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Sydney Brutalism

Sydney has some of the world’s best examples of brutalist architecture. Design writer Heidi Dokulil explores these brutal beauties.

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Reading the Rooms

Edited by Rachel Franks, Richard Neville

The incredible painting collection of the State Library of New South Wales is documented for the first time.

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Sydney: A Biography

Acclaimed playwright and author, Louis Nowra – author of Kings Cross and Woolloomooloo – expands his gaze to explore the energy, beauty, vulgarity, dynamism and pulsating sense of self-importance of his adopted city, Sydney.

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Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters: Australia’s first female filmmaking team

Introducing the McDonagh sisters … a trio of extraordinary and ground-breaking filmmakers.

Andrew Andersons

Bernice Murphy, Leon Paroissien

The first book published on acclaimed Australian architect Andrew Andersons, written by well-known arts administrators Leon Paroissien and Bernice Murphy.

Picturing a Nation

The untold story of a major Australian artist. Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A.H. Fullwood (1863–1930) was also the most widely viewed British–Australian artist of the Heidelberg era.

Edited by Lily Hibberd, with Bonney Djuric

Parragirls ' Parragirls Parragirls is able to deliver something that is at once rigorous in its detailed presentation of a clear model, and accessible through its compelling narrative.' — Eugenia Flynn, The Saturday Paper

Edited by Julie Cracknell, Peter Lonergan, Sam Rickard

Bruce Rickard was one of the most significant Australian architects of the twentieth century. A key member of the Sydney School, his practice spanned 60 years and he produced some of the most notable and recognisable houses of the period.

Edited by Ainslie Murray, Xing Ruan

In Hand & Mind Through dialogues, interviews, creative reflections and essays, Hand & Mind brings together projects and critical writing to provide a fascinating insight into the study of architecture.

Collecting for the Nation

Edited by Jennifer Sanders

From ceramic cockatoos and hand-painted china to splendid silverware and historic paintings, Collecting for the Nation illustrates a broad sweep of Australian history and culture through the stories of the artworks in The Australiana Fund's unique collection.

Running the City

Felicity Fenner

Leading Australian curator Felicity Fenner profiles activity-based and pop-up contemporary public art projects from Australia and around the globe. Running the City explores art projects that bring together diverse disciplines and cultures – including running, cycling, architecture, and guerilla gardening.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Rayner Hoff was the most gifted – and controversial – public sculptor in Australia, best known for the sculptures and friezes that adorn Sydney's Anzac Memorial, including Sacrifice at its centre.

The incredible story of singing teacher extraordinaire Mathilde Marchesi who trained more international opera stars than anyone before or since.

Helena Grehan, Edward Scheer

Acclaimed photographer William Yang has captured the zeitgeist like no-one else, providing a very personal insight into the evolution of Mardi Gras, the spectre of AIDS, Sydney's theatrical and social scenes, and changing notions of 'belonging' in multicultural Australia.

Prudence Gibson

The Idea of Art

Curator Anthony Bond began building a contemporary international art collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney in 1984. The collection now features many important artists, including Anselm Kiefer, Antony Gormley, Francis Bacon, Anish Kapoor and Doris Salcedo.

Nancy Underhill

Digging through the myths around Australia's most famous artist, many of which he created himself as a masterful self-promoter, this book is the biography that Sidney Nolan deserves.

Curating Sydney

Jill Bennett, Saskia Beudel

What happens when artists are asked the questions usually addressed to planners and administrators?

Australian painter and theatre artist Loudon Sainthill and his partner, entrepreneur and gallery director Harry Tatlock Miller, were at the heart of avant-garde artistic and literary circles in mid-twentieth century Melbourne, Sydney and London.

The Beethoven Obsession

The Beethoven Obsession tells the story of how the greatest piano music ever written acquired a unique Australian voice, played on a revolutionary grand piano that shook up the conservative music establishment.

The Flash of Recognition

As a student, Jane Lydon was shocked by the photograph on the cover of Charles Rowley's 1970 classic, The Destruction of Aboriginal Society

Once Upon a Time in Papunya

Vivien Johnson

Sustainable House

Whether you're planning to build or renovate, whether you live in an apartment or a house, Sustainable House

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Edited by Richard Francis-Jones, Lawrence Nield, Xing Ruan, Deborah Van der Plaat

What's Wrong with Contemporary Art?

Peter Timms