Dreaming the Land: Aboriginal Art from Remote Australia by Marie Geissler
$100.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
The artworks of Aboriginal Australian peoples are a profoundly important repository of knowledge and reflect a deep connection to Country. This visually rich survey explores the evolution of the contemporary Aboriginal art movement in remote areas of Australia across twenty-nine art centres in five stat ...Show more
Great Women Painters by Alison M Gingeras
$100.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A sumptuous survey of over 300 women painters and their work spanning almost five centuries Great Women Painters is a groundbreaking book that reveals a richer and more varied telling of the story of painting. Featuring more than 300 artists from around the world, it includes both well-known women paint ...Show more
Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous by Hans Luijten
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Little known but no less influential, Jo van Gogh-Bonger (1862-1925) was the wife of Theo and sister-in-law of Vincent van Gogh. When the brothers died soon after each other, she took charge of van Gogh's artistic legacy in 1891 and devoted the rest of her life to disseminating his work. She published ...Show more
Contemporary Art by Natalie Rudd
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
A plain speaking, jargon-free account of contemporary art that identifies key themes and approaches, providing the reader with a clear understanding of the contexts in which art is being made today. Since the 1960s contemporary art has overturned the accepted historical categorizations of what constitu ...Show more
Olivia Spencer Bower: Making Her Own Discoveries by Julie King
$54.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: near fine
I paint for myself. That's the only way. For when you paint to please it's not the honest thing & inhibits the chances of discovery, because there's no point in writing or painting unless you make your own discoveries.' Olivia Spencer Bower wrote those words near the end of an almost six-decade care ...Show more
Balgo: Creating Country by John Carty
$89.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
In the early days we did painting. Cultural way. For ourselves.Then on the mission Sister Alice was working with the young men and women, like Gracie Green and Matthew Gill. We did a lot of landscapes at the start. Then after that people did a lot of paintings for the church.Then we decided we gotta do ...Show more
Draw People in 15 Minutes - Amaze Your Friends with Your Drawing Skills by Jake Spicer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Draw in 15 Minutes Ser.
Anyone can draw, and anybody who can already draw can always learn to draw better. In this book, best-selling author and art tutor Jake Spicer gives you all the skills you need to sketch the human figure in just 15 minutes. Good drawings aren't always the ones that you've spent a lot of time over; some ...Show more
Wild Art by David Carrier
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Wild Art is an incredibly brash and current collection of over 300 extraordinary artworks that are too offbeat, outrageous, kitschy, quirky, or funky for the formal art world. From pimped cars, graffiti, flash mobs, and burlesque acts, to extreme body art, ice sculpture, light shows, and carnivals, the ...Show more
Dali - Les Diners de Gala by Salvador Dalí (Artist)
$94.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Gala dinner: Salvador Dali's surrealist cookbook"Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste ... If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eating into a form of punishment, close this book at once; it is too lively, too aggressive, and far too imper ...Show more
Winifred Nicholson - Music of Colour by Winifred Nicholson; Kettle's Yard Gallery Staff (Contribution by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
This book brings together some of Nicholson's most eloquent essays with extracts from previously unpublished letters between the artist and Ede, and the words of their mutual friends, the poet Kathleen Raine and collector Helen Sutherland. With an introduction by Kettle's Yard curator Elizabeth Fisher e ...Show more
TROPHY LIVES On the Celebrity as an Art Object by PHILIPPA. SNOW
$39.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
We know that celebrities can make great muses: think of the work of Richard Phillips, who has painted an entire series of works inspired by Lindsay Lohan, Robert Pattinson, and Miley Cyrus, or of Urs Fischer, who recently showed a life-sized candle in the shape of Leonardo DiCaprio. Notoriously, the art ...Show more
Chairs: 1,000 Masterpieces of Modern Design, 1800 to the Present Day by Charlotte Fiell, Peter Fiell
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
This updated edition features chair designs from 1800 up to present day, and features the biggest names in furniture design, art, architecture and craft. Each entry is illustrated with full colour photography and accompanied by text detailing the materials and background of the chair.