Vigee le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France by Katharine Baetjer
$73.00 AUD
Category: Art
Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun (1755-1842) was one of the greatest 18th-century French painters and among the most important women artists of all time. Celebrated for her expressive portraits of French royalty and aristocracy, especially of her patron and friend Marie Antoinette, she exemplified artist ...Show more
The Dore's Illustrations for Dante's "Divine Comedy" by Gustave Dore
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art
These 135 fantastic and grotesque scenes depict the passion and grandeur of Dante's masterpiece - from the depths of Hell onto the mountain of Purgatory and up to the empyrean realms of Paradise. Includes plates produced for The Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. Illustrations accompanied by appropriate ...Show more
William Blake by Cathy Leahy
$29.95 AUD
Category: Art
A special pictorial volume with focus on NGV's rich holdings of William Blake's work. Features scholarly text by NGV'sSenior Curator of Prints & Drawings, Cathy Leahy. Includes beautiful full reproductions & details of William Blake's remarkable work. Published to coincide with exhibition at NGV ...Show more
The Gardner Heist - The true story of the world's largest unsolved art theft by Ulrich Boser
$28.00 AUD
Category: Art
Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews, and a ...Show more
What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art by Will Gompertz
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
In the tradition of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," art history with a sense of humor Every year, millions of museum and gallery visitors ponder the modern art on display and secretly ask themselves, "Is this art?" A former director at London's Tate Gallery and now the BBC arts editor, Will Gompertz made i ...Show more
Photograph Ringo Starr by Ringo Starr
$65.00 AUD
Category: Photography
From behind the drums to behind the lens, in PHOTOGRAPH Ringo Starr opens his archives to share memories of his childhood, The Beatles and beyond. Rare and unseen photographs taken by Ringo, with others reproduced from his family albums, are showcased here for fans of The Beatles and anyone passionate a ...Show more
Unforgotten New York - Legendary Spaces of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde by David Brun-Lambert
$75.00 AUD
Category: Photography
If you lived in New York City in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, or '80s, you were likely enchanted by a particular, legendary place. Late-night spots like the Copacabana, Studio 54, The Mudd Club, or The Roxy; music venues such as CBGBs and the Village Vanguard; cutting-edge performance spaces such as The Kitch ...Show more
A Year in Photography - Magnum Archive by Magnum Photos
$50.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Magnum Photos is the iconic international photographic cooperative whose members have captured the major historical events of their times, as well as private and intimate moments. A year's worth of these images is offered in this visually stunning book that features ful ...Show more
Dali's 1941: Salvador Dali's Surrealist Ball, Through the Lens of Julian P. Graham by Paul Skellett
$130.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Salvador Dali is widely regarded as one of the great artists of the 20th century. Rumour and alleged scandals followed him throughout his life, and continued long after his death in 1989. When German troops entered Bordeaux, Salvador and Gala escaped France to live in the United States, where they rema ...Show more
Forms of Japan: Michael Kenna by Yvonne Meyer-Lohr
$120.00 AUD
Category: Photography
A rocky coast along the sea of Japan; an immense plain of rice fields in the snow; Mount Fuji towering over misty wooded hills; silent temples devoid of people but brimming with Buddhist deities; a Torii gate mysteriously emerging from moving clouds and water-these are a few images from this remarkable ...Show more
Tamara de Lempicka: Dandy Deco by Gioia Mori
$110.00 AUD
Category: Art
An aura of mystery has surrounded Tamara de Lempicka since she was born, not in Warsaw in 1902, as she claimed, but according to official records in 1898 in Moscow. The beautiful and scandalous Tamara was the extravagant muse of Art Deco, an icon of the roaring twenties, and a successful painter of inte ...Show more
Hurrell The Kobal Collection by Hurrell
$115.00 AUD
Category: Photography
George Hurrell was one of the greatest portrait photographers of Hollywood's Golden Age. His strong contrast black and white images and groundbreaking use of negative retouching revolutionized the medium of Hollywood portraiture during the 1930s and 1940s. This lavish book captures the enduring glamour ...Show more