The Elements of Art: Ten Ways to Decode the Masterpieces by Susie Hodge
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art History
The Elements of Art deconstructs great works of art into manageable components so that you can better understand and appreciate them.Knowing how to interpret art is one of the biggest issues facing casual gallery-goers. They may ask themselves questions like: Why is the Mona Lisa so small? Why are some ...Show more
Kandinsky by Dchting Hajo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Basic Art Ser.
The founder of abstract art The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting.Together with Fr ...Show more
How Banksy Saved Art History by Kelly Grovier
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Few would dispute that Banksy is the most famous urban artist in the world today. That he is also a perceptive art historian might come as a surprise to many. Taken together, the myriad memorable works the street artist has created over the course of the past thirty years, constitute an audacious commen ...Show more
James Hall on the Self-Portrait by James Hall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Pocket Perspectives Ser.
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable littl ...Show more
How to Be an Artist by Jerry Saltz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art History
"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out the mystical messages that lie underneath." --Steve Martin Art has the powe ...Show more
Giacometti in Paris by Michael Peppiatt
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art History
'Marvellous . . . intimate and insightful . . . reads like a novel by Samuel Beckett' Paul Theroux A portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest sculptors from one of our most eminent art historians Today the work of Alberto Giacometti is world-famous and his sculptures sell for record-breaking ...Show more
The World According to Vincent van Gogh by Nienke Bakker, Ann Blokland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art History
A collection of quotes from Vincent van Gogh on art, love, nature, colour, ambition, friendship, future, sorrow and consolation.'There are so many people [...] who imagine that words are nothing. On the contrary, don't you think, it's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint a thi ...Show more
Griselda Pollock on Gauguin by Griselda Pollock
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Pocket Perspectives Ser.
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable littl ...Show more
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch
$26.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Canons Ser.
A foundational text since 1990 and previously translated into nine languages, Free Play is a masterful and joyful meditation on how improvisation can be applied to not just art but the art of living - and in doing so unlock boundless creativity This book is about the inner sources of spontaneous creatio ...Show more
Charles and Barbara Blackman: A Decade of Art and Love by Christabel Blackman
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art History
When Christabel Blackman's mother turned ninety, they celebrated by sifting through Barbara's old documents: diaries, photos, manuscripts - and a fragile old folder, tied with a ribbon. This held letters from a love long past between Christabel's parents. It was a portal into a decade of art and love be ...Show more
The Story of Contemporary Art by Tony Godfrey
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art History
A lively introduction to and history of international contemporary art from 1960 to the present.What does it mean?Is it really art?Why does it cost so much?While these questions are perpetually asked about contemporary art, they are not the questions that E. H. Gombrich set out to answer in his seminal ...Show more
Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee
$36.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Impressionism--its dramatic depiction of light, its lovely evocation of the transience of everything--remains wildly popular. Crowds flock to exhibitions by its greatest artists--Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro. But as Sebastian Smee show ...Show more