Joseph Cornell Shadowplay, Eterniday by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan
$85.00 AUD
Category: Art
Originally published to celebrate the centennial of Joseph Cornells birth, this book provides a fresh, multidimensional perspective on the pioneering modern artist. Lavishly illustrated with over seventy-five boxes and collages, as well as images of the fascinating source material that the artist collec ...Show more
Biennials and Beyond: Exhibitions That Made Art History:1962-2002 by Bruce Altshuler
$110.00 AUD
Category: Art
Within the past decade, the history of art exhibitions has become an important area of academic and critical inquiry. Exhibitions are hubs of interaction within the art world, the places where artists, dealers, critics, and collectors come together, and where the newest art first comes before the public ...Show more
Yoko Ono - Half a Wind Show - a Retrospective by Ingrid Pfeiffer
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
Yoko Ono is an established avant-garde artist whose work spans installation, object, film, photography, and music. Named after her renowned exhibition "Half a Wind" at London's Lisson gallery in 1967, this volume features Ono's most important works. It also includes photographs of Ono surrounded by her ...Show more
Art Nouveau: Between Modernism and Romantic Nationalism; 20th Century Decorative Arts by Matteo Fochessati
$74.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Twentieth-Century Decorative and Applied Arts Ser.
Nurtured by the aesthetic-social critique undertaken by the British Arts and Crafts Movement, Art Nouveau contrasted the heaviness of mechanical production with the ingenious elegance of forms inspired by pure and alluring lines, based on plant forms. Enlivened by nostalgic fin de siecle decadence, the ...Show more
Penphopedia: The World According to Maxim Piessen and Ben Goovaerts by Maxim Piessen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art
Penpho = Pencil + Photo Ben Goovaerts makes amazing drawings and Maxim Piessen really knows his photography and Photoshop. Lots of young fans really love the Penphos that they produce together. This book gives us a glimpse into their lives, habits and views. Their outlook on the world is wonderfully sur ...Show more
Abandoned Places 3 by Henk van Rensbergen
$85.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Urban Explorer and photographer Henk Van Rensbergen continues his search for abandoned buildings world wide: picturesque palazzo's and mansions in Italy, an abandoned theatre and a surrealistic shopping mall in the USA, a forgotten hospital, dilapidated hotels and a never-opened amusement park in the Do ...Show more
Warhols Queens by Henriette Dedichen
$50.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Warhol's Queens offers a surprising mosaic consisting of his portraits of royal queens and images of drag queens. For Andy Warhol (1928-1987), both genuine as well as fake queens slipped into the role of idealized movie-star femininity, devoting their lives to handing down a glittering and sparkling way ...Show more
The Purple Book Sensuality and Symbolism in Contemporary Art and Illustration by Angus Hyland
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
"The Purple Book" is a luxurious compendium of contemporary illustration that explores fantasy, sensuality and the erotic imagination. It highlights visual art and the written word as media for representing human desires relationship with the dream-state, make-believe, and symbolism. Much of the work by ...Show more
Found Photography by Anne-Marie Garat
$19.95 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Photofile
A side effect of the rise of photography as a popular art form has been the accumulation of a huge body of images whose photographers and subjects remain unknown. These include fascinating photographs--some almost masterpieces--that could easily have been lost if it hadn't been for their chance rediscov ...Show more
Chagall: Modern Master by Simonetta Fraquelli; Angela Lampe; Monica Bohm-Duchen; Tate Gallery Liverpool Staff (Contribution by)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
Though his paintings of Russian village life, floating figures, flying cows, and roosters are instantly familiar, Marc Chagall (1887–1985) remains one of the least understood artists of his generation. Bringing together more than 60 paintings and a selection of works on paper, this lavishly illustrated ...Show more
From Above and Below Man and the Sea by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Brian Skerry
$80.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Ranging from the arctic to the tropics, from largescale views of Australias barrier reef to close-up images of sea turtles, "From Above and Below" is a compelling, entirely unique journey through a fascinating world. Some 200 spectacular aerial images by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and striking underwater phot ...Show more
The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists by Ian Chilvers
$20.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference S.
Covering Western art from the ancient Greeks to the present day, this best-selling and authoritative dictionary is more wide-ranging than any comparable reference work. It contains over 2,500 clear and concise entries on styles and movements, materials and techniques, and museums and galleries. It also ...Show more