Pathways to Unknown Worlds Sun Ra El Saturn and Chicagos Afro Futurist Underground 1954 68 by Elms Anthony
$39.95 AUD
Category: Photography
Philosopher, Afro-futurist, and jazz legend Sun Ra (1914-93) constructed much of his complicated public persona during his sojourn in Chicago in the mid-1950s. Working with a still-shadowy underground fraternal organization, Ra amassed a library of books on the occult, Egyptology, race studies, Theosoph ...Show more
Eye Rhymes : Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual by Kathleen Connors
$45.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Eye Rhymes brings to light a side of Sylvia Plath that is scarcely known: her serious involvement in the visual arts from a very early age. She moved between art-making and writing constantly, integrating their elements with ease and pleasure. As a child she considered a poem she had written or transcri ...Show more
I Was Just Leaving by Colman Richard
$87.95 AUD
Category: Photography
Richard Colman lives, works and exhibits in Los Angeles California. Channeling Edward Gorey's sinsister gothic style and Henry Darger's twisted story-telling in equal measures, Colman's work is finely rendered, dark, but also humorous. Over the past five years, Colman has exhibited in well received show ...Show more
Edward Weston by Amy Conger
$79.95 AUD
Category: Photography
Edward Weston is one of the seminal figures of twentieth-century photography. An exponent of 'straight photography', Weston was committed to making photographs 'free from technical tricks and incoherent emotionalism' which were able to capture the essence of the subject. He is also the first photographe ...Show more
Sticker City: Paper Graffiti Art by Claudia Walde
$45.00 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Street Graphics / Street Art Ser.
For some forty years, city streets have been home to the modern graffiti movement, and now there is a fresh creative twist. Walls, phone booths, curbs, traffic signs--in cities around the world public surfaces are adorned with hand-painted or hand-crafted posters and stickers. Claudia Walde, aka Mad C ...Show more
ART OF WAR by Churcher Betty
$39.95 AUD
Category: Photography
Explores the range and diversity of art inspired by war. This book also presents the work of official war artists in the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Vietnam and the war against terror in Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf. It also looks at lesser-known artists who were ordinary soldiers and artist ...Show more
THE SIGHT OF DEATH by CLARK T J
$38.00 AUD
Category: Photography
A renowned art historian confronts the specific powers of painting, and the hold of the visual image on the viewer's imagination Why do we find ourselves returning to certain pictures time and again? What is it we are looking for? How does our understanding of an image change over time? In his latest b ...Show more
Themes And Movements: Arte Povera by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
$69.95 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Themes & Movements S.
Arte Povera is Italy's most important and influential post-war art movement. Originally championed by the leading art critic Germano Celant, it included internationally recognized artists. Edited by one of the world's foremost authorities on the subject, "Arte Povera" is a complete overview of this move ...Show more
Uncommissioned Art by Christine Dew
$39.95 AUD
Category: Photography
A book to look at graffiti and stencil art across Australia. It offers insight into how graffiti and street artists work, the connections to international movements, in particular American subculture and how it has been adopted. It also includes artist profiles of Australia's internationally renowned ar ...Show more
POUSSIN AND NATURE by CHRISTIANSEN KEITH
$120.00 AUD
Category: Photography
The work of the great French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) is most often associated with classically inspired settings and figures depicting solemn scenes from mythology or the Bible. Yet he also created some of the most influential landscapes in Western art, endowing them with a poetic quality th ...Show more
Gothicky A Macabre Menagerie by Nelson Michael
$24.95 AUD
Category: Photography
From Jekyll and Hyde to B horror movie icons to the Addams family and beyond, macabre misfits have thrived in the fertile soil of modern-age media and pop culture. What is it about vampires, zombies, skeletons, and other mutants brought to life in the darkest recesses of the imagination? Goth-Icky celeb ...Show more
Henri Cartier-bresson (new Horizons Series) by Cheroux Clement
$16.95 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: New Horizons
From his early encounters with the Surrealists, his film work and his experiences in the Second World War, to the development of his own personal aesthetic, the concept of the decisive moment, and the foundation of Magnum Photos, Henri Cartier-Bresson's influence on the world has been profound. This boo ...Show more