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Oceanic/Australian Art

All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.

Bardon, Geoffrey, and James Bardon. Papunya: A Place Made After the Story. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, Vt.: Lund Humphries, 2005. 552 pp.; 500 ills. Cloth $100.00 (0853319472)

Benjamin, Roger. Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya. Exh. cat. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. 192 pp.; 150 ills. Cloth $30.00 (9781934260067)

Biddle, Jennifer Loureide. Breasts, Bodies, Canvas: Central Desert Art as Experience. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2006. 130 pp.; 32 color ills.; Many b/w ills. Paper AUD 140.00 (9780868409948)

Bogle, Michael. Barbara Heath: Jeweler to the Lost. Exh. cat. Melbourne: Queensland Art Gallery, 2004. 86 color ills.; 6 b/w ills. (187650997X)

Capon, Edmund, and William Wright. Tim Storrier: Moments; In Response to Memories and Ideas of Mortality. Victoria, Australia: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2010. 332 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $130.00 (9781921394140)

Caruana, Wally, and Nigel Lendon, eds. The Painters of the Wagilag Sisters Story: 1937-1997. Thames and Hudson in association with University of Washington Press, 1997. 300 pp.; 101 color ills. Paper $34.95 (0500974683)

Craig, Barry, Bernie Kernot, and Christopher Anderson. Art and Performance in Oceania. University Of Hawai'i Press, 1998. 318 pp. Cloth (0824822838)

Croft, Brenda L. Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial 2007. Exh. cat. Canberra, Australia: National Gallery of Australia, 2008. 218 pp.; Many color ills. Paper AUD 53.95 (9780642541338)

Crouch, Dora P., and June G. Johnson. Traditions in Architecture: Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania. Oxford University Press, 2000. 433 pp.; 200+ b/w ills. Paper (0195088913)

Duggan, Laurie. Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture 1901-1939. St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2000. 315 pp.; 30 b/w ills. Paper $20.95 (0702231894)

Ennis, Helen. Photography and Australia. London: Reaktion Books, 2007. 144 pp.; 20 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9781861893239)

Erickson, Dorothy. Gold and Silversmithing in Western Australia: A History. Crawley, Australia: UWA Publishing, 2011. 410 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $89.95 (9781921401435)

Gibson, Lisanne, and Joanna Besley. Monumental Queensland: Signposts on a Cultural Landscape. St. Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2003. 268 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills. Paper $49.95 (0702234656)

Hall, Doug. Beyond the Future: The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Queensland: Queensland Art Gallery, 1998. 280 pp.; 340 color ills. Paper (187650966X)

Heathcote, Christopher, Patrick McCaughey, and Sarah Thomas. Encounters with Australian Modern Art. Ed. Maudie Palmer. South Yarra, Victoria, Australia: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 274 pp.; many color ills. Cloth $88.00 (9781921394218)

Howarth, Crispin, and Deborah Waite. Varilaku: Pacific Arts from the Solomon Islands. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Australia, 2011. 128 pp.; 93 color ills. Paper $35.00 (9780642334206)

Jones, Stephen. Synthetics: Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia, 1956–1975. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. 464 pp.; 108 ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780262014960 )

Kennedy, Brian. National Gallery of Australia: An Introduction to the Collection. Exh. cat. University of Washington Press, 1999. 74 pp.; 140 color ills. $24.95 (0642130930)

Kerr, Joan. A Singular Voice: Essays on Australian Art and Artchitecture. Sydney: Power Publications, 2011. 304 pp.; 11 color ills.; 44 b/w ills.; 55 ills. Paper $59.95 (9780909952365)

Kjellgren, Eric, and Carol S. Ivory. Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2004. 140 pp.; 90 color ills.; 22 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0300107129)

Kjellgren, Eric. Oceania: Art of the Pacific Islands in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2007. 368 pp.; 232 color ills.; 71 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300120301)

Kleinert, Sylvia, and Margo Neale, eds. The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999. 784 pp.; 10 color ills.; 408 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0195506499)

Leach, Andrew, Antony Moulis, and Nicole Sully, eds. Shifting Views: Selected Essays on the Architectural History of Australia and New Zealand. Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2008. 256 pp. Paper $52.95 (9780702236600)

McGregor, Ken, and Jenny Zimmer. Robert Jacks. South Yarra, Victoria, Australia: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2009. 144 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9781921394157 )

McLean, Ian, ed. How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: Writing on Aboriginal Contemporary Art. Sydney, Australia: Power Publications, 2011. 360 pp.; 59 color ills. Paper $49.95 (9780909952372)

Neich, Roger, and Fuli Pereira. Pacific Jewelry and Adornment. University Of Hawai'i Press, 2003. 192 pp.; many color ills.; few b/w ills. Paper $33.00 (0824828828)

Newell, Jenny. Pacific Art in Detail. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. 144 pp.; 150 color ills. Cloth $22.95 (9780674055780)

Norio, Shimada, Nakayama Tomoko, and Dr. Chrstine Nicholls. Prism: Contemporary Australian Art. Ed. Nakamura Setsuko; trans. Tomii Reiko and Stanley Nelson Anderson. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, 2005. 165 pp.; many color ills. (4901528068)

Reading, Nigel, and Gary Wyatt. Manawa: Pacific Heartbeat. Intro. Darcy Nicholas. Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group in association with University of Washington Press, 2005. 172 pp.; 90 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (0295985704)

Reichle, Natasha. Violence and Serenity: Late Buddhist Sculpture from Indonesia. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2007. 292 pp.; 121 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780824829247)

Ryan, Judith. Landmarks: Indigenous Australian Art in the National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2005. 145 pp.; 100 color ills. Paper (0724102671)

Seear, Lynne, and Julie Ewington, eds. Brought to Life II: Contemporary Australian Art 1966–2006. Exh. cat. Queensland, Australia: Queensland Art Gallery Publishing, 2006. 492 pp.; Many color ills. Paper AUD 85.00 (9781986509262)

Seear, Lynne, and Suhanya Raffel, eds. The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Exh. cat. Queensland, Australia: Queensland Art Gallery Publishing, 2005. 304 pp.; 350 color ills. Paper $59.95 (9781876509385)

Starzecka, Dorota C., Roger Neich, and Mick Pendergrast. The Maori Collections of the British Museum. London: British Museum, 2010. 168 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $150.00 (9780714125947)

Stepan, Peter. Picasso's Collection of African and Oceanic Art: Masters of Metamorphosis. Munich: Prestel, 2005. 152 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (3791336916)

Stephen, Ann, Philip Goad, and Andrew McNamara, eds. Modern Times: The Untold Story of Modernism in Australia. Exh. cat. Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Miegunyah Press in association with Powerhouse Publishing, 2010. 254 pp.; 300 color ills. Paper $49.99 (9780522855517)

Sundt, Richard A. Whare Karakia: Maori Church Building, Decoration and Ritual in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1834–1863. Auckland, NZ: Auckland University Press, 2010. 240 pp.; many b/w ills. Cloth $59.99 (9781869404567)

Wallis, Geoffrey J. Peril in the Square: The Sculpture That Challenged a City. Briar Hill, Australia: Indra Publishing, 2003. 152 pp.; 97 color ills. Paper $38.50 (1920787003)

Webb, Virginia-Lee, ed. Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea. Exh. cat. Houston: Menil Collection, 2011. 136 pp.; 96 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300166101)

Werness, Hope B. Encyclopedia of Native Art: Worldview, Symbolism, & Culture in Africa, Oceana, & Native North America. Continuum, 1999. 500 pp. Cloth $50.00 (0826411568)