The Dream of a King: Dresden's Green Vault by Dirk Syndram
$83.00 AUD
Category: Art
Boasting the largest collection of treasures in Europe, Dresden's Green Vault is also among the continent's oldest museums, founded in the early eighteenth century. Since its extensive restoration and reopening in 2006, it has attracted more than three million visitors who have come from around the worl ...Show more
Alexandre Cabanel: The Tradition of Beauty by Andreas Bluhm
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art
French painter Alexandre Cabanel is famous for his entrancingly beautiful "The Birth of Venus." Since its purchase by Napoleon III in 1863, it remains among the foremost attractions at Paris's Musee d'Orsay. Yet as familiar as "The Birth of Venus" has become--gracing countless posters, art prints, and c ...Show more
The Secret Museum by Molly Oldfield
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
The Secret Museum is a unique treasure trove of the most intriguing artifacts hidden away in museum archives from all over the world - curated, brought to light, and brought to life by Molly Oldfield in a beautifully illustrated collection. Who knows what's hidden from view? Locked away in cabinets, sec ...Show more
The Art of the Salon: The Triumph of 19th-Century Painting by Norbert Wolf
$199.00 AUD
Category: Art
The Paris Salons of the mid-nineteenth century are famous today above all for the paintings that were rejected more than for those that were actually shown. The rejected works form today's canon of art history and are regarded as heralds of a modern age. This book looks to reassess the other side of the ...Show more
Always Looking: Essays on Art by John Updike
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
Following on from the acclaimed "Just Looking" and "Still Looking", "Always Looking" is an insightful collection of art criticism and a masterclass in appreciating art - from the great American man of letters, John Updike. "Always Looking" treats readers to a series of elegant and sensitive essays on ar ...Show more
Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde by Doryun Chong
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
"Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde" explores the extraordinary convergence of artists, intellectuals, and creators in Japans capital city during the radically transformative postwar period. Examining works from a range of media paintings, sculpture, photographs, drawings, prints, videos and films, as w ...Show more
The Ideal Museum by Philippe Daverio
$79.95 AUD
Category: Art
Philippe Daverio is one of Italy's most important contemporary art historians, whose discerning comments about art are voraciously consumed by the public through his writing as editor of the famed magazine "Art e Dossier" and his platform on a leading Italian television program "Passepartout." Now, in h ...Show more
The James Bond Archives by Paul Duncan
$129.99 AUD
Category: Photography
"Bond, James Bond." Since Sean Connery uttered those immortal words in 1962, the most dashing secret agent in the history of cinema has been charming and thrilling audiences worldwide. This impeccably British character created by author Ian Fleming has starred in 23 EON-produced films, played by 6 diffe ...Show more
Terrywood by Terry Richardson
$80.00 AUD
Category: Photography
In support of his wildly successful TERRYWOOD, which opened in Los Angeles earlier in the year, Terry Richardson releases a comprehensive monograph fully detailing the exhibition. The volume consists of the artwork in the exhibition, documentation of the year-long process of building the exhibition and ...Show more
7 Reece Mews by Perry Ogden
$53.00 AUD
Category: Art
7 Reece Mews, South Kensington, was the artist Francis Bacon's home and studio for over 30 years. On his death in 1992, access was granted to photographer Perry Ogden to work undisturbed for days on end to produce this fascinating record of the artist's private space and its contents.
Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography by Roger Watson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Photography
This is the story of two lone geniuses and the extraordinary race to invent photography. Capturing the Light starts with a tiny scrap of purple-tinged paper, 176 years old and about the size of a postage stamp. On it you can just make out a tiny, ghostly image of a gothic window, an image so small and ...Show more
Pictures Of Sound: One Thousand Years Of Educed Audio: 980-1980
$0.00 AUD
Category: Photography