Pools - Lounging, Diving, Floating, Dreaming: Picturing Life at the Swimming Pool by Lou Stoppard (Editor); Leanne Shapton (Foreword by)
$120.00 AUD
Category: Photography
A celebratory ode to the joy and enduring allure of the swimming pool, and a gorgeous photography book to accompany poolside daydreaming. Glamorous, seductive, and fun, made for lounging, frolicking, splashing, dipping, diving, floating, and escaping, swimming pools are symbols of both sport and leisure ...Show more
Picasso's Women - Fernande to Jacqueline by John Richardson (Text by); Larry Gagosian (Foreword by)
$180.00 AUD
Category: Art
"The inspiration of nearly all his work comes from his daily life," the acclaimed Picasso biographer John Richardson wrote of the artist in 1962. This was nowhere more true than in Picasso's portraits of women. This volume traces the artist's depictions of eight women who played a prominent role in the ...Show more
The Stranger Artist: Life at the edge of Kimberley painting by Quentin Sprague
$33.00 AUD
Category: Art
At a hinge-point in his life, artist and ex-gallerist Tony Oliver travelled to the East Kimberley, where he plunged into the crosscurrents and eddies of the Aboriginal art world. He would stay for almost a decade, working alongside a group of senior Gija artists, including acclaimed figures Paddy Bedfor ...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
The Woman Who Says No: Franoise Gilot on Her Life with and Without Picasso by Malte Herwig
$33.00 AUD
Category: Art
An intimate, revealing biography of a talented artist who lived life on her own terms. Pablo Picasso called Fran oise Gilot "The Woman Who Says No." Talented, and feisty, and an accomplished artist in her own right, Gilot left Picasso after a ten-year relationship, the only woman to escape his intense a ...Show more
Intrepide - Australian Women Artists in Early Twentieth-Century France by Clem Gorman; Therese Gorman
$34.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Biography Ser.
It is hard for us to imagine the oppressed lives of single women in the first half of the twentieth century. Yet a few Australian women took a leap into the unknown and carved careers for themselves in Paris. They studied, painted, and haunted galleries and salons. They had a little fun too, at social g ...Show more
Ellis Rowan: A Life in Pictures by Christine Morton-Evans
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
Ellis described the fungi:Growing, they look like dolls dressed up in fluted lace petticoats … Some are apple green, others mauve; one is black, and another has a scarlet cap. They stand high on long white stems, and the fungus closely resembles exquisite lace. In her 70s, artist and naturalist Ellis Ro ...Show more
Uzbekistan: The Road to Samarkand by Yaffa Assouline; Laziz Hamani (By (photographer))
$195.00 AUD
Category: Photography
At the heart of Central Asia lies a land where colossal mountains and sweeping valleys sleep under a blanket of lush greenery. Crowned with golden palaces and wondrous monuments, the architectural landscape of the region is so rich with detail, the structures have been said to mirror the heavens themsel ...Show more
Gerhard Richter by Armin Zweite
$260.00 AUD
Category: Art
This superbly illustrated, large format book is the definitive retrospective of Gerhard Richter's genre-defying, boundary-blurring, and constantly evolving oeuvre. One of the world's most revered visual artists, Gerhard Richter embraces many concepts in his work and continually thwarts categorization. I ...Show more
Robert Mapplethorpe by Mark Holborn (Editor); Dimitri Levas (Editor); Patti Smith (Contribution by); Andrew Sullivan (Introduction by)
$250.00 AUD
Category: Photography
A revised and updated edition of the most comprehensive survey published of Mapplethorpe's photographyRobert Mapplethorpe was one of the twentieth century's most important and influential artists, known for his groundbreaking and provocative work. He studied painting, drawing, and sculpture in Brooklyn ...Show more
Art =: Discovering Infinite Connections in Art History by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art
An entirely new approach to exploring global art history, presented through the lens of one of the world's leading art museums Featuring more than 800 artworks from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this groundbreaking book - organized by thematic keywords rather than the usua ...Show more