Enzo Mari Autoprogettazione by MARI ENZO
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
It is not easy to translate into English the Italian word autoprogettazione. Literally it means auto = self and progettazione = design. But the term ‘self-design’ is misleading since the word ‘design’ to the general public now signifies a series of superficially decorative objects. By the word aut ...Show more
Modern House 2 by Clare Melhuish
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Modern House S.
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10 x 10 Area 2 100 Graphic Designers , 10 Curators,10 Design Classics by Ellen Lupton
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
"Area_2" is the newest volume in Phaidon's acclaimed "Area" series, and features 100 of the world's most interesting emerging graphic designers, as chosen by 10 of the most respected figures in the field. Within, more than 1,500 images reveal the talents and trends of contemporary graphic design as it h ...Show more
The Power of Art by Simon Schama
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: good
'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merc ...Show more
The Unknown Matisse (Volume 1) by Hilary Spurling
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
'Hilary Spurling's "The Unknown Matisse" is a truly wonderful biography. Her prose is muscular, rhythmical, carrying a lot of information, yet swift, enthralling. She has done for Matisse what George Painter famously did for Proust in the 1950s. Besides being a first-rate scholar, she is an artist in na ...Show more
Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography by Richard Branson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A revised and updated edition of the bestseller from Virgin founder Richard Branson. Already a great read---fascinatingly mixing autobiography and business how-to---the book is now right up to the moment, with the latest bold moves from this irrepressible, charismatic entrepreneur and his rule-breaking, ...Show more
Louise Bourgeois by Ulf Kuster
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art to Read
The recently deceased French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was one of the most important artists of the last century. Her fleshy blobs, skeletal spiders and the aggressive fragility of her work offered a new solution to the antagonism between the figurative and the abstract that had pre ...Show more
Art and Fear - Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by Ted Orland; David Bayles
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Art & Fear is about the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. Drawing on the authors' own experiences as two working artists, the book delves into the internal and external challenges to makin ...Show more