The Diary of Frida Kahlo - An intimate self-portrait by Frida Kahlo; Sarah M. Lowe; Carlos Fuentes
$25.00 AUD
Category: Art
Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life. These passionate, often surprising, intimate records, kept under lock and key for some 40 years in Mexico, reveal many new dimensions in the complex personal life of this remarkable M ...Show more
Lucian Freud's Sketchbooks by Martin Gayford
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
Lucian Freud was one of the world's greatest realist artists. Working only from life, he once claimed, 'I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't there in front of me.' This revelatory publication features a selection of beautifully reproduced images from his sketchbooks. Most of the sketche ...Show more
Chagall to Malevich: The Russian Avant-Gardes by Klaus Albrecht Schroder
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
The Russian Avant-Garde, which brought about an artistic revolution between 1905 and 1934, represents one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of 20th-century art. Artists like Malevich, Kandinsky and Chagall are highly esteemed the world over. But this movement was much more diverse than is ...Show more
Art Since 1900 Third Edition by Hal Foster
$95.00 AUD
Category: Art
Groundbreaking in both its content and its presentation, Art Since 1900 has been hailed as a landmark study in the history of art. Conceived by some of the most influential art historians of our time, this extraordinary book has now been revised, expanded and brought right up to date to include the late ...Show more
Art Deco Sculpture
$150.00 AUD
Category: Art
This book showcases and puts into historical context a host of sculpted works created in the 1920s and 1930s in the decorative vernacular defined loosely today as 'Art Deco'. Whether designed as free-standing statuary for the domestic market or commissioned for some form of architectural placement, as a ...Show more
The Munich Art Hoard by Catherine Hickley
$21.99 AUD
Category: Art
In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German customs authorities seized an astonishing hoard of more than 1,400 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures. When Cornelius Gurlitt's trove became public in November 2013, it caused a worldwide media sensation. Catherine Hickle ...Show more
Inside the Art Market by Christopher Heathcote
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
Upfront, street savvy, and enthralling, this book is an indispensable tool in understanding the role of the art market. Dr Christopher Heathcote is the author of numerous publications on Australian art, and in this latest offering he traces the history and growth of Australia's private and independent g ...Show more
Art of the Bible: Illuminated Manuscripts from the Medieval World by Scot McKendrick; Kathleen Doyle
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art
For two millennia the Bible has inspired the creation of extraordinary art. Within this history illuminated biblical manuscripts are among the best tools for understanding early Christian painting and artistic interpretations of the Bible. This extensively illustrated new book, compiled and written by ...Show more
A History of Pictures : From the Cave to the Computer Screen by David Hockney
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two-thirds of it is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are from about 40,000 years ago. But what a 40,000 years, explored here by David Hockney and Martin Gayford in a ...Show more
Andy Warhol - The Life Years 1949 - 1959 by Paul Tanner
$65.00 AUD
Category: Photography
In 2011 a sensational find came to light in Andy Warhol's estate: an extensive collection of drawings that provides impressive evidence of Warhol's artistic talents. He used iconic photographs and magazine illustrations, many of which were taken from Life magazine, as inspiration. This publication explo ...Show more
Eye of the Sixties by Stein, Judith E
$38.00 AUD
Category: Art
A man with a preternatural ability to find emerging artists, Richard Bellamy was one of the first advocates of pop art, minimalism, and conceptual art. The founder and director of the fabled Green Gallery on Fifty-Seventh Street, the witty, poetry-loving art lover became a legend of the avant-garde, sho ...Show more
Diane Arbus In the Beginning by Jeff L. Rosenheim
$106.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the twentieth century. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female impersonators and nudists, are among the most recognizable images of our time. This book is the definitive study of t ...Show more