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The selection below is a sample of the Library's broader collection of art and design titles, more of which can be found by searching the Library Catalogue.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art by Gretchen M. Stolte
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ISBN: 9781000185553
Publication Date: 2020
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art explores the effects of Queensland government policies on urban First Nation artists. Gretchen Stolte uses rich ethnographic detail to illuminate how both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists understand and express their heritage.
How local art made Australia's national capital by Anni Doyle Wawrzyńczak
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ISBN: 9781760463410
Publication Date: 2020
This book exposes local arts as a vital force in Canberra’s development and uncovers the influence of women in the growth of its visual arts culture. Traces the historical growth of the arts from a community-led endeavour, through a period of responses to social and cultural needs, and ultimately to a humanising local practice that transcended national and international boundaries.
Spectrum: heritage patterns and colors (Victoria and Albert Museum) by Ros Byam Shaw (Introduction by)
Call Number: 747.94 S7419 2018
ISBN: 9780500480267
Publication Date: 2018
Interior decorators have long used specific colours and palettes to evoke strong moods. This book analysis colour palettes from the fifteenth century onwards. The colours used in each wallpaper and fabric are presented in proportional grids, giving a clear understanding of the hues that have become emblematic of their era.
Aboriginal Art, Identity and Appropriation by Elizabeth Burns Coleman
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ISBN: 9780754644033
Publication Date: 2005
In this work, Elizabeth Burns Coleman analyses art from an Australian Aboriginal community to interpret Aboriginal claims about the relationship between their art, identity and culture, and how the art should be protected in law. Through her study of Yolngu art, Coleman finds Aboriginal claims to be substantially true. This is an issue equally relevant to North American debates about the appropriation of indigenous art, and the book additionally engages with this literature.
A history of screen printing: How an art evolved into an industry by Guido Lengwiler
Call Number: 764.8 L5663 2013
ISBN: 9780944094747
Publication Date: 2013
This book recounts the forgotten history of screen printing in the first half of the 20th century.
Aboriginal art and Australian society: Hope and disenchantment by Laura Fisher
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ISBN: 9781783085330
Publication Date: 2016
Hope and Disenchantment is an investigation of the way the Aboriginal art phenomenon has been entangled with Australian society's negotiation of Indigenous people's status within the nation over the last century. Through critical reflection on Aboriginal art's idiosyncrasies as a fine arts movement, its vexed relationship with money, and its mediation of the politics of identity and recognition, this study illuminates the mutability of Aboriginal art's meanings in different settings.
Encyclopedia of Oil Techniques by Jeremy Galton
Call Number: 751.4 G181 2017
ISBN: 9781782215950
Publication Date: 2017
Ideal for artists of all skill levels, this A-Z reference covers a multitude of topics concerning oil painting.
Provides step-by-step demonstrations that guide artists through a variety of techniques.
The second part focuses on themes, illustrating how individual artists tackle a number of common subjects, including landscapes, buildings, portraits, still life, skies and water.
Australia's Impressionists by Christopher Riopelle (Editor); Allison Goudie (Contribution by); Wayne Tunnicliffe (Contribution by); Tim Bonyhady; Alex J. Taylor; Sarah Thomas
Call Number: 759.994 A93894 2016
ISBN: 9781857096125
Publication Date: 2016
This book challenges our preconceptions of what is meant by Impressionism, enriches our understanding of Australian art, and reveals the international nature of art-historical movements and exchanges in the 19th century.
Australia's Impressionists focuses on the paintings of Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder, and John Peter Russell.
Why Monet matters: Meanings among the lily pads by James H. Rubin
Call Number: 759.4 R8963w
ISBN: 9780271086200
Publication Date: 2021
Explores the paintings of Monet and the personal, cultural, and historical contexts within which they were created, including rapid changes of government in France, the Dreyfus Affair, and the destruction and devastation of World War I
Australia: The Vatican Museums Indigenous collection by Katherine Aigner (Editor)
Call Number: 704.039915 A93815 2017
ISBN: 9788882714116
Publication Date: 2017
The Vatican Museums represent an aspect of the history of humanity through art, the Indigenous Australian collection is a little known and unexplored part of that story. Being amongst some of the earliest known documentations of Australian Indigenous cultures, the collection includes the earliest extant set of Pukumani poles from Melville and Bathurst Islands, alongside more recent contributions of artworks and cultural objects, and presents materials that have not been exhibited before in Australia.