Sketchbooks: The Hidden Art of Designers, Illustrators and Creatives by Richard Brereton
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
Sketchbooks provides a revealing glimpse into the inner workings and private inspiration of creatives from the world of advertising, design, graphic design, fashion design, art, street art, and illustration. Intimate and often unseen, sketchbooks document the sources of inspiration as well as the journe ...Show more
Flugelman: On Reflection by Peter Pinson
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art
Bert Flugelman is one of Australia's best known sculptors whose large public works in stainless steel have ensured him a place in art history. This beautifully illustrated book traces Flugelman's work from the late 60s on, through the evolution of his geometric series to the present day.
Fairweather by Murray Bail; Ian Fairweather (Artist)
$125.00 AUD
Category: Art
A completely revised and updated edition of Murray Bail's seminal book on the life and work of renowned artist Ian Fairweather.
The American Leonardo: A 20th Century Tale of Obsession, Art and Money by John Brewer
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
After the First World War, Harry Hahn returned to America with his new wife and a spectacular wedding present - which the couple claim was the real La Belle Ferronniere by Leonardo Da Vinci. The painting caused a sensation until the world's leading art critic, Sir Joseph Duveen (without seeing it in per ...Show more
Shape of Things to Come by The Saatchi Gallery
$180.00 AUD
Category: Art
This huge book of nearly 700 pages long is the largest on contemporary sculpture yet to appear. It is itself an object. The sequence creates an artistic vision of the future with reference to H.G. Wells and Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, the film "2001". The objects presented are derived from every conc ...Show more
Let's See Writings on Art From the by SCHJELDAHL Peter
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
Covers subjects drawn from a broad canvas of the history of art. This volume includes writings, which not only seek out the essence of the individual artist or work under discussion, they also never lose sight of the bigger picture what is beauty; what does it mean to be American; and what can the art w ...Show more
Tim Storrier, Moments: In Response to Memories and Ideas of Mortality by Edmund Capon
$130.00 AUD
Category: Art
Storrier, among Australia's most highly regarded and best-selling painters, remains enigmatic. His paintings, which combine the traditional genres of landscape and still-life and executed at a masterly level, are at once beautiful and frightening.
Every Picture Tells a Story: Adventures in Australian Art by John Ross, Anne Booth
$29.95 AUD
Category: Art
Episodes in Australian history as seen through the eyes of artists, with text accomanied by pictures from the Australian National Gallery.
On Paper. Lucian Freud by Lucian Freud
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art
Speaking recently about his early years as an artist Lucian Freud claimed, 'I would have thought I did 200 drawings to every painting in those early days. I very much prided myself on my drawing.' Drawing is fundamental to Freud's development as an artist and to how he sees in a way that that it was not ...Show more
The Henson Case by David Marr
$24.95 AUD
Category: Art
The Australian Prime Minister called them 'absolutely revolting'. Their removal from a Sydney art gallery was hailed by the Daily Telegraphas a 'Victory for Decency'. Cate Blanchett and members of the arts community claimed charges laid over them would affect Australia's cultural reputation. Only now do ...Show more
Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Hiroshige
$99.00 AUD
Category: Art
This title features Hiroshige's Edo: Masterful ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Tokyo in the mid-19th century. Literally meaning 'pictures of the floating world', ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese woodblock print genre that originated in the 17th century and is practically synonymous with the Western wor ...Show more
Banksy - Wall and Piece by Banksy
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns a ...Show more