Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses by Aarathi Prasad
$37.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global history, natural history, and future ...Show more
I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston
$24.99 AUD
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
Making Worlds: Art and Science Fiction by Barikin Amelia & Hughes Helen
$22.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
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
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
How to Be an Artist by Jerry Saltz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out the mystical messages that lie underneath." --Steve Martin Art has the powe ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
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
On Contemporary Art by Cesar Aira
$16.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
Translated into English for the first time, On Contemporary Art, a speech by the renowned novelist C sar Aira, was delivered at a 2010 colloquium in Madrid dedicated to bridging the gap between writing and the visual arts. On Aira's dizzying and dazzling path, everything comes under question--from repr ...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
The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study by Kimon Nicolaides
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Learn how to draw over the course of a year, in the space of 64 exercises. 'Kimon Nicolaides' The Natural Way to Draw is a sure bet . . . will improve your technique no end' - Artists & Illustrators This essential guide to drawing by renowned art teacher Kimon Nicolaides is valued by both early stud ...Show more
Steal Like an Artist 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon (Artist)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Austin Kleon Ser.
You don't need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That's the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illu ...Show more