Portraits John Berger on Artists by John Berger
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
One of the world's most celebrated art writers, John Berger takes us through centuries of art in this distinctive history that will enlighten and inspire. In Portraits, Berger connects art and history in revolutionary ways, from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to Cy Twombly's radical work ...Show more
Karl Blossfeldt The Complete Published Work by Hans Christian Adam
$45.00 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
A fascination for flora: Timeless photos in which plants become sculptures German photography pioneer Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) photographed plants so beautifully, and with such originality, that his work transcends the medium itself. Over more than 30 years, he took thousands of photographs, revealin ...Show more
Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel by Ernst Haeckel
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findings of this natural scientist. Powerful modern microscopes have confirmed the accuracy of Haeckel's print ...Show more
Nan Goldin - the Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Nan Goldin
$70.00 AUD
Category: Photography
"The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" is a visual diary chronicling the struggle for intimacy and understanding between friends, family, and lovers collectively described by Goldin as her tribe. Her work describes a world that is visceral, charged, and seething with life. First published in 1986, this reiss ...Show more
Green Nomads by Bob Brown
$45.00 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: HG123
Green Nomads is a celebration of Australia's wilderness areas, and we surely have something to celebrate. The landscape and close-up photographs of Australia's natural landscape are ehterial yet familiar, calming yet powerful. Paired with Bob's personal and insightful anecdotes, there is not doubt that ...Show more
Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743 by Ross King
$89.99 AUD
Category: Art
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThis is the most comprehensive book on the paintings and frescoes of Florence ever undertaken, with nearly 2,000 beautifully reproduced artworks from the city's great museums and churches-produced in the same manner as BD&L's The Louvre and The Vatican. Every painted work th ...Show more
Australian Art A History
$89.99 AUD
Category: Art
"Grishin presents a story that is multilayered in its complexity and detaila (His book) at once broadens the scope of our national art and draws together these diverse strands into a compelling narrative. Above all it is a lively and insightful account of the diversity and richness of artistic endeavour ...Show more
Surfing by Jim Heimann
$299.00 AUD
Category: Photography
This landmark publication is the most comprehensive visual history to-date of the sport and culture of surfing. As much a cultural event as a publication, it brings together two and a half years of meticulous research with institutions, collections, and photographic archives around the world to trace th ...Show more
Agnes Martin by Briony Fer
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
Canadian-born Agnes Martin was one of the pre-eminent painters of the second half of the twentieth century, whose work has had a significant influence both on artists of her own time and for subsequent generations. A contemporary of the abstract expressionists though often identified with minimalism, Ma ...Show more
Rare Treasures - From the Library of the Natural History Museum by Judith Magee
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
The Library of the Natural History Museum contains one of the most exciting and comprehensive collections of natural history literature and artworks to be found anywhere in the world. It holds over half a million artworks, comprising one of Britain's biggest art collections and representing all the grea ...Show more
The Free Music Machine Drawings of Percy Grainger by Wilfred Mellers
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art
This book contains all the drawings by Percy Grainger for the Free Music Machines he developed with Burnett Cross towards the end of his musical life. They were mostly drawn between 1951 and 1953. This is the first time many of these drawings have been seen, and their improvisational notation and sense ...Show more
Master of Stillness: Jeffrey Smart by Barry Pearce
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
This title illuminates the vision of the most celebrated of Australian expatriate artists, from his beginnings in Adelaide until his last major composition painted in Italy, where he died in 2013. Smart's vision searches for stillness amid industrial change. This can be seen here with a selection of man ...Show more