A Little History of Art by Charlotte Mullins
$34.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Little Histories Ser.
A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the origins of mark making to art's pivotal role in culture today Why did our ancestors make art? What did art mean to them and what does their art mean for us today? Why is art even important at all? Charlotte Mullins brings art to life by ...Show more
Kulata Tjuta by Art Gallery of SA
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art
Kulata Tjuta is both a celebration of contemporary Anangu art and an exquisite record of a landmark European exhibition of works from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara(APY) Lands of South Australia. Produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia for its first international Tarnanthi exhibition, ...Show more
Australia - Antipodean Stories by Eugenio Viola +Judith Blackall + Clothilde Bullen + Dunja Rmandic
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art
Documenting the most comprehensive exhibition of Australian contemporary art outside the continent Curated by Eugenio Viola, Antipodean Stories showcases Australian contemporary art, presenting a breadth of cultural, political and social perspectives in mediums ranging from painting and performance to p ...Show more
David Hockney by TASCHEN (Editor)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art
This special edition traces David Hockney's work over the course of six decades. We follow his stylistic development and experience how he reinvents himself again and again--from his teenage years at art school to the extensive portrait series, iPad drawings, and landscape paintings of recent years. The ...Show more
A Painted Landscape: Across Australia from Bush to Coast by Amber Creswell Bell
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Across Australia from Bush to Coast
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me! Dorothea Mackellar's words have a knack for swelling the metaphorical chest of many Austr ...Show more
Escher by M. C. Escher (Editor, Artist); Federico Giudiceandrea (Editor); Mark Veldhuysen (Editor)
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art
Over 300 works from the beloved early 20th-century illustrator and graphic designer The Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher first visited Italy in the 1920s before settling in Rome, where he lived for 12 years, until 1935. This Roman period had a strong influence on all his later work, which saw him proli ...Show more
The Making of Donald Friend - Life & Art by Ian Britain
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art
Biography of Australian Artist Donald Friend, concentrating on the first 20 years of the artist's life. The book explores the experiences and influences that shaped a significant and controversial figure in Australian Art. Ian Britain’s biography brings together rich and revealing detail of Friend’s li ...Show more
Bonnard's Worlds by George T. M. Shackelford, Isabelle Cahn, Cyrille Sciama, Veronique Serrano, Elsa Smithgall
$93.95 AUD
Category: Art
A fascinating journey into Pierre Bonnard’s world and the inspiration behind his spatially arresting and intimate paintings Pierre Bonnard’s paintings are renowned for their unusual intimacy. Delving into the sensory realms of experience that fueled Bonnard’s practice—from the most public to the mo ...Show more
24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns by Inti Guerrero (Editor); Cosmin Costina¿ (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
A catalogue of the art and artists presented as part of the 24th Biennale of Sydney 2024.
The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World by Jennifer Higgie
$25.00 AUD
Category: Art
'Endlessly intriguing . . . I was enchanted' - DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Illuminating in every sense of the word' - John Higgs In an illuminating blend of memoir and art history, The Other Side explores the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women artists. From the twelfth-century mystic Hildegard of B ...Show more
Get the Picture - A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See (H/B) by Bianca Bosker
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
"Sheer pleasure: the best book I've ever read about contemporary art." --Benjamin Moser, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sontag "Immersive reporting along the lines of George Plimpton or Barbara Ehrenreich with...a gift for clever formulations that recalls Oscar Wilde...[Get the Picture] could not be m ...Show more
Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art by Phaidon Editors
$100.00 AUD
Category: Art
The inclusion of text in works of art was a revolutionary creative advancement of the twentieth century, with artists subverting traditional conceptions of ‘art’ and ‘writing.’ Younger generations of artists have continued to use the inherent readability of words to communicate ideas to viewers across ...Show more