Alexa Chung - It by Alexa Chung
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: very good
Now available in paperback: musings, inspirations, and styling tips from the darling of the fashion world With influences that range from the sultry beauty of Jane Birkin to the rocker chic of Mick Jagger, it's no wonder that everything worn by Alexa Chung instantly becomes the latest trend. Already a ...Show more
Soviet Space Dogs by Olesya Turkina
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
This book is dedicated to the Soviet Space Dogs, who played a crucial part in the Soviet Space programme. These homeless dogs, plucked from the streets of Moscow, were selected because they fitted the programmes criteria: weighing no more than 7kg, measuring no more than 35cm in length, robust, photogen ...Show more
Songlines Tracking the Seven Sisters by Margo Neale (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
This stunning companion to the National Museum of Australia's blockbuster Indigenous-led exhibition, Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, explores the history and meaning of songlines, the Dreaming or creation tracks that crisscross the Australian continent, of which the Seven Sisters songline is one ...Show more
Wallpaper by LECH Michael
$19.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Since the 1840s, fashions in wallpaper have come and gone in Australia. This book celebrates our long, on-off love affair with wallpaper, showcasing over 60 historic examples from the collection of historic House Trust. An introductory essay by Curator Michael Lech puts the wallpapers into historic pers ...Show more
Dragons and Pagodas - A Celebration of Chinoiserie by Aldous Bertram
$100.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Chinoiserie is a term for Western art and design inspired by a largely invented vision of China. Marco Polo's sensational account of his visit to the exotic East in the thirteenth century sparked an insatiable demand for knowledge of China. The feeling was not mutual, however, and the Chinese kept the W ...Show more
Ways of Curating by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations - from staging his first exhibition in his tiny Zurich kitchen in 1986 to encounters with artists, exhibition makers and thinkers - Hans Ulrich Obrist looks to inspire all those engaged in the creation of culture. Moving from meetings with artists to the c ...Show more
Plant - Exploring the Botanical World by Rosie Pickles (ed.)
$79.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: very good
The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers, featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever Following in the footsteps of the international bestseller Map: Exploring the World, this fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity of plant ...Show more
Art is the Highest Form of Hope and Other Quotes by Artists by Phaidon Press Editors
$29.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Advice, strong opinions, and personal revelations by the world's greatest artists - exclusively researched for this new book Featuring the most inspirational and insightful collection of quotes by artists through the ages and across the globe, this exquisite keepsake is the ideal book for artists, coll ...Show more
A Little Feminist History of Art by Charlotte Mullins
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Emerging in the late 1960s as women artists struggled to 'de-gender' their work to compete in a male dominated arena, the feminist art movement has played a leading role in the art world over the last five decades. Using the 'female gaze' to articulate socially relevant issues after an era of aesthetic ...Show more
Pushing Paper - Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now by Isabel Seligman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
This remarkable exploration of drawing as a medium in resurgence unites a global range of contemporary artists. Subverting its former role as a primarily preparatory medium, drawing is enjoying a resurgence among contemporary artists and students. Pushing paper examines why drawing has not only endured, ...Show more
Ninth Street Women - Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: very good
The rich, revealing, and thrilling story of five women whose lives and painting propelled a revolution in modern art, from the National Book Award finalist. Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exh ...Show more
The Lives of the Surrealists by Desmond Morris
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte and Miró. This is because Surrealism was not in origin an art movement, but a philosophical strategy. It was a way of life - a rebellion against the establishment that had given the world the hideous slaughter of the Fir ...Show more