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Light Field: the Art of Bruce Munro Hb
Starting his career in commercial lighting design, Bruce Munro (b.1959) later returned to his artistic roots to create large immersive site-specific light installations born from his fertile imagination.Exploring Munro' s fascinating career to date, text and images combine to present an artist whose work is an exploration of place, topography and the environments in which the works are set. From the Australian desert to Californian vineyards, through to museums and manor houses in his native England, Munro' s spellbinding installations are immersive experiences that engage with the senses, their apparent simplicity belying the thematic and technological complexity behind their conception and realisation.Continually probing the possibilities of light and the considerable emotional pull the medium can create, Munro's enthusiasm for his materials and their relationship with audiences and environments is intelligently and engagingly communicated here.Richly balanced with beautiful reproductions of Munro's spectacular work, Light Field is essential reading for anyone interested in the power of light as an artform.
Fred Williams
Fred Williams is recognised as one of Australia's most significant landscape painters of the twentieth century. Yet, the artist's early commitment to drawing and painting the human figure, his accomplishments as a draughtsman and the importance of drawing in his oeuvre are less well known. Fred Williams: The London Drawings explores these aspects of Williams's work and presents a focused survey of the drawings made during his formative years in London (1952-56), when he first came to maturity as an artist. Important drawings from the NGV Collection - including series of drawings that he made in the music halls and on the streets of London, as well as at the city's zoo and in formal life-drawing classes - reveal Williams's extraordinary observational skills and his ability to capture the world around him. With contributions by Cathy Leahy, Deanna Petherbridge, Chris Stephens, Fiona Gruber, Louise Wilson and Lyn Williams AM, Fred Williams: The London Drawings presents new scholarship and rich imagery on one of the most celebrated figures in Australian art and the artistic processes that shaped his practice.
Belt Collins
During the firm's 50 years of creating development projects, from Hawaii to Bali, Belt Collins, with its talented landscape architects, environmental specialists, physical planners and civil engineers, has served three masters: the land, the owners and the users - with great skill and sensitivity. Featured projects include a selection of resorts in Waikiki and elsewhere in Hawaii; destination resorts in the Asia/Pacific region; a number of Shangri-La Hotels in Asia; and recreational developments in Hawaii, Australia and Asia.
Johnson, Johnson and Roy
Steeped in a strong Midwestern tradition of naturalism, JJR embraces the tenets of respecting and working with the inherent natural features of a landscape. JJR's projects address the complex relationship between humans and their environment. It believes that good design goes hand-in-hand with good planning, a process that encompasses everything from civil engineering and landscape architecture to environmental science, urban planning and much more. The work of JJR responds to the local and regional context, blending the natural with the built, and the site with the community. More than forty projects are examined in detail in this superb monograph; projects include university campuses, sutainable environments, vital cities, building communities, and waterfront projects; all are presented with colour photography, maps, plans and drawings.
Madame Midas
When the irresistibly attractive French convict Gaston Vandeloup escapes to the goldfields of Ballarat, he sets out to meet the remarkable Madame Midas. Charming, intelligent and forthright, she finds her fortune in Ballarat's fabulous mines and returns to marvellous Melbourne where she lives in magnificent style. But, in that city of con men and opportunists, her wealth makes her prey to deceit and crime, destined to end in murder... First published in 1888, Madame Midas is the best-selling companion-piece to Fergus Hume's phenomenally successful The Mystery of the Hansom Cab. Madame Midas herself is based on Alice Cornwell, a woman whose life was as strange as the fiction she inspired. In his thrilling mystery, introduced here by Simon Caterson, Hume unforgettably dramatises the story of an enigmatic woman in a society enslaved by wealth. 'A rare treasure... Madame Midas herself is one of the most memorable Victorian heroines.' Stephen Knight
Kim Young-Sub+Kunchook-Moonwha Architects Associates
Kim Young-Sub + Kunchook-Moonhwa Architect Associates have been involved in the construction of some of the most significant religious centres in Korea. The work is outstanding and goes from creating superb places of worship for various denominations to
Tilting at Windmills
Up until the late 1960s the story of Australian literary magazines was one of continuing struggle against the odds, and of the efforts of individuals, such as Clem Christesen, Stephen Murray-Smith, and Max Harris. During that time, the magazines played the role of 'enfant terrible', creating a space where unpopular opinions and writers were allowed a voice. The magazines have very often been ahead of their time and some of the agendas they have pursued have become 'central' to representations, where once they were marginal. Broadly, 'little' magazines have often been more influential than their small circulations would first indicate, and the author's argument is that they have played a valuable role in the promotion of Australian literature.
Located Research
This book examines the diversity of practice in regional research and its contribution to local, national and global issues. Three themes are advanced here: Place and change, Transition and resilience, and Challenges for the future. Contributors embrace frameworks of co-design and transdisciplinary practice to build communities of practice in response to lived experience in regional contexts. Their work highlights the strategic importance of a regional focus at a time when global connectivity and mobility is increasing and the complexity of ‘wicked’ problems demands more than one approach or solution. Such complex problems require nuanced, and at times ‘bespoke’ methodological approaches to better understand and support not just regional adaptation, resilience and transformation, but to manage all these things at a time when change is everywhere.
The ON-nibus
If you missed the first eight titles in MUP's acclaimed Little Books on Big Themes series, this is your chance to collect the whole set. Released in time for Christmas, the ON-nibus brings together eight 10,000-word essays on the big themes in life by leading Australian thinkers. Featured authors are Germaine Greer ('On Rage'), David Malouf ('On Experience'), Blanche d'Alpuget ('On Longing'), Barrie Kosky ('On Ecstasy'), Don Watson ('On Indignation'), Gay Bilson ('On Digestion'), Malcolm Knox ('On Obsession') and Anne Summers ('On Luck').
Balibo
Now reissued as a revised, film tie-in edition In October 1975, during the decolonisation of Portuguese Timor, five young television reporters travelled from Australia to report on the brewing unrest in the region. It was a journey that would be their last: Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham, and Tony Stewart of Channel Seven, and Brian Peters and Malcolm Rennie of Channel Nine, were killed by the Indonesian military as they filmed the infantry troops advancing into the border town of Balibo. In the months that followed, a sixth man who went to investigate their fate, freelance journalist Roger East, was also executed. In this revised edition of the book that was originally published as Cover-...
