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Hot <strong>Spring</strong>s 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 Art – Modern Period 50 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
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