A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain by James Hamilton
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human genius, money and influence, its crucibles the streets and institutions, its catalyst time, its control the market. In this rich and fascinating b ...Show more
Pro Hart Life & Legacy by Gavin Fry
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art
PRO HART was without doubt the most enigmatic figure in Australian art of the late twentieth century. The proposition that an individual could be considered a near genius by some, be recognised and loved by millions, yet scorned, derided or at best ignored by expert opinion was the constant contradictio ...Show more
Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered by Dianne Hales
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. Every year more than 9 million visitors trek to view her portrait in the Louvre. Yet while everyone recognizes her smile, hardly anyone knows her story. Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered, a blend of biography, history, a ...Show more
Ceramic Glazes: The Complete Handbook by Brian Taylor
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
A feast for the eyes, this inspiring gallery of beautiful and remarkable ceramic pieces includes work from a broad range of exceptional contemporary ceramic artists, each of whom offers an inside look at their glazing process, including their special recipes and the techniques for using them. The book i ...Show more
The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters from the Museum of Modern Art by Sarah Suzuki
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art
Though deeply engaged with painting and drawing, Toulouse-Lautrecs lasting contribution to artistic practice was as a graphic artist. Through his prints and posters, advertisements, and contributions in reviews and magazines, he brought the language of the late-nineteenth-century French avant-garde to a ...Show more
The Painter's Secret Geometry: A Study of Composition in Art by Charles Bouleau
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
Bouleau's classic illustrated work examines the essential reliance of European painting tradition on the golden mean and other geometrical patterns. From antiquity to the present, expert painters-including abstract modern masters such as Paul Klee and Jackson Pollock-have conveyed harmony through the ma ...Show more
Owning the Past: Why the English Collected Antique Sculpture, 1640-1840 by Ruth Guilding
$119.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
In a lively re-examination of the British collectors who bankrupted themselves to possess antique marble statues, Owning the Past chronicles a story of pride, rivalry, snobbery, and myopic obsession with posterity and possession. Analyzing the motives the drove "Marble Mania" in England from the 17th th ...Show more
John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes 1908-1913: The Complete Paintings: Volume VIII by Richard Ormond
$106.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
After John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) determined to curtail his internationally successful portrait practice, he had more freedom to paint where and what he wanted. Volume VIII of the John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonne transports us to the artist's most beloved locations, often with his friends and ...Show more
Gifts From David McDiarmid
$44.00 AUD
Category: Art
David McDiarmid (1952–1995) was an artist, designer, DJ and activist who made an indelible impact on the intersecting histories of art, craft, fashion, graphic design, gay liberation and AIDS awareness in Australia and New York. Working alongside friends and contemporaries including Jenny Kee, Linda Jac ...Show more
Art in Time - A World History of Styles and Movements by The Editors of Phaidon Press
$89.95 AUD
Category: Art
An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to 150 of the most significant styles and movements that have shaped art history through time. All art is of its time, and this book is the first survey that explicitly embeds styles, schools and movements within the politics and culture in which they arose, by mean ...Show more
The Twenty First Century Art Book by The Editors of Phaidon Press
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
The 21st‐Century Art Book is an A‐to‐Z guide of contemporary artists featuring established art‐world figures – Maurizio Cattelan, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall – alongside rising stars of the next generations. Global in scope, the book features work from 50 countries across a variety of mediums, from paintin ...Show more