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The Secret Language of Flowers - Notes on the Hidden Meanings of the Louvre's Flowers by Jean-Michel Othoniel
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
A follow-up to The Secret Language of Flowers: Notes on the Hidden Meanings of Flowers in Art . To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Louvre pyramid, Jean-Michel Othoniel was invited to create a work relating the importance of flowers in the Museum's eight art departments. The artist photographed the ...Show more
Accidentally Wes Anderson by Wally Koval
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
A visual adventure of Wes Anderson proportions, authorized by the legendary filmmaker himself: stunning photographs of real-life places that seem plucked from the just-so world of his films, presented with fascinating human stories behind each façade. Accidentally Wes Anderson began as a personal tra ...Show more
Criss Canning - The Pursuit of Beauty by David Thomas
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
Criss Canning is one of Australia's best loved and most celebrated still life artists. Inspired by the beauty of nature and the works of advanced European modernists, and with dedication to the absolutes of colour and pictorial composition, she has created paintings that are immediately seductive. One c ...Show more
Hundertwasser - Complete Graphic Work 1951-1976 by Wieland Schmied
$44.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
Explore the graphic work of Hundertwasser with this lavishly produced introduction to the artist. Friedensreich Hundertwasser was a painter. He created original graphic works--lithographs, silkscreens, mixed media, etchings, and aquatint as well as Japanese woodcuts. This bibliophilic gem is a Hundert ...Show more
Papunya: A Place Made after the Story by Geoffrey Bardon; James Bardon
$79.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
Papunya- A Place Made After the Storyis a first-hand account of the Papunya Tula artists and their internationally significant works emanating from the central Western Desert.This momentous movement began in 1971 when Geoffrey Bardon, a hopeful young art teacher, drove the long lonely road from Alice Sp ...Show more
Louise Bourgeois: Intimate Portrait by Jean-François Jaussaud
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
Jean-Fran ois Jaussaud met Louise Bourgeois for the first time in 1994, at her studio in Brooklyn. But it was not before she had interrogated him about every aspect of his life that he earned her trust. A first photo session was set up in Spring 1995, under one condition: she would destroy the photograp ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
Women Photographers: Contemporaries 1970-today by Clara Bouveresse
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography | Series: Photofile Ser.
With the rise of feminism, women photographers conquered the mainstream, with an increasingly commodified art world now viewing them simply as photographers and not merely a novelty or subcategory. Some women combined their photography practice with video, installations and other media, while others use ...Show more
Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art? by Kyung An, Jessica Cerasi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
What is contemporary art? What makes it contemporary? Who is it for? And why is it so expensive?From museums and the art market to biennials and the next big thing, Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art? offers concise and pointed insights into today's art scene, decoding "artspeak," explaining what curators ...Show more
100 Artists' Manifestos - From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Danchev Alex
$27.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism, Vorticism, Stridentism, Cannibalism and Stuckism, taking in along the way film, architect ...Show more
Florence - The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743 by Ross King; Anja Grebe
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
The most comprehensive book on the paintings and frescoes of Florence -- with nearly 2,000 beautifully reproduced artworks from the city's great museums and churches -- is now available in a practical and elegant paperback format. From the paintings on display at the Uffizi Gallery, to the Pitti Palac ...Show more
Ruth Asawa by Tiffany Bell + Robert Storr
$105.00 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
Taking the wire for a walk: the subversively domestic sculpture of Ruth AsawaKnown for her intricate and dynamic wire sculptures, the American sculptor, educator and arts activist Ruth Asawa challenged conventional notions of material and form through her emphasis on lightness and transparency.Asawa beg ...Show more
