The Eiffel Tower by Bertrand Lemoine
$95.00 AUD
Category: Photography
This book features the iron colossus: the construction of the Eiffel Tower in drawings and photographs.When it was completed in 1889, the Eiffel Tower was the highest structure in the world, measuring 300 meters (984 feet). Built for the World's Fair, it was initially granted a 20-year permit; this perm ...Show more
The Loves of the Artists by Jonathan Jones
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
A sweeping, epic history of the Renaissance artists, seen through the lens of something that perhaps occupied their thoughts and influenced their art the mostâ¦sex. Taking Donatello's provocative reinvention of the nude as his starting point, Jonathan shows how the story of the Renaissance is the story ...Show more
The Museum of Illusions: Optical Tricks in Art by Celine Delavaux
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
The art of optical illusion has been an integral part of painting since antiquity when it was used as a yardstick by which to judge an artist's level of mastery. In the centuries that followed - and continuing through contemporary times - artists from van Eyck to Gerhard Richter have delighted in "trick ...Show more
Stages of Decay by Julia Solis
$59.99 AUD
Category: Photography
In her influential book New York Underground, Julia Solis explored the iconic landscape beneath Manhattan. In this new and equally inspired work, she takes on another kind of icon - crumbling theatres still standing throughout America and Europe. Using abandoned spaces as both subject and canvas, Solis ...Show more
PIcasso Horses by Dominique Dupui-Labbe
$135.00 AUD
Category: Art
The horse was a constant reference point in the work of Picasso. He experienced the last moments of the civilisation of the horse in the 20th century and while the presence of the horse is barely found in his earliest works it becomes ever more present as his career progresses. Picasso's impressions of ...Show more
Jazzlife by William Claxton
$80.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Visions of American jazz. This title features Claxton's photographs of legendary jazz musicians. In 1960, photographer William Claxton and noted German musicologist Joachim Berendt traveled the United States hot on the trail of jazz music. The result of their collaboration was an amazing collection of p ...Show more
Peter Beard by Steven M.L. Aronson
$129.99 AUD
Category: Photography
Into the wild. Journey into the world of Peter Beard. Photographer, collector, diarist, and writer of books Peter Beard has fashioned his life into a work of art; the illustrated diaries he kept from a young age evolved into a serious career as an artist and earned him a central position in the internat ...Show more
What the Hell are You Doing The Essential David Shrigley by David Shrigley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Photography
A beautifully designed and darkly comic collection of work, this book gathers together the best of Shrigley's work, old and new. It is a celebration of the surreal world of one of our finest contemporary artists.
Book Of Shrigley by David Shrigley
$29.95 AUD
Category: Art
"The Book of Shrigley" is the most extensive - and the first widely available - showcase of his edgy but accessible off-kilter vision. Here are bad-tempered pets, strange attractions, work, S-E-X, knitting, wrestling, and a host of other everyday activities, dangers, and amusements laid bare in Shrigley ...Show more
QUIET CORNERS OF PARIS by VARIOUS
$29.95 AUD
Category: Photography
More than eighty of the loveliest, most tranquil, and sometimes hidden places in Paris are described and photographed in this charming guidebook. Quiet Corners of Paris is a beautifully illustrated peek into often overlooked, always beautiful, locales: hidden villas, winding lanes, little-known 19th-ce ...Show more
World Press Photo 2013 by Kari Lundelin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Publishing the results of the most recent annual World Press Photo Contest, this exceptional book contains the very best press photographs from the year 2012 pictures submitted by photojournalists, picture agencies, newspapers and magazines throughout the world. Selected from thousands of images, these ...Show more
Magic of M.C. Escher
$43.00 AUD
Category: Art
No artist has ever worked harder to render the visions of his mind's eye than MC Escher. The visions themselves were remarkable enough : for Escher, the skin of the visible world vas nothing more than a piece of cloth that could be cut, folded, shaped and rearranged in marvellous ways. A superb draughts ...Show more