Line Let Loose Scribbling Doodling and Automatic Drawing by David MacLagan
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art
Line Let Loose is a sustained investigation of the evolution of scribbling, doodling and automatic drawing. Of these three forms of 'drawing', scribbling is the most basic: it is seen as playing a formative role in the drawings of both children and primates. Doodling, whilst still being a widespread phe ...Show more
Affairs of the Art by Katrina Strickland
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
The reputations of artists are curious things, influenced by factors beyond the quality of the work. Affairs of the Art explores the role those left behind play in burnishing an artist's reputation after he or she dies. Through interviews with those handling the estates of artists including Fred William ...Show more
Lost, Stolen or Shredded - Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature by Rick Gekoski
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art
This book tells the stories behind the disappearances of some of our most famous works of art - and some that never existed at all. Like Sherlock Holmes' dog in the night time, sometimes the true significance of things lies in their absence. Rick Gekoski tells the very human stories that lie behind some ...Show more
Facts are Sacred by Simon Rogers
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art
What is the true human cost of the war in Afghanistan? What are the real effects of the austerity measure? And how did the London riots spread so quickly? "Facts are Sacred", the "Guardian's" award-winning datablog, publishes and analyses seemingly benign data - released under the auspices of transparen ...Show more
Time and Tide Photographs from Praia Piquinia by Christian Chaize
$45.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Photographer Christian Chaize shot Praia Piquina, a beautiful and intimate beach in the south of Portugal, from the same vantage point many times over the course of 8 years. This book compiles the resulting photographs in a charming portrait not just of that small patch of sand, but the people, families ...Show more
Mark Ryden: The Gay 90s by Amanda Erlanson
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art
Celebrated Pop Surrealist artist Mark Ryden's newest body of work, presented in this book for the first time. Crowned "the high prince of Lowbrow," Mark Ryden has become a fixture of the contemporary alternative art movement. In his newest work, Mark Ryden: The Gay 90's, the artist casts his skewed pers ...Show more
Vitamin D2 New Perspectives in Drawing by Tony Godfrey
$79.95 AUD
Category: Art
An up-to-the-minute survey of contemporary drawing featuring 115 artists from around the world, Vitamin D2 allows the reader to look at the medium in detail and study drawing's unique properties in relation to itself, to contemporary art and to the world at large. Phaidon's influential Vitamin series be ...Show more
Collecting Art for Love, Money and More by Ethan Wagner; Thea Westreich Wagner
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
Collecting Art For Love, Money and Moreis an insider's guide for both the novice and experienced buyer. It reveals the motivations and secrets of successful collectors as well as providing an historical overview of the greatest collectors and their superb collections. Written by renowned art advisor The ...Show more
Culo by Mazzucco by Raphael Mazzucco
$69.99 AUD
Category: Photography
Acclaimed photographer and artist Raphael Mazzucco has compiled a series of breath taking images of some of the world's most sensuous women--some already famous, some unknown - who represent this new physical ideal. Known for his work on global campaigns for Guess and Victoria Secret as well as several ...Show more
The Temple of Flora by Robert John Thornton
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art
Flower power. This is a stunning achievement in botanical illustration. More than two centuries have passed since the publication of Robert John Thornton's "The Temple of Flora" in 1799, but its charm remains unsullied. Although trained as a medical doctor, Thornton (c. 1768-1837) passionately devoted h ...Show more
Dian Hanson's History of Pin-up Magazines Vol. 1-3
$75.00 AUD
Category: Photography
The Birth of Newsstand Pin-up. This is the definitive annotated and illustrated history of pin-up magazines - 1900-1969. Open your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, and get ready for a history lesson like none you've ever experienced. You're about to learn everything you could ever want to know about the ...Show more
Willy Ronis by Jean-Claude Gautrand
$23.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Les petits miracles de la vie. This title deals with one of the great chroniclers of Parisian life in the 20th century. Produced in close cooperation with Willy Ronis and featuring images from his archives, this book traces the career of one of France's most remarkable photographers, to whom, along with ...Show more