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Publications
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.
The combined University of Melbourne Collections comprise some 25,000 items,
encompassing paintings, sculptures, works on paper, photographs, textiles, video
and digital media, decorative arts, furniture and ethnographical and archaeological
artefacts. Works of the highest quality, by such renowned figures as Streeton,
Burley Griffin and Grainger, ranging over all artistic media are part of the
university’s history and the nation’s cultural heritage.
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.
While concentrating on works from the University of Melbourne Art Collection, Treasures also
explores the collections of the Grainger Museum, the Baillieu Library rare books
collection, the Baillieu Print Collection, the Medical History Museum, the Classics
Collection and the University Archives, as well as the many important works of
sculpture and architecture to be found on campus.
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.
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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.
At the end of the twentieth century, the pageantry of the 1988 bicentenary
of European settlement and the spectacle of the 2000 Olympic Games framed
a decade in which images of national identity were proposed, debated, disputed
and discarded.
Grappling with the diversity of history and experience, artists challenged
Australians to explore multiple versions of identity in subtle, confrontational
and witty artworks.
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.
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