Marina Abramovic by KAREN ARCHEY
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Over the past half century, Marina Abramovic has earned worldwide acclaim as a pioneer of performance art. This handsome new book records the first UK exhibition to include works from her entire career. Re-performances of some of her best-known and most radical works appear alongside new works created e ...Show more
Ceramics: An Atlas of Forms by Glenn Barkley
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
What can we learn about the Roman empire from an amphora made in 200 BC? How can a simple, unadorned cup made in 1945 tell us so much about history? And what will an artwork comprising a vast collection of clay spheres tell our descendants about the act of making? Once fired, clay has the strength to ...Show more
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, fema ...Show more
Portraits by Sophie Cunningham, W. H. Chong, Michelle de Kretser, John Wolseley
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art
From award-winning book designer and artist W. H. Chong, Portraits is a collection of 300 drawings of artists, writers and musicians he has sketched over the last decade. Portraits is a love letter to our culture makers, a sparkling collection of more than 300 drawings of artists, writers, musicians, t ...Show more
Earth & Fire: Modern potters, their tools, techniques and practice by Kylie Johnson, Tiffany Johnson
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
From clay to kiln and all the techniques between, this is an introduction to the craft and techniques of working with ceramics by ceramicists. This book profiles established ceramicists who are making waves in the art world, to midcareer potters who work diligently at their craft daily and make a livin ...Show more
Australian Abstract: Contemporary abstract painting by Amber Creswell Bell
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
'There is an internal monologue, and a world of decisions and possibilities behind each work that the viewer does not see. Abstraction is akin to learning a new language.' ANA YOUNG There is no single neat definition of abstract art. It makes no attempt to represent reality; instead it has its own visu ...Show more
Tattoo. 1730s-1970s. Henk Schiffmacher's Private Collection. 40th Ed by Henk Schiffmacher
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
One part history book, one part art book, and one part fascinating memoir, this book is an overview of more than two centuries of tattoo history intermixed with an intimate look at the lives of tattoo artists, and the personal struggles and triumphs, occupational hazards, and artistic courage that have ...Show more
The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities by Caroline Campbell
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
THE POWER OF ART is an epic work of non-fiction that will transform our understanding of the world by unlocking the human stories behind millennia of art. Taking readers from ancient Babylon to contemporary Pyongyang, the eminent curator Caroline Campbell explains art's power to illuminate our lives, a ...Show more
Paris Moderne: 1914-1945 by Jean-Louis Cohen; Guillemette Morel Journel
$110.00 AUD
Category: Art
This broad survey of modernism--the most scintillating creative era in Paris--spans all domains: architecture, art, design, entertainment, fashion, film, literature, photography. The lives and works of artists in every creative discipline transformed Paris into a crucible of modernity in the first half ...Show more
Gustav Klimt: The Interiors by TOBIAS G. NATTER
$105.00 AUD
Category: Art
This unique and utterly fascinating appreciation of Gustav Klimt's oeuvre reveals some of his most famous works in their original settings and offers valuable historic insight into his artistic vision. Interior design was supremely important to Gustav Klimt, and many of his paintings were created for sp ...Show more
Letters to a Critic: Alan McCulloch's World of Art by Rodney James
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
Australian art through the letters of leading critic Alan McCullochDescribed as 'arguably the most influential Australian art critic of the last half of the twentieth century', Alan McCulloch's work-as illustrator, critic, gallery director and author-reflected on and documented much of this era of visua ...Show more
Forms of Life: Hilma Af Klint and Mondrian by Nabila Abdel Nabi (Editor)
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
In Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life, Tate Modern curator of international art Nabila Abdel Nabi presents an exploration of the powerful work of two groundbreaking modern artists. For the first time, the complex, symbiotic ecologies that sustained the practices of two of the 20th century's ...Show more