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
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
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
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.
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
Diva by Kate Bailey
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art History
From Bette Davis to Beyoncé, Maria Callas to Mariah Carey, this gorgeously illustrated book takes a look at what it means to be a divaOriginating from the Latin for deity or goddess, the term diva has evolved to become a far more complex--and loaded--term. Delving into public and private personas of per ...Show more
A Year with Wendy Whiteley: Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening by Ashleigh Wilson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: srg22
A must-have for culture lovers, A Year with Wendy Whiteley sees the biographer and critic Ashleigh Wilson painting a portrait of the inimitable Wendy Whiteley-in her own words. We sit at the table, opposite each other, a tape recorder and a microphone between us, and I begin by saying that I don't want ...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
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
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
Rock Graphic Originals: Revolutions in Sonic Art from Plate to Print ’55–’88 by Peter Golding, Barry Miles
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art History
As part of the '60s fashion movement, Peter Golding's famous ACE boutique in London's Chelsea brought him into regular contact with the biggest names in rock 'n' roll, and he went on to create one of the most comprehensive collections of rock 'n' roll graphics in existence. Showcasing the cream of this ...Show more