Artful Lives: The Cohen Sisters by Penny Olsen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
From Melbourne to the Islands - The Artful Lives of the Cohen Sisters 'Romance is in all of us. We long to fashion romantic careers for ourselves. We yearn to read those of others, whether they be of love, life, wealth' -so wrote artist-journalist Valerie Frankel Cohen in 1936. The Cohen sisters lived ...Show more
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
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
Making Worlds: Art and Science Fiction by Barikin Amelia & Hughes Helen
$22.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Heretical Aesthetics - Pasolini on Painting by Alessandro Giammei (Editor); Ara H. Merjian (Editor); T. J. Clark (Preface by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
First collection on filmmaker and poet Pasolini's passion for painting. One of Europe's most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker, novelist and political martyr, he was also a keen critic of painting. An intermittently practicing ar ...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
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
Design as Art by Bruno Munari
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
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. Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as 'the new Leonardo'. Munari i ...Show more
Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art by Griselda Pollock
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Routledge Classics
Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist art. Crucially, she not only explores a feminist re-reading of the works of canonical male Impressionist and Pre-Raphaelite artists including E ...Show more
Art on My Mind - Visual Politics by Bell Hooks
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
In Art on My Mind, bell hooks, a leading cultural critic, responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting, and criticizing art and aesthetics in an art world increasingly concerned with identity politics. Always concerned with the liberatory black struggle, hooks positions her writings on ...Show more
User Friendly - Hidden Rules of Design by Cliff Kuang; Robert Fabricant
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
'A tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting' -- New York Times USER FRIENDLY is a must-read for anyone who loves well-designed products-and for the innovators aspiring to make them. It seems like magic when some ...Show more