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
33 Artists in 3 Acts by Sarah Thornton
$25.00 AUD
Category: Art
Is being an artist a radical form of entrepreneurship or a vocational calling like the priesthood? Is it an extension of philosophy or an offshoot of entertainment? In three richly interlinked but distinct 'acts' - Politics, Kinship and Craft - Sarah Thornton compares and contrasts answers to the simple ...Show more
Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time by S. N. Behrman
$22.00 AUD
Category: Art
An exceptional biography of the world's most famous art dealer.
Sir Portrait: 30 Portraits of Roy Strong by Sir Roy Strong
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art
How does the former Director of the nation's greatest collection of portraits celebrate his 80th birthday? The distinguished photographer John Swannell and Roy Strong have devised a series of thirty portraits that transport Roy through time, inventing and reinventing him as an array of historical charac ...Show more
China: Through the Looking Glass by Andrew Bolton
$76.00 AUD
Category: Art
For centuries, China's export arts-jade, silks, porcelains, and, more recently, cinema-have fueled Western fantasies of an exotic East and served as enduring sources of inspiration for fashion. This stunning publication, which accompanied one of the most successful exhibitions in The Metropolitan Museum ...Show more
Performance Ritual Document by Anne C. Marsh
$89.95 AUD
Category: Art
This copiously illustrated publication explores performance art-and its intensive cousin, body art-through live manifestations and reiterations in photographs, film and video. Records such as these, that began to be made early in the history of performance art, have enabled audiences to experience the w ...Show more
Impressionism by Ingo F Walther
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
This monograph covers the full scope of Impressionist painting. The first part outlines the history of Impressionism in France, addressing not only the work of the acknowledged masters, but also that of such unjustly neglected artists as Frederic Bazille, Gustave Caillebotte, Berthe Morisot or Lucien Pi ...Show more
The Idea of Art : Building a Contemporary International Art Collection
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art
Curator Anthony Bond began building a contemporary international art collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney in 1984. The collection now features many important artists, including Anselm Kiefer, Antony Gormley, Francis Bacon, Anish Kapoor and Doris Salcedo. In The Idea of Art, Bond disc ...Show more
Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation by Gaye Sculthorpe
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
Published to accompany major exhibitions at the British Museum and the National Museum of Australia in 2015, Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation uses objects from the extraordinary collection of the British Museum to celebrate the unique and ongoing relationship that Aboriginal people and Torres ...Show more
World Atlas of Tattoo by Anna Felicity Friedman
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
Lively and informative, The World Atlas of Tattoo is a superbly illustrated and compelling reference book that, through examining the meeting point between tattoo artists and their personal understanding of their environment, presents a well-informed and nuanced account of what has become a widespread a ...Show more
MoMA Masterpieces: Painting and Sculpture by Ann Temkin
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
Since its founding in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art in New York has brought the history of modern and contemporary art to vivid life through its extraordinary holdings. MoMA Masterpieces provides a fresh look at the Museums exceptional collection as it stands today. Ann Temkins introduction addresses t ...Show more
Brushes with History Masters of Watercolour Australian Watercolour Institute 90th Anniversary by Linda Van Nunen
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art
The world's oldest painting medium, watercolour has remained a significant source of inspiration and expression for many artists, as it was for J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Girtin, Alexander Cozens, John Constable, Eugene Delacroix, Paul Cezanne and Picasso, among other luminaries in the history of art. The fr ...Show more