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A Bigger Message - Conversations with David Hockney by Martin Gayford
$37.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
In this remarkable book, a record of a decade of private conversations with art critic Martin Gayford, David Hockney reveals via reflection, anecdote, passion and humour the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. Thes ...Show more
A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney by Martin Gayford
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
David Hockney is possibly the world's most popular living painter, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. Here are the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. How does drawing make one ...Show more
A History of Pictures by David Hockney, Martin Gayford
$39.99 AUD
Category: 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 & YA
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
Constable In Love : Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter by Martin Gayford
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Love not landscape was the making of Constable ...John Constable and Maria Bicknell might have been in love but their marriage was a most unlikely prospect. Constable was a penniless painter who would not sacrifice his art for anything, while Maria's family frowned on such a penurious union. For seven l ...Show more
Man With a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford
$25.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A beautifully produced paperback edition of the literary art book hailed as one of the best and most continually fascinating books about painting in recent memory. Lucian Freud (1922-2011) spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. Gayford describes the process chronologica ...Show more
Man with a Blue Scarf - On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
"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
Man with a Blue Scarf - On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: very good
Lucian Freud, perhaps the worlds leading portrait painter, spent seven months painting a portrait of the author, an art critic. This book describes the process chronologically, from the day the author arrived for the first sitting through to his meeting with the couple who bought the finished painting. ...Show more
Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
This is a new biography of Michelangelo by Martin Gayford, the acclaimed author of Constable in Love and The Yellow House. There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be ...Show more
Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters by Martin Gayford
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | 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
Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters 1945-70 by Martin Gayford
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s has never before been told before as a single narrative. R. B. Kitaj's proposal, made in 1976, that there was a "substantial School of London" was essentially correct but it caused confusion because it implied that there was a ...Show more
Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now by Antony Gormley, Martin Gayford
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | 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