Art Deco 1910-1939 by Dianne Waite
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
Originally conceived by and first shown at the V&A in 2003, Art Deco 1910-1939 has toured the USA, Canada, Japan, and now Australia. It has been seen by over one million visitors worldwide, a testament to the tremendous appeal of the style. But this is more than just an historical catalogue. It is a ...Show more
The Ajanta Caves by Benoy K. Behl (formerly Senior Fellow, Department of Culture, Government of India)
$148.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
500 Self-portraits by Julian Bell
$29.95 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Reading Level: very good
A new version of a Phaidon classic published in 1937, this evocative and fascinating book, now issued as a paperback, presents 500 of the world's greatest self-portraits, arranged in a simple chronological sequence from ancient times to the late twentieth century. 'The mirror, above all - the mirror is ...Show more
Indian Art Art And Ideas by Vidya Dehejia
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Series: Art and Ideas Ser.
A full and up-to-date history of the subcontinent's artistic heritage.
The Timeline History of Islamic Art and Architecture by Nasser D. Khalili
$79.95 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
Contemporary Australian Drawing by MCKENZIE JANET
$99.95 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
Scotland-based Dr Janet McKenzie, long-term deputy editor of the renowned art journal "Studio International", first published on Australian drawing with Macmillan back in 1986. Twenty-one years later she met Dr Irene Barberis, an Australian artist who was in the UK representing Metasenta, an internation ...Show more
Fairy House by Debbie Schramer; Mike Scramer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
Fairy House is a fascinating adventure into the making of miniscule kingdoms of the fairytale realm from objects found in nature. Through more than 350 clear, detailed, full-color photographs and understandable yet whimsical guidance, the reader will learn to fashion intricate, tiny cups from acorn pods ...Show more
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
The updated edition of Julian Barnes' best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays 'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached w ...Show more
Street Art: Legendary Artists and their Visions by Alessandra Mattanza
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
In the last few decades, art has moved from the museums and art galleries to the streets. Visionary artists, gifted with breath-taking expressiveness, have utilised featureless and abandoned spaces of everyday life and converted them into a new artistic palette for expressing their ideas. In this contex ...Show more
Venus in Tullamarine: Art, Sex, Politics, and Norman Lindsay by Cameron Hurst and Jeremy George
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) was a prolific, popular and controversial Australian artist, best known for his children’s book The Magic Pudding, and prints which draw on Greek and Roman myth and C19th literature and philosophy. Australian culture is indelibly marked by Lindsay’s output, his prominence in ...Show more