Check Points by Michael Fikaris (Illustrator)
$40.00 AUD
Category: No Category
This abstract comic book of poetic musings and symbolic gestures by artist Michael Fikaris has been designed in a unique way with three chapters based on three studio locations the author has previously occupied across the city in their time as an artist and illustrator.In these collected chapters, we p ...Show more
Heretical Aesthetics - Pasolini on Painting by Alessandro Giammei (Editor); Ara H. Merjian (Editor); T. J. Clark (Preface by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
First collection on filmmaker and poet Pasolini's passion for painting. One of Europe's most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker, novelist and political martyr, he was also a keen critic of painting. An intermittently practicing ar ...Show more
Mad about Painting by Katsushika Hokusai
$21.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
Best known for his iconic print Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known as the Great Wave, Katsushika Hokusai was a revolutionary printmaker. His mastery of ukiyo-e in the nineteenth century has inspired generations of artists since, and his works exposed the world to the delicate beauty and power of Ja ...Show more
Ornament and Crime by Adolf Loos
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture Adolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a wr ...Show more
Making Worlds: Art and Science Fiction by Barikin Amelia & Hughes Helen
$22.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Bring No Clothes - Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: very good
Why do we wear what we wear? To answer this question, we must go back and unlock the wardrobes of the early twentieth century, when fashion as we know it was born. In Bring No Clothes, acclaimed fashion writer Charlie Porter brings us face to face with six members of the Bloomsbury Group - the collect ...Show more
The Salon Of 1846 by Charles Baudelaire
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
In his introduction to Charles Baudelaire's Salon of 1846, the renowned art historian Michael Fried presents a new take on the French poet and critic's ideas on art, criticism, romanticism, and the paintings of Delacroix.Charles Baudelaire, considered a father of modern poetry, wrote some of the most da ...Show more
Design as Art by Bruno Munari
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
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. Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as 'the new Leonardo'. Munari i ...Show more
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
When the Second World War ended, the United States enjoyed an enormous material advantage over the rest of the world, but it was not yet a fully liberal society or a serious actor in cultural affairs. Over the next twenty years, that would change. Once relegated to the periphery, the United States moved ...Show more
Daybook by Anne Truitt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A beautiful new edition of the cult classic that counts Zadie Smith and Rachel Kushner among its fans - with a new introduction by Celia Paul. 'I am an artist. Even to write it makes me feel deeply uneasy.' Renowned American artist Anne Truitt kept this illuminating and inspiring journal between 1974- ...Show more
The Critic As Artist by Oscar Wilde
$21.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
In The Critic as Artist, arguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertaining, Oscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary between art and criticism. Subtitled Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything, the ...Show more
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kostas Stasinopoulos
$16.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
An urgent and entertaining guide to tackling the climate emergency at home, within your community and within yourself, from some of the best artistic minds of our generation Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, ...Show more