This is Bacon by Kitty Hauser
$20.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: This is
Francis Bacon was one of the giants dominating the artistic landscape of the mid-twentieth century, and served as the inspiration and launching point for much of the figural and abstract art that came after him. This highly illustrated book features not only 20 of the artists major works, but in stunnin ...Show more
This is Gauguin by George Roddam
$20.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: This is
Paul Gauguin created some of the most advanced art in a brilliant generation of artists all of whom struggled against the stifling conformity of the late 19th century's artistic mainstream. He created paintings whose radically simplified lines and colours echoed the unschooled art of the rustic and nati ...Show more
Ming: 50 Years That Changed China by Craig Clunas
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
Ask anyone what single object they associate with China and the most common answer will be a Ming vase. Probably without even knowing the dates of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), people are aware of the fragility of its porcelain, its rarity and value. But porcelain is just one part of the story of one of ...Show more
Big Art / Small Art
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
Scale is being taken to new extremes in art: big and bold on the one hand, intricate and intimate on the other. This book is divided into two sections big art and small art and includes profiles of forty-five contemporary artists who are revolutionizing our approach to scale with works that provoke ques ...Show more
Tsuyoshi Maekawa by Koichi Kawasaki
$130.00 AUD
Category: Art
This first monograph on Tsuyoshi Maekawa (born 1936), one of the last surviving members of the Gutai art group, includes archival images and documents of the Gutai period from the Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, and a previously unpublished interview with Maekawa conducted by Gutai expert Koichi ...Show more
Chiharu Shiota: The Hand Lines by Chiharu Shiota
$84.00 AUD
Category: Art
Shiota's installations produce their own spaces, where hundreds of invisible threads that bond us to things can be seen. In these domestic scenarios she proposes, threads become bridges between a bride's dress and the absent subject, a piano, suitcases and a mirror. In her work, these threads are veins ...Show more
A Pavane for Another Time by SMITH BERNARD
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art
The second volume in the autobiography of Australian art historian, Bernard Smith, following Boy Adeodatus. This tells of his life in the 1940s: from his marriage and early work in NSW to his formal training in London, meeting with other art historians including Anthony Blunt, domestic life at The Abbey ...Show more
Leonardo Da Vinci by Frank Zollner & Johannes Nathan
$50.00 AUD
$65.00 (23% off)
Category: Art
Da Vinci in detail: Leonardo's life and work - the definitive edition. All pictures, all drawings! Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed one of the greatest minds of all time; his importance and influence are inestimable. This two-volume, midsize format comprehensive survey is the most complete bo ...Show more
A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain by James Hamilton
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human genius, money and influence, its crucibles the streets and institutions, its catalyst time, its control the market. In this rich and fascinating b ...Show more
Pro Hart Life & Legacy by Gavin Fry
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art
PRO HART was without doubt the most enigmatic figure in Australian art of the late twentieth century. The proposition that an individual could be considered a near genius by some, be recognised and loved by millions, yet scorned, derided or at best ignored by expert opinion was the constant contradictio ...Show more
Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered by Dianne Hales
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. Every year more than 9 million visitors trek to view her portrait in the Louvre. Yet while everyone recognizes her smile, hardly anyone knows her story. Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered, a blend of biography, history, a ...Show more