Street Art: Australia by Lou Chamberlin
44.99 AUD
Category: Art
As you walk down the street in cities and towns across Australia from Perth to Benalla, Toowoomba to Melbourne, you might stumble across a seven-storey-high painting of a woman's face on a building; a giant echnida painted onto a wall; a tiny paste-up on the back of a telegraph pole. This glimpse of art ...Show more
Edward Hopper: Portraits of America by Wieland Schmied
24.99 AUD
Category: Art
From his images of deserted small towns and solitary figures in empty offices to his cheerfully tranquil New England landscapes, Hopper's most famous compositions can be seen as products of a life spent observing human nature. Hopper's images evoke an enigmatic uncertainty, which speaks to the heart of ...Show more
Art in Oceania - A New History by Peter Brunt, Deirdre Brown & Nicholas Thomas
120.00 AUD
Category: Art
The arts of Oceania are astonishing: great statues, daunting tattoos, dynamic carving, dazzling woven and painted fabrics, intricately carved weapons, and a bewildering variety of ornaments, ritual objects, and utilitarian but beautiful things. This landmark book breaks new ground by setting the art of ...Show more
Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works: Volume II 33 1/3 by Marc Weidenbaum
19.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: 33 1/3
Extravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous - Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II, released by the estimable British label Warp Records in 1994, rejuvenated ambient music for the Internet Age that was just dawning. In the United States, it was his first full length on Sire Records (home to Madonn ...Show more
Bosch by Laurinda Dixon; Hoop Design Staff (Designed by)
35.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Art and Ideas Ser.
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516), one of the major artists of the Northern Renaissance, had a seemingly inexhaustible imagination. Known as the creator of disturbing demons and spectacular hellscapes, he also painted the Garden of Earthly Delights, where gleeful naked youths feast on giant strawberries. Lit ...Show more
Big Art / Small Art
60.00 AUD
Category: Art
Scale is being taken to new extremes in art: big and bold on the one hand, intricate and intimate on the other. This book is divided into two sections big art and small art and includes profiles of forty-five contemporary artists who are revolutionizing our approach to scale with works that provoke ques ...Show more
Cut & Paste - 21st-Century Collage by Richard Brereton
24.99 AUD
Category: Art
Collage is at the cutting edge of visual design, and can be seen everywhere from advertisements, magazine editorials and fashion stories to street art, album covers, animation and website design. Cut & Paste brings together over 250 images from more than 40 contemporary collage artists, including Se ...Show more
The Essence of Chinese Brush Painting by Stephen Cassettari
19.99 AUD
Category: Art
This beautiful book is a guide to painting birds, blossoms, butterflies using the classic Chinese brush painting techniques. All techniques are clearly illustrated with detailed instructions and suitable for people of all ages and artistic abilities to follow. Chinese Brush Painting is an art: both in f ...Show more
Yin Xiuzhen by Hung Wu
59.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
A leading female figure in Chinese contemporary art, Yin Xiuzhen (b. 1963, Beijing, China) began her career in the early 1990s following her graduation from Capital Normal University in Beijing where she received a B.A. from the Fine Arts Department in 1989. Best known for her works that incorporate sec ...Show more
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing by Laura J. Snyder
49.99 AUD
Category: Art
By the early 17th century the Scientific Revolution was well under way. Philosophers and scientists were throwing off the yoke of ancient authority to peer at nature and the cosmos through microscopes and telescopes. In October 1632, in the small town of Delft in the Dutch Republic, two geniuses were bo ...Show more
Yoko Ono - One Woman Show, 1960-1971 by Edited with text by Klaus Biesenbach, Christophe Cherix
75.00 AUD
Category: Art
Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 19601971 examines the beginnings of Onos extensive career, demonstrating her pioneering role in visual art, performance and music during the 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition begins in New York in December 1960, where Ono initiated a performance series with La Monte Young i ...Show more
Mark Rothko 1903-1970 - Pictures as Drama by Jacob Baal-Teshuva
17.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Basic Art | Reading Level: very good
One of the most esteemed abstract expressionists and greatest painters of the 20th century, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) invented the bold yet subtle color-field style that has become synonymous with his name.