The Weekend Artist: Creative Inspiration, Techniques and Simple Projects Designed to Unleash Your Inner Artist by Gerard Smith
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
Introduces beginner artists to the world of paint and demonstrates basic techniques and materials in a range of contemporary projects that would be an addition to any home.
Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution by Cedar Lewisohn
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
Street Art - art made in public spaces and including graffiti, stickers, poster art, stencil art and wheat-pasting, but not corporate-sponsored advertising or "public art" - has become one of the most popular and hotly discussed areas of art practice on the contemporary scene. Developing out of the graf ...Show more
At a Crossroads: Between a Rock and My Parents' Place by Kate T. Williamson
$33.50 AUD
Category: Art
After graduating from college and spending a magical year abroad writing our best-selling A Year in Japan, Kate T. Williamson felt ready for anything. But, like many a postgraduate, she needed some time to figure out just what that anything was. Her parents' house in Pennsylvania seemed like the perfect ...Show more
Not Quite Straight : A Memoir by Jeffrey Smart
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art
Born in respectable (read: dull) Adelaide in 1921, Jeffrey Smart made his first Grand Tour of Europe at age 4. By 5 he had discovered Sex (with a female classmate) and Crime. By 18 he'd decided he was the only person in Australia who was 'not quite straight'. The subsequent decades brought further enlig ...Show more
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
Why would a very smart New York investment banker pay twelve million dollars for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock's drip painting No.5 1948 sell for $140 million? And why does a leather jacket with silver chain attached, tossed in a corner and titled 'No One ...Show more
How to Buy and Sell Art by REID Michael
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
Completely updated this second edition of How to Buy and Sell Art includes a new chapter on buying Aboriginal art as well as a comprehensive listing of the best galleries in the country.
Artists' Tapestries by Sue Walker
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art
The history of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop in Melbourne.
Creation: Artists, Gods and Origins by Peter Conrad
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art
Throughout history artists, writers and musicians - 'creative' people - have tried to outdo God or the Gods in the acts of creation. This extraordinarily wide-ranging study traces the different concepts of creation in Western civilization, following the struggle between man and god for the right to crea ...Show more
Printed - Images in Colonial Australia 1801-1901 by Roger Butler
$89.00 AUD
Category: Art
"Printed Images in Colonial Australia 1801-1901" is concerned with the history of printmaking in Australia's foundational period. This book's 377 images, many of them exceedingly rare or long overlooked, are presented alongside Roger Butler's original research and information not previously assembled in ...Show more
Berlin Art Now by Jim Rakete
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art
Berlin has seen huge upheavals in the past fifteen years, not least its reinstatement as the capital city of the reunified Germany. Significant among these changes is its re-establishment as the thriving centre of the German art world: many home-grown artists are choosing to live and work there, and a d ...Show more
The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art
$295.00 AUD
Category: Art
Widely regarded as the authoritative reference on Australian art with its extensive colour plates and 4500 entries. Fully illustrated with more than 700 images on 1200 pages. Entries include: Aboriginal art, Abstractionism, art links, sculptors, photographers, craft workers and printmakers and much more ...Show more