The Australian Art Field by Tony Bennett; Deborah Stevenson; Fred R. Myers; Tamara Winikoff
$77.99 AUD
Category: Art History
This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to take stock of the frictions generated by a tumultuous time in the Australian art field and to probe what the crises might mean for the future of the arts in Australia. Specific topics include national and international art markets; art pra ...Show more
Science Meets Art by John Potts; Nigel Helyer
$79.99 AUD
Category: Art History
This book explores collaboration between artists and scientists and examines the ways in which scientific data and research findings can be communicated, translated and transformed using the techniques of contemporary art and information technology. Contemporary art forms--including installation, sculpt ...Show more
Variations: A More Diverse Picture of Contemporary Art by Tristen Harwood, Grace McQuilten, Anthony White
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art History
' Variation' is a term that embraces difference, and is core to the excitement and uniqueness of art practice. This book gives much-deserved attention to the work of artists with exceptional and varied lived experiences - including neurodiversity, diverse mental health, incarceration, and refugee, migra ...Show more
Clare Leighton's Rural Life: An Anthology by Clare Leighton
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art History
A stunningly packaged anthology of writings and artwork by noted wood engraver Clare Leighton, including beautifully reproduced extracts and a detailed introduction to the artist’s life and work, reflecting Leighton’s lifelong fascination with the virtues of the countryside and the people who worked the ...Show more
The Bird Art of William T. Cooper by Wendy Cooper
$64.99 AUD
Category: Art History
William T. Cooper is considered a master painter of birds. He painted them for many books, mainly bird monographs. He also created many individual paintings of various species that appealed to him, especially birds of paradise, cockatoos and hornbills. These paintings were often large with a broad techn ...Show more
One Thousand Years of Manga by Brigitte Koyama-Richard
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art History
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
Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art History
This imaginative reframing of the Renaissance presents its history asthat of connections across Europe, where artists from the north andsouth were products of the brilliantly fertile mix of classical inspiration, observation, and self-consciousness that set European culture alight from the fifteenth to ...Show more
The Drawings of Vincent van Gogh by Christopher Lloyd
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art History
A compelling and authoritative overview of the drawings of Vincent van Gogh, one of the most celebrated and intriguing figures in the history of art.Vincent van Gogh's (1853-1890) drawings are some of the most familiar and expressive in the history of art. Van Gogh believed that drawing was the 'root of ...Show more
Red: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau
$79.99 AUD
Category: Art History
The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of privilege in the Western world. For many cultures, red was not just one color of many but rather the only color worthy enough to be used for social purp ...Show more
Hokusai Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai; Kyoko Wada (Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and the three volumes of his subsequent One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji show his fascination with a single motif: Mount Fuji. Hokusai's near-obsession with Fuji was part of his hankering after artistic immortality. In Buddhist and Daoist tradition, thi ...Show more
Ceramics: An Atlas of Forms by Glenn Barkley
$79.99 AUD
Category: Art History
What can we learn about the Roman empire from an amphora made in 200 BC? How can a simple, unadorned cup made in 1945 tell us so much about history? And what will an artwork comprising a vast collection of clay spheres tell our descendants about the act of making? Once fired, clay has the strength to ...Show more
Micro Tattoos: The World's Top Fine Line Tattoo Artists by SVEN RAYEN
$79.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Micro Tattoos are a popular trend and have made the art of tattooing more accessible for many people. This book takes a closer look at them and shows the most beautiful small fineline tattoos from the best tattoo artists worldwide. It offers a handy alphabetical overview of the artists, a number of inte ...Show more