Master of Stillness: Jeffrey Smart by Barry Pearce
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
This title illuminates the vision of the most celebrated of Australian expatriate artists, from his beginnings in Adelaide until his last major composition painted in Italy, where he died in 2013. Smart's vision searches for stillness amid industrial change. This can be seen here with a selection of man ...Show more
Obey Covert to Overt - The Under/Over-Ground Art by Shepard Fairey
$89.95 AUD
Category: Art
The seminal artist's recent art and poster works, and his triumphant return to his street-art roots with murals, all in work never before published. Shepard Fairey rose out of the skateboarding scene, creating his Andre the Giant Has a Posse sticker campaign in the late '80s, and has since achieved a ma ...Show more
Raymond Pettibon - Surfers 1985-2015 by Carlo McCormick
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
Limning a dizzying array of topics with his distinctive combinations of image and text, Raymond Pettibon has created a vocabulary of characters and symbols that reappear consistently if enigmatically across his oeuvre, ranging from baseball players, atomic bombs, and railway trains to the cartoon Gumby. ...Show more
Joseph Cornell Wanderlust by Sarah Lea
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
Joseph Cornell (1903 1972) was one of the 20th century s leading exponents of collage and assemblage. A connoisseur of an astonishing array of subjects, Cornell s captivation with bygone imagery encompassed astronomical charts and geographical maps, Italian and Spanish Old Master paintings, historical b ...Show more
The Detour Book: The Moleskine Notebook Experience by MOLESKINE
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
Celebrating the eponymous Moleskine travelling exhibition which, since 2006, has showcased, in various cities around the world, a unique collection of more than 250 Moleskine notebooks that have been decorated, hacked, and sketched, delivering an intimate insight into the authors creative process and sh ...Show more
Alice Neel: Drawings and Watercolours 1927-1978 by Jeremy Lewison
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
Drawing was a fundamental, stand-alone component of Alice Neels practice, persistently pursued alongside painting, for which she is primarily known. As a medium, it enabled her to capture the immediacy of her visual experience whether in front of her sitters or on the city streetswhile also affording he ...Show more
The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History by James Hall
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
In this broad cultural survey, James Hall brilliantly maps the history of self-portraiture, from the earliest myths of Narcissus and the Christian tradition of bearing witness to the prolific self-image-making of todays contemporary artists. Along the way he reveals the importance of the medieval mirror ...Show more
Antony Gormley on Sculpture by Antony Gormley
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
Antony Gormley occupies an unusual position as a highly populist sculptor known chiefly for his Angel of the North (1998), a national landmark in the UK who is also widely regarded as one of the most intellectually challenging artists working internationally. He is grounded in archaeology and anthropolo ...Show more
Only What's Necessary - Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts by Chip Kidd
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
Charles M. Schulz's approach to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only what's necessary. For fifty years, from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, Schulz wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single most popular and influential comic strip in the world. In all, 17,897 strips ...Show more
The Forgotten Notebook by Betty Churcher
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art
In the 1990s Betty Churcher drew her way around the galleries of the world as she arranged artwork loans for blockbuster exhibitions at the National Gallery of Australia. In 2014 she discovered a sketchbook she had forgotten and decided to create a final companion volume to her bestselling Notebooks ser ...Show more
Pop Art: A Colourful History by Alastair Sooke
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art
Pop Art is the most important 20th-century art movement. A shift from the archetype to the stereotype, from the exalted to the everyday, it brought Modernism to the masses, making art sexy and fun with Coke cans and comics. Today, in our age of selfies and social networking, we are still living in a wor ...Show more
Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra by Bill Buford
$80.00 AUD
$85.00 (5% off)
Category: Art
Beauty and the beasts: Walton Ford s sinister wildlife scenes At first glance, Walton Ford s large-scale, highly-detailed watercolors of animals recall the prints of 19th century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear. A closer look reveals a complex anddisturbingly anthropomorphic universe, fu ...Show more