B Is for Bauhaus : An A-Z of the Modern World by Deyan Sudjic
$23.00 AUD
Category: Art
Design is a unique way of understanding the world around us. This book is an essential tool kit for decoding contemporary culture. It's about what makes a Warhol a genuine fake, the beauty of the jumbo jet, the notion of authenticity, Hitchcock's film sets, the success of Ikea, the creation of national ...Show more
How to Read Art: A Crash Course in Understanding and Interpreting Paintings by Liz Rideal
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art
This charmingly illustrated, highly informative field guide to understanding art history is small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers. This seventh entry in the hugely popular How to Read series is a one-stop guide to understanding the world's great artworks. The book ex ...Show more
Brice Marden - Ru Ware, Marbles, Polke by Mr David Anfam
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
"Brice Marden: Ru Ware, Marbles, Polke" features the most recent paintings from this towering figure in contemporary abstraction. The book's title alludes to the breadth of Marden's inspirations: rare Chinese pottery, coarse Greek marble and the late German artist Sigmar Polke. Each of the works or seri ...Show more
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing by Laura J. Snyder
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art
By the early 17th century the Scientific Revolution was well under way. Philosophers and scientists were throwing off the yoke of ancient authority to peer at nature and the cosmos through microscopes and telescopes. In October 1632, in the small town of Delft in the Dutch Republic, two geniuses were bo ...Show more
Cy Twombly - Late Paintings 2003-2011 by Nela Pavlouskova
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
Beginning in 2003, when Twombly was seventy-five years old, a fresh surge of creativity brought new energy into his art, expanding upon themes and modes of expression from throughout his career. Characterized by monumentality and flamboyant colour, these works often use large formats to accommodate broa ...Show more
Agnes Martin Her Life and Art by Nancy Princenthal
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
Over the course of a career that spanned fifty years, Agnes Martin s austere, serene work anticipated and helped to define Minimalism, even as she battled psychological crises and carved out a solitary existence in the American Southwest. Martin identified with the Abstract Expressionists but her commit ...Show more
Fornasetti - Practical Madness by Patrick Mauries
$100.00 AUD
Category: Art
A new evaluation of one of the most inventive designers of the twentieth century Piero Fornasetti was a master of the decorative imagination. His motifs conjure up the illusionism of Arcimboldo, the grand architectural fantasies of Piranesi and Palladio, and something of the wit of ...Show more
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art in the Collection of Th by Judith Ryan
$24.95 AUD
Category: Art
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria is a major overview of the work of Indigenous artists of the past 130 years. Entries on more than 100 works in the NGV’s collection reveal the influence of early Indigenous objects on contemporary dialogues; ...Show more
Art in Theory 1900-2000:An Anthology of Changing Ideas by various
$56.95 AUD
Category: Art
Since it was first published in 1992, this book has become one of the leading anthologies of art theoretical texts in the English-speaking world. This expanded edition includes the best recent reflections, taking the anthology up to the turn of the twenty-first century.
The Art of Forgery by Noah Charney
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and Methods of the Master Forgers explores the stories, dramas and human intrigues surrounding the world's most famous forgeries - investigating the motivations of the artists and criminals who have faked great works of art, and in doing so conned the public and th ...Show more
Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse by Stanley Meisler
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art
For a couple of decades before World War II, a group of immigrant painters and sculptors, including Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine and Jules Pascin dominated the new art scene of Montparnasse in Paris. Art critics gave them the name "the School of Paris" to set them apart from the French ...Show more
The Lady in Gold The Extraordinary Tales of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece by Anne-Marie O'Connor
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art
National Bestseller The true story that inspired the movie "Woman in Gold" starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds.""Contributor to the"Washington Post"Anne-Marie O Connor brilliantly regales us with the galvanizing story of Gustav Klimt s 1907 masterpiece the breathtaking portrait of a Viennese Jewish ...Show more