One Thousand Cuts: Life and Art in Central Australia by Rod Moss
$59.95 AUD
Category: Visual Arts
Thirty years ago Rod Moss made his home in the stark beauty of Australia's Centre. Since then, his place in Alice Springs and the traditional lands of the Arrernte has been deepened by his enduring intimacy with the families of Whitegate camp on the town's eastern fringe. In this frank and powerful illu ...Show more
Margaret Olley by BARRY PEARCE
$74.99 AUD
Category: Visual Arts
Margaret Olley was a painter of still life and subject of two winning portraits in the Archibald Prize. She was much loved by the Australian art world and a Companion of the Order of Australia, the highest civilian honour. Barry Pearce has written an evaluation of Margaret Olley's work and where it is p ...Show more
Spirit of Place - Artists, Writers, & the British Landscape by Susan Owens
$49.99 AUD
Category: Visual Arts
English landscape painting is often said to be an eighteenth-century invention, yet when we look for representations of the countryside in British art and literature, we find a story that begins with Old English poetry and winds its way through history, all the way up to the present day. In Spirit of P ...Show more
Gauguin by Belinda Thomson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Visual Arts | Series: World of Art Ser.
Artist Paul Gauguin achieved a high public profile during his lifetime and was one of the first artists of his generation to achieve international recognition. But his prominence has always been tangled up with the dramatic and problematic events of his life--his self-imposed exile on a remote South Sea ...Show more
After Kathy Acker: A Biography by Chris Kraus
$39.99 AUD
Category: Visual Arts
Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ...scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. The media storm that surrounded Kathy Acker's books was unprecedented: her books were banned in several countri ...Show more
Warhol - A Life As Art by Blake Gopnik
$69.99 AUD
Category: Visual Arts | Reading Level: near fine
Andy Warhol presented himself as being as shallow as critics accused his famous Campbell's Soup can paintings of being. His public persona was droll; he claimed that he silkscreened because it was easier than painting, and that everyone would have fifteen minutes of fame in the future. But who was Andy ...Show more
Abstract Art by Stephanie Straine
$21.99 AUD
Category: Visual Arts | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
While it is considered by many artists to be a pure and simplistic form of expression, abstract art is also often thought of as vague or exceedingly theoretical. This new installment in the Art Essentials series demystifies the concept and history of abstraction, taking the reader on a journey that span ...Show more
Painting Masterclass - Creative Techniques of 100 Great Artists by Susie Hodge
$39.99 AUD
Category: Visual Arts | Series: Creative Techniques of 100 Artists
Drawing Masterclass explores the act of vision of the world's great artists, describing how their work was created to allow you to weave some of their magic into your own paintings. With detailed analyses and instructive creative tips sections, you can learn how to convey movement like Degas, apply acry ...Show more
Landscape Painting Now by Todd Bradway; Barry Schwabsky
$80.00 AUD
Category: Visual Arts
Whether as a reaction to our technological present or as a manifestation of fears concerning our environmental future, depictions of the natural world in painting have never seemed more pertinent or urgent. Some of the most ambitious, crucial and intellectually vibrant paintings being created in this c ...Show more
Monet by James H. Rubin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Visual Arts | Series: World of Art Ser.
One of the most famous and admired painters of all time, Claude Monet (1840- 1926) was the architect of impressionism--a revolution that gave birth to modern art. His technique of painting outside at the seashore or in city streets was as radically new as his subject matter: the landscapes and middle-cl ...Show more
Oceanic Art by Nicholas Thomas
$22.71 AUD
Category: Visual Arts | Series: World of Art Ser.
The dazzling colours and patterns of the art of the Pacific Islands have long entranced Western audiences, not least artists such as Gauguin and Picasso. The tendency has been to regard Oceanic art as 'primitive', mysterious and shrouded in taboo, but Nicholas Thomas, in looking at and beyond the famili ...Show more
Surrealism - Art Essentials by Amy Dempsey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Visual Arts | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
Surrealism was launched as a literary and artistic movement by French poet Andre Breton in 1924, and by the time of his death in 1966 it had become one of the most popular and recognizable art movements of the twentieth century. Contrary to common belief, surrealism was created in contrast to the chaos ...Show more