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Andy Warhol - Lives of the Artists series by Robert Shore
$25.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Somewhere within the iconic images, carefully-made personae, star-studded milieu, million-dollar price tags and famous quotes lies the real Andy Warhol. But who was he? Robert Shore unfolds the multi-dimensional Warhol, dissecting his existence as undisputed art-world hotshot, recreating the amazing cir ...Show more
Artemisia Gentileschi - Lives of the Artists series by Jonathan Jones
$25.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artist of the Baroque age and one of the most brilliant followers of the great Caravaggio. As a young woman she was raped by her tutor, and then had to endure a seven-month-long trial during which she was brutally examined by the authorities. Gentileschi was ...Show more
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D. Garrard
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic relationship to political power. Her powerful paintings with vigorous female protagonists chime with modern audiences, and she ...Show more
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D Garrard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
An accessible introduction to the life of the seventeenth-century's most celebrated women artists, now in paperback. Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic relations ...Show more
Arthur Miller - American Witness by John Lahr
$50.00 AUD
Category: Theatre | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights. Distinguished theater critic John Lahr brings unique perspective to the life of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), the playwright who almost single-handedly propelled twentiet ...Show more
Buddha by Karen Armstrong
$23.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Lives S.
A superb introduction to the life and thought of a revolutionary spiritual thinker, by a bestselling author.
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
An entertaining biography of Charles Dickens by one of our finest actors Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language. From his ...Show more
David Hockney by James Cahill
$25.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
The latest addition to the 'Lives of the Artists' series: highly readable short biographies of the world's greatest artistsDavid Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well. Emerging from the north of England in the 1960s, he made ...Show more
Einstein - His Space and Times by Steven Gimbel
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A revealing new portrait of Albert Einstein, the world's first scientific "superstar" The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric genius for whom the pursuit of science was everything. But in actuality, the brilliant innovator whose Theory of Relativity forever reshaped our understandin ...Show more
Enid Blyton - A Literary Life by Andrew Maunder
$37.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Literary Lives Ser.
This book is a study of the best-selling writer for children Enid Blyton (1897-1968) and provides a new account of her career. It draws on Blyton's business correspondence to give a fresh account of a misunderstood figure who for forty years was one of Britain's most successful and powerful authors. It ...Show more
Flush by Virginia Woolf
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Lives Ser.
Virginia Woolf's humorous biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel is charming yet also radical. A work of sensuous imagination, it opens up a range of questions about class, society, and cultural attitudes which are woven throughout the whole of Woolf's writing. We are delighted to publish th ...Show more
Frida Kahlo - Lives of the Artists series by Hettie Judah
$25.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Fridamania has made Frida Kahlo's image ubiquitous: she has been reborn as a Halloween costume, Barbie doll, children's book character, textile print, phone cover, and the inspiration for everything from cocktails to fashion shoots. But it is more difficult to get a clear vision of this bold and brillia ...Show more