. Many of the works come from private collections and have not been previously published.
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Overview of traditional and urban imagery with each chapter describing the creative philosophies and inspirations behind each artists' works including the spiritual and political. practice
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feminism, painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, textiles
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Study commissioned by Arts Queensland and the Australia Council in 1994 to address the lack of published information on women's involvement in the arts.
regionalism, cultural industraies, equity, professional recognition, indigenous women, multiculturalism
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500 works of art by 500 Australian women from colonial times to 1955 with images and commentaries on each work prepared by by 200 curators, critics, family member or the artists herself. Includes images of many works which may never have been reproduced. A biographical section comprises concise entries on these artists.
colonial art, craft, competitions, portraiture, furniture, sculpture, indigenous art, museology
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An examination of the relationship between representations of ancient and contemporary goddesses, and how they are used by contemporary artists.
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Collected cartoons by Melbourne cartoonist and writer Judy Horacek, who believes "humour is a fantastic way of changing the world." ( from biographical noes). The introduction was written by Dale Spender.
political art, community art, indigenous rights, racism, discrimination
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A visual record of posters made at Megalomania Print Studio, a print collective in Canberra 1980-2013
community, political art, artist unknown, gender, health, environment
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Individual focus on 47 women artists, predominantly from the UK, USA and Europe, in photographs and brief text prepared by various critics and writers.
marina abramovic, louise bourgeois, guerrilla girls, cindy sherman, adrian piper, georgia o'keefe, portraiture, perfomance, political art, tracey emin, hannah hoch
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Essays addressing questions surrounding the effects of feminism on arts practice including responses to feminist exhibitions, the way arts degrees are taught d how feminism's engagment with psychoanalysis and postmodernism has deconstructed borders between the arts and crafts.
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