A Painted Landscape: Across Australia from Bush to Coast by Amber Creswell Bell
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Across Australia from Bush to Coast
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me! Dorothea Mackellar's words have a knack for swelling the metaphorical chest of many Austr ...Show more
The Making of Donald Friend - Life & Art by Ian Britain
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art
Biography of Australian Artist Donald Friend, concentrating on the first 20 years of the artist's life. The book explores the experiences and influences that shaped a significant and controversial figure in Australian Art. Ian Britain’s biography brings together rich and revealing detail of Friend’s li ...Show more
Bonnard's Worlds by George T. M. Shackelford, Isabelle Cahn, Cyrille Sciama, Veronique Serrano, Elsa Smithgall
$93.95 AUD
Category: Art
A fascinating journey into Pierre Bonnard’s world and the inspiration behind his spatially arresting and intimate paintings Pierre Bonnard’s paintings are renowned for their unusual intimacy. Delving into the sensory realms of experience that fueled Bonnard’s practice—from the most public to the mo ...Show more
24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns by Inti Guerrero (Editor); Cosmin Costina¿ (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
A catalogue of the art and artists presented as part of the 24th Biennale of Sydney 2024.
The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World by Jennifer Higgie
$25.00 AUD
Category: Art
'Endlessly intriguing . . . I was enchanted' - DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Illuminating in every sense of the word' - John Higgs In an illuminating blend of memoir and art history, The Other Side explores the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women artists. From the twelfth-century mystic Hildegard of Bin ...Show more
Get the Picture - A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See (H/B) by Bianca Bosker
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
"Sheer pleasure: the best book I've ever read about contemporary art." --Benjamin Moser, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sontag "Immersive reporting along the lines of George Plimpton or Barbara Ehrenreich with...a gift for clever formulations that recalls Oscar Wilde...[Get the Picture] could not be m ...Show more
Forms of Enchantment - Writings on Art and Artists by Marina Warner
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
An anthology of compelling essays by Marina Warner, one of our pre-eminent writers and critics. Art-writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues Marina Warner. In this new anthology of some of her most compelling work, she captures the ...Show more
How to Collect Art by Magnus Resch
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
You must read this book before buying any artwork - written by the world's leading art-market economist Navigating the world of collecting can be a tricky process, especially for one just starting out in the art market. The world's leading art market expert Magnus Resch explains the core principles of ...Show more
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D Garrard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
An accessible introduction to the life of the seventeenth-century's most celebrated women artists, now in paperback. 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 relations ...Show more
Lavinia Fontana - Trailblazer, Rule Breaker by Aoife Brady; Babette Bohn (Contribution by); Jonquil O¿Reilly (Contribution by)
$72.95 AUD
Category: Art
Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker explores this female Renaissance artist's fascinating biography and the cultural climate that enabled her to become the first woman artist in Western Europe to gain commercial success beyond the confines of a court or a convent. Bringing together several strand ...Show more
Modigliani: Modern Gazes by ORTRUD WESTHEIDER
$105.00 AUD
Category: Art
A groundbreaking new perspective on the painter's scandalous nudes. Among the most celebrated works of Modigliani's brief but brilliant career are his large-format nudes. Drenched in color and glowing with the artist's deep appreciation of women and the female form, these works ushered in a new era of n ...Show more