Quentin Blake: In The Theatre of Imagination. An Artist at Work by Ghislaine Kenyon
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art History
Quentin Blake is one of the foremost illustrators of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known for his collaboration with Roald Dahl on books such as The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, The Twits and Matilda, he is cherished by young and old alike, throughout the world. Yet his work has not attained 'fine ...Show more
Afghanistan: A Cultural History by St John Simpson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Art History
While the modern nation can trace its origins back to 1747, the history of Afghanistan is far more ancient. It has long been an ancient focal point of the Silk Road and human migration. While many native people such as the Kushans, Samanids, Saffarids and Mughals have founded their empires here, the cou ...Show more
Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained by Susie Hodge
$19.95 AUD
Category: Art History
"Why Your 5 Year Old Could Not Have Done That" is Susie Hodges passionate and persuasive argument against the most common disparaging remark levelled at modern art. In this enjoyable and thought-provoking book, she examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical and public hostility from C ...Show more
Rodin by Taschen Staff; François Blanchetière
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Sculpting life: When marble and clay come aliveWhile anchoring his practice in the traditions of antiquity and the Renaissance, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) paved the way for modern sculpture. From a very early stage, he was interested in movement, the expression of the body, chance effects, and the incomp ...Show more
The Art Museum (Revised Edition) by Phaidon Editors (COR)
$79.95 AUD
Category: Art History
Visit the world's most comprehensive and compelling museum in a book - from pre-historic times to the present, - over 1,600 artworks created with the expertise of 28 art world curators and historians."Unprecedented, unique, and vast in scope... a visually spectacular survey of world art. Destined to del ...Show more
Art of the 20th Century - Painting Sculpture New media Photography
$64.96 AUD
Category: Art History
The century that changed art forever: The quintessential roundup of art from 1900-2000 Who could possibly have forecast on New Year's Eve 1899 that, one hundred years later, painting and sculpture would be only options, not prerequisites? The term "art" has been defined and redefined so many times over ...Show more
Van Gogh by Wilhelm Uhde
$190.00 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Phaidon Classics
Phaidon's classic illustrated monograph on Van Gogh, updated with an elegantly crafted design for today's burgeoning art aficionados.Reviving a much beloved group of artist monographs from the Phaidon archive, the new "Phaidon Classics" bring to life the fine craftsmanship and design of Phaidon books of ...Show more
Photographers A-Z by Hans-Michael Koetzle
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Masters and monographs: An encyclopedia of 20th century photographers and their finest publications Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopediafeatures every major photographer of the 20th centuryalongside her or his most significant monographs.From the earliest representatives of classical ...Show more
Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution by David Rothenberg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art History
'The peacock's tail makes me sick!' said Charles Darwin. That's because the theory of evolution as adaptation can't explain why nature is so beautiful. It took the concept of sexual selection for Darwin to explain that, a process that has more to do with aesthetic taste than adaptive fitness. Survival o ...Show more
The Skull: Designed by Wintercroft by Steve Wintercroft
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Wintercroft masks have caught the imagination of creative people and festival-goers around the globe. Designed by Steve Wintercroft, an artist with a passion for craftsmanship and conservation, these masks have been used everywhere from music videos and fashion shoots to theatre productions and politica ...Show more
La Mama by Adam Cass
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art History
In July 2017 La Mama Theatre celebrates 50 years since the premiere of its first production, Jack Hibberd's Three Old Friends. La Mama commemorates the wonderful life story of the theatre so far, tracking the history and chronology of all of the work that has been made and the careers that have been bor ...Show more
Strange Country
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art History
'Painting matters to Australia and Australians as it does in few other countries. It has formed our consciousness, our sense of where we come from, and who we are. It cries out for wider recognition and acknowledgement.' - Patrick McCaughey Why has Australia, an island continent with a small population, ...Show more