Modigliani - Masters of Art by Olaf Mextorf
26.99 AUD
Category: Art
Discover the dramatic life and work of Amedeo Modigliani, a pioneer of modern figurative painting. Amedeo Modigliani experimented with sculpture and drawing, but is primarily known for his paintings of nudes and portraits characterized by elongated figures, faces, and necks. He began painting in his ...Show more
Goya - A Portrait of the Artist by Janis Tomlinson
59.99 AUD
Category: Art
The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, who ushered in the modern era The life of Francisco Goya (1746-1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought upheavals in the country's politics and at the court which Goya served, changes in societ ...Show more
Piero Della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist by Machtelt Brüggen Israëls
39.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
As one of the most innovative and enlightened painters of the early Italian Renaissance, Piero della Francesca brought space, luminosity, and unparalleled subtlety to painting. In addition, Piero invented the role of the modern artist by becoming a traveler, a courtier, a geometrician, a patron, and muc ...Show more
Jacob el Hanani by Adam Kirsch
120.00 AUD
Category: Art
The recent work of this New York-based artist who works with extraordinary painterly and calligraphic artistic detail. Jacob El Hanani (b. 1947) was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and was raised in Israel. He produces highly intricate works through the painstaking repetition of miniscule marks, often Heb ...Show more
Turner Watercolours (reissue) by David Blayney Brown
49.99 AUD
Category: Art
Turner's lifetime (1775-1851) was also the classic age of English watercolour, and his mastery and perfection of the medium coincided with its establishment as an independent art form. This volume examines the unique body of watercolours Turner produced.Few can doubt that J.M.W. Turner was the greatest ...Show more
What art is by Arthur C. Danto
19.95 AUD
Category: Art
What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the prope ...Show more
Spectrum 27 - The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art by John Fleskes (Editor)
69.99 AUD
Category: Art
Spectrum 27 features over 300 pages showcasing the imaginations of very special artists who delight in helping us see the world in a wonderfully different light. The best-selling Spectrum series continues with this lavishly produced 27th anniversary annual. Spectrum is the premier collection for imagina ...Show more
Mark Ryden's Anima Animals by Mark Ryden
59.99 AUD
Category: Art
Mark Ryden returns with 20 new incredible portraits of creatures From his Snow Yak to his very personal interpretation of the California bear, for more than 20 years Mark Ryden has populated an incredible "pop surrealist" bestiary of half-animal, half-plush creatures. Freely inspired by the Rushton toy ...Show more
Ai Weiwei – 40 by Hans Werner Holzwarth (Editor); Ai Weiwei (Artist)
49.99 AUD
Category: Art
As his personal circumstances move in constant flux, Ai Weiwei remains a cultural magnet. Renowned for his political activism and social media activity almost as much as for his social interventions, contemporary approach to the readymade, and knowledge of Chinese traditional crafts, Ai's fame extends t ...Show more
Drawing and Painting Anime and Manga Faces: Step-by-Step Techniques by Nao Yazawa
29.99 AUD
Category: Art
Learn to draw authentic anime and manga faces and expressions from a manga master. In this follow-up to Manga Drawing Deluxe, renowned Japanese manga artist and international instructor Nao Yazawa guides you step by step through all phases of drawing and painting anime and manga faces, from the basi ...Show more
Common Practice Basketball by Carlos Rolón; Dan Peterson (Editor); John Dennis (Editor)
110.00 AUD
Category: Art
Common Practice seeks to examine the ways in which contemporary art relates with the sport and surrounding culture of basketball. Basketball has long proven to inform and inspire works of art across generations, from David Hammon's "Higher Goals" and Robert Indiana's "Mecca Floor", to the current day w ...Show more
Renaissance Children by Dagmar Eichberger; Till-Holger Borchert; Hilde De Ridr-Symoens; Anne-Marieke Willemsen
69.99 AUD
Category: Art
Three consecutive generations of Habsburg princes and princesses spent part of their early lives in Mechelen, a fiefdom of the Habsburg Netherlands and an important centre for politics, culture, and early childhood education in the 15th and 16th centuries. Other powerful families from all over Europe a ...Show more