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Contact: Art and the Pull of Print by Jennifer L. Roberts
$74.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of print In process and technique, printmaking is an art of physical contact. From woodcut and engraving to lithography and screenprinting, every print is the record of a contact event: the transfer of an image ...Show more
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill by Helen Vendler
$31.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent ...Show more
Pictures of Nothing by Kirk Varnedoe
$79.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
'What is abstract art good for? What's the use - for us as individuals, or for any society - of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves?' In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson Pollock, eminent art his ...Show more
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book — against a background of today’s 'sculpture wars' — Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and fam ...Show more
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