Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed by Lesley Harding, Kendrah Morgan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Heide Art in Victoria | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Much has been written about the lives and art of Heide, but finally the remaining members of the inner circle have entrusted the truth to be told through this intimate biography of John and Sunday Reed. Equal parts romance and tragedy, Modern Love explores the lives of these champions of successive gene ...Show more
Philosophy of the Home by Emanuele Coccia
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these three rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are of immense psychological and cultural significance. They play a decisive role in human flourishing and, for hundreds of years, their walls and walkways, windows ...Show more
Golden Age of Courture: Paris and London 1947 - 1957 by Claire Wilcox
$99.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Secondhand. This lavish book focuses on Parisian and British couture between 1947 and 1957, a decade that Christian Dior described as fashion's 'golden age'. Dior's 'New Look' collection of 1947 shocked and delighted the fashion world, creating a style that symbolised a new femininity. The full skirts ...Show more
The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011 by William Feaver
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Biography and Autobiography Ser.
The second half of William Feaver's Baillie Gifford Prize-shortlisted work of biography- the definitive story of the epic life of one of the twentieth century's most important artists William Feaver, Lucian Freud's collaborator, curator and close friend, knew the unknowable artist better than most. Ove ...Show more
Paul Gauguin: Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter by Donatien Grau
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Ekphrasis
"Criticism is our censorship...." So begins one of the greatest invectives against criticism ever written by an artist. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) wrote "Racontars de Rapin" only months before he died in 1903, but the essay remained unpublished until 1951. Through discussions of numerous artists, both his ...Show more
The Forgotten Notebook by Betty Churcher
$44.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
In the 1990s Betty Churcher drew her way around the galleries of the world as she arranged artwork loans for blockbuster exhibitions at the National Gallery of Australia. In 2014 she discovered a sketchbook she had forgotten and decided to create a final companion volume to her bestselling Notebooks ser ...Show more
Hiroshige and Eisen. The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido. 40th Ed. by Rhiannon Paget
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
The Kisokaidō route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country's then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage between Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto. Inns, shops, and restaurants were established to provide sustenanc ...Show more
DIY Type - 50+ Typographic Stencils by Dana Tanamachi
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Dana Tanamachi, the Brooklyn-based typographer whose exquisite hand-lettered murals fueled a chalk-writing trend, offers a book of alphabet stencils for all-purpose craft projects. Inspired by the contemporary aesthetic of rendering type by hand, celebrated designer Dana Tanamachi shares a full set of u ...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
Seeking Wisdom: A Spiritual Path to Creative Connection by Julia Cameron
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A deeply personal guide to creative recovery, from the internationally bestselling 'queen of change' Julia Cameron. A six week Artist's Way Programme from legendary author Julia Cameron. From the bestselling author of The Artist's Way comes a deeply personal account of pain, healing and growth. Using he ...Show more
The Invisible Dragon - Essays on Beauty and Other Matters: 30th Anniversary Edition by Dave Hickey; Gary Kornblau (Editor)
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
An expanded edition of Hickey's controversial and exquisitely written apologia for beauty?championed by artists, reviled by art critics, and as powerful as ever 30 years onThe 30th anniversary cloth edition brings back into print Dragon's four essays on beauty and commingles them with newly discovered e ...Show more