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// RELIVE
/ REVIEW 2012
Modern Woman: Daughters and
Lovers 1850–1918, Drawings from
the Musée d’Orsay
, Paris (164pp)
accompanied the QAG exhibition
of drawings by some of the leading
artists of the Belle Époque and
included an essay by exhibition
curator, Isabelle Julia, the Musée
d’Orsay’s Curator in Charge,
Department of Graphic Arts.
Contemporary Australia: Women
(220pp) included texts by Julie
Ewington, Curatorial Manager,
Australian Art, QAGOMA; Marcia
Langton,
AM
, respected academic and
Indigenous activist; Emily Maguire,
social commentator; Jennifer Mills,
novelist; and Margaret Pomeranz,
AM
,
film critic, TV host and co-curator of
the Contemporary Australia: Women
in Film program.
The
2012 National New Media Art
Award
catalogue (56pp) explored the
shortlisted artists’ works featured in
the final of this exhibition series.
Sculpture is Everything
(120pp)
surveyed the Gallery’s contemporary
collection, reframing some of the
debates surrounding contemporary
sculpture, objects and installations.
Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from
the Prado
(304pp) — co-published with
Art Exhibitions Australia, Sydney —
featured essays on the Prado
Museum and its collections, surveying
the history of Spanish painting
between 1550 and 1900.
Ian Fairweather: Late Works, 1953–74
(108pp) presented an insightful
consideration of Ian Fairweather’s
major achievements and remarkable
vision during the period when he
moved to Bribie Island in Moreton Bay
to his death in 1974.
The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of
Contemporary Art
(320pp) featured
in-depth essays by curators and
specialists from diverse fields and
reflected on the extraordinary artistic,
social and economic changes that
have taken place across Asia and the
A visitor peruses the exhibition publication
for ‘Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from
the Prado’, Queensland Art Gallery, July
2012 / Photograph: Brad Wagner
Opposite / Young visitors enjoy the
children’s book
Portrait of Spain for Kids
in La Sala del Prado, Queensland Art
Gallery, July 2012
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