• Show all Categories
  • Art and Design
  • Contact Us
  • About Us
  • Subscribe to our mailing list
  • Monthly Newsletter
  • Paperback Gift Vouchers
  • Reading Lists
    • Bill's Recommendations
    • Anna's Recommendations
    • Robert's Recommendations
    • Esther's Recommendations
    • Rosy's Recommendations
  • Reading Recommendations
  • Events
    • Paperback Listening
    • Salon Series
  • Online Orders
  •    Login/Sign up
  • Login/Sign up

Paperback Bookshop

Start typing to search by keyword, title, author or ISBN
Searching...
Going to product page...
  • Contact Us
  • About Us
  • Subscribe to our mailing list
  • Monthly Newsletter
  • Paperback Gift Vouchers
  • Reading Lists 
    • Bill's Recommendations
    • Anna's Recommendations
    • Robert's Recommendations
    • Esther's Recommendations
    • Rosy's Recommendations
  • Reading Recommendations
  • Events 
    • Paperback Listening
    • Salon Series
  • Online Orders
  1. Art and Design

Browse by category

  • Show all Categories
  • Art and Design

Art and Design

Large kirsten

Kirsten Coehlo by Wendy Walker; Glenn Barkley (Foreword by); Kirsten Coelho (Artist)

$54.95 AUD

Category: Art and Design

Kirsten Coelho works in porcelain creating functional forms and vessels of a distilled and otherworldly perfection, which represent her preferred fusion of the formal with the abstract. Deeply grounded in North-Asian ceramic history and the powerful legacy of the British studio movement, her refined int erpretations of humble domestic wares nevertheless possess a distinctly contemporary and Australian sensibility. She has exhibited extensively and increasingly widely - predominantly in Australia and the United Kingdom, but also Denmark, Hong Kong, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Taipei and the USA. Included in major international ceramic publications authored by Emmanuel Cooper, Louisa Taylor and Edmund de Waal, her work has been acquired for significant private and public collections. In 'Kirsten Coelho', the first major publication on a practice spanning thirty years, images of Coelho's impeccable vessels are interleaved with fragments of poetry and reproductions of paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Russell Drysdale and Vilhelm Hammershøi. In a series of essays, author Wendy Walker traces the evolution of Coelho's textured practice, in which an ever-expanding framework of art historical, literary and cinematic references has driven a succession of formal shifts - a shaping of changes. Inherited vocabularies are assimilated in hybridised multiple forms that are without replication. With the adoption of an ensemble mode of presentation, Kirsten Coelho's small universes of transcultural objects transcend the familiarity of their everyday contexts to enshrine narratives of migration, transition and resettlement. ...Show more

Add to Cart Click & Collect Add to Wishlist
Large 9781849946582

The Illustrated Provence Letters Of Vincent Van Gogh by Martin Bailey

$32.99 AUD

Category: Art and Design

Vincent van Gogh's letters are an exceptionally vivid and moving testimony to the artist's struggle to survive and work. They have always been widely read but this book's combination of letters and illustrations gives an intimate insight into the painter's daily domestic life in Arles and Saint-Remy, hi s spiritual torment and the process of artistic creation itself.Vincent tells his own story of his most creative period. The book includes important letters to Gauguin and his brother. The selection is profusely illustrated throughout with his paintings, drawings and facsimile letters, many of which contain revealing sketches of his work in progress.Dr Martin Bailey's introduction provides essential background information about Vincent's early life, setting the period in Provence in perspective. It deals in particular with Vincent's relationship with his family, especially brother Theo, who was the closest companion and the recipient of most of he surviving letters from Provence. Biographical notes about him and all the other recipients are provided as well as a guide for visitors to those places painted by Van Gogh. ...Show more

Add to Wishlist
Nophoto

The World According to Colour by James Fox

$49.99 AUD

Category: Art and Design

The subject of this book is mankind's extraordinary relationship with colour. It is composed of a series of voyages, ranging across the world and throughout history, which reveal the meanings that have been attached to the colours we see around us and the ways these have shaped our culture and imaginati on. It takes seven primary colours - black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple and green - and uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances or properties so rudimentary as to be common to all societies.The book traces these meanings to show how they changed and multiplied, the role that they have played in our culture and history, and how understanding them allows us to see many of the milestones in the history of art - from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein - in a new way. It proceeds by stories, which cumulatively tell another, larger one- a history of the world from the black nothing which preceded existence to the birth of our red-blooded species; the gilded gods who animated the world in antiquity to the blue horizons which framed the Age of Discovery; the pristine aspirations of Enlightenment, the technicolour innovation which fuelled the Industrial Revolution and the colour which most embodies the environmental crisis which now faces us. ...Show more

Add to Wishlist
Nophoto

Sedicesimo 57: Lucas Zanotto

$10.00 AUD

Category: Art and Design

Add to Cart Click & Collect Add to Wishlist
Large 9780241458587

Mend It, Wear It, Love It : Stitch Your Way to a Sustainable Wardrobe by DK

$19.99 AUD

Category: Art and Design

Learn how to use simple sewing and mending techniques to extend the life of the clothes you love. Have you ever thrown good clothes away simply because you didn't know how to mend them? Have you got clothes that you can't bear to part with, but need a fresher look? Then this book is for you. With fast f ixes and clever techniques, Mend it, Wear it, Love it has everything you need to mend and care for your clothes, and stitch your way to a more sustainable wardrobe. Detailed step-by-step illustrations and clear instructions explain how to mend, customize, and care for your clothes in a range of materials. Enjoy your clothes for longer, express your creativity, and live more sustainably. ...Show more

Add to Wishlist
Large 9781788164290

The Artist's Way - A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

$34.99 AUD

Category: Art and Design

A newly designed and repackaged paperback of the multi-million-copy bestseller: discover your innate creativity with The Artist's Way.

Add to Cart Click & Collect Add to Wishlist
Large 9780980305227

Black River by Justin Clemens; Helen Johnson (Artist)

$20.00 AUD

Category: Art and Design | Series: Anomaly Ser.

Drawing on literary techniques developed by Beckett, Burroughs and Borges, Black River plunges into a violent and surreal world, peopled by such creatures as mouthers, pokers, the sucking lady, white curls, the loved one, the magistrate, and the ambassador. The text by Justin Clemens is illustrated with collages by Helen Johnson. ...Show more

Add to Wishlist
Large 9781526625243

Georgia O'Keeffe: a Life (new Edition) by Roxana Robinson

$49.99 AUD

Category: Art and Design

This is without question the best book ever written on O'Keeffe' New Yorker Born on a wheat farm in Wisconsin in 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia O'Keeffe had her eyes wide open to the beauty of nature from the very beginning, and by her twenties had become a formidable artist, and a striking ly original and spirited young woman. Moving first to Chicago and then to New York to pursue her studies, her consciousness was enlarged by her discovery of the modernist movement, and by the work both produced and shown by the photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz. Making her way in the world first as a commercial artist and then as an art teacher O'Keeffe developed her own original style. When Alfred Stieglitz discovered her work he was the first to exhibit it. Twenty-three years her senior, Stieglitz later fell in love with the artist as well as the work. O'Keeffe moved to New York in 1918 and married Stieglitz in 1924. She found herself a muse as well as an artist, and entered a circle of America's most vibrant and boundary-pushing artists and became herself one of the most important and successful of them all. But O'Keeffe fell in love again this time with the bewitching landscapes of New Mexico,. She began spending half of each year there, and when Stieglitz died in 1949 she moved there for good, and lived there for the rest of her life, taking pleasure in the otherworldly beauty of the Ghost Ranch, north of Abiqui . Following O'Keeffe's early bud and sensational bloom, her loves, losses, agonies and ecstasies, and her painting against the dying of the light, Roxana Robinson's spellbinding and definitive biography has now been updated for the twenty-first century with a new foreword and access to never-before-seen letters. Written with the cooperation of the O'Keeffe family, and with access to sources closed to biographers during O'Keeffe's lifetime, It remains an unparalleled portrait of one of the most important female artists of all time. ...Show more

Add to Cart Click & Collect Add to Wishlist
Large 9781788167932

Drawing on the Dominant Eye by Betty EDWARDS

$39.99 AUD

Category: Art and Design

The long-awaited follow-up to the beloved bestseller Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - with new insights about creativity and our unique way of seeing the world around us

Add to Wishlist
Large 9781838660857

Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom by Phaidon Phaidon Editors; Anna Pavord (Introduction by); Shane Connolly (Contribution by)

$79.95 AUD

Category: Art and Design

A comprehensive and sumptuous survey that celebrates the beauty and appeal of flowers throughout art, history, and culture The latest installment in the bestselling Explorer Series takes readers on a journey across continents and cultures to discover the endless ways artists and image-makers have employ ed floral motifs throughout history. Showcasing the diversity of blooms from all over the world, Flower spans a wide range of styles and media -- from art, botanical illustrations, and sculptures to floral arrangements, film stills, and textiles -- and follows a visually stunning sequence with works, regardless of period, thoughtfully paired to allow interesting and revealing juxtapositions between them. ...Show more

Add to Wishlist
Large 9781838661694

Vitamin D3 Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing by Phaidon Editors

$100.00 AUD

Category: Art and Design

The latest instalment of this indispensable survey of contemporary drawing, chosen by the world's leading art expertsOver 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) a nd D2 (2013), contemporary artists have continued to explore drawing's possibilities - from intimate to large-scale works, in a diversity of mark-making processes and materials. Vitamin D3 showcases more than 100 such artists, nominated by more than 70 international art experts.The more than 70 nominators include: Iwona Blazwick, Louisa Buck, Mark Coetzee, Thelma Golden, Laura Hoptman, Geeta Kapur, Pablo Le n de la Barra, Christine Macel, Kate Macfarlane, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Zoe Whitley.The more than 100 artists include: Miriam Cahn, Robert Crumb, Tom Friedman, Tania Kovats, Claudette Johnson, Rashid Johnson, Otobong Nkanga, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Deanna Petherbridge, Christina Quarles, Qiu Zhijie, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Wael Shawky, Emma Talbot, and Johanna Unzueta. ...Show more

Add to Wishlist
Large 9781838661434

The Design Book (New Edition) by Phaidon Phaidon Editors

$29.95 AUD

Category: Art and Design

The ultimate collection of the most innovative, beautiful, and influential products ever designed -- now fully up to date From the paper clip to the Eames Lounge Chair, the hundreds of everyday objects included in The Design Book span the last five centuries and shape our society in indelible ways. This extraordinary collection includes classic pieces by Breuer, Le Corbusier, and Castiglioni as well as anonymously designed objects like the deck chair and the whisk. Each entry has been carefully reviewed to bring every detail fully up to date and, with the addition of 30 products designed within the last 15 years, this new edition is more comprehensive -- and relevant -- than ever. Praise for the original edition: "Phaidon seems to have pulled off the rare trick of creating something accessible and wide-ranging, but genuinely interesting and informative too." --Design Week ...Show more

Add to Cart Click & Collect Add to Wishlist
Items per page:
1 - 12 of 2733 ← Previous 1 2 3 … 227 228 »
Print catalogue

 

Paperback Bookshop 60 Bourke Street Melbourne 3000

ph. 96621396

ABN 87330172847

Terms and Conditions

System by Circle

© CircleSoft 2021.