Something visual on the new books shelf
Painting, Photography, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
A handful of fascinating new books have recently arrived on the shelves, centred on the visual arts in all of its many guises…..
Painting
New DVDs: Reef, Seashore, Shrek & Vali.
Dance, Music, Musicals, Painting, Performing Arts, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts, Television, Visual arts:
New DVDs arriving into the collection include the following releases in rock, popular and classical music, opera, dance, musical theatre, televison variety and visual arts. Gene Kelly : anatomy of a… Read More ›
War and the arts: strange bedfellows
Music, Painting, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
And the band played on: by Robert Holden (ebook) Robert Holden is undoubtedly one of our finest social and cultural historians, and this recent book is a timely examination of… Read More ›
Chance encounters with Australian art
A chance encounter at a recent art auction viewing re-acquainted me with the lovely work of Dora Wilson, and I was delighted to find her work well represented in our… Read More ›
The cat
Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
I knew that my post on dogs in art would trigger a feline response….. Spend any time on the internet and you could be forgiven for thinking everyone likes cats… Read More ›
Woof woof woof: or the dog in art…..woof
Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Now for some total self-indulgence! Having just welcomed two beautiful Whippets into the family (don’t get me started…), it seems like the ideal time to explore the central, if under-appreciated,… Read More ›
Collectors, museums and curious cabinets…….
Decorative arts, Painting, Rare Books & Arts:
The glorious Piranesi exhibition currently on show here at the State Library has me thinking about the whole passionate business of collecting. The British as art collectors : from the… Read More ›
New books: the Duke, Sydney Moderns, glorious Sargent, and some nude men…..
New books, Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Nude men : from 1800 to the present day: edited by Tobias G. Natter and Elisabeth Leopold This is the catalogue to a groundbreaking exhibition held at the Leopold Museum… Read More ›
New books for a new year
New books, Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
What better way to start the new year….. Australia: curated by Anne Gray, Ron Radford, Kathleen Soriano et. al. This major show of Australian art at the Royal Academy in… Read More ›
New books: landscapes, furniture and bathing in St. Kilda
Furniture, Painting, Rare Books & Arts:
Exposing Thomas Clark: a colonial artist in Western Victoria by Dr Peter Dowling and Daniel McOwab This might seem like an odd title, until you realise just how little… Read More ›
