Matisse the Master (Volume 2) by Hilary Spurling
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
The Life of Henri Matisse (Volume 2: 1909-1954) In this astounding book (winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year 2005) Hilary Spurling's fascinating exploration of Matisse's world uncovers the secret life of the artist, whose paintings shocked and infuriated his contemporaries while paving the way for ...Show more
In Flagrante Collecto by Marilynn Gelfman Karp
$99.00 AUD
Category: Art
Explores and catalogues our impulse to collect the incidental miscellanea of the past. Part observation, part confession, this book takes us on a journey of philosophical musings, cultural history, and personal memoir. It is a tribute to the realm of those "unloveable" objects, those that seem banal, co ...Show more
Art and Australia: Debates, Dollars and Delusions by Patricia Anderson
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art
Comprehensively Clarice Cliff by Greg Slater
$145.00 AUD
Category: Art
The dazzling ceramics of Clarice Cliff and of the Wilkinson family in the north of England have become one of the great collectables from the 20th century. Ever since the exuberant colours and bold shapes of Clarice Cliff's classic Art Deco pieces first caught the imagination of collectors, auction pric ...Show more
American Art Deco by Carla Breeze
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art
Art deco architecture flourished in urban areas thropughout America in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of the best examples - office buildings, cinemas, hotels and churches - are still in use. Deco architects, artists and designers drew on European styles but were committed to a style that grew organically fr ...Show more
Brett Whiteley: Art and Life by Barry Pearce
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
Brett Whiteley was one of the most dynamic and talented artists in the history of Australian art, an artist whose recognition had spread worldwide before his untimely death in 1992. Early in his career he established a name for himself in London, exhibiting at the Whitechapel Art Gallery and coming into ...Show more
Spirit Country Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art by Jennifer Isaacs
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art
Indigenous artists have brought their culture to the international stage from the breadth of the Australian continent and its surrounding islands. Spirit Country explores the vibrant contemporary Aboriginal art that has caught the eyes of the Western art world but for those who make them they are also r ...Show more
Book Art by Christine Antaya
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
As more and more text is being communicated via digital media, books are increasingly being used and explored in contemporary art, installation, and design. For centuries books have contained and presented the written words that have allowed humankind to study and interpret the world. Although the role ...Show more
Illustrators Unlimited - The Essence of Contemporary Illustration by Robert Klanten
$105.00 AUD
Category: Art
The work and methods of illustrators from around the world reveal the scope of this creative discipline. In recent years, illustration has evolved from a purely service-oriented trade to an expressive, poetic, and esteemed voice in contemporary visual culture. Today it continues to burgeon as a creative ...Show more
Charley Harper an Illustrated Life Mini Edition by Charley Harper
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art
Charley Harper was an American original. For more than six decades he painted colorful and graphic illustrations of nature, animals, insects and people alike, from his home studio in Cincinnati, Ohio, until he passed away in 2007, at the age of 84. Renowned New York-based designer Todd Oldham rediscover ...Show more
Paula Scher Maps by Paula Scher
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art
In the early 1990s, celebrated graphic designer Paula Scher (Make It Bigger, 2002) began painting maps of the world as she sees it. The larger her canvases grew, the more expressionistic her geographical visions became. Displaying a powerful command of image and type, Scher brilliantly transformed the s ...Show more
Oak by Stephen Taylor
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art
It was an exercise to learn how to see, to understand just one thing in its greatest detail. Stephen Taylor came across the 250-year-old tree while on a walk in Essex, England, six years ago, shortly after the deaths of his mother and close friend a tragic time that brought him back to painting and then ...Show more