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Kings Cross Pictorial History by Anne-Maree Whitaker
$24.95 AUD
Category: Photography
Once known as Woolloomooloo Hill, Kings Cross was home to Sydney's nineteenth century elite who built grand mansions along the ridge to enjoy sea breezes, a wonderful view and access to the city.
Gerard Havekes by Gavin Fry
$99.00 AUD
Category: Art
'Gerard Havekes was outrageously big in every way – he was a mighty, creative force. A big, tall man, who commanded attention by his very presence, a man who embraced life with gusto. Wherever he went he would inevitably, naturally dominate the space, ruling over his domain at home or in his work space ...Show more
Humans by Brandon Stanton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Humans of New York
Brandon Stanton's Humans is a book that connects readers as global citizens at a time when erecting more borders is the order of the day. It shows us the entire world, one story at a time. After five years of travelling the globe, the creator of Humans of New York brings people from all parts of the wor ...Show more
Culture Is Life: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Modern Australia by Wayne Quilliam
$40.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Culture is Life is a modern, photographic celebration of the diversity of Indigenous Australians. In the same way that Humans of New York offered interesting life stories to give context to images of everyday New Yorkers, pre-eminent photographer Wayne Quilliam has collected over 500 images and intervie ...Show more
Son of the Brush by Tim Olsen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
A frank and revealing memoir by the son of Australia's greatest living painter. Tim Olsen is the son of arguably Australia's most famous living painter, John Olsen. Son of the Brush is his fascinating, candid memoir of what it was like to grow up in the shadow of artistic genius, with all its wonder, ex ...Show more
How to Be an Artist by Jerry Saltz
$20.00 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out the mystical messages that lie underneath." --Steve Martin Art has the powe ...Show more
Peter Kingston by Barry Pearce
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art
A versatile, multi-talented artist, with a natural ability for drawing, Peter Kingston (b. 1943) was inspired from an early age by films and comics to create quirky cartoons and illustrations, later contributing to the infamous Oz magazine of the 1960s, and becoming part of Martin Sharp's Yellow House c ...Show more
Robert Mapplethorpe by Mark Holborn (Editor); Dimitri Levas (Editor); Patti Smith (Contribution by); Andrew Sullivan (Introduction by)
$250.00 AUD
Category: Photography
A revised and updated edition of the most comprehensive survey published of Mapplethorpe's photographyRobert Mapplethorpe was one of the twentieth century's most important and influential artists, known for his groundbreaking and provocative work. He studied painting, drawing, and sculpture in Brooklyn ...Show more
Life in the Studio by Frances Palmer
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
"Guaranteed to, as its title insists, inspire. . . . Demands to be viewed again and again and again." --Booklist, starred review To step into potter Frances Palmer's world is to be surrounded by the trappings of a life that has been intentionally--and painstakingly--built to maximize creativity. A ligh ...Show more
Nell (Mini Monographs) by NELL
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Mini Monographs 3
Continuing our series of monographs on Australian female artists, selected with series editor Natalie King, is Nell. Nell is a Sydney-based artist with a practice that spans performance, installation, video, painting and sculpture. The book comprises of 96 pages of the artist's favourite works - designe ...Show more
Drawing on the Dominant Eye by Betty EDWARDS
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
The long-awaited follow-up to the beloved bestseller Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - with new insights about creativity and our unique way of seeing the world around us
Venus Betrayed - The Private World of Edouard Vuillard by Julia Frey
$100.00 AUD
Category: Art
douard Vuillard was so secretive that he berated himself for betraying his emotions in conversation. He was a reticent, impassioned man, at once a timid stalker and a social climbing anarchist, caught in conflicting desires. From the 1880s until the advent of World War II, using styles from academic to ...Show more