Art-based Research by Shaun McNiff
$47.95 AUD
Category: Art
The standard approach in the research of creative arts therapies has been to adopt a scientific method of investigation. However, here Shaun McNiff argues that such a method should not be the only form of enquiry and that the creative arts themselves have for too long been absent from the profession's d ...Show more
Art and Science by Eliane Strosberg
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
Today, art and science are often defined in opposition to each other: one involves the creation of individual aesthetic objects, and the other the discovery of general laws of nature. Throughout human history, however, the boundaries have been less clearly drawn: knowledge and artifacts have often issue ...Show more
Double War - Shaun Gladwel: Visual Culture and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq by Kit Messham-Muir
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art
This book focuses on art and war and, in particular, the photographs of Shaun Gladwell, an internationally acclaimed young Australian artist who has represented Australia at a Venice Biennale and has also served as an official War Artist in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hurry Up and Wait by Maira Kalman
$22.00 AUD
Category: Art
Hurry Up and Wait, the second volume in a new series of collaborations between artist Maira Kalman, author Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is a whimsical collection of images that capture people in motion or not. In snapshots by the likes of Lee Friedlande ...Show more
Francis Bacon and the Masters by Amanda Geitner
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art
This is the book that accompanies a landmark exhibition organized jointly by the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, and the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, to bring together works by Francis Bacon alongside masterpieces from the Hermitage Collection. The book and exhibition focus on Bacon ...Show more
Smash Cut - A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s by Brad Gooch
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art
Brad Gooch, the author of the acclaimed City Poet, returns with a searing memoir of life in 1980s New York City.Brad Gooch arrived in New York in the 1970s, eager for artistic and personal freedom. Smash Cut is his bold and intimate memoir of this exhilarating time and place, complete with its cast of w ...Show more
The Scottish Colourists: 1900-1930 by Philip Long
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
F.C.B. Cadell, J.D. Fergusson, G.L. Hunter and S.J. Peploe are now amongst the most admired of early twentieth-century British artists. Their direct contact with French Post-Impressionism and early knowledge of the work of Matisse and the Fauves, encouraged them to produce paintings which are considered ...Show more
B Is for Bauhaus : An A-Z of the Modern World by Deyan Sudjic
$23.00 AUD
Category: Art
Design is a unique way of understanding the world around us. This book is an essential tool kit for decoding contemporary culture. It's about what makes a Warhol a genuine fake, the beauty of the jumbo jet, the notion of authenticity, Hitchcock's film sets, the success of Ikea, the creation of national ...Show more
How to Read Art: A Crash Course in Understanding and Interpreting Paintings by Liz Rideal
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art
This charmingly illustrated, highly informative field guide to understanding art history is small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers. This seventh entry in the hugely popular How to Read series is a one-stop guide to understanding the world's great artworks. The book ex ...Show more
Brice Marden - Ru Ware, Marbles, Polke by Mr David Anfam
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
"Brice Marden: Ru Ware, Marbles, Polke" features the most recent paintings from this towering figure in contemporary abstraction. The book's title alludes to the breadth of Marden's inspirations: rare Chinese pottery, coarse Greek marble and the late German artist Sigmar Polke. Each of the works or seri ...Show more
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing by Laura J. Snyder
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art
By the early 17th century the Scientific Revolution was well under way. Philosophers and scientists were throwing off the yoke of ancient authority to peer at nature and the cosmos through microscopes and telescopes. In October 1632, in the small town of Delft in the Dutch Republic, two geniuses were bo ...Show more