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Australian Art History

Find and access information on Australian art history, from Indigenous Australian Art, to Colonial or Modern Australian Art.

Recommended Resources

Radical Revisionism by Rex Butler (Editor)
ISBN: 1875792554
Publication Date: 2005
Modernism and Australia by Philip Goad; Andrew McNamara; Ann Stephen
ISBN: 9780522852899
Publication Date: 2006
Australian Art by Sasha Grishin
ISBN: 9780522869361
Publication Date: 2015
Australian Art by Andrew Sayers
ISBN: 0192842145
Publication Date: 2001
Aboriginal Art by Jacques Guiod (Translator); Howard Morphy
ISBN: 0714837520
Publication Date: 1998
Art in Oceania by Peter Brunt; Nicholas Thomas
ISBN: 9780300190281
Publication Date: 2012
Painting Culture by Fred R. Myers
ISBN: 0822329492
Publication Date: 2002
White Aborigines by Ian McLean
ISBN: 0521584167
Publication Date: 1998
Bad Aboriginal Art by Eric Michaels
ISBN: 0816623414
Publication Date: 1994
Dreamings: the art of Aboriginal Australia by Peter Sutton (ed)
ISBN: 0670824496
Publication Date: 1989

Finding a book on the shelf

This video will help you locate a call number and find your book on the shelf (YouTube, 2m31s)

Browsing books in the Library

Art History books are located in the Central Library.

You can browse the shelves at the following call numbers. Generally, Australian Art books can be found at:

Australian Sculpture

NB1100 – NB1105.A-Z

Australian Drawing

NC368.9 – NC371

Australian Painting

ND1100 – ND1105

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