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Agnes Martin: the Distillation of Color by Andria Hickey (Text by); Marc Glimcher (Text by); Agnes Martin (Artist); Durga Chew-Bose (Text by); Olivia Laing (Text by); Bruce Hainley (Text by)
$99.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Exploring the evolution of Agnes Martin's sublime use of colorThis handsomely designed, concise volume celebrates Agnes Martin's pursuit of beauty, happiness and innocence in her nonobjective art created while living in the desert of New Mexico. From her multicolored striped works to compositions of col ...Show more
Crudo by Olivia Laing
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"She had no idea what to do with love, she experienced it as invasion, as the prelude to loss and pain, she really didn't have a clue."Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It's the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. Fast-paced and frantic, Crudo unfolds in real time from the fu ...Show more
Do Everything in the Dark by Gary Indiana; Olivia Laing (Introduction by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A dark yet compassionate comedy of art aspirations and friendships come to naught. First published in 2003, Gary Indiana's turn-of-the-millennium novel traces the lives of a loosely connected group of New York artists and the dissolution of their scene. During the summer of 2001, the narrator of Do E ...Show more
Everybody by Olivia Laing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the ...Show more
Everybody : A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing
$44.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
'Simply one of our most exciting writers' Observer 'One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction' Harper's Bazaar 'Laing combines formidable intelligence with boundless curiosity and fabulous taste' James Lasdun The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant ...Show more
Everybody: A Book about Freedom by Olivia Laing
$46.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
'Simply one of our most exciting writers' Observer 'A free-wheeling and joyful exploration of the works and lives of a range of artists and thinkers who brought libidinal and creative energy together with spectacular results' Jack Halberstam The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopele ...Show more
Funny Weather - Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
$30.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century. Funny Weather brings together a career's worth of Laing's writing about art and culture, exa ...Show more
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
$19.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Never has a publication been more timely' - Dazed 'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' - Telegraph In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbule ...Show more
Funny Weather - Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
$44.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' Telegraph In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty first century. Funn ...Show more
The Garden Against Time - In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, ...Show more
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between the works and lives of some of the city's most ...Show more
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Canons
Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the overlapping work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway ...Show more