20th Century Artbox:postcards by Phaidon Press
$10.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
This box of 100 postcards is one of three sets based on "The 20th Century Art Book". Two boxes each contain 25 greetings cards and envelopes. These 50 images are supplemented by 50 others to make this box of postcards, showing the most attractive works with corresponding text on the back.
Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists by Vivien Johnson
$100.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists chronicles the beginnings of the Western Desert art movement and the phenomenal development of its founding art company over four decades. Through comprehensive and widely research biographies of more than 200 men and women the book illuminates lives balanced between fi ...Show more
Body of Art by Phaidon Editors
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
Body of Art is the first book to explore the various ways the human body has been both an inspiration and a medium for artists over hundreds of thousands of years. Unprecedented in its scope, it examines the many different manifestations of the body in art, from Anthony Gormley and Maya Lin sculptures t ...Show more
Movements in Art Since 1945 by Edward Lucie-Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Series: World of Art Ser.
Revised and redesigned for the first time since 2001, this standard introduction to visual art in the postwar era examines the movements, trends, and artists from abstract expressionism to the present day.Writing with exceptional clarity and a strong sense of narrative, Edward Lucie- Smith demystifies t ...Show more
The Chinese Art Book by Colin Mackenzie
$69.95 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
The Chinese Art Book is a beautifully packaged, authoritative, and unprecedented overview of Chinese art from its earliest dynasties to the contemporary generation of artists enlivening today's art world. 300 works represent every form of Chinese visual art, including painting, calligraphy, sculpture, c ...Show more
The Spirit of Venice: From Marco Polo to Casanova by Paul Strathern
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Reading Level: very good
The Spirit of Venice is a history of the first great economic and naval power of the modern western world, from its struggle to ascendancy, through the arc of its glory - when its trading empire reached as far afield as China, Syria and West Africa - to the beginning of its long and fascinating decline. ...Show more
Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking by Catherine McCormack
$27.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
A bold reconsideration of women in art - from the 'Old Masters' to the posts of Instagram influencers. A perfect pin-up, a damsel in distress, a saintly mother, a femme fatale... Women's identity has long been stifled by a limited set of archetypes, found everywhere in pictures from art history's classi ...Show more
One Thousand Years of Manga by Brigitte Koyama-Richard
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
As contemporary as this graphic art form may appear to readers outside of Japan, manga has deep roots in Japanese culture, drawing on centuries- old artistic traditions. Traces can be found in seventh-century temple paintings, folding screens decorated with comic characters, and painted medieval emakimo ...Show more
Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to be Understood by Grayson Perry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
"I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art. It should be issued as a set text in every school." (Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Now). Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he's called th ...Show more
Street Art - Art Essentials by Simon Armstrong; Anon; Makoto Azuma
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
A comprehensive history and interpretation of the street art movement, featuring all of the key practitioners in a colorful combination of sharp images and insightful commentary. Street art is a phenomenon and subculture movement that reaches from the darkest urban backstreets to the most glamorous inte ...Show more
Making Art Public - Kaldor Public Art Projects, 1969-2019 by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Genevieve O'Callaghan (Editor); Mark Gowing (Designed by); Michael Landy; Nicholas Baume; Rebecca Coates; Ross Gibson; Ross Rudesch Harley; David Malouf; Emily Sullivan; Michael Brand (Foreword by); John Kaldor (Introduction by)
$99.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Series: Kaldor Art Projects 1969 - 2019
Shrouding one million square feet of Little Bay with fabric and rope, Wrapped Coast, 1969, by Christo and Jeanne-Claude was a groundbreaking piece of public art that propelled Sydney into the international art scene and left an indelible mark on Australian culture. On the fiftieth anniversary of Wrapped ...Show more
Mirka & Georges: A Culinary Affair by Lesley Harding; Kendrah Morgan
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
The impact of Mirka and Georges Mora on Australian art and food has been remarkable. Arriving in Melbourne in 1951 from Paris, they energised local society and transformed the culinary and artistic landscapes. Their apartment became a hub for the bohemian set, and their cafes and restaurants brimmed wit ...Show more