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Hot Springs
The Northern Territory and Contemporary Australian Artists
Daena Murray (Author); Nicholas Rothwell (Author)
Dr. Daena Murray, former and now Emeritus Curator of the Museum and Art
Gallery of The Northern Territory, has collected together an extraordinary range of
contemporary artworks with qualities that clearly identify them with the Northern
Territory. Created by both indigenous and non-indigenous artists resident and
active in the Northern Territory, these artworks share characteristics that include
references and responses to the land and its unique colours and geographic
formations; to the diverse culture and cultural changes that have occurred; to
specialist local developments in various art forms such as printmaking, woven
constructions in natural materials, site specific installation art and sculpture; and
to Darwinian origins. Daena Murray’s richly detailed and well informed text, with
introduction by Nicolas Rothwell, appears alongside the chosen artworks.
9781921394416, £70.00, Available Now
HB, 320p, Macmillan Art Publishing
An Interpretation of This Title/Waiting For - (Texts for Nothing)
Nitzsche, Darwin and the Paradox of Content (Vol 1)/Samuel Beckett, in Play (Vol 2)
Joseph Kosuth (Author)
This two-volume set documents installations by acclaimed American artist Joseph
Kosuth which have been commissioned by Juliana Engberg of the Australian
Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne, Australia. Joseph Kosuth’s work,
executed principally in text formed of neon lighting, first appeared in the 1960s
and has consistently explored the role of language and its meanings in art. The
two volumes contain texts by Joseph Kosuth, Jualan Engberg of ACCA, and Pat
Fisher from the Talbot Rice Gallery as well as significant essays by John Welchman,
noted Art historian and Professor of Modern History at the University of California,
San Diego, and Ronald Jones, an artist and critic who leads the Experience Design
Group at Konstfack University College in Stockholm. The photography of the
installations is simply stunning.
9781921394553, £52.00, Available Now
HB, 184p, Macmillan Art Publishing
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Power + Colour
New Painting from the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art
Jane Raffan (Author)
The enthralling power and colour of Aboriginal painting of Tjukurpa (Law) and
country has brought Aboriginal art to the forefront of contemporary art practice
in Australia. Aboriginal art has also played an important role in the formulation of
Indigenous Land Rights debates and Native Title Jurisprudence. 2012 marked the
twentieth anniversary of the High Court of Australia’s decision in Mabo, which
overturned the British doctrine of terra nullius (empty land) – the false premise
on which the colony was founded – and forever changed the legal landscape for
Indigenous rights. The thesis of Power + Colour: New Painting from the Corrigan
Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art charts the history of Aboriginal art’s
impact on Australian law, and explores the inextricable nexus of Aboriginal law
and sense of self – an entirety that is inseparable from country.
9789491431074, £42, August 2012
9781921394744, £80.00, Available Now
HB, 475p, Groningen Archaeological Studies 19, Barkhuis
HB, 368p, Macmillan Art Publishing