Inspired Encounters - Women Artists and the Legacies of Modern Art by Fritz Horstman; Kimberli Gant; Katrina London (Editor); Jeremiah William McCarthy (Editor); Helaine Posner
$62.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A critical reappraisal of a classic collection's modernist legacy for women artistsTaking as its point of departure the art collection at Kykuit--the former home of the Rockefeller family, now a museum--Inspired Encounters asks: if exclusively women-identifying artists remained in this legendary moderni ...Show more
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
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
Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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