Louise Bourgeois: An Intimate Portrait by Jean-François Jaussaud
$59.99 AUD
Category: Visual Arts
Jean-Fran ois Jaussaud met Louise Bourgeois for the first time in 1994, at her studio in Brooklyn. But it was not before she had interrogated him about every aspect of his life that he earned her trust. A first photo session was set up in Spring 1995, under one condition: she would destroy the photograp ...Show more
Art in Time - A World History of Styles and Movements by The Editors of Phaidon Press
$89.95 AUD
Category: Visual Arts
An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to 150 of the most significant styles and movements that have shaped art history through time. All art is of its time, and this book is the first survey that explicitly embeds styles, schools and movements within the politics and culture in which they arose, by mean ...Show more
Street Art Africa by Cale Waddacor
$49.99 AUD
Category: Visual Arts
This visually rich survey showcases the work of over two hundred artists from more than forty countries as it explores and celebrates street art in Africa over the last decade. In Street Art Africa, readers can reflect on works such as the monumental Murais da Leba in Angola--a nearly 20,000-square-foot ...Show more
In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali by Sue Roe
$49.99 AUD
Category: Visual Arts | Reading Level: very good
In Montparnasse is Sue Roe's lively account of the birth of Surrealism. Informative and entertaining, the book begins with Marcel Duchamp and the wonderfully eccentric and avant garde Dada movement, going on to tell the story of the moving death of Modigliani, the birth of Surrealist photography with Ma ...Show more
Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route by National Museum of Australia Staff; Carly Davenport; Monique Lafontaine; John Carty
$59.00 AUD
Category: Visual Arts
In 2007, nearly 70 Aboriginal artists traveled through the Canning Stock Route--a track in Western Australia along which cattle could be driven from Kimberley stations in the north to markets in the south--to return to places they had left as children, reconnect with family, or reclaim histories. This c ...Show more
Travels With My Art by RUBBO, MICHAEL
$34.95 AUD
Category: Visual Arts
I’ve spent my life as a filmmaker. But through my 40 years making both documentaries and features, I’ve had to get out of the dark, out of the cutting room and be in nature. My family has a history of doing this via painting. Both my grandfather, Antonio Dattilo Rubbo, and my mother, Ellen Rubbo, painte ...Show more
Adam Pendleton by Adrienne Edwards; Andréa Picard; Alec Mapes-Frances
$69.95 AUD
Category: Visual Arts | Series: Phaidon Contemporary Artists Ser.
The first encompassing publication on the work of the groundbreaking American artist Adam Pendleton Adam Pendleton's original and powerful body of work has been described as the embodiment of a new era. His multifaceted projects, which include painting, collage, film, and publishing, re-contextualize hi ...Show more
The Museum of Lost Art
$39.95 AUD
Category: Visual Arts
True tales of lost art, built around case studies of famous works, their creators, and stories of disappearance and recovery From the bestselling author of The Art of Forgery comes this dynamic narrative that tells the fascinating stories of artworks stolen, looted, or destroyed in war, accidentally dem ...Show more
Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Art of the Four by Roger Billcliffe
$75.00 AUD
Category: Visual Arts
The Glasgow Style is the name given to the work of a group of young designers and architects working in Glasgow from 1890-1914. At its centre were four young friends who had trained at Glasgow School of Art; two architects and two artists - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Herbert MacNair, Margaret Macdonald ...Show more
Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art? by Kyung An, Jessica Cerasi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Visual Arts
What is contemporary art? What makes it contemporary? Who is it for? And why is it so expensive?From museums and the art market to biennials and the next big thing, Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art? offers concise and pointed insights into today's art scene, decoding "artspeak," explaining what curators ...Show more
Bauhaus by Frank Whitford; Michael White (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Visual Arts | Series: World of Art Ser.
The aesthetic of our contemporary environment, including everything from housing developments to furniture and websites, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919, the Bauhaus. While in operation for only fourteen years before being shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the ...Show more
100 Sculptors of Tomorrow by Kurt Beers
$80.00 AUD
Category: Visual Arts
How do you find the most promising emerging artists at work in a rapidly transforming medium? Bypassing traditional art world channels, 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow is the culmination of a major, democratic open call for up-and-coming sculptors. From thousands of entries, an internationally renowned jury h ...Show more