Leonardo's Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci
$19.99 AUD
Category: Artists
An all-new, jewel-like, reader-friendly format gives new life to this relaunch of an international best-seller. Leonardo da Vinci artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man is a perennial source of fascination because of his astonishing intellect and boundless curiosity about the natural and man ...Show more
Van Gogh by Wilheim Uhde
$29.95 AUD
Category: Artists | Series: Colour Library | Reading Level: very good
This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source informatio ...Show more
Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing by Phaidon Editors
$100.00 AUD
Category: Artists
The latest instalment of this indispensable survey of contemporary drawing, chosen by the world's leading art experts Over the past 50 years, drawing has been elevated from a supporting role to a primary medium, ranking alongside painting as a central art form. Since the publication of Vitamin D (2005) ...Show more
Leonardo Da Vinci - A Life in Drawing by Martin Clayton; HRH The Prince of Wales Staff (Foreword by)
$65.00 AUD
Category: Artists
Drawing was Leonardo da Vinci's primary artistic activity. He used drawing to think, to explore the world around him and to develop his other artistic projects. His drawings are among the most diverse and technically accomplished in the entire history of art, and the Royal Collection holds by far the mo ...Show more
Ludwig Bemelmans by Quentin Blake; Laurie Britton-Newell; Laurie Britton; Anon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Artists | Series: The\Illustrators Ser.
While almost everybody knows Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline, the fact that the illustrator published over forty other titles remains a well-kept secret. The first title in Thames & Hudson's brand-new series, this book offers a visually rich insight into the life and work of this important artist and wr ...Show more
Night Thoughts by BLAKE QUENTIN
$35.00 AUD
Category: Artists | Series: The\QB Papers' Ser.
A catalogue of drawings showing strange night creatures, drawn using watercolour marker. Quentin writes, `In recent years I have found myself working increasingly in sequences of drawings which explore subjects and techniques which interest me. These sequences are the origins of The QB Papers; they var ...Show more
Antony Gormley on Sculpture by Antony Gormley; Mark Holborn
$35.00 AUD
Category: Artists
Antony Gormley occupies an unusual position as a highly popular sculptor - known chiefly for his Angel of the North (1998), a national landmark in the UK - who is also widely regarded as one of the most intellectually challenging artists working internationally. He is grounded in archaeology and anthrop ...Show more
Gauguin by Belinda Thomson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Artists | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Paul Gauguin achieved a high public profile during his lifetime, and was one of the first artists of his generation to achieve international recognition. But his prominence has always had as much to do with the dramatic events of his life - his self-imposed exile on a remote South Sea island, his turbul ...Show more
Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words by Boel Westin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Artists
The Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. However, the Moomins were only a part of her prodigious output. Already admired in Nordic art circles as a pain ...Show more
Human Canvas by Art Wolfe
$75.00 AUD
Category: Artists
Human Canvas combines Wolfe's world-famous photography with his exquisite painting to create a groundbreaking collection of body art. What does it mean to be human? In Human Canvas, Art Wolfe uses his exceptional photography and his background in fine-art painting to transform skin into an abstract la ...Show more
100 Illustrators by Steven Heller (New York, NY School of Visual Arts in New York)
$120.00 AUD
Category: Artists
Picture this: The biggest players in the highly competitive field of illustration. Culled from our Illustration Now series is this selection of today's most successful and important illustrators from around the globe. In his introduction, Steven Heller fleshes out the challenging process of narrowing do ...Show more
Kahlo (Biographic) by Sophie Collins
$19.99 AUD
Category: Artists | Series: Biographic
Many people know that Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a Mexican artist, a feminist icon who lived in the famous Blue House and whose work includes The Two Fridas. What, perhaps, they don't know is that 55 of her 143 artworks are self-portraits; that her painting Roots holds the record for a Latin American a ...Show more