piper press pty ltd (19 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Millers Point Songbook is a play, performed in the Garrison Church during May, and it tracks the lives and stories of the people of Millers Point, Sydney and the history of Sydney itself.In words and music, the characters of Millers Point come to life. Residents from Colonial times to the present are portrayed, including Captain Grimes and Mary Underwood; Lieutenant Dawes and Patyegarang; Nita McCrae and Jack Mundey; and Myra and the residents of Sirius. The famous, the infamous, the colourful and the ordinary residents of Millers Point are brought to life in the Millers Point Songbook.In the telling of this story, the history of Australia's formation on the east coast is also told, in particular the changing economic conditions of Sydney, first through whaling, then wool, then property. Music and lyrics have been written by Joanna Weinberg, as well direction.Weinberg says: "One of the most interesting things about writing the Millers Point Songbook is that I didn't grow up with this history. It was all new to me, so I was coming at this with great curiosity and no 'cultural cringe.' Millers Point is a new name, coined during the early Colonial period and I have tried to acknowledge that by writing the opening song, 'Every Sunbed hides a Ghost.' When I arrived in this country I was shocked to see how little Aboriginal history was reflected in public places. That is changing somewhat now, and, while those are not my stories to tell, 'Every Sunbed' is a way of acknowledging the lost First Nations souls of the area before it was 'named.' In many of the history books I read, information about women and their roles in the neighbourhood was scant or simply absent. I have tried to address by writing as many songs as possible from a female perspective. "Millers Point Songbook features 24 songs which track the history of Sydney's colonial settlement in Millers Point, and its impact on the nation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. **Shortlisted for the Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing 2018**Sirius is the extraordinary story of survival against the odds for one of Australia's most notable Brutalist buildings, and its community. The story of Sirius begins with the 1970s Battle for The Rocks and a Green Ban, which saved an historic precinct and a community located around the Sydney Harbour Bridge. After four years during which there was no building activity, the Green Ban ended and agreement was made to build Sirius to serve the displaced members of the community. Architect Tao Gofers explains how the agreement was reached and how he designed a vertical village perhaps the last, and arguably the most successful, tower built for public housing in this era.By 2015, Sirius itself became the centre of controversy as the New South Wales Government sought to sell the building to developers and remove its public housing residents, forever changing the fabric of the local community and Sirius's original intention. Local Millers Point, Dawes Point and Rocks residents joined with hundreds of passionate advocates from across Australia including architects, professional bodies and the Historic Houses Trust, to protest against this change. The 'Save Our Sirius' campaign was born.Piper Press's beautiful book records not just a building and its remarkable architecture, but also the important social history of a unique public housing community and many of its individual residents. An extraordinary story of survival against the odds. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time presents the extraordinary creations of Fiona Hall figures woven from military camouflage, painted clocks, botanical illustrations on banknotes, sardine-tin sculptures, nests of shredded money, strange driftwood and more.Hall's seemingly random conjunction of things in a wunderkammer-like installation appeals to our human impulse to make connections. Despite the apparent darkness of much of the work, it is also life-affirming, its own vitality in perverse distinction to the 'minefield of madness, badness and sadness' of global politics, world finances and the environment, which are the inspiration for Wrong Way Time and in turn provide the rich pickings for Fiona Hall's extraordinary transformation of materials, images and objects. Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time presents the extraordinary creations of Fiona Hall figures woven from military camouflage, painted clocks, botanical illustrations on banknotes, sardine-tin sculptures, nests of shredded money, strange driftwood and more. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. The dynamic artistic centres of China are producing some of the most interesting and compelling contemporary art of our time. But there are fascinating stories as yet insufficiently told: the stories of women artists. It was Chairman Mao who said, 'Women hold up half the sky.' This book presents thirty-two women artists working China today.The author of Half the Sky is Luise Guest, Director of Education and Research at the White Rabbit Gallery which houses one of the world's great collections of contemporary Chinese art. Luise believes 'contemporary art in China is unlike anything in the rest of the world.' The dynamic artistic centres of China are producing some of the most interesting and compelling contemporary art of our time. But there are fascinating stories as yet insufficiently told: the stories of women artists. It was Chairman Mao who said, 'Women hold up half the sky.' This book presents thirty-two women artists working China today. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Patricia Piccinini: Nearly Beloved is the first and only major monograph about her work. In this book Helen McDonald discusses the complex ideas associated with the work of Patricia Piccinini, making both the work and the ideas accessible.Patricia Piccinini's art brings together technology, popular culture, extinction, ecology, bioethics and the links between humans and animals through genetic engineering, science and medicine. Piccinini takes us on excursions into parallel domains and worlds of charming but unsettling beings: mutant half-human beasts, baby trucks and human scooters. Her installations use silicon, fibreglass, metal, hair, fur and fabric to create illusions of reality in extraordinary detail. She describes her creatures as 'an alternate world made out of the implications of the real one'. Patricia Piccinini: Nearly Beloved is the first and only major monograph about her work. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Twelve Australian Photo Artists presents Australia's most important practitioners of photography, photo media and photographic arts including the late Rosemary Laing and Destiny Deacon. (2024).This hardcover, high quality book explores the work of each artist through an in-depth interview and essay for each, where they discussed the selection and presentation of images to provide first-hand and inspiring accounts of their practice.It includes:Pat Brassington's work on dream and memory fragmentsBrenda Croft's investigation of the Indigenous Australian experienceDestiny Deacon's satire on racist stereotypesSimryn Gill's experiences of history and geography through making and circulating photographsBill Henson's ambiguous zone of adolescent desire in works of imagination and sensibilityRosemary Laing's iconic large-scale scenes that dramatise human interaction with the natural worldTracey Moffatt's fusion of violence and humour in images full of artifice that ultimately present real and important subjectsDebra Phillips evokes the past reverberating in the presentJacky Redgate investigates vision, space and memoryJulie Rrap's iconic, energetic and playful work of strange incongruities and unexpected twists and turnsDavid Stephenson's search for a photographic sublime and Anne Zahalka's exploration of the line between the natural and the artificialThis book is written by Blair French and Daniel Palmer with editing by Ray Tindale and Peggy Mares. Twelve Australian Photo Artists presents our nation's most exciting and most loved photographers. A 3000-word text describes the work of each photographer and twelve pages of images show their most significant works. Each photographer conributed to the selection and the presentation of their work as well as being interviewed for the book: Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Millers Point Songbook is a play, performed in the Garrison Church during May, and it tracks the lives and stories of the people of Millers Point, Sydney and the history of Sydney itself.In words and music, the characters of Millers Point come to life. Residents from Colonial times to the present are portrayed, including Captain Grimes and Mary Underwood; Lieutenant Dawes and Patyegarang; Nita McCrae and Jack Mundey; and Myra and the residents of Sirius. The famous, the infamous, the colourful and the ordinary residents of Millers Point are brought to life in the Millers Point Songbook.In the telling of this story, the history of Australia's formation on the east coast is also told, in particular the changing economic conditions of Sydney, first through whaling, then wool, then property. Music and lyrics have been written by Joanna Weinberg, as well direction.Weinberg says: "One of the most interesting things about writing the Millers Point Songbook is that I didn't grow up with this history. It was all new to me, so I was coming at this with great curiosity and no 'cultural cringe.' Millers Point is a new name, coined during the early Colonial period and I have tried to acknowledge that by writing the opening song, 'Every Sunbed hides a Ghost.' When I arrived in this country I was shocked to see how little Aboriginal history was reflected in public places. That is changing somewhat now, and, while those are not my stories to tell, 'Every Sunbed' is a way of acknowledging the lost First Nations souls of the area before it was 'named.' In many of the history books I read, information about women and their roles in the neighbourhood was scant or simply absent. I have tried to address by writing as many songs as possible from a female perspective. "Millers Point Songbook features 24 songs which track the history of Sydney's colonial settlement in Millers Point, and its impact on the nation. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Exposure: A Photographic Memoir is an intimate journey through Australia's bohemian art world, told by acclaimed photographer Greg Weight, whose lens has captured some of the nation's most iconic artists and cultural moments over the past five decades.With wit and candour, Weight shares his encounters with Martin Sharp, Brett Whiteley, Reg Mombassa, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Johnny Bell, John Olsen, Garry Shead, Margaret Olley, Luke Sciberras, Tracey Moffatt, Jeffrey Smart and others, bringing them to life in personal, often poignant settings. All the while, his own personal journey is revealed.Trusted by artists to photograph both their portraits and their work, Weight became an artist in his own right, with John Olsen describing his gift as capturing 'the Weight moment'. This book is a beautifully produced memoir accompanied by over 65 photographs some iconic, others never before seen.Through award-winning portraits and landscapes, he reveals not only the likeness but the psyche of each subject, creating a vivid chronicle of Australia's art scene from the 1960s to the 2000s: its immense talent, tragedies, absurdities and hilarities. Playful, candid and revealing, this memoir takes readers to the front row of Sydney's creative world.From his childhood discovery of light and shadow to formative years with Martin Sharp, The Yellow House collective and the Sydney Push, Weight's story unfolds in thirty-six 'exposures' chapters echoing the frames of a roll of film.Includes a foreword by artist Lin Utzon and endorsement from Reg Mombassa. This is the first fine art memoir published by Piper Press.'This is a timely book and historical record of some of our greatest artists, many of whom are no longer with us. It provides deep detail about the connections Greg made and what he saw in the people he encountered. Qualities that maybe we didn't see in ourselves. Greg lifts the lid on his early years and takes us on a journey through a lifetime of stories: some poignant, absurd, or mischievous but all seen through the eye of a photographer and the heart of a friend.' Reg Mombassa The intimate, funny memoir capturing Australia's bohemian art world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time presents the extraordinary creations of Fiona Hall figures woven from military camouflage, painted clocks, botanical illustrations on banknotes, sardine-tin sculptures, nests of shredded money, strange driftwood and more.Hall's seemingly random conjunction of things in a wunderkammer-like installation appeals to our human impulse to make connections. Despite the apparent darkness of much of the work, it is also life-affirming, its own vitality in perverse distinction to the 'minefield of madness, badness and sadness' of global politics, world finances and the environment, which are the inspiration for Wrong Way Time and in turn provide the rich pickings for Fiona Hall's extraordinary transformation of materials, images and objects. Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time presents the extraordinary creations of Fiona Hall figures woven from military camouflage, painted clocks, botanical illustrations on banknotes, sardine-tin sculptures, nests of shredded money, strange driftwood and more. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. The dynamic artistic centres of China are producing some of the most interesting and compelling contemporary art of our time. But there are fascinating stories as yet insufficiently told: the stories of women artists. It was Chairman Mao who said, 'Women hold up half the sky.' This book presents thirty-two women artists working China today.The author of Half the Sky is Luise Guest, Director of Education and Research at the White Rabbit Gallery which houses one of the world's great collections of contemporary Chinese art. Luise believes 'contemporary art in China is unlike anything in the rest of the world.' The dynamic artistic centres of China are producing some of the most interesting and compelling contemporary art of our time. But there are fascinating stories as yet insufficiently told: the stories of women artists. It was Chairman Mao who said, 'Women hold up half the sky.' This book presents thirty-two women artists working China today. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. **Shortlisted for the Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing 2018**Sirius is the extraordinary story of survival against the odds for one of Australia's most notable Brutalist buildings, and its community. The story of Sirius begins with the 1970s Battle for The Rocks and a Green Ban, which saved an historic precinct and a community located around the Sydney Harbour Bridge. After four years during which there was no building activity, the Green Ban ended and agreement was made to build Sirius to serve the displaced members of the community. Architect Tao Gofers explains how the agreement was reached and how he designed a vertical village perhaps the last, and arguably the most successful, tower built for public housing in this era.By 2015, Sirius itself became the centre of controversy as the New South Wales Government sought to sell the building to developers and remove its public housing residents, forever changing the fabric of the local community and Sirius's original intention. Local Millers Point, Dawes Point and Rocks residents joined with hundreds of passionate advocates from across Australia including architects, professional bodies and the Historic Houses Trust, to protest against this change. The 'Save Our Sirius' campaign was born.Piper Press's beautiful book records not just a building and its remarkable architecture, but also the important social history of a unique public housing community and many of its individual residents. An extraordinary story of survival against the odds. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Twelve Australian Photo Artists presents Australia's most important practitioners of photography, photo media and photographic arts including the late Rosemary Laing and Destiny Deacon. (2024).This hardcover, high quality book explores the work of each artist through an in-depth interview and essay for each, where they discussed the selection and presentation of images to provide first-hand and inspiring accounts of their practice.It includes:Pat Brassington's work on dream and memory fragmentsBrenda Croft's investigation of the Indigenous Australian experienceDestiny Deacon's satire on racist stereotypesSimryn Gill's experiences of history and geography through making and circulating photographsBill Henson's ambiguous zone of adolescent desire in works of imagination and sensibilityRosemary Laing's iconic large-scale scenes that dramatise human interaction with the natural worldTracey Moffatt's fusion of violence and humour in images full of artifice that ultimately present real and important subjectsDebra Phillips evokes the past reverberating in the presentJacky Redgate investigates vision, space and memoryJulie Rrap's iconic, energetic and playful work of strange incongruities and unexpected twists and turnsDavid Stephenson's search for a photographic sublime and Anne Zahalka's exploration of the line between the natural and the artificialThis book is written by Blair French and Daniel Palmer with editing by Ray Tindale and Peggy Mares. Twelve Australian Photo Artists presents our nation's most exciting and most loved photographers. A 3000-word text describes the work of each photographer and twelve pages of images show their most significant works. Each photographer conributed to the selection and the presentation of their work as well as being interviewed for the book: Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. **Shortlisted for the Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing 2018**Sirius is the extraordinary story of survival against the odds for one of Australia's most notable Brutalist buildings, and its community. The story of Sirius begins with the 1970s Battle for The Rocks and a Green Ban, which saved an historic precinct and a community located around the Sydney Harbour Bridge. After four years during which there was no building activity, the Green Ban ended and agreement was made to build Sirius to serve the displaced members of the community. Architect Tao Gofers explains how the agreement was reached and how he designed a vertical village perhaps the last, and arguably the most successful, tower built for public housing in this era.By 2015, Sirius itself became the centre of controversy as the New South Wales Government sought to sell the building to developers and remove its public housing residents, forever changing the fabric of the local community and Sirius's original intention. Local Millers Point, Dawes Point and Rocks residents joined with hundreds of passionate advocates from across Australia including architects, professional bodies and the Historic Houses Trust, to protest against this change. The 'Save Our Sirius' campaign was born.Piper Press's beautiful book records not just a building and its remarkable architecture, but also the important social history of a unique public housing community and many of its individual residents. An extraordinary story of survival against the odds. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time presents the extraordinary creations of Fiona Hall figures woven from military camouflage, painted clocks, botanical illustrations on banknotes, sardine-tin sculptures, nests of shredded money, strange driftwood and more.Hall's seemingly random conjunction of things in a wunderkammer-like installation appeals to our human impulse to make connections. Despite the apparent darkness of much of the work, it is also life-affirming, its own vitality in perverse distinction to the 'minefield of madness, badness and sadness' of global politics, world finances and the environment, which are the inspiration for Wrong Way Time and in turn provide the rich pickings for Fiona Hall's extraordinary transformation of materials, images and objects. Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time presents the extraordinary creations of Fiona Hall figures woven from military camouflage, painted clocks, botanical illustrations on banknotes, sardine-tin sculptures, nests of shredded money, strange driftwood and more. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Patricia Piccinini: Nearly Beloved is the first and only major monograph about her work. In this book Helen McDonald discusses the complex ideas associated with the work of Patricia Piccinini, making both the work and the ideas accessible.Patricia Piccinini's art brings together technology, popular culture, extinction, ecology, bioethics and the links between humans and animals through genetic engineering, science and medicine. Piccinini takes us on excursions into parallel domains and worlds of charming but unsettling beings: mutant half-human beasts, baby trucks and human scooters. Her installations use silicon, fibreglass, metal, hair, fur and fabric to create illusions of reality in extraordinary detail. She describes her creatures as 'an alternate world made out of the implications of the real one'. Patricia Piccinini: Nearly Beloved is the first and only major monograph about her work. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. The dynamic artistic centres of China are producing some of the most interesting and compelling contemporary art of our time. But there are fascinating stories as yet insufficiently told: the stories of women artists. It was Chairman Mao who said, 'Women hold up half the sky.' This book presents thirty-two women artists working China today.The author of Half the Sky is Luise Guest, Director of Education and Research at the White Rabbit Gallery which houses one of the world's great collections of contemporary Chinese art. Luise believes 'contemporary art in China is unlike anything in the rest of the world.' The dynamic artistic centres of China are producing some of the most interesting and compelling contemporary art of our time. But there are fascinating stories as yet insufficiently told: the stories of women artists. It was Chairman Mao who said, 'Women hold up half the sky.' This book presents thirty-two women artists working China today. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Patricia Piccinini: Nearly Beloved is the first and only major monograph about her work. In this book Helen McDonald discusses the complex ideas associated with the work of Patricia Piccinini, making both the work and the ideas accessible.Patricia Piccinini's art brings together technology, popular culture, extinction, ecology, bioethics and the links between humans and animals through genetic engineering, science and medicine. Piccinini takes us on excursions into parallel domains and worlds of charming but unsettling beings: mutant half-human beasts, baby trucks and human scooters. Her installations use silicon, fibreglass, metal, hair, fur and fabric to create illusions of reality in extraordinary detail. She describes her creatures as 'an alternate world made out of the implications of the real one'. Patricia Piccinini: Nearly Beloved is the first and only major monograph about her work. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Exposure: A Photographic Memoir is an intimate journey through Australia's bohemian art world, told by acclaimed photographer Greg Weight, whose lens has captured some of the nation's most iconic artists and cultural moments over the past five decades.With wit and candour, Weight shares his encounters with Martin Sharp, Brett Whiteley, Reg Mombassa, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Johnny Bell, John Olsen, Garry Shead, Margaret Olley, Luke Sciberras, Tracey Moffatt, Jeffrey Smart and others, bringing them to life in personal, often poignant settings. All the while, his own personal journey is revealed.Trusted by artists to photograph both their portraits and their work, Weight became an artist in his own right, with John Olsen describing his gift as capturing 'the Weight moment'. This book is a beautifully produced memoir accompanied by over 65 photographs some iconic, others never before seen.Through award-winning portraits and landscapes, he reveals not only the likeness but the psyche of each subject, creating a vivid chronicle of Australia's art scene from the 1960s to the 2000s: its immense talent, tragedies, absurdities and hilarities. Playful, candid and revealing, this memoir takes readers to the front row of Sydney's creative world.From his childhood discovery of light and shadow to formative years with Martin Sharp, The Yellow House collective and the Sydney Push, Weight's story unfolds in thirty-six 'exposures' chapters echoing the frames of a roll of film.Includes a foreword by artist Lin Utzon and endorsement from Reg Mombassa. This is the first fine art memoir published by Piper Press.'This is a timely book and historical record of some of our greatest artists, many of whom are no longer with us. It provides deep detail about the connections Greg made and what he saw in the people he encountered. Qualities that maybe we didn't see in ourselves. Greg lifts the lid on his early years and takes us on a journey through a lifetime of stories: some poignant, absurd, or mischievous but all seen through the eye of a photographer and the heart of a friend.' Reg Mombassa The intimate, funny memoir capturing Australia's bohemian art world. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Exposure: A Photographic Memoir is an intimate journey through Australia's bohemian art world, told by acclaimed photographer Greg Weight, whose lens has captured some of the nation's most iconic artists and cultural moments over the past five decades.With wit and candour, Weight shares his encounters with Martin Sharp, Brett Whiteley, Reg Mombassa, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Johnny Bell, John Olsen, Garry Shead, Margaret Olley, Luke Sciberras, Tracey Moffatt, Jeffrey Smart and others, bringing them to life in personal, often poignant settings. All the while, his own personal journey is revealed.Trusted by artists to photograph both their portraits and their work, Weight became an artist in his own right, with John Olsen describing his gift as capturing 'the Weight moment'. This book is a beautifully produced memoir accompanied by over 65 photographs some iconic, others never before seen.Through award-winning portraits and landscapes, he reveals not only the likeness but the psyche of each subject, creating a vivid chronicle of Australia's art scene from the 1960s to the 2000s: its immense talent, tragedies, absurdities and hilarities. Playful, candid and revealing, this memoir takes readers to the front row of Sydney's creative world.From his childhood discovery of light and shadow to formative years with Martin Sharp, The Yellow House collective and the Sydney Push, Weight's story unfolds in thirty-six 'exposures' chapters echoing the frames of a roll of film.Includes a foreword by artist Lin Utzon and endorsement from Reg Mombassa. This is the first fine art memoir published by Piper Press.'This is a timely book and historical record of some of our greatest artists, many of whom are no longer with us. It provides deep detail about the connections Greg made and what he saw in the people he encountered. Qualities that maybe we didn't see in ourselves. Greg lifts the lid on his early years and takes us on a journey through a lifetime of stories: some poignant, absurd, or mischievous but all seen through the eye of a photographer and the heart of a friend.' Reg Mombassa The intimate, funny memoir capturing Australia's bohemian art world. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.