The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts (HB) by Edmund De Waal
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art
'Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first.' A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de W ...Show more
Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed by Lesley Harding, Kendrah Morgan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Heide Art in Victoria
Much has been written about the lives and art of Heide, but finally the remaining members of the inner circle have entrusted the truth to be told through this intimate biography of John and Sunday Reed. Equal parts romance and tragedy, Modern Love explores the lives of these champions of successive gene ...Show more
The White Road - A Pilgrimage of Sorts by Edmund De Waal
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted. Extraordinary new nonfiction, a gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling international ...Show more
Francis Bacon in Your Blood by Michael Peppiatt
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
It is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time, telling it as it really was before that whole world that I shared with Francis vanishes...Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's French House to request an interview for a student magazine he was editing. Bacon invited him to ...Show more
My Hermitage: How the Hermitage Survived Tsars, Wars, and Revolutions to Become the Greatest Museum in the World by Dr. Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
Holding one of the largest collections of Western art in the world, the Hermitage is also a product of Russia and its dramatic history. Founded by Empress Catherine the Great in 1764, the stunning Winter Palace was built to house her growing collection of Old Masters and to serve as a home for the imper ...Show more
Visual Impact : Creative Dissent in the 21st Century by Liz McQuiston
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
An accessible and richly illustrated exploration of how art and design have driven major social and political change in the 21st century. Visual Impact highlights the extraordinary power of art and graphic design to effect social and political change. Richly illustrated with over 400 images, this is a ...Show more
Japan Style by Gian Carlo Calza
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
An authoritative and wide-ranging visual essay on the aesthetics of Japan, now in a beautiful paperback edition. Japan Style, written by one of the world's most respected scholars of Japanese art and culture, defines what 'Japan style' is. It explores specific achievements in Japanese art and architect ...Show more
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris, 1900-1910 by Sue Roe
$25.00 AUD
Category: Art
The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps, but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills - artificial and real - and in the cafés and cabarets of Montmartre during the f ...Show more
Paul Cezanne: Drawings and Watercolours by Christopher Lloyd
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
Drawing was central to Cezanne's indefatigable search for solutions to the problems posed by the depiction of reality. Many of his watercolours are equal to his paintings, and he himself made no real distinction between painting and drawing. This book's six chapters are arranged thematically covering th ...Show more
Possible Worlds - A Poster Colouring Book by Dylan Martorell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art
In this intricate book of art prints to colour in, musician and artist Dylan Martorell explores dreamscapes and fantastical realms. Inspired by mythology and his global travels, Dylan's ethnographic bowerbird aesthetic is manifested in Possible Worlds' mind-blowing detail. Add your own colourful touch t ...Show more
Gustave Caillebotte : The Painter's Eye by Mary Morton
$119.00 AUD
Category: Art
Though largely out of the public eye for more than a century, Gustave Caillebotte (1848 - 94) has come to be recognized as one of the most dynamic and original artists of the impressionist movement in Paris. His paintings are favorites of museum-goers, and recent restoration of his work has revealed mor ...Show more
Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting by Michael Jacobs
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance of the painting by following the trails of associations from each individual character in the pictur ...Show more