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A History of Pictures by David Hockney, Martin Gayford
$39.99 AUD
Category: THE ARTS
Informed and energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing and making images with cameras, David Hockney, in collaboration with the art critic Martin Gayford, explores how and why pictures have been made across the millennia. What makes marks on a flat surface interesting? How do you show movement in a s ...Show more
A History of Pictures for Children by David Hockney; Martin Gayford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference
A History of Pictures for Children takes readers on a journey through art history, from early art drawn on cave walls to the images we make today on our computers and phone cameras. Based on the bestselling book for adults, this children's edition of A History of Pictures is told through conversations b ...Show more
Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 1939–1954 by David Dawson, Martin Gayford
$130.00 AUD
Category: Art History
Reproductions of the young Lucian Freud's letters alongside insightful context and commentary reveal the foundations of the artist's personality and creative practice. The young Lucian Freud was described by his friend Stephen Spender as 'totally alive, like something not entirely human, a leprechaun, a ...Show more
Lucian Freud's Sketchbooks by Martin Gayford
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Lucian Freud was one of the world's greatest realist artists. Working only from life, he once claimed, 'I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't there in front of me.' This revelatory publication features a selection of beautifully reproduced images from his sketchbooks. Most of the sketche ...Show more
Man With a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford
$25.95 AUD
Category: Art History
A beautifully produced paperback edition of the literary art book hailed as one of the best and most continually fascinating books about painting in recent memory. Lucian Freud (1922-2011) spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. Gayford describes the process chronologica ...Show more
Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art History
This is a new biography of Michelangelo by Martin Gayford, the acclaimed author of Constable in Love and The Yellow House. There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be ...Show more
Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely belie ...Show more
Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters by Martin Gayford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Bacon, Freud, Hockney & The London Painters
'What can painting do?' This question bound together a diverse community of artists in London after the Second World War. In answering it, many became household names: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Gillian Ayres, Frank Bowling, Howard Hodgkin and more.Drawing ...Show more
Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy (HB) by Martin Gayford; David Hockney
$50.00 AUD
Category: Artwork
"I intend to carry on with my work, which I now see as very important. We have lost touch with nature rather foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it." David Hockney On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquility for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of t ...Show more
Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy by Martin Gayford, David Hockney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Reading Level: near fine
The Sunday Times bestseller: David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural Normandy On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquillity for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of the seasons; a place to keep the madness of the world at ba ...Show more
The Many Faces of Jonathan Yeo by Martin Gayford
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art History
Jonathan Yeo is one of Britain's best-known portrait painters. Over more than a decade, he has gained an international reputation for painting some of the most famous faces of our age. Models and movie stars, artists and actors, politicians and princes all have been the subject of his iconic, and often ...Show more
The Pursuit of Art - Travels, Encounters and Revelations by Martin Gayford
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Travels, Encounters & Revelations
In the course of a career thinking and writing about art, critic Martin Gayford has traveled all over the world both to see works of art and to meet artists. Gayford's journeys, often to fairly inaccessible places, involve frustrations and complications, but also serendipitous encounters and outcomes, w ...Show more
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