Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained by Susie Hodge
$19.95 AUD
Category: Art
"Why Your 5 Year Old Could Not Have Done That" is Susie Hodges passionate and persuasive argument against the most common disparaging remark levelled at modern art. In this enjoyable and thought-provoking book, she examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical and public hostility from C ...Show more
Rock and Roll Stories by Lynn Goldsmith
$80.00 AUD
Category: Photography
The story of rock lives in Lynn Goldsmith's photographs. After coming of age in the Midwest in the tumultuous 1960s, she crashed the music scene in New York and emerged as one of its leading image-makers. She chronicled Bruce Springsteen's passage to glory, the Rolling Stone's legendary stadium tours, M ...Show more
100 Works of Art That Will Define Our Age by Kelly Grovier
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
Just as Picassos Guernica or Gericaults Raft of the Medusa survive as powerful cultural documents of their time, there will be works from our own era that will endure for generations to come. But which ones? Which contemporary artworks best capture the zeitgeist of the late 20th and early 21st centuries ...Show more
Nature Morte - Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still-Life Tradition by Michael Petry
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
Thought-provoking and richly visual, Nature Morte brings together, for the first time, the poignant, provocative re-imaginings of the traditional still life by over 180 international contemporary artists. This visually stunning and timely book reveals how leading artists of the 21st century are reinvigo ...Show more
Why it Does Not Have to be in Focus: Modern Photography Explained by Jackie Higgins
$19.95 AUD
Category: Photography
Why take a self-portrait but obscure your face with a lightbulb (Lee Friedlander, Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts (1968)? Or deliberately underexpose an image (Vera Lutter, Battersea Power Station, XI: July 13 , 2004)? And why photograph a ceiling (William Eggleston, Red Ceiling , 1973)? In Why It ...Show more
Australia
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
This landmark book charts the development of Australian art, from early Aboriginal work to that of the first colonial settlers, immigrant artists of the twentieth century and the culturally diverse inhabitants of the country today. Exploring this eclectic 300-year history, the book also celebrates key m ...Show more
Hartmann Schedel. Chronicle of the World - 1493 by Stephan Fussel
$89.99 AUD
Category: Art
Timetunnel to the 15th century. This is 1493's must-have history book and city guide by Hartmann Schedel. Hartmann Schedel's "Weltchronik", or "Chronicle of the World" (better known today as the "Nuremberg Chronicle", after the German city in which it was created), was a groundbreaking encyclopedic work ...Show more
Joseph Cornell's Manual of Marvels: How Joseph Cornell Reinvented a French Agricultural Manual to Create an American Masterpiece by Dickran Tashjian
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art
One of Joseph Cornells favourite pastimes was to meander through the used book stalls of lower Manhattan, rummaging around in search of items to spark his creative impulses. Some time in the early 1930s he came upon the "Journal dAgriculture Pratique" (1911), a voluminous handbook of advice for farmers. ...Show more
Paintings from Mughal India by Andrew Topsfield
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
A unique style of court painting, combining Persian, Indian and European elements, developed in India under the Mughal emperors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Originally an art of book illustration, it soon gave rise to highly naturalistic portraiture and scenes of court life, among other s ...Show more
Printmaking in Paris: The Rage for Prints at the Fin De Siecle by Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Mercatorfonds
In the years between 1890 and 1905, Paris witnessed a revolution in printmaking. Before this time, prints had primarily served reproductive or political ends, but, as the century came to a close, artistic quality became paramount, and printmaking blossomed into an autonomous art form. This gorgeously il ...Show more
Quiet Paris by Siobhan Wall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Photography
Paris is a beautiful city with astounding architecture and world-famous museums and restaurants. Because of its many attractions, however, it often feels as if there is nowhere to escape from the crowds. Siobhan Wall, author of Quiet Amsterdam and Quiet London, has sought out hidden, tranquil places so ...Show more
Awake in the Dream World Art of Audrey Niffenegger by Audrey Niffenegger
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art
A fantastic, strange, and mysterious world, real and imagined, is featured in Awake in the Dream World, a mid-career retrospective of artist and bestselling author Audrey Niffenegger. Book art, works on paper and paintings reflect her captivating narrative talent and her confrontations with life, mortal ...Show more