Cressida Campbell by National Gallery of Australia
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art
Cressida Campbell celebrates the career of an exceptional Australian colourist who has worked between painting and printmaking for over forty years. Combining keen observation with formal design, Campbell uses an innovative technique to create woodblock paintings and unique woodcut prints that take dire ...Show more
Slim Aarons: The Essential Collection by Slim Aarons
$260.00 AUD
Category: Photography
The ultimate and most comprehensive collection of Slim Aarons photography ever released, featuring more than 100 previously unpublished images. This luxe edition provides a deep and comprehensive look at the groundbreaking career of Slim Aarons, spanning five decades. The book begins with Slim's fie ...Show more
1001 Remarkable Objects by Powerhouse
$98.00 AUD
Category: Art
A celebration of the scale, breadth and relevance of the decorative arts and design collections held by Powerhouse Museum, 1001 Remarkable Objects catalogues the eponymous exhibition at Powerhouse Ultimo, 26 August – 31 December 2023. The publication opens with a series of 32 still life images produced ...Show more
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death by Laura Cumming
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024****WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE 2024 | NON-FICTION**A beautifully illustrated new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean.'Brilliant' Edmund de Waal * 'Captivating' Nina Stibbe * 'Extrao ...Show more
Mapplethorpe Flora - The Complete Flowers by Mark Holborn (Editor); Dimitri Levas (Editor); Herbert Muschamp (Introduction by); Robert Mapplethorpe (Artist)
$160.00 AUD
Category: Photography
The definitive collection of Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs in a sophisticated new edition Robert Mapplethorpe is one of the twentieth century's most important artists, known for his ground-breaking and provocative work. He studied painting, drawing and sculpture in Brooklyn in the 1960s and ...Show more
Francis Bacon - A Self-Portrait in Words by Michael Peppiatt
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
The documents selected for Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words illustrate Bacon's sharp wit and ability to express complex ideas in highly personal, memorable language. Included here are not only letters to friends, patrons, and fellow artists, but also intriguing notes and lists of paintings. They ...Show more
Get the Picture by Bianca Bosker
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
In Cork Dork, Bianca Bosker trained her insatiable curiosity, journalist's knack for infiltrating exclusive circles and eye for unforgettable characters on the wine world as she trained to become a sommelier. Now she brings her whip-smart yet accessible sensibility along for a ride through another subcu ...Show more
The Bird Art of William T. Cooper by Wendy Cooper
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art
William T. Cooper is considered a master painter of birds. He painted them for many books, mainly bird monographs. He also created many individual paintings of various species that appealed to him, especially birds of paradise, cockatoos and hornbills. These paintings were often large with a broad techn ...Show more
AURA by LAURA REID
$90.00 AUD
Category: Photography
AURA is an aspirational and inspirational book dripping with evocative photographs of humble ocean pools that stir the soul of those who love a body of water to throw themselves into. Swimming is a childhood rite of passage and an Australian obsession. Treasured ocean pools are where children learn to s ...Show more
Archie Moore - Kith and Kin by Ellie Buttrose, Grace Lucas-Pennington
$52.00 AUD
Category: Art
Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist Archie Moore is renowned for politically astute and materially delicate portrays of self and national histories. This black monograph draws upon the artist’s research with family, community and archivists to celebrate First Nations Australian sovereignty and kinship ties that s ...Show more
The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich; Leonie Gombrich (Contribution by)
$100.00 AUD
Category: Art
Exquisite cloth-bound edition of the classic art-history text - the ideal gift for every art connoisseur and student For more than 70 years Sir Ernst Gombrich's The Story of Art has been a global bestseller - with more than 8 million copies sold - the perfect introduction to art history, from the earli ...Show more
Odd Roads to be Walking: 156 Women who shaped Australian Art by Paul Finucane, Catherine Stuart
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
'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