The Ladies of Art: Stories of Women in the 16th and 17th Centuries by Annamaria Bava (Editor); Gioia Mori (Editor); Alain Tapié (Editor)
$70.00 AUD
Category: art history & collections
Much has been written about 16th- and 17th-century Italian painting, but the contribution of the women artists of that period has often been overlooked: extraordinary figures with incredible and often obscure personal stories. The Ladies of Art sheds light on these artists and their lives, on the role t ...Show more
Oceano An Elegy for the Earth by David Ulrich (Photographer)
$110.00 AUD
Category: photography
Climate change is the great existential reality of our time. How we approach this crisis will affect life on Earth for present and future generations. In spite of our collective ideals, irreversible damage to the environment is imminent and represents urgent local and global concern. Through artfully re ...Show more
Margaret Preston Selected Writing 1920-1950 by Elizabeth Butel
$29.95 AUD
Category: artists
The only book available with Margaret Preston's own writing on Art and Australia, now in its 5th revised edition and a new format. The only book available with Margaret Preston's own writing on Art and Australia, now in its 5th revised edition and a new format.
Motorbikes and Counterculture by Jean-Marc Thevenet
$95.00 AUD
Category: photography
This richly illustrated book is dedicated to motorbikes and how they have become a lifestyle of their own, influencing our society on many levels: literature (Jack Kerouac, Herman Hesse etc.), fashion (Perfecto jackets), movies (Easy Rider, The Wild Angels etc.), celebrities (Marlon Brando, Lee Marvin, ...Show more
Caption This - A Photographic Collection of Amusing Comments, Snarky Asides, and Romantic Admissions by Peter L. Stein (Introduction by); Barbara Levine; Paige Ramey; Martin Venezky (Designed by)
$52.95 AUD
Category: photography
A fascinating collection of photographs from the past century that have surprising, funny, and poignant captions. Whether it's words scrawled in pencil below an old Polaroid or a pithy comment on a social media photo, we've all felt a pull to describe in words and sentences the pictures and moments ...Show more
Everything Else Is Bric-A-brac - Notes on Home by Akiko Busch; Aurore de La Morinerie (Illustrator)
$41.95 AUD
Category: interiors
A collection of 60 short prose pieces by best-selling author and design critic Akiko Busch that reflect, in her classic style of observation, on the human condition and offer insights on family, domestic space, and a changing environment. Beautifully illustrated with 20 pieces of watercolor art, this co ...Show more
Mushroom Botanical Art by Toshimitsu Fukiharu; Eugenia Bone (Commentaries by)
$57.50 AUD
Category: various art & design forms
The best-selling book of Mushroom Art is now available in a new luxury English edition! Mushroom Botanical Art is a collection of mushroom and fungi paintings by European and Japanese naturalists in 18th to 19th century. The paintings each show the plant in its natural habitat and have been executed in ...Show more
SJ Axelby's Painted Travels: Portraits of Remarkable Places by SJ Axelby
$55.00 AUD
Category: artists
An armchair discovery tour of truly remarkable places, captured in SJ Axelby's inimitable watercolours. This follow-up volume to SJ Axelby's Interior Portraits transports the reader to bars, cafes, museums, shops, hotels, tearooms, restaurants, gardens, trains and more, around the world.This is an insid ...Show more
Iwantja: An exuberant new movement in contemporary Indigenous art by IWANTJA ARTS
$79.99 AUD
Category: various art & design forms
Located on a small ridge at the edge of the Indulkana Ranges, approximately 575 kilometres south of Alice Springs, Iwantja Arts art centre is home to some of Australia's most exciting Indigenous art. The art centre, a studio collective where the artists meet, socialise and make art, was founded in the ...Show more
Berlin Masterpieces in America: Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men by BELL / NELSON
$69.99 AUD
Category: art history & collections
As the Allies advanced into Germany in April 1945, General Patton's Third Army discovered the collections of the Berlin museums hidden in a salt mine 2,100 feet underground. Placed in the care of the Monuments Men, the collections were sent to the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point, directed by Captain ...Show more
Taft Museum of Art: Highlights from the Collection by LYNNE D. AMBROSINI
$69.99 AUD
Category: art history & collections
Donated to the city of Cincinnati in 1927, Charles and Anna Taft's collection features beautiful porcelain from the Ming and Qing dynasties, paintings by masters including Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Goya, Ingres, Corot, Whistler, and Sargent, and decorative objects including crystal, gold, silver, and ena ...Show more
A Tree in the House: Flowers for Your Home, Special Occasions and Every Day by Annabelle Hickson
$50.00 AUD
Category: interiors
A Tree in the House is part guide for the aspiring home florist, and part celebration of rural life in sync with nature. Now in its second edition with a beautiful new cover, this book honours the joy and simple, natural beauty flowers bring to the home every day, with a special focus on foraged and lo ...Show more