Magritte - The Mystery of the Ordinary 1926-1938 by Anne Umland
90.00 AUD
Category: Art
Published in conjunction with a major exhibition organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with the Menil Collection, Houston, and the Art Institute of Chicago, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938 focuses on the breakthrough surrealist years of Rene Magritte, creator ...Show more
Frontier by Claudio Musso
49.95 AUD
Category: Art
The book aims to analyse, investigate and recognise two of the contemporary artistic avant-garde through a multi-disciplinary perspective. Writing first and then the Street Art were always fed from every corner of reality, indiscriminately and free of any "cultural debt". Today more than ever, this inve ...Show more
Voir la Mer - See the Sea Sophie Call 64 pages by Sophie Calle
39.95 AUD
Category: Art
In See the Sea, Sophie Calle invited inhabitants of Istanbul, who often originated from central Turkey, to see the sea for the first time. The exhibition of the same name was presented at the Mejan Chapel in Arles during summer 2012, then at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris, 8 September to 27 October 2012, ...Show more
Outside the Lines: An Artists' Coloring Book for Giant Imaginations by Souris Hong-Poretta
29.99 AUD
Category: Art
For anyone who loves creativity and contemporary art, or who simply loves the joy of colouring, comes Outside The Lines, a striking collection of illustrations from more than 100 creative masterminds, including animators, cartoonists, fine artists, graphic artists, illustrators, musicians, outsider arti ...Show more
Aesthetics and Politics by Theodor W. Adorno (Author) , Walter Benjamin (Author) , Ernst Bloch (Author) , Bertolt Brecht (Author) , Georg Lukacs (Author)
17.95 AUD
Category: Art
Features the text in the great controversies over literature and art between thinkers who have become giants of 20th-century philosophy.
Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna, 1900 by Gemma Blackshaw
69.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: National Gallery London
During the great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-siecle Vienna, artists of that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and society celebrities from the upwardly mobile middle classes. Viewed as a whole, the images allow ...Show more
Lucian Freud by Sabine Haag
115.00 AUD
Category: Art
Surveying Lucian Freud's entire career and including many of his most important paintings, this generously illustrated book also explores his interest in historical art and the influence it had on the artist's work. Known chiefly for his remarkable portrait and figure paintings of psychological depth an ...Show more
The Letters of Paul Cezanne by Alex Danchev
59.95 AUD
65.00 (7% off)
Category: Art
Here is the long-awaited and much needed new translation of the correspondence of Paul Cezanne, known as the father of modern art. The existing collection in English, produced in the 1930s, is dated, inaccurate and incomplete; for this book, Alex Danchev has gone back to the original manuscript letters, ...Show more
Velazquez and the Surrender of Breda: The Making of a Masterpiece by Anthony Bailey
35.00 AUD
Category: Art
What began as propaganda art to celebrate a rare Spanish victory in the Eighty Years' War with Holland, "The Surrender at Breda" is today recognized as Velazquez's narrative masterpiece. "Breda" is packed with vivid military detail - whole armies are suggested on the huge canvas, twelve feet high and el ...Show more
The Empire of Death - A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses by Paul Koudounaris
59.95 AUD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
In this tour de force of original cultural history, Paul Koudounaris takes the reader on an unprecedented international tour of macabre and devotional architectural masterpieces in nearly 20 countries. This is the first book to bring together the world's most important charnel sites, ranging from the cr ...Show more
Robert Motherwell Early Collages by Susan Davidson
59.95 AUD
Category: Art
Robert Motherwell: Early Collages, published to accompany an exhibition devoted exclusively to Motherwell's works on paper from the 1940s and early 1950s, reexamines the origins of the artists style and his revelatory encounter with the papier colle technique that he described in 1944 as the greatest of ...Show more
Emigres - The Transformation of Art Publishing in Britain by Anna Nyburg
79.95 AUD
Category: Art
Examines the impact on the British illustrated publishing industry of émigrés from Germany and Austria in the first half of the twentieth century, looking in particular at the art publishing houses of Phaidon Press and Thames & Hudson.