The World According to Colour: A Cultural History by James Fox
$26.99 AUD
Category: Art
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
Indigenous Histories by Guilherme Giufrida
$115.00 AUD
Category: Art
Centuries of art celebrating a global panorama of Indigenous culturesContinuing the work of the acclaimed Afro-Atlantic Histories, this publication from the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) compiles the collective curatorship and research carried out by artists and scholars from various territories and ...Show more
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art
A charming and highly personal introduction to the artists of the Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of the place where he had ended up, Moser threw himself into the world of the painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Rem ...Show more
Mona Lisa The True Story of the World's Most Famous Painting by Martin Kemp
$52.95 AUD
Category: Art
Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again. For the world's greatest cultural icon still has secrets to reveal - not the silly secrets that the 'Leonardo loonies' continue to advance, but previously unknown facts about the lives of Leonardo, his father, Lisa Gherardi ...Show more
Fiorenza: Ribbons of Power by Bruno Leti
$69.95 AUD
Category: Art
Born in Italy and arriving here in 1951 aged 10, Australian artist and frequent traveller Bruno Leti re-visited Florence in 2019 and was captivated once again by the trio of ancient buildings clustered at the city-centre. His photographic details of the distinctive, geometrically patterned stonework of ...Show more
The Lives of Artists by Calvin Tomkins; David Remnick (Introduction by)
$200.00 AUD
Category: Art
The definitive collection of artist profiles by legendary journalist and New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins, from the 1960s to todayIn 1959, Calvin Tomkins interviewed Marcel Duchamp for Newsweek, beginning his sixdecade- long career writing about art. He then joined The New Yorker, where he has contribut ...Show more
The Colour Code: A Compendium by Paul Simpson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Art
A kaleidoscopic compendium of colour cultures and meanings that will change the way you see the spectrum. How many colours are there? In the West we see seven, but the Chinese see five, while the Piraha tribe in the Amazon have no words for the spectrum. Colour isn't something we see; it's something we ...Show more
Margo Lewers No Limits by MULTIPLE AUTHORS
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
20th century modernist artist Margo Lewers (1908-1978) refused to be constrained by the traditional roles of women as wives and mothers. While embracing the technological and social advances of a new era, she also challenged the convention of art as representation, believing that creativity required the ...Show more
You Are Always with Me: Letters to Mama by Frida Kahlo by Frida Kahlo; Héctor Jaimes (Translator)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art
Frida Kahlo is regarded as one of Mexico's greatest painters: her extraordinary personal style, her tragic story, her relationship with Diego Rivera (the more famous painter in their day) alongside her passionate paintings have made her a cult figure since she died over sixty years ago. But beyond the ...Show more
Bruegel by Elke Oberthaler; Sabine Pènot; Manfred Sellink; Ron Spronk; Sabine Penot; Anon
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art
Nearly 450 years after his death, Pieter Bruegel the Elder is widely regarded as the 16th century's greatest Netherlandish painter. This book is the tie-in catalog for a once-in-a-generation exhibition of Bruegel's work at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.Bruegel's work is renowned for its stunnin ...Show more
Marvelous Menagerie: Animals in Ukiyo-e Masterpieces by Ei Nakau
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
A large collection of animals that appear in ukiyo-e prints from the Edo Period, from pets to rare animals!Following the global hits Something Wicked from Japan and Once more unto the breach comes the third title in the Ukiyo-e Masterpieces Series! This time, read and understand the world of ukiyo-e fro ...Show more