The Meaning of Art: Faber Modern Classics by Herbert Read
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Since its first appearance in 1931 Herbert Read's introduction to the understanding of art has established itself as a classic of its kind. It provides a basis for the appreciation of paintings, sculpture and art-objects of all periods by defining the elements that went into their making. A compact sur ...Show more
Tool Book: The Australian Companion to over 200 Hand Tools The by DK Australia
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A complete visual guide with more than 800 images, The Tool Bookpays homage to generations of craftsmanship, ingenuity and know-how. Clear photography and illustrations present more than 200 hand tools from every angle, showing you how to use and care for them, why each tool is right for the job and why ...Show more
Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel by Ernst Haeckel
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findings of this natural scientist. Powerful modern microscopes have confirmed the accuracy of Haeckel's print ...Show more
The New Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain by Betty Edwards
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: very good
A brand-new edition of the world's most widely used drawing instruction book, expanded and updated with more than 50 per cent new material. If you enjoy sketching but feel stuck at a childlike level, this classic handbook will give you the drawing skills you have always wanted. If you are already drawin ...Show more
Utsuwa Japanese Objects for Everyday Use by Kylie Johnson, Tiffany Johnson
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A piece must be practical enough to be used every day. It must be crafted at its place of origin, using traditional techniques and materials. And it must be handmade. Japanese craft has long been revered for its quality and beauty, and skilled craftwork remains an important part of Japanese life. 'Utsu ...Show more
Drawing on the Dominant Eye: Decoding the Way We Perceive, Create and Learn by Betty Edwards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
The world's best-known art teacher uses drawing to open your eyes to new perceptions and creativity.
The Wide World of Graffiti by Alan Ket, OSGEMEOS
$79.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A guide to the art, artists, and culture of graffiti from the 1970s to today, as told by the taggers themselves This major co-publication with the Museum of Graffiti chronicles the worldwide graffiti movement from its birth in the 1970s, through the street and train painting of the 1980s, to its emergen ...Show more
Portraits by Sophie Cunningham, W. H. Chong, Michelle de Kretser, John Wolseley
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
From award-winning book designer and artist W. H. Chong, Portraits is a collection of 300 drawings of artists, writers and musicians he has sketched over the last decade. Portraits is a love letter to our culture makers, a sparkling collection of more than 300 drawings of artists, writers, musicians, t ...Show more
Mark Ryden's Yakalina Secrets by Mark Ryden; Takashi Murakami (Foreword by)
$69.98 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Mark Ryden's Yakalina Secrets is the wondrous second installment in the artist's incredible gallery of creatures. Foreword by Takashi Murakami In his Pacific Northwest studio during the isolation of COVID-19, Mark Ryden began a series of his iconic half-animal, half-plush creatures that further explored ...Show more
The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
What does it mean to be male in the 21st Century? Award-winning artist Grayson Perry explores what masculinity is: from sex to power, from fashion to career prospects, and what it could become--with illustrations throughout. In this witty and necessary new book, artist Grayson Perry trains his keen eye ...Show more
Insiders & Company: The New Artisans of Interior Design by Gestalten (Editor)
$95.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
At the intersection of interior design, quality craftsmanship, and passion, this book presents exciting and thoughtful homeware--and the people who design them.Was everything better in the good ole days? It's a widespread fallacy, at least when it comes to the crafts. These days, more and more people ar ...Show more
Mark Rothko - From the Inside Out by Christopher Rothko
$47.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
"The journey to understand the painting is also the journey to understand Rothko, because the work is so thoroughly suffused with the man."--Christopher Rothko Mark Rothko (1903-1970), world-renowned icon of Abstract Expressionism, is rediscovered in this wholly original examination of his art and life ...Show more