Australian & Oceanian

Join Cecilia Blomdahl in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the world's northernmost town.Located in the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole, Svalbard is a unique archipelago that boasts stunning wintry landscapes, endangered Arctic animals, and awe-inspiring natural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756246561Author Ashley WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books

A fully illustrated examination of the use of color in clay, outlining its history and exploring the styles and techniques of the leading modern makers. Mix two or more colors of clay as part of a piece's design, and you are creating nerikomi. There...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922390073Author Selina FenechFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Fairies and Fantasy Pty LtdPublisher Fairies and Fantasy Pty LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760761455Author Marie GeisslerFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty LtdPublisher Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty...

These sketchbooks, the work of the acclaimed Scottish artist Barbara Rae CBE RA during her three journeys towards the Northwest Passage in the depths of the Arctic Circle in 2015, 2016 and 2017, record in colourful and assured brush strokes the icebergs,...

This book aims to redefine Australia's earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category "Aboriginal art," tracing the term's use through published literature in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753304236Author Ian BurnFormat PaperbackPage Count 776Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

The art of the Pacific Islands is exciting, varied, vibrant and ever-changing. Across the great breadth of the Pacific, artists have always employed a wide variety of materials and techniques to create objects for specific purposes. These have been...

The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface. Comprising thousands of islands and hundreds of cultural groups, Polynesia and Micronesia cover a large part of this vast ocean, from the dramatic mountains of Hawaii to the small, flat coral...

An engaging explanation of Oceanic art and an important gateway to wider appreciation of Oceanic heritage and visual culture Art from Oceania, the region encompassing the islands of the central and south Pacific, spans hundreds of distinct artistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760764210Author Marcia LangtonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty LtdPublisher Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486466125Author Willowdean Chatterson HandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

In May 2006 some fifteen artists from New Zealand took over the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge (UK) as part of Pasifika Styles, a groundbreaking experiment in the display of contemporary Pacific art. Installing their works in cases...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062975621Author YunkaportaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

"A stunning atlas of the present and future."—Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases—San Francisco, New Orleans, New York "An impassioned plea to save what remains of these remarkable island communities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Australian Book Industry Awards 2024 (Australia). Long-listed for Australian Book Designer Awards 2024 (Australia).Book InformationISBN 9781760762605Format...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922384676Author Ainslie RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint ETT ImprintPublisher ETT Imprint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683150190Author Lee McRaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Hog PressPublisher Hog PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

This world-renowned sculpture is a unique figure in Polynesian art. An image of a deified ancestor, A'a was created sometime before 1821 on the island of Rurutu. Thirty dynamic figures stud his body, and the excellence of his craftsmanship suggests that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714124902Author Gaye SculthorpeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint British Museum PressPublisher British Museum PressWeight(grams) 283g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857246406Author Steven HooperFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1740g

In the early 1970s at Papunya, a remote settlement in the Central Australian desert, a group of Indigenous artists decided to communicate the sacred power of their traditional knowledge to the wider worlds beyond their own. Their exceptional, innovative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741741704Author Anne RyanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Art Gallery of New South WalesPublisher Art Gallery of New South WalesWeight(grams) 1350g

Ken Whisson (1927-2022) was one of Australia's foremost artists, widely acclaimed for an unwaveringly idiosyncratic practice that charted a singular course through seven decades of modern and contemporary Australian painting. Celebrated in his lifetime...

The Kwoma, the subject of this book, are one of a number of peoples in the Sepik River region of northern Papua New Guinea who have created some of the most distinctive visual art in the Pacific. Through case studies of their painting, sculpture,...

This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou - one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922633330Author Kate ten BuurenFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

This ground-breaking book follows the rise of a distinctive school of Australian art that first emerged in the 1940s. Beginning with the artists of the 'Angry Penguins' movement, Arthur Boyd, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and Sidney Nolan, whose work...

In 1788, nearly fifteen-hundred people on eleven sailing ships came ashore at Port Jackson in Australia after a gruelling eight month journey from England. This collection of vessels later became known as the First Fleet, and those who sailed in them...

Published on the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook's extraordinary voyages of exploration, this publication reflects on and charts the enduring legacies of his encounters with Pacific peoples. Objects collected and images made on or associated with...

Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art...

The first book devoted to the art of the vast South Seas island groups in the Bismarck Archipelago. This book features stunning, ephemeral creations made with natural materials such as plant fibre, light woods, bark cloth, and tree pith - among the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741741599Author Isobel Parker PhilipFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Art Gallery of New South WalesPublisher Art Gallery of New South...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068327519Author Janneke van DijkFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 560g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780909952105Author Rex ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint Power PublicationsPublisher Power Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732669741Author Sven KirstenFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Luz de JesusPublisher Luz de JesusWeight(grams) 1531gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 229mm * 25mm

Part art history, part detective story, this gripping insider's account of the Papunya art movement-which was centered around the 1,000 small, painted panels created at the remote northern territory Aboriginal settlement of Papunya during 1971 and...

The result of extensive recent research, Migrating Objects reveals Peggy Guggenheim's two-decade period of collecting beyond the European and North American art with which she is usually associated In the 1950s and '60s, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979)...

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