Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera by Art Gallery of New South Wales
$29.95 AUD
Category: Art
This book is published to accompany the exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales showing from 23 June to 9 October 2016. It brings together such significant paintings as Kahlo's Diego on my mind and Rivera's Landscape with cacti, painted for his 1931 solo show at New York's Museum of Modern Art, ...Show more
World Press Photo - 2016 by Kari Lundelin
$39.99 AUD
Category: Photography
Publishing the results of the most recent annual World Press Photo Contest, this exceptional book contains the very best press photographs from the year 2015 - pictures submitted by photojournalists, picture agencies, newspapers and magazines throughout the world. Selected from thousands of images, thes ...Show more
Hound in the Hunt: In Collaboration with Tim Jenison by Gallery Mona
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
Georgia O'Keeffe (HB) by Tanya Barson
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was one of the foundational figuresof American modernism. A seminal woman artist, she rose toprominence in the early twentieth century at the heart of theNew York avant-garde circle that centred around Alfred Stieglitz,who would become O'Keeffe's husband. Many contemporaryte ...Show more
Banaras: Holy City by Christopher Roche
$110.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Banaras, also known as Varanasi, is a Northern Indian city on the banks of the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh. One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, it is also one of the holiest in the Hindu faith. In this large-format book, the landscape and spirituality of this beautiful city come to ...Show more
A Style of Her Own by Oliva Maria Rubio
$115.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Louise Dahl-Wolfe transformed and modernized the look of fashion magazines in the thirties, forties and fifties, the period during which she was active, and hence played a significant role in providing the world of fashion with a new image. Similarly, she breathed fresh life into the portraits of Hollyw ...Show more
Grey Matters by Tom Jacobi
$80.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Colours are only reflected light, assembled in our brains, which is also known as "grey matter". Tom Jacobi spent two years photographing archaic landscapes throughout the world. He discovered mystic places that had been created by nature over the millennia and that are nonetheless timeless. When photog ...Show more
Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer by Desmond Shawe- Taylor
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art
The charm and fascination of Dutch genre paintings of the seventeenth century is the way that they capture everyday people doing everyday things. With their harmonious, light-filled interiors, these meticulously painted glimpses of lives behind closed doors provide us with an extraordinary insight into ...Show more
The Limits of Art: Two Essays by Tzvetan Todorov
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: The French List
Tzvetan Todorov, one of Europe's leading intellectuals, explores the complex relations between art, politics, and ethics in the two essays that make up "The Limits of Art". In "Artists and Dictators," Todorov traces the intimate relationship between avant-garde art and radical politics in pre-revolution ...Show more
Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does by Philip Ball
$65.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from the hexagons of a honeycomb to the spirals of a seashell and the branching veins of a leaf. Revealing the order at the foundation of the seemingly chaotic nat ...Show more
What Are You Looking At? 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye by Will Gompertz
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art
"What exactly is modern art? Why are there so many -isms? And is it really any good? Will Gompertz, the BBC's brilliant Arts Editor, has the answers."
Castro's Cuba by Lee Lockwood
$135.00 AUD
Category: Photography
The real Fidel This is a telling portrait of Cuba and its enigmatic leader. In December of 1958, Lee Lockwood, then a young photojournalist, went to Cuba to cover what looked to be the end of Batista's regime. He arrived the day before Fidel Castro took power and spent a week canvassing the island befor ...Show more