Art & Textile - Fabric as Material and Idea in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present by Kunstmusem Wolfburg
$107.50 AUD
Category: Art
The digitalization of the world seems to require manual compensation. Everywhere, people are crocheting, embroidering, knitting, and weaving. The boundary between arts and crafts appears to be blurring. As early as 1878, Gottfried Semper referred to textiles as the original art form. The Wiener Werkstät ...Show more
Gerhard Richter - Editions 1965-2013 Catalogue Raisonne by Hubertus Butin
$145.00 AUD
Category: Art
After his paintings, Gerhard Richter’s editions are now also attracting increasing interest from around the world. Editions are all of the artist’s original works of art that have been produced in multiple. In his new catalogue raisonné Hubertus Butin presents all of the prints, photography editions, ar ...Show more
The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
Spontaneous, in-your-face and unauthorised, the work of street artists and graffiti writers demands our attention. Wildly creative and often subversive, street art shows that just because a work isn't in a gallery doesn't mean it's not art. From Sao Paolo to Sydney, New York to Tokyo, these artists exhi ...Show more
Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World by Daniel Thomas
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art
This important new book looks at one of the most distinctive periods in the history of Australian art, bracketed between the two world wars from 1915 into the 1940s. The Sydney moderns were progressive artists at the forefront of the development of modernism in Australia.
Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained by Susie Hodge
$19.95 AUD
Category: Art
"Why Your 5 Year Old Could Not Have Done That" is Susie Hodges passionate and persuasive argument against the most common disparaging remark levelled at modern art. In this enjoyable and thought-provoking book, she examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical and public hostility from C ...Show more
100 Works of Art That Will Define Our Age by Kelly Grovier
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
Just as Picassos Guernica or Gericaults Raft of the Medusa survive as powerful cultural documents of their time, there will be works from our own era that will endure for generations to come. But which ones? Which contemporary artworks best capture the zeitgeist of the late 20th and early 21st centuries ...Show more
Nature Morte - Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still-Life Tradition by Michael Petry
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
Thought-provoking and richly visual, Nature Morte brings together, for the first time, the poignant, provocative re-imaginings of the traditional still life by over 180 international contemporary artists. This visually stunning and timely book reveals how leading artists of the 21st century are reinvigo ...Show more
Australia
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
This landmark book charts the development of Australian art, from early Aboriginal work to that of the first colonial settlers, immigrant artists of the twentieth century and the culturally diverse inhabitants of the country today. Exploring this eclectic 300-year history, the book also celebrates key m ...Show more
Hartmann Schedel. Chronicle of the World - 1493 by Stephan Fussel
$89.99 AUD
Category: Art
Timetunnel to the 15th century. This is 1493's must-have history book and city guide by Hartmann Schedel. Hartmann Schedel's "Weltchronik", or "Chronicle of the World" (better known today as the "Nuremberg Chronicle", after the German city in which it was created), was a groundbreaking encyclopedic work ...Show more
Joseph Cornell's Manual of Marvels: How Joseph Cornell Reinvented a French Agricultural Manual to Create an American Masterpiece by Dickran Tashjian
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art
One of Joseph Cornells favourite pastimes was to meander through the used book stalls of lower Manhattan, rummaging around in search of items to spark his creative impulses. Some time in the early 1930s he came upon the "Journal dAgriculture Pratique" (1911), a voluminous handbook of advice for farmers. ...Show more
Paintings from Mughal India by Andrew Topsfield
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
A unique style of court painting, combining Persian, Indian and European elements, developed in India under the Mughal emperors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Originally an art of book illustration, it soon gave rise to highly naturalistic portraiture and scenes of court life, among other s ...Show more