Speaking East - The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou by Andrew Hussey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A vibrant account of both the sensuous cultural scene of postwar Paris and the life of an alluring icon of modern art. Isidore Isou was a young Jew in wartime Bucharest who barely survived the Romanian Holocaust. He made his way to Paris, where, in 1945, he founded the avant-garde movement Lettrism, des ...Show more
Lets Go Outside: Art in Public by Charlotte Day, Callum Morton, Dr Amy Spiers (Ed)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Monash University Museum of Art
Doing, Seeing; Seeing, Doing by Leon van Schaik
$39.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
For architect and educator Leon van Schaik, the way we understand our world is not an abstract consideration, but deeply rooted in physical experience. Our family houses and places of work, the gardens we have played and rested in, the landscapes we have travelled through and those we have come to call ...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
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
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
Midnight Grotesques by Tristan Foster; Michelle Lynn Dyrness (Artist)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
With Midnight Grotesques, US-based artist Michelle Lynn Dyrness and Australian writer Tristan Foster have collaborated across time and space to create a catalog of elusive objects unearthed from somewhere between memory and imagination. The resulting pages play on ideas of provenance and the uncertainty ...Show more
The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World by Jennifer Higgie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
'Endlessly intriguing . . . I was enchanted' - DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Illuminating in every sense of the word' - John Higgs In an illuminating blend of memoir and art history, The Other Side explores the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women artists. From the twelfth-century mystic Hildegard of B ...Show more
Humanise: A Maker's Guide to Building Our World by Thomas Heatherwick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings. 'This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that' GRAYSON PERRY Our world is losing its humanity. Too many d ...Show more
Living the Artist's Way: An Intuitive Path to Creativity by Julia Cameron
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
The essential Artist's Way programme on guiding ourselves back to creativity How can we tap into the wisdom inside ourselves? LIVING THE ARTIST'S WAY is a Six-Week Artist's Way Program that explores the fourth essential Artist's Way tool of guidance. Bestselling author Julia Cameron has inspired milli ...Show more
Yield - The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt; Rachel Kushner (Foreword by)
$41.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Celebrating Anne Truitt's centenary, this posthumously published work serves as the fourth and final volume in her remarkable series of journalsIn the spring of 1974, the artist Anne Truitt (1921-2004) committed herself to keeping a journal for a year. She would continue the practice, sometimes intermit ...Show more
Sylvia Plath: Drawings by Frieda Hughes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
In 1956 Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother, Aurelia Plath: 'I feel I'm developing a kind of primitive style of my own which I am very fond of. Wait til you see. The Cambridge sketch was nothing compared to these.' Sylvia Plath cited art as her deepest source of inspiration but, while her poetry is celebr ...Show more
Artful Lives: The Cohen Sisters by Penny Olsen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
From Melbourne to the Islands - The Artful Lives of the Cohen Sisters 'Romance is in all of us. We long to fashion romantic careers for ourselves. We yearn to read those of others, whether they be of love, life, wealth' -so wrote artist-journalist Valerie Frankel Cohen in 1936. The Cohen sisters lived ...Show more