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A History of Pictures by David Hockney, Martin Gayford
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Art and Design
Informed and energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing and making images with cameras, David Hockney, in collaboration with the art critic Martin Gayford, explores how and why pictures have been made across the millennia. What makes marks on a flat surface interesting? How do you show movement in a s ...Show more
A History of Pictures for Children by David Hockney; Martin Gayford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's Reference
A History of Pictures for Children takes readers on a journey through art history, from early art drawn on cave walls to the images we make today on our computers and phone cameras. Based on the bestselling book for adults, this children's edition of A History of Pictures is told through conversations b ...Show more
Man with a Blue Scarf - On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Artists
"An extraordinary record of a great artist in his studio, it also describes what it feels like to be transformed into a work of art." -ARTnews Lucian Freud (1922-2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of his time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayfor ...Show more
Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters by Martin Gayford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Series: Bacon, Freud, Hockney & The London Painters
'What can painting do?' This question bound together a diverse community of artists in London after the Second World War. In answering it, many became household names: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Gillian Ayres, Frank Bowling, Howard Hodgkin and more.Drawing ...Show more
Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now by Antony Gormley, Martin Gayford
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Reading Level: new
Sculpture is the universal art. It has been practised by every culture throughout the world and stretches back into the distant past. The first surviving shaped stones may even predate the advent of language. The drive to form stone, clay, wood and metal into shapes evidently runs deep in our psyche and ...Show more
Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy (HB) by Martin Gayford; David Hockney
$50.00 AUD
Category: Artists
"I intend to carry on with my work, which I now see as very important. We have lost touch with nature rather foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it." David Hockney On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquility for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of t ...Show more
The Pursuit of Art - Travels, Encounters and Revelations by Martin Gayford
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Travels, Encounters & Revelations
In the course of a career thinking and writing about art, critic Martin Gayford has traveled all over the world both to see works of art and to meet artists. Gayford's journeys, often to fairly inaccessible places, involve frustrations and complications, but also serendipitous encounters and outcomes, w ...Show more
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