Speaking East - The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou by Andrew Hussey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A vibrant account of both the sensuous cultural scene of postwar Paris and the life of an alluring icon of modern art. Isidore Isou was a young Jew in wartime Bucharest who barely survived the Romanian Holocaust. He made his way to Paris, where, in 1945, he founded the avant-garde movement Lettrism, des ...Show more
Lets Go Outside: Art in Public by Charlotte Day, Callum Morton, Dr Amy Spiers (Ed)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Monash University Museum of Art
Doing, Seeing; Seeing, Doing by Leon van Schaik
$39.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
For architect and educator Leon van Schaik, the way we understand our world is not an abstract consideration, but deeply rooted in physical experience. Our family houses and places of work, the gardens we have played and rested in, the landscapes we have travelled through and those we have come to call ...Show more
Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Why do we wear what we wear? To answer this question, we must go back and unlock the wardrobes of the early twentieth century, when fashion as we know it was born. In Bring No Clothes, acclaimed fashion writer Charlie Porter brings us face to face with six members of the Bloomsbury Group - the collect ...Show more
Daybook by Anne Truitt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A beautiful new edition of the cult classic that counts Zadie Smith and Rachel Kushner among its fans - with a new introduction by Celia Paul. 'I am an artist. Even to write it makes me feel deeply uneasy.' Renowned American artist Anne Truitt kept this illuminating and inspiring journal between 1974- ...Show more
Yield - The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt; Rachel Kushner (Foreword by)
$41.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Celebrating Anne Truitt's centenary, this posthumously published work serves as the fourth and final volume in her remarkable series of journalsIn the spring of 1974, the artist Anne Truitt (1921-2004) committed herself to keeping a journal for a year. She would continue the practice, sometimes intermit ...Show more
Sylvia Plath: Drawings by Frieda Hughes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
In 1956 Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother, Aurelia Plath: 'I feel I'm developing a kind of primitive style of my own which I am very fond of. Wait til you see. The Cambridge sketch was nothing compared to these.' Sylvia Plath cited art as her deepest source of inspiration but, while her poetry is celebr ...Show more
Design as Art by Bruno Munari
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as 'the new Leonardo'. Munari i ...Show more
What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter
$26.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Most of us live our lives in our clothes without realising their power. But in the hands of artists, garments reveal themselves. They are pure tools of expression, storytelling, resistance and creativity: canvases on which to show who we really are. In What Artists Wear, style luminary Charlie Porter ta ...Show more
The World According to Colour: A Cultural History by James Fox
$26.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the reader in a single colour, drawing together stories from the histories of art and humanity to illuminate the meanings it has been ...Show more
Humanise: A Maker's Guide to Building Our World by Thomas Heatherwick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings. 'This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that' GRAYSON PERRY Our world is losing its humanity. Too many d ...Show more
Oh, To Be a Painter! by Virginia Woolf
$21.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
The twentieth volume in the renowned ekphrasis series, this collection of Virginia Woolf's writings on the visual arts offers a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author. Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, and in the artists and art critics in her Bloomsbury circle, there is no acces ...Show more