Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, N.S.W.)'s Books

The work features over 280 works by more than 170 Australian artists drawn from a period of acquisitions which began with the consitution of the MCA in May 1989."--p. 17.

This exhibition catalogue features 13 artists who work across a variety of media including painting, taxidermy, photography, installation, sculpture and performance and who live across Australia.

Since the 1950s the practice of bark painting has responded to new contexts and has become increasingly pertinent to the outside world.

Relates to various strengths of the existing collection including a number of significant groupings within the Power collection.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition curated by Brook Andrew at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, this book presents challenging encounters with a range of artists, both Australian and international, who respond to issues surrounding race, ethnicity, politics and religion. The purposeful breaking of taboos -- crossing the line wherever society forbids it -- is a recurrent impetus for great works of literature and art, and it is the role of artists to precipitate such breaches. With texts by Marcia Langton, Brook Andrew, Fiona McGregor, David Elliott, and others, plus diverse works by artists like Anton Kannemeyer, Maria Kozic, Ken Reinhard and many more.

This publication is a catalogue of a major exhibition of the work of Guan Wei and it focuses on the artist's prolific output over the last ten years that he has lived in Australia. The catalogue presents the background to his work and ideas, while featuring many of the works in full colour.

The work features over 280 works by more than 170 Australian artists drawn from a period of acquisitions which began with the consitution of the MCA in May 1989."--p. 17.

Examines the planning stages of The Gates, an installation art project by Christo and Jeanne-Claude designed to adorn the walkways of New York's Central Park, and includes interviews with the artists.

The vibrant late paintings of Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) are considered by many to be among his finest achievements. Working in a small converted bedroom of his villa in the south of France, Bonnard suffused his late canvases with radiant Mediterranean light and dazzling color. Although his subjects were close at hand-usually everyday scenes taken from his immediate surroundings, such as the dining room table being set for breakfast, or a jug of flowers perched on the mantelpiece - Bonnard rarely painted from life. Instead, he preferred to make pencil sketches in small diaries and then rely on these, along with his memory, once in the studio." "This volume, which accompanies the first exhibition to focus on the interior and related still-life imagery from the last decades of Bonnard's long career, presents more than seventy-five paintings, drawings, and works on paper, many of them rarely seen in public and in some cases, little known. Although Bonnard's legacy may be removed from the succession of trends that today we consider the foundation of modernism, his contribution to French art in the early decades of the twentieth century is far more profound than history has generally acknowledged. In their insightful essays and catalogue entries the authors bring fresh critical perspectives to the ongoing reappraisal of Bonnard's reputation and to his place within the narrative of twentieth-century art."--Jacket

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Volume One

Volume One

Primavera 06

Primavera 06

They are Meditating

They are Meditating

MCA Collection

MCA Collection

Taboo

Taboo

Guan Wei

Guan Wei

Volume One

Volume One

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard

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