The Havana Archive by Basil Hyman
$80.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Havana: once upon a time the playground of the rich and famous, where Cuban rum flowed in legendary nightclubs, luxury hotels, and casinos, as well as a vital hub for drug running and money laundering. This fascinating book, drawn from an archive of press photographs and ephemera thought to have been th ...Show more
Walk the Line - The Art of Drawing by Ana Ibarra
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
Drawing has always been a fundamental skill and good drawing skills allowed artists to grasp the reality around them. At the turn of the millennium, however, the general impression was that with the wide availability of computers, scanners, digital cameras and image software, drawing would dwindle into ...Show more
Power + Colour: New Painting from the Corrigan Collection Of21-st Century Aboriginal Art by Jane Raffen
$125.00 AUD
Category: Art
The enthralling power and colour of Aboriginal painting of Tjukurpa (Law) and country has brought Aboriginal art to the forefront of contemporary art practice in Australia. Aboriginal art has also played an important role in the formulation of Indigenous Land Rights debates and Native Title Jurisprudenc ...Show more
Nude Men by Elisabeth Leopold
$83.00 AUD
Category: Art
From its earliest days, art history has been rife with representations of nude men. But while there are many studies of art celebrating the female form, the male nude has suffered from relative neglect. The book seeks to correct that imbalance with a collection of paintings, sculptures, and photographs ...Show more
Fish Hooks of the Pacific Islands: A Pictorial Guide to the Fish Hooks of the Peoples of the Pacific Islands by Daniel Blau
$249.00 AUD
Category: Art
The humble fish hook derives its form from its function: to catch fish. But in cultures where fishing is central to the way of life, the crafting of fish hooks is elevated to a form of art."Fish Hooks of the Pacific Islands" brings together the finest specimens from private collections all over the worl ...Show more
The Dream of a King: Dresden's Green Vault by Dirk Syndram
$83.00 AUD
Category: Art
Boasting the largest collection of treasures in Europe, Dresden's Green Vault is also among the continent's oldest museums, founded in the early eighteenth century. Since its extensive restoration and reopening in 2006, it has attracted more than three million visitors who have come from around the worl ...Show more
Alexandre Cabanel: The Tradition of Beauty by Andreas Bluhm
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art
French painter Alexandre Cabanel is famous for his entrancingly beautiful "The Birth of Venus." Since its purchase by Napoleon III in 1863, it remains among the foremost attractions at Paris's Musee d'Orsay. Yet as familiar as "The Birth of Venus" has become--gracing countless posters, art prints, and c ...Show more
The Secret Museum by Molly Oldfield
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
The Secret Museum is a unique treasure trove of the most intriguing artifacts hidden away in museum archives from all over the world - curated, brought to light, and brought to life by Molly Oldfield in a beautifully illustrated collection. Who knows what's hidden from view? Locked away in cabinets, sec ...Show more
The Art of the Salon: The Triumph of 19th-Century Painting by Norbert Wolf
$199.00 AUD
Category: Art
The Paris Salons of the mid-nineteenth century are famous today above all for the paintings that were rejected more than for those that were actually shown. The rejected works form today's canon of art history and are regarded as heralds of a modern age. This book looks to reassess the other side of the ...Show more
Always Looking: Essays on Art by John Updike
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
Following on from the acclaimed "Just Looking" and "Still Looking", "Always Looking" is an insightful collection of art criticism and a masterclass in appreciating art - from the great American man of letters, John Updike. "Always Looking" treats readers to a series of elegant and sensitive essays on ar ...Show more
Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde by Doryun Chong
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
"Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde" explores the extraordinary convergence of artists, intellectuals, and creators in Japans capital city during the radically transformative postwar period. Examining works from a range of media paintings, sculpture, photographs, drawings, prints, videos and films, as w ...Show more
The Ideal Museum by Philippe Daverio
$79.95 AUD
Category: Art
Philippe Daverio is one of Italy's most important contemporary art historians, whose discerning comments about art are voraciously consumed by the public through his writing as editor of the famed magazine "Art e Dossier" and his platform on a leading Italian television program "Passepartout." Now, in h ...Show more