100 Artists' Manifestos - From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Danchev Alex
$27.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism, Vorticism, Stridentism, Cannibalism and Stuckism, taking in along the way film, architect ...Show more
The Art of Decadence: European Fantasy Art of the Fin-de-Siecle by Hiroshi Unno
$72.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
(Bilingual version) A magnificent visual history of Decadence, Aestheticism and Symbolism presented by Hiroshi Unno Across time and space, the motifs and images of Decadence are repeatedly depicted in literature, fine arts, music and other art forms. This book presents numerous historically important ar ...Show more
Foreshadowed - Malevich's Black Square and Its Precursors by Andrew Spira
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Category: Art and Design
An exploration of Kasimir Malevich's radical 1915 artwork, its predecessors, and its continuing relevance. When Kasimir's Malevich's Black Square was produced in 1915, no one had ever seen anything like it before. And yet it does have precedents. In fact, over the previous five hundred years, several ...Show more
Madayin - 8 Decades of Aboriginal Bark Painting from Yirrkala by Wakun Wa?ambi (Editor)
$110.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A revelatory compendium of eucalyptus bark painting, rarely seen by Western audiences This volume chronicles the rise of a globally significant art movement, as told from the perspective of the Yolngu people of northeastern Australia. It presents more than 90 iconic paintings on eucalyptus bark, many of ...Show more
Wabi Sabi - The Japanese Art of Impermanence by Andrew Juniper
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Category: Art and Design
Developed out of the aesthetic philosophy of cha-no-yu (the tea ceremony) in fifteenth-century Japan, wabi sabi is an aesthetic that finds beauty in things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Taken from the Japanese words wabi, which translates to less is more, and sabi, which means attentive me ...Show more
Hogarth: Life in Progress by Jacqueline Riding
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Category: Art and Design
A major new biography of one of Britain's best-loved artists.
Shelley Lasica: WHEN I AM NOT THERE by Hannah Mathews (Editor)
$49.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Monash University Museum of Art Ser.
The work of Shelley Lasica reveals a sustained exploration of dance, movement and the varying contexts in which they can occur. WHEN I AM NOT THERE has been produced to accompany a performance exhibition reflecting on forty years of Lasicas choreographic practice. Held at Monash University Museum of A ...Show more
Making Modernism: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin by DOROTHY PRICE
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Category: Art and Design | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Painterly transformations of feminine identity from a group of German Expressionists. Käthe Kollwitz, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin are among the exceptional artists associated with the emergence of Expressionism in Germany in the early decades of the 20th century. Each c ...Show more
Bohemia: History of an Idea 1950-2000 by Russell Ferguson (Editor)
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Category: Art and Design
How photography has documented the transformation of the meaning of bohemia, from the postwar era to the present • By definition, bohemia is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people and with few permanent ties. It involves musical, artistic, literary or spi ...Show more
Baskerville - The Biography of a Typeface (the ABC of Fonts) by Simon Garfield
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Category: Art and Design | Series: The\ABC of Fonts Ser.
The classic elegant English typeface, still widely used as a book text more than 250 years since its creation. Baskerville is a transitional design, poised between the first metal types and modern styles, notable for its combination of fat and thin strokes. When it was first used there was genuine conce ...Show more
Read This If You Want to Be Great at Drawing People by Selwyn Leamy
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Category: Art and Design | Series: Read This Ser.
Learn to draw figures and faces with this clear and easy to follow guide, the latest in the bestselling 'Read This' series. Revealing the techniques and ideas behind inspirational works, the book will set you on the path to making your own great drawings. From traditional life drawing to unconventional ...Show more
Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence by Hokusai (Artist); Sarah E. Thompson (Text by)
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Category: Art and Design
How artists from Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi to Whistler and Arthur Wesley Dow embraced and transformed Hokusai's dynamic style and innovationsThe great painter, book illustrator and print designer Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) has become the best known of all Japanese artists and one of the most famous an ...Show more