Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramovic
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Her bravest work of performance art to date . . . Rawly intimate' ObserverThis memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art. Taking us from her early life in communist ex-Yugoslavia, to ...Show more
Ways of Curating by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Category: Art & Photography
Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations - from staging his first exhibition in his tiny Zurich kitchen in 1986 to encounters with artists, exhibition makers and thinkers - Hans Ulrich Obrist looks to inspire all those engaged in the creation of culture. Moving from meetings with artists to the c ...Show more
Amour: How the French Talk about Love by Stefania Rousselle
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Category: Art & Photography
A timeless, universal meditation on the meaning of love, based on the author's travels through France, accompanied by stunning full-colour photographs Award-winning journalist and documentary maker Stefania Rousselle had stopped believing in love. She had covered a series of bleak assignments, from terr ...Show more
Tiepolo Pink by Roberto Calasso
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Throughout his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, Proust repeatedly refers to colours as Tiepolo Pink or Tiepolo Red. Who exactly was the artist that he so memorable transformed into colour?The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, p ...Show more
The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and ...Show more
My Life by Marc Chagall
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Chagall was the son of a herring merchant, born in Witebsk in White Russia, opposite a laundress and a chimney sweep. After the Revolution, while waiting for emigration papers, he wrote his autobiography at the age of 34. My Life reads like one of Chagall's paintings- emotional, fragmentary, humorous, ...Show more
History of Art in Japan by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere (Translator); Nobuo Tsuji
$79.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
In this book the leading authority on Japanese art history tells the fascinating story of the country's exceptional cultural heritage. Tsuji Nobuo sheds light on how Japan has nurtured distinctive aesthetics, prominent artists, and movements that have achieved global influence and popularity. The Histor ...Show more
Why Only Art Can Save Us - Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency by Santiago Zabala
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Category: Art & Photography
Santiago Zabala declares that in an age where the greatest emergency is the absence of emergency, contemporary art's ability to create new realities is fundamental to democracy. He advances a new aesthetics that draws on Martin Heidegger's distinction between works of art that rescue us from emergency a ...Show more
Venture Investing in Science by Douglas W. Jamison; Stephen R. Waite
$74.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography | Series: Columbia Business School Publishing Ser.
Over the past decade, software companies have increasingly monopolized the flow of venture capital, starving support for scientific research and its transformative discoveries. New medicines, cheaper and faster personal computers, and other life-changing developments all stem from investment in science. ...Show more
Vivian Maier - A Photographer's Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an inadvertent master of twentieth-century American ...Show more
Hilma Af Klint - Notes and Methods by Hilma af Klint; Iris Müller-Westermann (Introduction by, Commentaries by)
$115.00 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
At the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, or Piet Mondrian. Many consider her the first trained artist to cre ...Show more
The Endless Periphery - Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto's Italy by Stephen J. Campbell
$129.00 AUD
Category: Art & Photography | Series: Louise Smith Bross Lecture Ser.
While the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance are usually associated with Italy's historical seats of power, some of the era's most characteristic works are to be found in places other than Florence, Rome, and Venice. They are the product of the diversity of regions and cultures that makes up the co ...Show more