The Artist's Lunch: A Visual and Culinary Feast with Australia's Most Prominent Artists
$69.95 AUD
Category: Art
"Dine with photographer Sarah Rhodes and writer Alice McCormick as they journey into the homes of Australia's most pre-eminent artists and unearth captivating stories of their lives and work. Over lunch, and in their own words, artists from John Olsen to Dorothy Napangardi, Nell to Tim Storrier, begin b ...Show more
Hammershoi by Felix Kramer
$105.00 AUD
Category: Art
This comprehensive survey is published to coincide with an exhibition of the art of the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi (18641916). Hammershois subject-matter centred on haunting interiors. Dispensing with anecdotal detail, he transformed his apartment into a series of disturbingly empty spaces. The s ...Show more
Fred Williams - 1927-1982 by Patrick McCaughey
$125.00 AUD
Category: Art
A magnificent monograph celebrating the life and work of acclaimed Australian artist Fred Williams.
Time by Andy Goldsworthy
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art
Time, always a crucial element in the work of Andy Goldsworthy both as a medium and as a metaphor is celebrated in this book, newly available in paperback. An introduction by the artist conveys the importance to him of time, change and place. A sequence of works made around his home in Scotland often sh ...Show more
The Weekend Artist: Creative Inspiration, Techniques and Simple Projects Designed to Unleash Your Inner Artist by Gerard Smith
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
Introduces beginner artists to the world of paint and demonstrates basic techniques and materials in a range of contemporary projects that would be an addition to any home.
Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution by Cedar Lewisohn
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
Street Art - art made in public spaces and including graffiti, stickers, poster art, stencil art and wheat-pasting, but not corporate-sponsored advertising or "public art" - has become one of the most popular and hotly discussed areas of art practice on the contemporary scene. Developing out of the graf ...Show more
At a Crossroads: Between a Rock and My Parents' Place by Kate T. Williamson
$33.50 AUD
Category: Art
After graduating from college and spending a magical year abroad writing our best-selling A Year in Japan, Kate T. Williamson felt ready for anything. But, like many a postgraduate, she needed some time to figure out just what that anything was. Her parents' house in Pennsylvania seemed like the perfect ...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.
Artists' Tapestries by Sue Walker
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art
The history of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop in Melbourne.