Listri. Cabinet of Curiosities XXL by Giulia Carciotto
$260.00 AUD
Category: Art
The Wunderkammer, or "cabinet of curiosities," saw collectors gathering objects from many strands of artistic, scientific, and intellectual endeavor, in an ambitious attempt to encompass all of humankind's knowledge in a single room. From the Grand Duke Francesco I de' Medici and Holy Roman Emperor Rudo ...Show more
Leila Jeffreys: On Birds (Des oiseaux) by Leila Jeffreys
$82.50 AUD
Category: Photography
Photographic artist Leila Jeffreys from Sydney creates intimate portraits of living birds, working with rescued birds and birds from wildlife sanctuaries and zoos. Owls, eagles, finches, pigeons, cockatoos, budgerigars and a host of other birds reveal their beauty and character to Jeffreys’ lens in thes ...Show more
Hilma AF Klint: Seeing Is Believing by Kurt Almqvist, Louise Belfrage ed.
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
A handsomely redesigned edition of essays examining af Klint's final abstractionsThe result of a series of lectures delivered during the 2016 Serpentine Galleries exhibition Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen, this volume gathers essays examining the last abstract series made by Hilma af Klint (1862-19 ...Show more
Spirit of Place - Artists, Writers, & the British Landscape by Susan Owens
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
English landscape painting is often said to be an eighteenth-century invention, yet when we look for representations of the countryside in British art and literature, we find a story that begins with Old English poetry and winds its way through history, all the way up to the present day. In Spirit of P ...Show more
On Photographs: David Campany by David Campany
$50.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Is it possible to describe a photograph without interpreting it? Can a viewer ever be as dispassionate as the mechanism of a camera? And how far can a photographer's intentions determine responses to their image, decades after it was made? These are just a few questions that David Campany eloquently add ...Show more
Magnum Artists - Great Photographers Meet Great Artists by Simon Bainbridge
$80.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Matisse and Picasso by Robert Capa, Takashi Murakami by Olivia Arthur, Warhol and de Kooning by Thomas Hoepker, Bonnard by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Kiki Smith by Susan Meiselas, and many more. For the first time, Magnum Artists brings together a collection of over 200 photographs that define the unique re ...Show more
Grayson Perry by Jacky Klein
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
Grayson Perry, renowned for his ceramic vases decorated with shocking, unconventional imagery, rose to fame in 2003 when he won the Turner Prize. Since then, Perry has remained an important voice in the arts and the contemporary discussion of gender--in 2016, he published the critically acclaimed book T ...Show more
Colour Third Edition - A Workshop for Artists and Designers by David Hornung
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
Taking a practical approach to colour, Colour: A workshop for artists and designersis an invaluable resource for art students and professionals alike. With its sequence of specially designed assignments and in-depth discussions, it effectively bridges the gap between colour theory and practice to inspir ...Show more
Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy by Joanna Ebenstein
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
For centuries, humankind has sought to know itself through an understanding of the body, in sickness and in health, inside and out. This fascination left in its wake a rich body of artworks that demonstrate not only the facts of the human body, but also the ways in which our ideas about the body and its ...Show more
Women, Art, and Society by Whitney Chadwick
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
Art historian Whitney Chadwick's acclaimed bestselling study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who "transcended" their gender to produce major works of art. While introducing some of the many women since the Middle Ages whose contributions to visual culture ha ...Show more
Human Nature: Planet Earth in Our Time by Geoff Blackwell, Ruth Hobday
$65.00 AUD
Category: Photography
At a moment now being described as the age of Anthropocene, twelve of National Geographic's most influential photographers address the biggest questions on our time while sharing some of their greatest images. Humanity has reached a pivotal moment in time. With extinction looming over one million spec ...Show more