What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter
$26.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Most of us live our lives in our clothes without realising their power. But in the hands of artists, garments reveal themselves. They are pure tools of expression, storytelling, resistance and creativity: canvases on which to show who we really are. In What Artists Wear, style luminary Charlie Porter ta ...Show more
User Friendly - Hidden Rules of Design by Cliff Kuang; Robert Fabricant
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
'A tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting' -- New York Times USER FRIENDLY is a must-read for anyone who loves well-designed products-and for the innovators aspiring to make them. It seems like magic when some ...Show more
Art on My Mind - Visual Politics by Bell Hooks
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
In Art on My Mind, bell hooks, a leading cultural critic, responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting, and criticizing art and aesthetics in an art world increasingly concerned with identity politics. Always concerned with the liberatory black struggle, hooks positions her writings on ...Show more
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A newly designed and repackaged paperback of the multi-million-copy bestseller: discover your innate creativity with The Artist's Way. Since its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find ...Show more
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, fema ...Show more
The Promised Party - Kahlo, Basquiat and Me by Jennifer Clement
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Category: Art and Design
Growing up in '60s Mexico City, Jennifer Clement lived next door to Frida Kahlo's house. It was an unorthodox and bohemian childhood, living alongside artists, communists, revolutionaries and poets, and one that allowed an awakening of creative freedom and curiosity about the world. Leaving behind the ...Show more
Oh, To Be a Painter! by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Art and Design | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
The twentieth volume in the renowned ekphrasis series, this collection of Virginia Woolf's writings on the visual arts offers a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author. Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, and in the artists and art critics in her Bloomsbury circle, there is no acces ...Show more
The World According to Colour: A Cultural History by James Fox
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Category: Art and Design
The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the reader in a single colour, drawing together stories from the histories of art and humanity to illuminate the meanings it has been ...Show more
Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings by Matt Lodder
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Category: Art and Design
In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.' Until now. Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at an untold history of humanity. The earliest tattoos ye ...Show more
I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston
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Category: Art and Design
Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from the great 'art-historical odd man out'. "Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light". How does a painter see the world? Philip Guston, one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, spoke about art with ...Show more
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh
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Category: Art and Design | Series: Classics Ser.
"If ever there was any doubt that Van Gogh's letters belong beside those great classics of artistic self-revelation, Cellini's autobiography and Delacroix's journal, this excellent edition dispels it." --The Times (London) "Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost e ...Show more
100 Artists' Manifestos - From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Danchev Alex
$27.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | 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