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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
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
Lucian Freud, 1922-1968 by William Feaver
$41.00 AUD
Category: Art
Though ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for decades to his close confidante and collaborator William Feaver - about painting and the art world, but also about his life and loves. The result is this a unique, electrifying biography, shot through with Freud's own words. In Youth, the fir ...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
Present Tense: Anna Schwartz Gallery and Thirty-Five Years of Contemporary Australian Art by Doug Hall
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
This vivid and revealing account of thirty-five years of art and history revolves around the locus of the internationally renowned Anna Schwartz Gallery and its eponymous founder. Beginning in St Kilda with United Artists, visionary gallerist Anna Schwartz relocated to City Gallery at 45 Flinders Lane b ...Show more
Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines by Dieter Buchhart
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat are considered icons of twentieth-century art. Both are known for their idiosyncratic imagery, radical viewpoints and complex socio-political commentary, and both employed signs, symbols and words to explore ideas around race, sexuality, spirituality and other aspec ...Show more
Ellis Rowan: A Life in Pictures by Christine Morton-Evans
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
Ellis described the fungi: Growing, they look like dolls dressed up in fluted lace petticoats … Some are apple green, others mauve; one is black, and another has a scarlet cap. They stand high on long white stems, and the fungus closely resembles exquisite lace. In her 70s, artist and naturalist Ellis ...Show more
The Light Fades but the Gods Remain by Bill Henson
$100.00 AUD
Category: Art
Over thirty years have passed since Bill Henson made his iconic Untitled 1985/86 series. These mesmerising photographs cast a hazy procession of people and places from Melbourne's suburb of Glen Waverley, interspersed with dreamlike vignettes of Egyptian structures.Now, commissioned by Monash Gallery of ...Show more
Paul Gauguin: Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter by Donatien Grau
$20.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis
"Criticism is our censorship...." So begins one of the greatest invectives against criticism ever written by an artist. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) wrote "Racontars de Rapin" only months before he died in 1903, but the essay remained unpublished until 1951. Through discussions of numerous artists, both his ...Show more
Bronwyn Oliver Strange Things by Hannah Fink
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art
This is the first book about the major Australian sculptor Bronwyn Oliver, released to coincide with The Sculpture of Bronwyn Oliver at the TarraWarra Museum of Art. “I wanted to write an old fashioned art book, one that tells the story of the artist’s life from beginning to end,” says author Hannah Fin ...Show more
Ian Fairweather: A Life in Letters by Claire Roberts (Editor); John Thompson; John Thompson (Editor)
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
When he died in 1974 after a long period of self-imposed austerity and improvisation on Bribie Island, Queensland, Ian Fairweather was at the apex of his fame. He had been called 'our greatest painter', and his works were keenly sought by galleries, collectors and artists. Born in 1891 in Scotland, Fair ...Show more
Destination Art: 500 Artworks Worth the Trip by Phaidon Editors
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
A global guide to the 500 works of permanently installed modern and contemporary art worth traveling to experience Enjoy a world tour from the comfort of your reading chair or plan a detailed and engaging art itinerary for your next trip with Destination Art, the essential guide to 500 must-see example ...Show more