Tom of Finland - The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero by F. Valentine Hooven III
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
Tuoko Laaksonen, also known as Tom of Finland (1920-1991), was an iconic and provocative artist who rose to cult status in the international gay community and beyond for his work celebrating gay archetypes and masculinity during a time when being gay was taboo. Created in partnership with the Tom of Fin ...Show more
Judd by Donald Judd (Artist); Jeffrey Weiss (Text by); Ann Temkin (Editor, Text by); Yasmil Raymond (Text by)
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art
This exhibition will be the first American retrospective of Donald Judd's work in thirty years. Due to the unprecedented archival access granted by the Judd Foundation to MoMA's curatorial team, this show presents a unique opportunity to assess Judd's career anew. Most writings to date have dwelled on J ...Show more
Rone: Street Art and Beyond by WYSE, MO
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
Known for his multi-storey murals gracing buildings all over the world, Melbourne-based artist Rone uses his work to explore the friction and connection between beauty and decay, youth and ruin.Rone was a seminal figure in the explosive Melbourne street art scene of the early 2000s. With his beginnings ...Show more
Women of Abstract Expressionism by Gwen F. Chanzit
$138.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: The\Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lec Ser.
The artists Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and many other women played major roles in the development of Abstract Expressionism, which flourished in New York and San Francisco in the 1940s and 1950s and has been recognized as the first full ...Show more
Araki - Impossible Love by Nobuyoshi Araki
$70.00 AUD
Category: Photography
This book combines Araki's early Tokyo series with a selection of his recent Polaroid collages and newly developed slide shows--all of them exploring the contradictions between anonymity and intimacy, the public and private sphere, reality and dream.Araki is one of the most influential and widely discus ...Show more
Pools - Lounging, Diving, Floating, Dreaming: Picturing Life at the Swimming Pool by Lou Stoppard (Editor); Leanne Shapton (Foreword by)
$120.00 AUD
Category: Photography
A celebratory ode to the joy and enduring allure of the swimming pool, and a gorgeous photography book to accompany poolside daydreaming. Glamorous, seductive, and fun, made for lounging, frolicking, splashing, dipping, diving, floating, and escaping, swimming pools are symbols of both sport and leisure ...Show more
Picasso's Women - Fernande to Jacqueline by John Richardson (Text by); Larry Gagosian (Foreword by)
$180.00 AUD
Category: Art
"The inspiration of nearly all his work comes from his daily life," the acclaimed Picasso biographer John Richardson wrote of the artist in 1962. This was nowhere more true than in Picasso's portraits of women. This volume traces the artist's depictions of eight women who played a prominent role in the ...Show more
The Stranger Artist: Life at the edge of Kimberley painting by Quentin Sprague
$33.00 AUD
Category: Art
At a hinge-point in his life, artist and ex-gallerist Tony Oliver travelled to the East Kimberley, where he plunged into the crosscurrents and eddies of the Aboriginal art world. He would stay for almost a decade, working alongside a group of senior Gija artists, including acclaimed figures Paddy Bedfor ...Show more
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D. Garrard
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic relationship to political power. Her powerful paintings with vigorous female protagonists chime with modern audiences, and she ...Show more
The Woman Who Says No: Franoise Gilot on Her Life with and Without Picasso by Malte Herwig
$33.00 AUD
Category: Art
An intimate, revealing biography of a talented artist who lived life on her own terms. Pablo Picasso called Fran oise Gilot "The Woman Who Says No." Talented, and feisty, and an accomplished artist in her own right, Gilot left Picasso after a ten-year relationship, the only woman to escape his intense a ...Show more
Intrepide - Australian Women Artists in Early Twentieth-Century France by Clem Gorman; Therese Gorman
$34.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Biography Ser.
It is hard for us to imagine the oppressed lives of single women in the first half of the twentieth century. Yet a few Australian women took a leap into the unknown and carved careers for themselves in Paris. They studied, painted, and haunted galleries and salons. They had a little fun too, at social g ...Show more
Ellis Rowan: A Life in Pictures by Christine Morton-Evans
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
Ellis described the fungi:Growing, they look like dolls dressed up in fluted lace petticoats … Some are apple green, others mauve; one is black, and another has a scarlet cap. They stand high on long white stems, and the fungus closely resembles exquisite lace. In her 70s, artist and naturalist Ellis Ro ...Show more