The Medium of Leonora Carrington - A Feminist Haunting in the Contemporary Arts by Catriona McAra
$44.99 AUD
Category: Art
Before her death, the artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) had already garnered a cult following, with numerous creative people making the pilgrimage to meet her at her home in Mexico City. Since then, her fame has only increased. Thinking across contemporary art media, this book demonstrate ...Show more
Galah: Stories of life outside the city by Annabelle Hickson
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art
It can be easy to assume nothing much happens beyond the city, if that's all you've known. But that, of course, is far from the truth. Here, across six themed chapters, journalist Annabelle Hickson shares a different perspective on life in regional Australia, featuring stories from the coast to the f ...Show more
The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World by Jennifer Higgie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art
'Endlessly intriguing . . . I was enchanted' - DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Illuminating in every sense of the word' - John Higgs In an illuminating blend of memoir and art history, The Other Side explores the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women artists. From the twelfth-century mystic Hildegard of Bin ...Show more
The Motorcycle: Design, Art, Desire by Charles M Falco, Ultan Guilfoyle
$79.95 AUD
Category: Art
The essential exploration of the design, history, and culture of the motorcycle - an icon of the machine age Motorcycles are ubiquitous in the world's streets and cities, evolving over decades in engineering and design to meet individual transportation needs. With the coming demise of the internal combu ...Show more
Artful Lives: The Cohen Sisters by Penny Olsen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art
From Melbourne to the Islands - The Artful Lives of the Cohen Sisters 'Romance is in all of us. We long to fashion romantic careers for ourselves. We yearn to read those of others, whether they be of love, life, wealth' -so wrote artist-journalist Valerie Frankel Cohen in 1936. The Cohen sisters lived ...Show more
The Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of Botanical Illustration by Stephen A Harris
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art
Blooming with rare archival images, the story of scientific botanical illustrations over nearly seven hundred years. In a world flooded with images designed to create memories, validate perceptions, and influence others, botanical illustration is about something much more focused: creating technically a ...Show more
Yield - The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt; Rachel Kushner (Foreword by)
$41.95 AUD
Category: Art
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
Horizons One Sketch a Day: A Visual Journal by Chronicle Books
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art
Start a daily creative practice in style. This sketchbook offers space to doodle, build drawing skills, or document experiences every day for a year. Once completed, it becomes a keepsake archive of a year's worth of artistic explorations. Featuring stunning cover artwork by SpaceFrog Designs and gilded ...Show more
Slawa Horowitz-Duldig: Modernist Art & Design
$79.99 AUD
Category: Art
A celebration of the creativity of Austrian-Australian emigré Slawa Horowitz-Duldig. An artist, designer and inventor of the modern foldable umbrella, Slawa’s career in Vienna was cut short when she was forced to flee the Nazis in 1938. With insightful contributions from eminent curators and academics a ...Show more
Italian Textile Design by Linfante
$95.00 AUD
Category: Art
The dynamic geometrical patterns of Emilio Pucci; the dazzling trompe-l’œil effects of Roberta di Camerino; the pop sensibilities of Gianni Versace and Franco Moschino; the bold street-style prints of Iuter and Sunnei—these and countless other innovations have made Italian design a leading force in the ...Show more
Matisse, Derain and Friends - Paris Avant-Garde 1904-1908 by Arthur Fink (Editor); Claudine Grammont (Editor); Josef Helfenstein (Editor)
$130.00 AUD
Category: Art
At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of artists around Henri Matisse and André Derain were carrying out revolutionary colour experiments. The art critic Louis Vauxcelles gave them their name in 1905: the "Fauves". Translated into English, this means something like "beasts" or "wild animals". Th ...Show more