Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation by Chris Stephens
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
Art historian, collector, museum director and broadcaster, Kenneth Clark was one of the leading cultural figures in Britain in the midtwentieth century. Accompanying a major exhibition, this book considers all aspects of his life and work, including his television career that climaxed in the landmark se ...Show more
Netsuke - 100 miniature pieces from Japan by Noriko Tsuchiya
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art
Netsuke have once again come to the fore in the popular imagination of the public. In part this is due to the phenomenal success of Edmund De Waals 2010 book, Hare with the Amber Eyes, which highlights a treasured netsuke collection that was challenged by war and the vicissitudes of time. Intricately ca ...Show more
Andrew Wyeth: Looking out, Looking in by Nancy K. Anderson
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
One of Andrew Wyeths most important paintings, Wind from the Sea, a recent gift to the National Gallery of Art, is also the artists first full realization of the window as a recurring subject in his art. Wyeth returned to windows over the next sixty years, producing more than 250 works that explore both ...Show more
The Hermitage: 250 Masterpieces by Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky
$115.00 AUD
Category: Art
For 250 years the State Hermitage has been one of Europe's most palatial museums. The Hermitage collections were developed beginning in 1764 by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, and now encompass more than three million works of art and artifacts displayed within a spectacular architectural ensemb ...Show more
The Value of Art - Money, Power, Beauty by Michael Findlay
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
In straightforward prose that doesn't mystify art or deny its special allure, prominent art dealer and market expert Michael Findlay offers an up-close and personal view of almost a half-century in the business of art. He engagingly explains art's three kinds of value: commercial; social; and what he te ...Show more
Hockney: Printmaker by Richard Lloyd
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
In 1954, a sixteen-year-old student at the Bradford College of Art opted to study lithography as part of the National Diploma in Design. His first effort, a small self-portrait printed only in a handful of impressions, marks the beginning of one of the longest and most diverse careers in modern printmak ...Show more
Ai Weiwei
$43.00 AUD
Category: Art
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist and activist known for sculpture, installation, architecture, film, and social criticism. For his controversial work, Ai was detained in April 2011, released on bail after 81 days, and he remains under intense police surveillance, prohibited from leaving Beijing. Coinciding ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut Drawings by Nanette Vonnegut
$64.99 AUD
Category: Art
Those who know Kurt Vonnegut as one of America's most beloved and influential writers will be surprised and delighted to discover that he was also a gifted graphic artist. This book brings together the finest examples of his funny, strange, and moving drawings in an inexpensive, beautifully produced gi ...Show more
Jeff Koons - A Retrospective by Scott Rothkopf
$93.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Whitney Museum of American Art
Examining the breadth and depth of thirty-five years of work by Jeff Koons (b. 1955), one of the most influential and controversial artists of the 20th century, this highly anticipated volume features all of his most famous pieces. In an engaging overview essay, Scott Rothkopf carefully examines the evo ...Show more
We, the 25 Letters of the Alphabet by Lajos Walder
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
Hungarian poet, Lajos Walder first came to notice in 1932. His poems are an accurate expression of their times: political tension and bizaree humour are juxtaposed in a manner concordant with the Da-da movement. These poems are now published for the first time in English, translated by his daughter, now ...Show more
B is for Bauhaus - An A-Z of the Modern World by Deyan Sudjic
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
This book is not a dictionary, though it tells you all you need know about everything from Authenticity to Zips. It's not an autobiography, though it does offer a revealing and highly personal inside view of contemporary culture. It's an essential tool kit for understanding the world around us. It's abo ...Show more