140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kostas Stasinopoulos
$16.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
An urgent and entertaining guide to tackling the climate emergency at home, within your community and within yourself, from some of the best artistic minds of our generation Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, ...Show more
A Year in the Art World: An Insider's View by Matthew Israel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A panoramic insider's account of the global art industry, revealing the fascinating but mysterious workings of the world of contemporary art.Over the last few decades the contemporary art world has become more globalized and more visible than ever before - and yet in many ways it remains closed and obsc ...Show more
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch
$26.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Canons Ser.
A foundational text since 1990 and previously translated into nine languages, Free Play is a masterful and joyful meditation on how improvisation can be applied to not just art but the art of living - and in doing so unlock boundless creativity This book is about the inner sources of spontaneous creatio ...Show more
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
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay
$27.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A magnificent work of original research that unravels history through textiles and cloth -- how we make it, use it, and what it means to us. How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town? How is a Chinese dr ...Show more
Oh, To Be a Painter! by Virginia Woolf
$24.99 AUD
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 Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A charming and highly personal introduction to the artists of the Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of the place where he had ended up, Moser threw himself into the world of the painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Rem ...Show more
The Promised Party - Kahlo, Basquiat and Me by Jennifer Clement
$39.99 AUD
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
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
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 World According to Colour: A Cultural History by James Fox
$26.99 AUD
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
$24.99 AUD
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