Australian Abstract: Contemporary Abstract Painting by Amber Creswell Bell
$69.99 AUD
Category: art history & collections
'There is an internal monologue, and a world of decisions and possibilities behind each work that the viewer does not see. Abstraction is akin to learning a new language.' ANA YOUNG There is no single neat definition of abstract art. It makes no attempt to represent reality; instead it has its own visu ...Show more
Odd Roads to be Walking: 156 Women who shaped Australian Art by Paul Finucane, Catherine Stuart
$90.00 AUD
Category: art history & collections
'It was an odd road to be walking, this of painting.' So wrote Virginia Woolf in her classic 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. While the life journeys of many artists can be described as 'odd roads', few were as original and challenging as those of the pioneering Australian women of art from the late 19th ...Show more
British Surrealism - British Surrealism by Llewellyn HAYCOCK
$54.99 AUD
Category: art history & collections | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
- Features work by: Eileen Agar, Edward Burra, Cecil Collins, Paul Nash, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Francis Bacon, Leonora Carrington, Lucian Freud and Paule Vézelay - Delving back to the artists and writers who were the 'Ancestors of Surrealism', the influence of Lewis Carroll, William Blake, Henr ...Show more
100 Years, 100 Artworks - A History of Modern and Contemporary Art by Agnes Berecz
$72.00 AUD
Category: art history & collections
This dazzling book showcases the history of modern and contemporary art using one hundred of the most significant art works--one per year--of the past 100 years. Starting with Marcel Duchamp's 1919 whimsical, brilliant L.H.O.O.Q., this compendium offers a year-by-year tour of iconic paintings, photogra ...Show more
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
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
The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities by Caroline Campbell
$39.99 AUD
Category: art history & collections
THE POWER OF ART is an epic work of non-fiction that will transform our understanding of the world by unlocking the human stories behind millennia of art. Taking readers from ancient Babylon to contemporary Pyongyang, the eminent curator Caroline Campbell explains art's power to illuminate our lives, a ...Show more
Art of the Grimoire An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells by Owen Davies
$51.95 AUD
Category: art history & collections
A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks. Grimoires, textbooks of magic and occult knowledge, have existed through the ages alongside other magic and religious texts in part because of the need to create a physical record of magical phenomena, but al ...Show more
Letters to a Critic: Alan McCulloch's World of Art by Rodney James
$60.00 AUD
Category: art history & collections
Australian art through the letters of leading critic Alan McCullochDescribed as 'arguably the most influential Australian art critic of the last half of the twentieth century', Alan McCulloch's work-as illustrator, critic, gallery director and author-reflected on and documented much of this era of visua ...Show more
New Surrealism: Advanced Composition in Contemporary Painting by Robert Zeller
$59.95 AUD
Category: art history & collections
New Surrealism introduces an overview of the history of Surrealism and then shows how the themes explored by the early Surrealists are still present in contemporary drawing and composition. Alongside a survey of contemporary Surrealism, the book also features a special section devoted to the working me ...Show more
400 Years of Travel Diaries: The Art of Sketching by PASCALE ARGOD
$56.99 AUD
Category: art history & collections
Caught between travel guides and artists' books, the travel diary has swung between a journalistic documentary style and visual expression. It is a literary and artistic genre that is composite and plural, heterogeneous and subjective. This book illustrates the great scientific and journalistic adventur ...Show more