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Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
'An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely belie ...Show more
Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
This is a new biography of Michelangelo by Martin Gayford, the acclaimed author of Constable in Love and The Yellow House. There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be ...Show more
Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters by Martin Gayford
$20.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Bacon, Freud, Hockney & The London Painters
'What can painting do?' This question bound together a diverse community of artists in London after the Second World War. In answering it, many became household names: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Gillian Ayres, Frank Bowling, Howard Hodgkin and more.Drawing ...Show more
Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters 1945-70 by Martin Gayford
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s has never before been told before as a single narrative. R. B. Kitaj's proposal, made in 1976, that there was a "substantial School of London" was essentially correct but it caused confusion because it implied that there was a ...Show more
Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now by Antony Gormley, Martin Gayford
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
Sculpture is the universal art. It has been practised by every culture throughout the world and stretches back into the distant past. The first surviving shaped stones may even predate the advent of language. The drive to form stone, clay, wood and metal into shapes evidently runs deep in our psyche and ...Show more
Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy (HB) by Martin Gayford; David Hockney
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
"I intend to carry on with my work, which I now see as very important. We have lost touch with nature rather foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it." David Hockney On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquility for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of t ...Show more
Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy by Martin Gayford, David Hockney
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art
The Sunday Times bestseller: David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural Normandy On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquillity for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of the seasons; a place to keep the madness of the world at ba ...Show more
The Pursuit of Art - Travels, Encounters and Revelations by Martin Gayford
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Category: Art | Series: Travels, Encounters & Revelations
In the course of a career thinking and writing about art, critic Martin Gayford has traveled all over the world both to see works of art and to meet artists. Gayford's journeys, often to fairly inaccessible places, involve frustrations and complications, but also serendipitous encounters and outcomes, w ...Show more
Venice: City of Pictures by Martin Gayford
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
Enchanting, captivating, precious--Venice is one of the most cherished cities in the world. For centuries it was the heart of a global maritime power and a crossroads for diverse cultures. Today the city attracts millions of visitors each year, enticed by its irresistible beauty. Art lovers are drawn h ...Show more