War and Art A Visual History of Modern Conflict by Joanna Bourke
99.99 AUD
Category: Art
In times of crisis, we often turn to artists for truth-telling and memory-keeping. There is no greater crisis than war, and in this sumptuously illustrated volume, we find a comprehensive visual, cultural, and historical account of the ways in which armed conflict has been represented by artists. Cover ...Show more
Intuition by Axel Vervoordt
149.00 AUD
Category: Art
This book is an overview of the exhibition Intuition, held at the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, which brings together historic, modern and contemporary artworks related to dreams, meditation, telepathy, creative power and inspiration. Spanning diverse geographies and cultures, it explores how intuition has ...Show more
C. L. R. James: The Artist As Revolutionary by Paul Buhle
29.99 AUD
Category: Art
C. L. R. James was a protean twentieth-century Marxist intellectual, widely recognized as a pioneering scholar of slave revolt; a leading voice of Pan-Africanism; a peripatetic revolutionary and scholar who was active in US and UK radical movements; a novelist, playwright, and critic; and one of the pre ...Show more
SALE - Free Art : Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War by Hito Steyerl
32.99 AUD
Category: Art
What is the function of art in the era of digital globalization? How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and proprietary digital technology? The boundaries of such institutions have grown fuzzy. They extend from a region where the audience is ...Show more
Richard Serra 2016 by Briony Fer
150.00 AUD
Category: Art
This catalogue documents Richard Serra's three concurrent exhibitions at Gagosian in 2016 and offers an in-depth look at his most recent work. This book will attract admirers of Serra, as well as contemporary art enthusiasts. This beautiful volume highlights new work by the pioneer of large-scale, site- ...Show more
Hundred Headless Women by MAX ERNST
36.99 AUD
Category: Art
Originally published in Paris in 1929, this collage novel by avant-gardist Max Ernst constitutes a seminal and quintessential 20th-century work of art. Engravings from Victorian-era books and magazines, accompanied by enigmatic captions, offer a universe of mystery replete with all the possibilities of ...Show more
Chiharu Shiota: Under the Skin by Kunsthalle Rostock
99.50 AUD
Category: Art
Chiharu Shiota (*1972 in Osaka, Japan) is one of the most sought-after artists in the world since the presentation of her installation at the Biennale in Venice in 2015. In the present publication, photographs, film stills, drawings, prints, and objects from the artist's archive illustrate her mostly si ...Show more
Antony Gormley by Antony Gormley; Martin Caiger-Smith
280.00 AUD
Category: Art
For more than thirty-five years, since his first solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, Antony Gormley has sought to explore the relationship of the human body to space and to reinvigorate and test the potential of sculpture. This beautiful and definitive monograph examines the entirety of Gormley ...Show more
The Art of Fantasy, Sci-fi and Steampunk by Hiroshi Unno
57.50 AUD
Category: Art
A beautiful visual history book of fantasy art from Romanticism and steampunk to modern illustrations from novels. Art has always been one of the most vivid ways to express people's imagination. Fantasy art illustrates the full range of human fears and dreams, from mythology, the Bible, and the artist's ...Show more
The Orange Balloon Dog: Bubbles, Disruptions and Avarice in the Contemporary Art Market by Don Thompson
29.99 AUD
Category: Art
Within forty-eight hours in the fall of 2014, buyers in the Sotheby's and Christie's New York auction houses spent $1.7 billion on contemporary art. Non-taxed freeport warehouses around the globe are stacked with art held for speculation. One of Jeff Koons' five chromium-plated stainless steel balloon d ...Show more
My Life by Marc Chagall
22.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Chagall was the son of a herring merchant, born in Witebsk in White Russia, opposite a laundress and a chimney sweep. After the Revolution, while waiting for emigration papers, he wrote his autobiography at the age of 34. My Life reads like one of Chagall's paintings- emotional, fragmentary, humorous, ...Show more
Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits by Frances Borzello
35.00 AUD
Category: Art
This richly diverse exploration of female artists and self-portraits is a brilliant and poignant demonstration of originality in works of haunting variety. The two earliest self-portraits come from 12th-century illuminated manuscripts in which nuns gaze at us across eight centuries. In 16th-century Ital ...Show more