Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia's Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
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Category: Art
This book focuses on the visual and material culture of St Petersburg and Moscow at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The twilight of Imperial Russia witnessed a sudden renaissance that left a profound imprint on the visual, literary and performing arts: here was a Silver Age as luminous perhaps ...Show more
Isa Genzken - Sculpture As World Receiver by Lisa Lee
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Category: Art
The work of German sculptor Isa Genzken is brilliantly receptive to the ever-shifting conditions of modern life. In this first book devoted to the artist, Lisa Lee reflects on Genzken's tendency to think across media, attending to sculptures, photographs, drawings, and films from the entire span of her ...Show more
Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines by Dieter Buchhart
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Category: Art
Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat are considered icons of twentieth-century art. Both are known for their idiosyncratic imagery, radical viewpoints and complex socio-political commentary, and both employed signs, symbols and words to explore ideas around race, sexuality, spirituality and other aspec ...Show more
The Eye's Mind: Bridget Riley - Collected Writings 1965-2019 by Robert Kudielka
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Category: Art
Bridget Riley, one of the leading abstract painters of her generation, holds a unique position in contemporary art. She has developed and extended the range of her interests ever since her first success in the 1960s, creating a body of work which is both consistent and highly varied. This volume, now fu ...Show more
Birds and Words by Charles Harper
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Category: Art
Birds & Words is a vintage collection of 60 illustrations of birds and 60 humorous stories about each one. This book is a lovely reissue of the charming and highly collectible 1972 classic by Charley Harper. Written and illustrated by the renowned illustrator. Harper's style has been referred to as ...Show more
Wayne Thiebaud Mountains - 1965-2019 by Michael Thomas (Text by); Margaretta Lovell (Text by)
110.00 AUD
Category: Art
Best known for his paintings of pies and cakes, this beloved West Coast painter explores the theme of mountains, capturing the majesty and strength of the forms. In the 2000s, California-based painter Wayne Thiebaud began focusing on a series of mountain paintings, a subject he had first addressed in th ...Show more
Léon Spilliaert by Luc Tuymans (Foreword by); Léon Spilliaert (Artist); Adrian Locke (Text by); Anne Adriaens-Pannier (Text by); Noémie Goldman (Text by)
79.99 AUD
Category: Art
A luminous loneliness: reveries from Belgian artist L on Spilliaert, rival of Ensor and exponent of Nietzsche and Poe Although often associated with Belgian symbolism, L on Spilliaert, largely self-taught as a painter, demonstrated a peculiarly individual style. He was born in the coastal city of Osten ...Show more
Peter Saul - Published in Association with the New Museum by Massimiliano Gioni (Editor); Gary Carrion-Murayari (Editor)
89.95 AUD
Category: Art
A fascinating and comprehensive monograph highlighting the career of the provocative American painter Peter SaulPeter Saul is known for his vivid, cartoon-like paintings that satirize American culture. Influenced by the Chilean surrealist painter Roberto Matta and by MAD magazine, Saul developed his uni ...Show more
The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris by Marc Petitjean; Adriana Hunter (Translator)
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Category: Art
This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist's work and of the vibrant Surrealist art scene in the 1930s. In 1939, devastated after the revelation that her husband had had an affair with her sister, Frida Kahlo left her home in Mexico and headed for Paris to rebuild her lif ...Show more
A Book of Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley; Alice Insley (Introduction by)
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Category: Art
Elegant "near-facsimile" edition of Beardsley's best-known works Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) lived a desperately short life and his career spanned just seven years. Nonetheless, his output as a draftsman and illustrator was prolific. Beardsley's subversive illustrations became synonymous with decadence ...Show more
David Hockney: Drawing from Life by David Hockney (Artist); Sarah Howgate (Text by)
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Category: Art
Celebrating more than 60 years of intimate portraiture by David HockneyPublished to accompany a major international exhibition, David Hockney: Drawing from Life features Hockney's drawings from the 1950s to the present day, and focuses on his depictions of himself and a small group of sitters close to h ...Show more
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles
34.99 AUD
Category: Art
This is the paperback edition of the highly successful Chromatopia. Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic colour; or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? Throughout history, artists' pigments have been made from deadly metals, poisonous minerals, urine, cow dun ...Show more