The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris by Marc Petitjean; Adriana Hunter (Translator)
42.95 AUD
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)
19.99 AUD
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)
59.99 AUD
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
Edward Hopper: a New Perspective on Landscape by Edward Hopper (Artist); Ulf Küster (Text by, Editor); David Lubin (Text by); Erika Doss (Text by)
120.00 AUD
Category: Art
Edward Hopper's world-famous paintings articulate an idiosyncratic view of modern life. With his impressive subjects, independent pictorial vocabulary, and virtuoso play of colors, Hopper continues to influence to this day the image of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. He beg ...Show more
Yayoi Kusama: Cosmic Nature by Mika Yoshitake (Editor); Barbara Ambrose (Text by); Alexandra Munroe (Text by); Joanna L. Groarke (Text by); Jenni Sorkin (Text by)
85.00 AUD
Category: Art
Yayoi Kusama's groundbreaking work has mesmerised audiences since her first exhibitions in New York in the 1960s. Known for working in a broad range of media - including painting, performance, sculpture, and installation - in recent decades she has risen to worldwide fame through the explosive popularit ...Show more
Daniel Thomas - Recent Past: Writing Australian Art by Hannah Fink (Editor); Steven Miller (Editor); Michael Brand (Foreword by); Daniel Thomas (Text by); Art Gallery NSW
64.99 AUD
Category: Art
... over the course of half a century, Daniel has asked and answered the questions that no one else has thought of. Originality, curiosity, generosity and intellectual precision have always been at the heart of his work. Andrew Sayers, former director of the National Portrait Gallery, CanberraNo one kno ...Show more
The Imaginary Museum : A Personal Tour of Contemporary Art featuring ghosts, nudity and disagreements by Ben Eastham
19.99 AUD
Category: Art
Join the art critic Ben Eastham on a private tour of an extraordinary, imaginary museum. Stand in front of some of the most incomprehensible art works in the world with an expert guide by your side, full of personal stories, expertise and human understanding. In a stunningly original memoir and art gui ...Show more
Renaissance Watercolours - From dürer to Van Dyck by Mark Evans
79.99 AUD
Category: Art
Celebrate the vibrancy of Renaissance watercolors Many of the most beautiful Renaissance portraits, botanical illustrations, and landscape paintings are watercolors. This book, published to accompany an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, presents these diverse and fragile artworks ...Show more
Women, Art, and Society by Whitney Chadwick
39.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
Art historian Whitney Chadwick's acclaimed bestselling study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who "transcended" their gender to produce major works of art. While introducing some of the many women since the Middle Ages whose contributions to visual culture ha ...Show more
All Good Things - Uplifting Art for Troubling Times by Stephen Ellcock (Compiled by)
59.99 AUD
Category: Art
In 2013 art publisher Stephen Ellcock began selecting imagery and posting them on his Visual Rapture Facebook page. Five years and 200,000 Facebook followers later, Ellcock has an international following who avidly await his daily uploads and his carefully curated and sequenced albums of images. His sel ...Show more
Dali by Christopher Masters
29.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
Salvador Dalí (1904-89) was one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the twentieth century. A painter of considerable virtuosity, he used a traditional illusionistic style to create disturbing images filled with references to violence, death, cannibalism and bizarre sexual practices, fro ...Show more