Ceramic Glazes: The Complete Handbook by Brian Taylor
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
A feast for the eyes, this inspiring gallery of beautiful and remarkable ceramic pieces includes work from a broad range of exceptional contemporary ceramic artists, each of whom offers an inside look at their glazing process, including their special recipes and the techniques for using them. The book i ...Show more
The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters from the Museum of Modern Art by Sarah Suzuki
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art
Though deeply engaged with painting and drawing, Toulouse-Lautrecs lasting contribution to artistic practice was as a graphic artist. Through his prints and posters, advertisements, and contributions in reviews and magazines, he brought the language of the late-nineteenth-century French avant-garde to a ...Show more
The Painter's Secret Geometry: A Study of Composition in Art by Charles Bouleau
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
Bouleau's classic illustrated work examines the essential reliance of European painting tradition on the golden mean and other geometrical patterns. From antiquity to the present, expert painters-including abstract modern masters such as Paul Klee and Jackson Pollock-have conveyed harmony through the ma ...Show more
Owning the Past: Why the English Collected Antique Sculpture, 1640-1840 by Ruth Guilding
$119.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
In a lively re-examination of the British collectors who bankrupted themselves to possess antique marble statues, Owning the Past chronicles a story of pride, rivalry, snobbery, and myopic obsession with posterity and possession. Analyzing the motives the drove "Marble Mania" in England from the 17th th ...Show more
John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes 1908-1913: The Complete Paintings: Volume VIII by Richard Ormond
$106.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
After John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) determined to curtail his internationally successful portrait practice, he had more freedom to paint where and what he wanted. Volume VIII of the John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonne transports us to the artist's most beloved locations, often with his friends and ...Show more
Gifts From David McDiarmid
$44.00 AUD
Category: Art
David McDiarmid (1952–1995) was an artist, designer, DJ and activist who made an indelible impact on the intersecting histories of art, craft, fashion, graphic design, gay liberation and AIDS awareness in Australia and New York. Working alongside friends and contemporaries including Jenny Kee, Linda Jac ...Show more
Art in Time - A World History of Styles and Movements by The Editors of Phaidon Press
$89.95 AUD
Category: Art
An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to 150 of the most significant styles and movements that have shaped art history through time. All art is of its time, and this book is the first survey that explicitly embeds styles, schools and movements within the politics and culture in which they arose, by mean ...Show more
The Twenty First Century Art Book by The Editors of Phaidon Press
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
The 21st‐Century Art Book is an A‐to‐Z guide of contemporary artists featuring established art‐world figures – Maurizio Cattelan, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall – alongside rising stars of the next generations. Global in scope, the book features work from 50 countries across a variety of mediums, from paintin ...Show more
The Imaginary World of Keri Smith by Keri Smith
$20.00 AUD
Category: Art
'What kind of world would you like to inhabit?' Here, Keri Smith begins with a list. Writing down everything the reader is drawn to, from things they love or collect to things that fascinate and excite, including objects, colours, sounds, textures, memories, places and people, the list serves as the bui ...Show more
The Spaces Between: Contemporary Art in Havana by Tonel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
As opined by the book's title, this is a publication focused toward the shared spaces and communal sensibilities of a city, rather than an attempt to survey the entire contemporary output of this anomalous nation. In essence, the study is a concentrated one of modern Havana, taking note of those artisti ...Show more
Russian Decorative Arts by Cynthia Coleman Sparke
$175.00 AUD
Category: Art
Russia's last great Imperial celebration took place at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg with the lavish ball of 1913 celebrating 300 years of Romanov rule. The finest gowns, jewels, snuff boxes, and banqueting tableware of the Tsarist era were sumptuously displayed then for the last time. The outbreak ...Show more