Alphonse Mucha by Agnes Husslein-Arco
$99.00 AUD
Category: Art
Alphonse Mucha is known largely for having originated Art Nouveau, when his poster of the actress Sarah Bernhardt became a legendary icon of the movement. Mucha went on to design hundreds of pieces in the decorative arts field, but later distanced himself from the style he pioneered, devoting his time a ...Show more
Bill - The Life of William Dobell by Scott Bevan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In post-war Australia, William Dobell was a household name. But the most famous artist in the land was a broken man. His Archibald Prize-winning portrait of Joshua Smith was the subject of a sensational legal case, challenging not only Dobell's right to the prize, but the very idea of art itself. Dobell ...Show more
Playing to the Gallery Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to be Understood by Grayson Perry
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
'It's easy to feel insecure around art and its appreciation, as though we cannot enjoy certain artworks if we don't have a lot of academic and historical knowledge. But if there's one message that I want you to take away it's that anybody can enjoy art and anybody can have a life in the arts - even me! ...Show more
The Making of Mona by Franklin Adrian
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
Hailed as the most important addition to the Australian cultural landscape since the opening of the Sydney Opera House, MONA has shaken up the art world by breathing life and delight back into the museum experience. Visitors are flocking to MONA, but what is it about MONA that makes it such a transforma ...Show more
The Giant Game of Sculpture by Hervé Tullet
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
A large size version of The Game of sculpture for children to create their own unique piece of art.
Frans Hals by Seymour Slive
$150.00 AUD
Category: Art
Frans Hals (c.1582/3-1666) was a revolutionary in the field of portraiture and used his colour and paint brush to express ultimate freedom by breaking convention. Famed for his unique painting style and method of capturing light and atmosphere, he went on to influence many emerging artists.
The Elements of Sculpture - A Viewer's Guide by Herbert George
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
The Elements of Sculpture is the essential viewer's guide to experiencing sculpture. Richly illustrated with colour photographs of artworks both modern and classical and written by a sculptor and teacher with lifelong experience, it arms the reader with the tools and vocabulary with which to view a vast ...Show more
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris, 1900-1910 by Sue Roe
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
In In Montmartre, Sue Roe vividly brings to life the bohemian world of art in Paris between 1900-1910. When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre...The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to ...Show more
Art: Over 2,500 Works from Cave to Contemporary by Ross King
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
From how to look at works by great masters to explaining key movements, styles, and techniques, this monumental book is the quintessential visual guide to more than 2,500 of the world's most revered paintings and sculptures.DK
Arthur Boyd - Agony and Ecstasy by National Gallery of Australia
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art
Arthur Boyd - Agony and Ecstasy is a major exhibition of Boyd's art including more than 100 works across diverse media: paintings, prints, drawings, ceramic tiles and sculptures, and tapestries. This publication provides the opportunity to contemplate a number of works that have never or rarely been pre ...Show more
Battarbee and Namatjira by Martin Edmond
$29.95 AUD
Category: Art
Battarbee and Namatjira is the biography of two artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira, one white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, the other Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the Hermannsburg Mission south of Alice Springs. From their first encounters in the early 1930s, when Battarbe ...Show more
33 Artists in 3 Acts by Sarah Thornton
$32.99 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