On Self-Portrait: Through the Looking-Glass by Morimura Yasumasa
$121.50 AUD
Category: Photography
Elizabeth Taylor, Frida Kahlo, Jane Fonda, Mao and Charlie Chaplin are just a few of the identities appropriated by Morimura for his hybrid self portraits produced over the course of his long career. Based on a sizeable exhibition of Polaroid photographs presented along with a selection of his large sca ...Show more
Not Quite Straight : A Memoir by Jeffrey Smart
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art
Born in respectable (read: dull) Adelaide in 1921, Jeffrey Smart made his first Grand Tour of Europe at age 4. By 5 he had discovered Sex (with a female classmate) and Crime. By 18 he'd decided he was the only person in Australia who was 'not quite straight'. The subsequent decades brought further enlig ...Show more
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
Why would a very smart New York investment banker pay twelve million dollars for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock's drip painting No.5 1948 sell for $140 million? And why does a leather jacket with silver chain attached, tossed in a corner and titled 'No One ...Show more
How to Buy and Sell Art by REID Michael
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
Completely updated this second edition of How to Buy and Sell Art includes a new chapter on buying Aboriginal art as well as a comprehensive listing of the best galleries in the country.
Women of Sufism by Camille Helminski
$38.00 AUD
Category: Photography
From the time of Muhammad to the present day, women have played an important role in the development of Sufism, the mystical tradition of Islam. In this anthology, their contributions are highlighted through writings by and about Sufi women from many different countries and schools of Sufism. The select ...Show more
Bondi Road by Paul Freeman
$79.95 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Bondi
The fourth book in the Bondi series from photographer Paul Freeman
Artists' Tapestries by Sue Walker
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art
The history of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop in Melbourne.
Creation: Artists, Gods and Origins by Peter Conrad
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art
Throughout history artists, writers and musicians - 'creative' people - have tried to outdo God or the Gods in the acts of creation. This extraordinarily wide-ranging study traces the different concepts of creation in Western civilization, following the struggle between man and god for the right to crea ...Show more
Endangered: Tasmania's Wild Places by -
$69.95 AUD
Category: Photography
Tasmania's wild places are internationally renowned for their scenic, ecological and wilderness values. Yet many of these areas remain partly of wholly unprotected and are under threat from logging, mining and similar developments.
Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr. by Burt Boyar
$69.99 AUD
Category: Photography
Sammy Davis, Jr. will forever be remembered as one of America's finest entertainers. Only now, however, is Davis' talent as a photographer finally being recognized. In this previously unpublished collection of black and white photography, readers will be fascinated by Davis' portrayals of A-list perform ...Show more
Printed - Images in Colonial Australia 1801-1901 by Roger Butler
$89.00 AUD
Category: Art
"Printed Images in Colonial Australia 1801-1901" is concerned with the history of printmaking in Australia's foundational period. This book's 377 images, many of them exceedingly rare or long overlooked, are presented alongside Roger Butler's original research and information not previously assembled in ...Show more