Collection Catalogues Research on significant University of Melbourne collections is published in catalogues drawing on the expertise of Potter staff, academics and prominent critics. Treasures: Highlights of the Cultural Collections of the University of Melbourne Edited by Chris McAuliffe and Peter Yule Published by the Miegunyah Press For 150 years the University of Melbourne has collected diverse cultural objects and works of art. These now form one of the most significant collections in Australia. A selection of some of the finest of these treasures, often hidden from public view, is brought together in this beautiful volume. Arranged thematically, Treasures illustrates individual works of art, accompanied by fascinating and illuminating commentary from the University of Melbourne experts. From Greek antiquity through European Old Masters to modern art and architecture, Treasures reflects the development of cultural taste, telling the story of a major institution through the highest achievements in the arts. See here now: Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s Published by Thames & Hudson in association with the Ian Potter Museum of Art and the Vizard Foundation. Edited by Chris McAuliffe Published by Thames & Hudson Contributors: Roger Benjamin, Naomi Cass, Ashley Crawford, Hannah Fink, Chris McAuliffe, Lara Travis. See here now traces the efforts of fifty-one artists facing the contradictions of late twentieth-century culture. The Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s brings together over 100 artworks that offer challenging responses to challenging questions. Traversing the city and the landscape, the present and the past, traditional and new media, See here now presents a survey of the best in recent Australian art. Greek Vases at the University of Melbourne Written by Peter Connor and Heather Jackson Published by Macmillan Art Some of the most important pottery producing centres of the Greek work are represented in the University of Melbourne collection, with the time-scale they cover from the thirteenth to the fourth century BC. Cypriot Antiquities at the University of Melbourne Written by Sally Salter Published by Macmillan Art The objects date from the early Bronze Age (c. 2500 BCE), through middle and late Bronze Age and all phases of the Iron Age and Hellenistic times to the Roman era (c. 200 CE). They are principally pottery items, including some very handsome painted jugs, amphorae and bowls from the much-admired Cypriot geometric and archaic periods. Magnificent colour photography of the artefacts and location shots of Cypriot sites add to the allure of this beautiful book. The full majesty of nature: the collection of Dr Samuel Arthur Ewing The Ewing Collection provides us with an insight into the collecting style of an art patron and aficionado, but also into the taste of the Edwardian period in Melbourne when views of the Australian landscape together with certain types of genre and domestic scenes were favoured. Forward by Dr Chris McAuliffe Essay by Dr Juliette Peers Artists' biographies by Lisa Sullivan. Published by the Ian Potter Museum of Art Norman Macgeorge: man of art The Macgeorge collection includes over two hundred and seventy watercolours, oil paintings and sketches by the artist which fully represent his career from his student days at the National Gallery School in the 1890s through to his years of maturity painting along the Yarra River and the beachfront at Mentone. Forward by Dr Chris McAuliffe. Introduction, essay and chronology by Dr John Pigot. Essays by Norman Macgeorge, Dr Harriet Edquist, Pip Morrison and Kate Woollett and John Payne. Catalogue of works in the exhibition. Published by the Ian Potter Museum of Art view online catalogues Purchase online at: www.bookshop.unimelb.edu.au © Copyright 2009 The University of Melbourne. All rights reserved.