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Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana
$33.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art S.
This revised edition of Caruana's comprehensive survey contains new illustrations and updated information covering developments in the field of Aboriginal art, which thrives in a variety of contexts - sacred and secular - and in wide range of media.
Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana
$19.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A superlative introduction to the diversity of Aboriginal art, this concise survey introduces the work of Australia's indigenous artists from all parts of the continent. For some 50,000 years, Aboriginal artists have built on traditions and worked in a variety of contexts, from the sacred and secret rea ...Show more
Abstract Art by Anna Moszynska
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
Since the early years of the twentieth century, Western abstract art has fascinated, outraged, and bewildered audiences. Its path to acceptance within the artistic mainstream was slow. This revised edition traces the origins and evolution of abstract art, placing it in broad cultural context.Well-respec ...Show more
Art in Australia: From Colonization to Postmodernism by Christopher Allen
$19.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Does Australian art have a history or is it just a series of belated footnotes to European and American artistic development in the last two centuries? Does it always express some essential "Australian sensibility"? Christopher Allen's book argues that Australian art does have a history of its own from ...Show more
Ballet and Modern Dance by Susan Au; James Rutter
$19.95 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: World of Art Ser.
Dance's extraordinary range extends from classical ballet and baroque court spectacles to avant-garde modern dance, tap, and ethnic dancing. This comprehensive history covers the entire spectrum, vividly describing the great performers and performances of the past as well as exploring in detail the cont ...Show more
Contemporary African Art by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by one particular style, technique, or theme, but by a bricolage-like attitude toward art making, incorporating and building upon the structures from w ...Show more
Costume and Fashion by James Laver
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
From the momentous invention of the needle some 40,000 years ago to the development of blue denim, from Neolithic weavers to the biggest names in the fashion industry today, this classic guide covers the landmarks of costume history. Costume and Fashion explores the forms and materials used in fashion t ...Show more
Costume and Fashion: A Concise History by James Laver
$19.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art
The new fifth edition of this classic guide to clothing throughout history now extends into the second decade of the 21st century. James Lavers classic study of clothing, from the invention of the needle to the dawn of denim, neolithic weavers to catwalk creations, has been updated once again to cover t ...Show more
David Hockney by Marco Livingstone
$27.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art
The relationship between art and life has been of overriding importance in the work of David Hockney, who has perhaps enjoyed greater popularity than any other British artist this century. Here Marco Livingstone traces those connections from the beginning of the artist's career in the early 1960s throug ...Show more
Graffiti and Street Art by Anna Waclawek
$19.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art
A guide to graffiti and street art. It explains the terms and language of graffiti and street art from tags and throwies to culture jamming and subvertising as well as their multiple influences and sub-genres. It traces the origins and evolution of graffiti and street art, and explores the motivations a ...Show more
Hawksmoor by Downes
$0.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Nicholas Hawksmoor was the architect of some of London's most prominent landmarks - St Mary Woolnoth in the City; St George's, Bloomsbury; Christchurch, Spitalfields; and part of Greenwich Hospital - and of other notable English buildings, such as All Souls, Oxford, and the Mausoleum at Castle Howard. ...Show more
Interior Design Since 1900 by Anne Massey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
Interior design experienced an extraordinary amount of changes in taste and style during the twentieth century. From William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement to expressionism, postmodernism, and green design, Interior Design Since 1900 charts them all.Featuring more than two hundred color illustr ...Show more