Odd Roads to be Walking: 156 Women who shaped Australian Art by Paul Finucane, Catherine Stuart
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art History
'It was an odd road to be walking, this of painting.' So wrote Virginia Woolf in her classic 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. While the life journeys of many artists can be described as 'odd roads', few were as original and challenging as those of the pioneering Australian women of art from the late 19th ...Show more
Show Your Work ! 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin Kleon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Austin Kleon Ser.
In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by "stealing" from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey--ge ...Show more
Wabi Sabi For Artists Designers Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art History
An updated version of the classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
Songlines Tracking the Seven Sisters by Margo Neale (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art History
This stunning companion to the National Museum of Australia's blockbuster Indigenous-led exhibition, Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, explores the history and meaning of songlines, the Dreaming or creation tracks that crisscross the Australian continent, of which the Seven Sisters songline is one ...Show more
Steal Like an Artist 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon (Artist)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Austin Kleon Ser.
You don't need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That's the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illu ...Show more
Just What the Doctor Disordered: Early Writings and Cartoons of Dr. Seuss by Rick Marschall
$27.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art
Before his worldwide fame as a bestselling children's author, Dr. Seuss was a magazine writer and cartoonist. His genius mix of visual hilarity, nonsense language, and absurdist humor illuminates this entertaining compilation of items from the Doctor's early - and often forgotten - career. Includes feat ...Show more
How to Collect Art by Magnus Resch
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art History
You must read this book before buying any artwork - written by the world's leading art-market economist Navigating the world of collecting can be a tricky process, especially for one just starting out in the art market. The world's leading art market expert Magnus Resch explains the core principles of ...Show more
Frida & Diego: Love & Revolution The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Modernism by Tansy Curtin
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art History
At the centre of the story of twentieth-century Mexican art, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are known not simply for their artistic contribution to the nation but also for their fascinating and all-consuming love affair. Twenty years her senior, Rivera was already a celebrated artist when he met Kahlo in ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art History
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
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art History
A tour de force of writing on art This legendary book has been universally hailed as the best, the most readable and the most provocative account of modern art ever written. Through each of the thematic chapters Hughes keeps his story grounded in the history of the 20th century, demonstrating how modern ...Show more