The Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of Botanical Illustration by Stephen A Harris
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Blooming with rare archival images, the story of scientific botanical illustrations over nearly seven hundred years. In a world flooded with images designed to create memories, validate perceptions, and influence others, botanical illustration is about something much more focused: creating technically a ...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
Barbara Tucker: The Art of Being by Hermina Burns
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art History
Much more than a muse; Barbara Tucker was in fact a vital partner in the artistic success of her famed husband. Barbara Tucker- The Art of Being presents a multifaceted view of Tucker and the life she made with her artist husband Albert. Inspired by accounts of family, friends and admirers attending he ...Show more
Linda Nochlin on the Body by Linda Nochlin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Pocket Perspectives Ser.
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable littl ...Show more
How Art Is Made - The Craft Behind the Masterpieces by Debra N. Mancoff
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art History
How Art Is Made looks at renowned works of art from across the centuries and around the globe and asks the intriguingly simple question - how were these works actually made?
The Artist's Journey: The travels that inspired the artistic greats by Travis Elborough
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Journeys of Note Ser.
In the Artist's Journey, follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous painters, and the journeys which inspired some of their greatest works. Follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous painters in this fascinating work from the Journeys of Note series. Some truly remarkab ...Show more
Collective Movements: First Nations Collectives, Collaborations and Creative Practices from across Victoria by ten Buuren, Kate
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Monash University Museum of Modern Art Ser.
Collective Movements is a wide-ranging project focusing on the work of historic and contemporary First Nations creative practitioners and community groups in south-eastern Australia that recognises collectivity as integral to Indigenous knowledges and ways of being. This project and publication begins f ...Show more
Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art World by Richard Dorment
$36.99 AUD
Category: Art History
By the long-time art critic of The Daily Telegraph, Warhol After Warhol tells the David-and-Goliath story of collector Joe Simon and his struggles with the [Andy] Warhol Authentication Board, a tale of power, corruption and lies, a Bad Blood for the art world.
Giacometti in Paris by Michael Peppiatt
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art History
'Marvellous . . . intimate and insightful . . . reads like a novel by Samuel Beckett' Paul Theroux A portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest sculptors from one of our most eminent art historians Today the work of Alberto Giacometti is world-famous and his sculptures sell for record-breaking ...Show more
Griselda Pollock on Gauguin by Griselda Pollock
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Pocket Perspectives Ser.
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable littl ...Show more
How to Be an Artist by Jerry Saltz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art History
"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out the mystical messages that lie underneath." --Steve Martin Art has the powe ...Show more
James Hall on the Self-Portrait by James Hall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Pocket Perspectives Ser.
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable littl ...Show more