Cezanne - The Rock and Quarry Paintings by John Elderfield (Editor); Faya Causey (Contribution by); Sara Green (Contribution by); Annemarie Iker (Contribution by); Ariel Kline (Contribution by); Anna Swinbourne (Contribution by)
$73.95 AUD
Category: Art
A rich vein of the artist's mature work, depicting the foundations of landscape and place From the mid-1860s until shortly before his death, Paul C zanne (1839-1906) created 27 canvases that take rock formations as their principal subjects. This is the first publication to focus exclusively on these ext ...Show more
The Short Story of Art by Susie Hodge
$28.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: The\Short Story Of Ser.
The Short Story of Art is a new and innovative introduction to the subject of art. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key works, from the wall paintings of Lascaux to contemporary installations, and then links these to se ctions on art movements, themes and techniques. The design of the book allow ...Show more
The Short Story of Modern Art by Susie Hodge
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: The\Short Story Of Ser.
The Short Story of Modern Art explains the how, why and when of modern art - who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and why they matter. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key works - from the realist painting of Courbet to a contemporary installation by Yayoi Kus ...Show more
Grayson Perry - The Pre-Therapy Years by Chris Stephens, Catrin Jones
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
Grayson Perry was the first ceramicist to win the Turner Prize, the internationally renowned award for the best young British Artist. He rapidly established a unique brand as "the transvestite potter." This book examines the plates, pots, and statues from the 1980s to the mid-1990s with which he establi ...Show more
A History of Pictures by David Hockney, Martin Gayford
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
Informed and energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing and making images with cameras, David Hockney, in collaboration with the art critic Martin Gayford, explores how and why pictures have been made across the millennia. What makes marks on a flat surface interesting? How do you show movement in a s ...Show more
Renoir's Dancer - The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine Hewitt
$23.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Suzanne Valadon
In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating façade lay a closely-guarded secret. Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager in Montmartre, Suzanne began posing for - and having affairs with - some of the age's most renowned p ...Show more
Art Is a Tyrant - The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur by Catherine Hewitt
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
Rosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits, she rejected marriage - and she wore trousers. But the society whose rules she spurned accepted her as one of their own, because of her genius for painting an ...Show more
Lee Krasner by Eleanor Nairne
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
A richly illustratedmonograph on the life andwork of Lee Krasner, oneof the twentieth century'smost inspiring womenartists and a pioneer ofabstract expressionism. In 1984, Lee Krasner (1908-1984) became one of the few women artists to have been given a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York ...Show more
Rosalie Gascoigne - A Catalogue Raisonné by Martin Gascoigne
$175.00 AUD
Category: Art
Rosalie Gascoigne (1917¿1999) was a highly regarded Australian artist whose assemblages of found materials embraced landscape, still life, minimalism, arte povera and installations. She was 57 when she had her first exhibition. Behind this late coming-out lay a long and unusual preparation in looking at ...Show more
An Introduction to Art - Second Edition by Charles Harrison
$41.95 AUD
Category: Art
At once engaging, personal, and analytical, this book provides the intellectual resources for the critical understanding of art Charles Harrison's landmark book offers an original, clear, and wide-ranging introduction to the arts of painting and sculpture, to the principal artistic print media, and to t ...Show more
Photography's Last Century - The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection by Jeff L. Rosenheim
$72.95 AUD
Category: Photography
Significant and iconic photographs created over the last 100 years provide an essential history and new interpretation of the medium Beginning with Paul Strand's landmark From the Viaduct in 1916 and continuing through the present day, Photography's Last Century examines defining moments in the history ...Show more
Robert Frank: The Americans by Jack Kerouac
$55.00 AUD
Category: Photography
First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In 83 photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians and rendered ...Show more