History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400-2000 by Pat Kirkham
$110.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture S.
Spanning six centuries of global design, this far-reaching survey is the first to offer an account of the vast history of decorative arts and design produced in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and the Islamic world, from 1400 to the present. Meticulously documented and lavis ...Show more
Impressionism by Karin H Grimme
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art
On April 15th, 1874, in the Parisian studio of photographer Nadar, was the opening of the first group exhibition that was uninhibited by government interference and the dictates of an official selection committee. This date has gone down in the annals of art history because it marks the birth of the Imp ...Show more
Hiroshige by Adele Schlombs
$25.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. 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 world's visual char ...Show more
The Art of Pin Up by Dian Hanson
$300.00 AUD
Category: Art
One big slice of cheesecake. Pin-up travels the long road from barracks wall to high art. In the 15 years since TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Paintings by leading artists such as Alberto Vargas, George ...Show more
Art & Place - Site-Specific Art of the Americas
$89.95 AUD
Category: Art
Art Place is an extraordinary collection of outstanding art destinations in the Americas, visited by millions of people every year. The book features hundreds of powerful and spectacular art works, all created by an artist specifically for their location -whether indoors, outdoors, desert, in the mounta ...Show more
Wild Art by David Carrier
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art
Wild Art is an incredibly brash and current collection of over 300 extraordinary artworks that are too offbeat, outrageous, kitschy, quirky, or funky for the formal art world. From pimped cars, graffiti, flash mobs, and burlesque acts, to extreme body art, ice sculpture, light shows, and carnivals, the ...Show more
Earth Art Colours of the Earth by Bernhard Edmaier
$59.95 AUD
Category: Photography
EarthArt: Colours of the Earth is a spectacular large-format collection of breathtaking aerial photographs by world-renowned photographer Bernhard Edmaier. Travelling all over the globe, from the Bahamas to Iceland, New Zealand to Alaska, and the Grand Canyon to Chile, Edmaier captures rarely-seen lands ...Show more
Francis Bacon Phaidon Focus by Martin Hammer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Focus
Includes an in-depth chronology of Bacon's life and work. Accompanies the Edinburgh International Festival at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, June 4- Sept 4, 2005.
David Bailey: Delhi Dilemma by David Bailey
$176.00 AUD
Category: Photography
"Pink is the navy blue of India". (Diana Vreeland). How does one photograph Delhi without the results looking like cliched, tourist-friendly images from the pages of National Geographic? How does a photographer of "David Bailey's" standing portray India without seeming condescending? Bailey has been to ...Show more
Grand Tour: A Photographic Journey Through Goethe's Italy by Carlo Naya
$210.00 AUD
Category: Photography
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an extended trip to Italy--"the land where the lemon trees blossom, the golden oranges glowing amid dark foliage," as Goethe famously described it--was considered an indispensable part of a young gentleman's education. On arduous coach journeys, these adventu ...Show more
Art & Textile - Fabric as Material and Idea in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present by Kunstmusem Wolfburg
$107.50 AUD
Category: Art
The digitalization of the world seems to require manual compensation. Everywhere, people are crocheting, embroidering, knitting, and weaving. The boundary between arts and crafts appears to be blurring. As early as 1878, Gottfried Semper referred to textiles as the original art form. The Wiener Werkstät ...Show more