This book documents recent journeys to far-flung destinations throughout the world by thirteen Australian artists charged with the mission of recording their experiences in their own unique artistic terms. Each artist contributes ten or more images of the art works they subsequently created. This is a big exciting book which offers a rich array of images, travel tales and telling insights into the minds of artists as they create images based on travel impressions.

Unfinished Journey

Arts & Photography

McGregor, Ken

History & Criticism

Macmillan Art Publishers

Anne Marsh's treatise on the art of photography traces its theoretical underpinning from the early debates between the rationalists and the fantasists, through psychoanalytical interpretations, to the theatre of desire. She investigates the role of photography in ghostly performances', the masking of desire' and high camp aesthetics' - through to performance art' and the role of the photographer as a gender terrorist' - as in the work of Del LaGrace Volcano. The study concludes with notable examples of postmodern photography as they have occurred in the Australian context. This ground-breaking work by a leading Monash University academic will interest all students of photography and followers of recent trends in art and art theory.

The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire (Images from World-Wide Collections)

Marsh, Anne

Photography & Video

Louis Kahan: Great Music Makers

'The art of music-making', writes Michael Shmith, 'is a frighteningly intangible abstract thing that is as easy to describe as it is to contain murcury in your hand. Music, a world of sounds and symbols seperated by silences, should be different every time it is played. 'Photography is excellent at providing evidence of the physical side of [musical] interpretation ... however, to really portray the spirit of the musician, it takes an artist of fine talent, great experience and with great feelings sympathetic to his subjects and THEIR subjects.' And the late Louis Kahan was such an artist. Not many Australian artists could boast of designing clothes for Josephine Baker and Colette in Paris in the 1920s or having served in the French Foreign Legion. Australian-born, and more than 50 years in Australia, Kahan sketched and painted musicians over most of this time. He sketched Toscanini sketched in Paris 1928; Witold Malcuzynski in Perth in 1948; the young Pavarotti here in 1965; the conductors Sirs Adrian Boult and Malcolm Sargent and Igor Stravinsky - they are all here and many more. The more than 80 portraits of musicians are held in the collection of the Victorian Arts Centre for local and international visitors to see and appreciate. This book records them for a worldwide audience.

In 2002, Ben Quilty won the Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship and journeyed to Paris where he imbibed the colour and atmosphere so eloquently expressed by Henri Matisse who, along with the British artists Frank Auerbach and Leo Kossoff, greatly influenced the young artist's approach to colour, form and line. The Paris drawings, rapidly sketched in oil bar on linen, came close to the 'drawing with paint' that is the hallmark of Quilty's approach. While his influences have been European, part of Quilty's mission is to find subjects that explore Australia's cultural identity. Thus, partly tongue-in-cheek, he embarked on a series of paintings dedicated to the Holden Torana and its importance to Australia's testosterone-driven youth. Equally confronting are his Budgerigars, harmless and endearing at first glance, but in effect painted as a protest against mutant selective breeding programs undertaken to serve the collectors' market. As a young artist, at times quite irreverent in his approach, he believes fervently in developing the necessary skills of drawing and painting and, as a portrait painter, has more than once been a finalist in the Archibald Prize. Quirky as his approach to painting can sometimes be, he believes it is possible to gather inspiration and enlightenment by osmosis; by observing places once inhabited by persons of genius. Hence his fascination with 'painters' places' in Australia- like Hill End and Heidelberg, or with Paris and the colourful presence of Mattise. This Macmillan Mini-Art book, the third in the series, shows how art can be quite radical without abandoning its foundations.

Ben Quilty (The Macmillan Mini-Art Series)

Zimmer, Jenny

McGregor, Ben

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Unfinished Journey

The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire (Images from World-Wide Collections)

Louis Kahan: Great Music Makers

Louis Kahan: Great Music Makers

Ben Quilty (The Macmillan Mini-Art Series)