Magritte - The Mystery of the Ordinary 1926-1938 by Anne Umland
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art
Published in conjunction with a major exhibition organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with the Menil Collection, Houston, and the Art Institute of Chicago, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938 focuses on the breakthrough surrealist years of Rene Magritte, creator ...Show more
El Greco: Visionary of the Golden Age by Fernando Marias
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art
Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known to us as El Greco, was one of the seminal figures of the Spanish Golden Age. This magnificent volume, published to mark the four hundredth anniversary of the artist's death, features superb new photographs of recently cleaned and restored paintings, revealing hitherto unk ...Show more
Anselm Kiefer Studios by Daniele Cohn
$130.00 AUD
Category: Art
In this superbly illustrated volume, Daniele Cohn, who has worked alongside Anselm Kiefer for many years, explains the central role the artists studios play in his artistic process. She reveals how Kiefer's ateliers their layout and organization, and their location are intrinsic to his work as a painter ...Show more
History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400-2000 by Pat Kirkham
$110.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture S.
Spanning six centuries of global design, this far-reaching survey is the first to offer an account of the vast history of decorative arts and design produced in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and the Islamic world, from 1400 to the present. Meticulously documented and lavis ...Show more
Impressionism by Karin H Grimme
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art
On April 15th, 1874, in the Parisian studio of photographer Nadar, was the opening of the first group exhibition that was uninhibited by government interference and the dictates of an official selection committee. This date has gone down in the annals of art history because it marks the birth of the Imp ...Show more
Hiroshige by Adele Schlombs
$25.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world", ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese woodblock print genre that originated in the 17th century and is practically synonymous with the Western world's visual char ...Show more
The Art of Pin Up by Dian Hanson
$300.00 AUD
Category: Art
One big slice of cheesecake. Pin-up travels the long road from barracks wall to high art. In the 15 years since TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Paintings by leading artists such as Alberto Vargas, George ...Show more
Art & Place - Site-Specific Art of the Americas
$89.95 AUD
Category: Art
Art Place is an extraordinary collection of outstanding art destinations in the Americas, visited by millions of people every year. The book features hundreds of powerful and spectacular art works, all created by an artist specifically for their location -whether indoors, outdoors, desert, in the mounta ...Show more
Wild Art by David Carrier
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art
Wild Art is an incredibly brash and current collection of over 300 extraordinary artworks that are too offbeat, outrageous, kitschy, quirky, or funky for the formal art world. From pimped cars, graffiti, flash mobs, and burlesque acts, to extreme body art, ice sculpture, light shows, and carnivals, the ...Show more
Francis Bacon Phaidon Focus by Martin Hammer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Focus
Includes an in-depth chronology of Bacon's life and work. Accompanies the Edinburgh International Festival at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, June 4- Sept 4, 2005.