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Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana
19.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A superlative introduction to the diversity of Aboriginal art, this concise survey introduces the work of Australia's indigenous artists from all parts of the continent. For some 50,000 years, Aboriginal artists have built on traditions and worked in a variety of contexts, from the sacred and secret rea ...Show more
Abstract Art by Anna Moszynska
29.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
Since the early years of the twentieth century, Western abstract art has fascinated, outraged, and bewildered audiences. Its path to acceptance within the artistic mainstream was slow. This revised edition traces the origins and evolution of abstract art, placing it in broad cultural context.Well-respec ...Show more
Art and Climate Change by Maja and Reuben Fowkes
35.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: World of Art Ser.
An overview of ecologicallyconscious contemporary artthat responds to today'senvironmental crisis, fromspecies extinction toclimate change. Art and Climate Change collects a wide range of artistic responses to our current ecological emergency. When the future of life on Earth is threatened, creative pr ...Show more
Artists' Film - World of Art by David Curtis; Steve McQueen (Foreword by)
35.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: World of Art Ser.
International in scope and accessibly written by a renowned authority on the subject, Artists' Film is an introductory guide to the exciting and expanding field of artists' film and an alternative history of the moving image, chronicling artists' ever-evolving fascination with filmmaking from the early ...Show more
Bauhaus by Frank Whitford; Michael White (Introduction by)
29.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
The aesthetic of our contemporary environment, including everything from housing developments to furniture and websites, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919, the Bauhaus. While in operation for only fourteen years before being shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the ...Show more
Contemporary Painting by Suzanne Hudson
35.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: World of Art Ser.
The twentieth century brought radical changes in art--including the shift from modernism to postmodernism--which were accompanied by fierce debates regarding the place of painting in contemporary culture. Contemporary Painting argues that the medium has not only persisted in the twenty-first century but ...Show more
Dali World of Art by Dawn Ades
29.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
The third edition of this classic study, a thorough introduction to one of the most popular and recognizable artists of the 20th century. Salvador Dalí was, and remains, among the most universally recognizable artists of the twentieth century. What accounts for this popularity? His excellence as an arti ...Show more
Fashion Since 1900 by Amy de la Haye; Valerie Mendes
35.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: World of Art Ser.
From the turn-of-the-century S-bend silhouette to celebrity couture of the new millennium and the evolution of streetwear, this comprehensive survey explores the significant developments in fashion since 1900. Authors Amy de la Haye and Valerie Mendes focus on key movements and innovations in style for ...Show more
Graphic Design in the Twentieth Century: A Concise History by Richard Hollis
29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: World of Art Ser.
The story of graphic design is one of the most exciting and important developments in twentieth-century visual culture. From its roots in the expansion of printing, graphic design has evolved from a means of identification, information, and promotion to a profession and art in its own right. This author ...Show more
Islamic Art and Architecture by Robert Hillenbrand
35.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
Including over a thousand years of history and stretching from the Atlantic to the borders of India and China, Islamic Art and Architecture is an unparalleled narrative of the arts of Islamic civilization. From the death of the Prophet Muhammad to 1900, Islamic art expert Robert Hillenbrand traces the e ...Show more
Latin American Art Since 1900 by Edward Lucie-Smith
35.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
In this classic survey, now updated with full-color images throughout, Edward Lucie-Smith introduces the art of Latin America from 1900 to the present day. Lucie-Smith examines major artists such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, as well as dozens of less familiar Latin American artists and exiled artis ...Show more
Marcel Duchamp - New Edition by Dawn Ades; Neil Cox
29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: World of Art Ser.
A revised and expandededition of one of the mostoriginal books ever written onthe enigmatic artistMarcel Duchamp. Genius, anti-artist, charlatan, guru, impostor? Since he arrived on the scene in 1914, Marcel Duchamp has been called all of these. Almost no other artist of the twentieth century has inspir ...Show more