Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed by Lesley Harding, Kendrah Morgan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Heide Art in Victoria | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Much has been written about the lives and art of Heide, but finally the remaining members of the inner circle have entrusted the truth to be told through this intimate biography of John and Sunday Reed. Equal parts romance and tragedy, Modern Love explores the lives of these champions of successive gene ...Show more
The Forgotten Notebook by Betty Churcher
$44.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
In the 1990s Betty Churcher drew her way around the galleries of the world as she arranged artwork loans for blockbuster exhibitions at the National Gallery of Australia. In 2014 she discovered a sketchbook she had forgotten and decided to create a final companion volume to her bestselling Notebooks ser ...Show more
Drawing: A Complete Guide by Stephen C. P. Gardner
$79.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Comprehensive, practical and easy to follow - the ideal introduction to the art of drawing for students, amateurs and beginners of all kinds. A comprehensive practice-based guide to the art of drawing, this book provides a chapter-by-chapter overview of key elements of drawing (such as line, shape, ton ...Show more
Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel by Ernst Haeckel
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findings of this natural scientist. Powerful modern microscopes have confirmed the accuracy of Haeckel's print ...Show more
The New Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain by Betty Edwards
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: very good
A brand-new edition of the world's most widely used drawing instruction book, expanded and updated with more than 50 per cent new material. If you enjoy sketching but feel stuck at a childlike level, this classic handbook will give you the drawing skills you have always wanted. If you are already drawin ...Show more
Encounters with Australian Modern Art by Christopher Heathcote
$88.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: very good
Encounters with Australian Modern Art represents a vital milestone in the presentation of Australian art to a world-wide readership. It is published in French and English, and lavishly illustrated with more than 200 iconic images, many drawn from the collection of the TarraWarra museum of Art.
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum by Keri Smith
$19.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: very good
From the author of "Wreck This Journal," an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art and science of everyday life. Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. In this captivating guided ...Show more
Nature: Art and Structure by Mara Fuhrmann
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
This unusual illustrated book with its spectacular photographs is devoted to the complex structures and manifestations to be found in nature. In each of the three main chapters - Earth, Water, and Plants - apparently simple motifs become complex photographic landscapes, nature's works of art. From geolo ...Show more
Painting Today by Tony Godfrey
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Not only is this book an overview of contemporary painting, it is also an enquiry into how we experience its images, what they mean and why the practice remains vital. The venerable art of painting still thrives as a leading force in the art market. "Painting Today" explores the development of the mediu ...Show more
Flower Hunter Ellis Rowan by FULLERTON Patricia
$9.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Ellis Rowan - painter, naturalist, writer and explorer - was an extraordinary woman for her era. Petite, plucky and always immaculately dressed, for almost 50 years she travelled to the remote parts of Australia, India, Europe, America and New Guinea in pursuit of exotic flowers and wildlife to paint. O ...Show more
Magnum Stories by Chris Boot (ed.)
$129.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: very good
Magnum Stories is a collection of photo stories produced by the photographers of Magnum. Through the work of key Magnum photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Eugene Richards, Martin Parr, Inge Morath and Leonard Freed, this book covers a wide range of subjects including the Vietna ...Show more
Land And Environmental Art by Brian Wallis
$69.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Themes & Movements S.
This book documents the 1960s Land Art movement as well as surveying later examples of environmental art to the present day. Earthworks, environments, performances and actions by artists are all illustrated with photographs, sketches and project notes, accompanied by documents which chart their ideas, c ...Show more