Pushing Paper - Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now by Isabel Seligman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
This remarkable exploration of drawing as a medium in resurgence unites a global range of contemporary artists. Subverting its former role as a primarily preparatory medium, drawing is enjoying a resurgence among contemporary artists and students. Pushing paper examines why drawing has not only endured, ...Show more
Ninth Street Women - Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: very good
The rich, revealing, and thrilling story of five women whose lives and painting propelled a revolution in modern art, from the National Book Award finalist. Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exh ...Show more
The Lives of the Surrealists by Desmond Morris
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte and Miró. This is because Surrealism was not in origin an art movement, but a philosophical strategy. It was a way of life - a rebellion against the establishment that had given the world the hideous slaughter of the Fir ...Show more
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World (PB) by Neil Gaiman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Seize the day in the name of art. This creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman combines his extraordinary words with deft and striking illustrations by Chris Riddell. 'Like a bedtime story for the rest of your life, this is a book to live by. At its core, it's about freeing ideas, shedding fe ...Show more
Gunyah Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia by Paul Memmott
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Here is the definitive guide to Australian Indigenous architecture, comprehensively updated to showcase the flourishing Indigenous design practices reshaping Australia's architectural landscape. The award-winning Gunyah Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia is the only continental ...Show more
Mid-Century Modern Furniture by Dominic Bradbury
$100.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
The ultimate collector's resource, including hundreds of pieces by both well- and lesser-known designers from around the world. From armchairs and chaises longues to cabinets and nightstands, the period between the late 1930s and early 1970s was one of the most productive, inventive and exciting eras fo ...Show more
Agnes Martin: Independence of Mind by James Pitt (Text by); Jenn Shapland (Text by); Darcey Steinke (Text by); Martha Tuttle (Text by); Agnes Martin (Artist); Chelsea Weathers (Editor); Teju Cole (Text by); Bethany Hindmarsh (Text by); Jennie Jones (Text by)
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Contemporary artists and writers from Jennie C. Jones to Teju Cole consider Agnes Martin's influence and legacy This is a reenvisioned, fresh look at Agnes Martin, the enigmatic, influential, highly independent painter whose life and work have proved inspirational to audiences across many fields and di ...Show more
Nell (Mini Monographs) by NELL
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Mini Monographs 3
Continuing our series of monographs on Australian female artists, selected with series editor Natalie King, is Nell. Nell is a Sydney-based artist with a practice that spans performance, installation, video, painting and sculpture. The book comprises of 96 pages of the artist's favourite works - designe ...Show more
Botanical Inspiration: Nature in Art and Illustration by Victionary
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A world without plants is a world without life, both literally and figuratively. Besides forming the very basis of human survival on Earth, they are also an important source of creative inspiration, ingenuity, and expression. From scientific explorers like Sir Joseph Banks who travelled across the globe ...Show more
Renee So - Provenance by Charlotte Day (Editor); Melissa Ratliff (Editor)
$49.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Monash University Museum of Art Ser.
Renee So' s idiosyncratic practice in ceramics and textiles, and occasionally furniture and glass, is inspired by art history, collections in museums and gendered symbolism. Her work is distinguished by its embrace of craft methods and cross-cultural thinking, an underlying sense of the comedic and a pe ...Show more
Micro Tattoos: The World's Top Fine Line Tattoo Artists by SVEN RAYEN
$79.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Micro Tattoos are a popular trend and have made the art of tattooing more accessible for many people. This book takes a closer look at them and shows the most beautiful small fineline tattoos from the best tattoo artists worldwide. It offers a handy alphabetical overview of the artists, a number of inte ...Show more
Philosophy of the Home by Emanuele Coccia
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these three rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are of immense psychological and cultural significance. They play a decisive role in human flourishing and, for hundreds of years, their walls and walkways, windows ...Show more