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
Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities by Albertus Seba; Irmgard Müsch
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Spectacular specimens: Albertus Seba's unrivaled catalog of animals, insects and plants The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time. Though scientists of his era often collected ...Show more
3D and the Art of Massive Attack by Robert Del Naja
$100.00 AUD
Category: Art
The Vinyl Factory presents (3D and the art of Massive Attack), the first book on the visual history of a band who have sold over 11 milliion records worldwide. Compiled and designed by Robert del Naja aka 3D it uses images from his personal archive and original artefacts scanned by the artist for the bo ...Show more
Aubrey Beardsley - A Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Gertner Zatlin
$268.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
This is the first book to bring together the recorded works of the English artist Aubrey Beardsley. Despite his early death from tuberculosis in 1898, at the age of 25, these amount to nearly 1100 completed works of art (plus many related sketches) as well as more than 100 sketches in his letters and th ...Show more
Peggy Guggenheim - The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
$37.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Jewish Lives
One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray. In her time, there was no stronger advocate for the groundbreaking and the avant-garde. Her midtown galle ...Show more
Awakening: Four Lives in Art by Eileen Chanin
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
Ibsen's A Doll's House opened in Melbourne on 14 September 1889. The slam of the door as Nora left her husband echoed in the minds of thousands of young Australian women. This book is about four of these women, each of whom became an international pioneer in the arts. Dora Ohlfsen and her lover Countess ...Show more
Stephen Bowers: Beyond Bravura by Damon Moon
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
Stephen Bowers makes pottery that fires the imagination. He combines rich, modern life experiences with skills and traditions that stretch back thousands of years to create complex works full of wonder. From familiar, everyday items, to the transformative alchemy of deluxe and super deluxe bravura museu ...Show more
Sidney Nolan : A Life by Nancy Underhill
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
Digging through the myths around Australia’s most famous artist, many of which he created himself as a masterful self-promoter, this book is the biography that Sidney Nolan deserves. In an authoritative, insightful and often irreverent biography that fully charts Nolan’s life and work, Nancy Underhill p ...Show more
Themes in Contemporary Art by Gillian Perry
$48.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Open University Art of the Twentieth Century
Themes in Contemporary Art discusses the art of the final third of the twentieth century. In seven related chapters, it looks at different aspects of the postmodernism that has dominated art since the 1960s. The first chapter offers a broad introduction to the art and theories of the period. The next th ...Show more
Art-based Research by Shaun McNiff
$47.95 AUD
Category: Art
The standard approach in the research of creative arts therapies has been to adopt a scientific method of investigation. However, here Shaun McNiff argues that such a method should not be the only form of enquiry and that the creative arts themselves have for too long been absent from the profession's d ...Show more
Art and Science by Eliane Strosberg
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
Today, art and science are often defined in opposition to each other: one involves the creation of individual aesthetic objects, and the other the discovery of general laws of nature. Throughout human history, however, the boundaries have been less clearly drawn: knowledge and artifacts have often issue ...Show more
Double War - Shaun Gladwel: Visual Culture and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq by Kit Messham-Muir
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art
This book focuses on art and war and, in particular, the photographs of Shaun Gladwell, an internationally acclaimed young Australian artist who has represented Australia at a Venice Biennale and has also served as an official War Artist in Iraq and Afghanistan.