The Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of Botanical Illustration by Stephen A Harris
$69.99 AUD
Category: various art & design forms
Blooming with rare archival images, the story of scientific botanical illustrations over nearly seven hundred years. In a world flooded with images designed to create memories, validate perceptions, and influence others, botanical illustration is about something much more focused: creating technically a ...Show more
An Apothecary of Art: To Soothe Your Soul by Ravenous Butterflies
$34.99 AUD
Category: various art & design forms
An Apothecary of Art is the beautiful debut collection from Ravenous Butterflies featuring 80 exquisite works of art from the likes of John William Waterhouse, Henri Rousseau and Rockwell Kent with accompanying quotes from voices including Sappho, Pablo Neruda and Harriet Tubman. Ravenous Butterflies is ...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
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
Hiroshige: Nature and the City by Jim Dwinger, John Carpenter, Andreas Marks
$130.00 AUD
Category: various art & design forms
Hiroshige: Nature and the City is the most extensive overview of the career of the famed Japanese print artist, Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) in the English language to date. Based on the largest collection of Hiroshige in private hands outside Japan, - the Alan Medaugh collection - the catalogue consis ...Show more
Secret Life of Tattoos: Meanings, Shapes and Motifs by JORDI GARRIGA
$49.99 AUD
Category: various art & design forms
This book delves into the meaning behind tattoos, exploring their past, present and their symbolism. Tattoos, perhaps one of the oldest forms of communication or body art, have had and still have different meanings. From healing powers to the identification of criminals, through myths and different beli ...Show more
New Tattoo Artists: Illustrators and Designers Meet Tattoo by MARIONA CABASSA CORTES
$59.99 AUD
Category: various art & design forms
Artists from disciplines commonly seen as far removed from tattooing embrace it with a different look and approach. Artists from graphic design, photography, illustration, painting and sculpture have found in tattooing a new tool to express themselves and give way to their distinctive language. And they ...Show more
Goddess: Fierce Women on Film by Bethan Johnson, Matt Millikan, Sarah Tutton
$49.99 AUD
Category: various art & design forms
The screen goddess is a formidable figure, renowned for her power, complexity and so often beauty. From Joan Crawford and Bette Davis to Laverne Cox and Michelle Yeoh, these women disrupted and redefined the female ideal by pushing boundaries, fighting gender stereotypes and transcending tired tropes. ...Show more
Redouté. The Book of Flowers by H. Walter Lack
$155.00 AUD
Category: various art & design forms
Floral MasterpiecesThe finest floral treasures of Pierre-Joseph Redout French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redout (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper engravings, with careful botanical descript ...Show more
Still Life Contemporary Australian Painters by Amber Creswell Bell
$59.99 AUD
Category: various art & design forms
Winner Indie Awards 2022 for Illustrated Non-Fiction 'A collection of objects, no matter how mundane, tells a story. They are like a little world; you can get lost in them.' - John Bokor Still Life explores the diverse practices of more than forty contemporary Australian artists and documents a repert ...Show more
Revolution: The History of Turntable Design by Gideon Schwartz
$150.00 AUD
Category: various art & design forms | Series: SRG22M
The design, history, and cultural impact of turntables and vinyl technology: the twin powerhouses of the 'vinyl revival' phenomenon. Interest in turntables and records is enjoying a renaissance as analog natives and new converts find their enduring style and extraordinary sound inimitable. Revolution, a ...Show more
Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now by Antony Gormley, Martin Gayford
$80.00 AUD
Category: various art & design forms
Sculpture is the universal art. It has been practised by every culture throughout the world and stretches back into the distant past. The first surviving shaped stones may even predate the advent of language. The drive to form stone, clay, wood and metal into shapes evidently runs deep in our psyche and ...Show more