The Lives of Lucian Freud - Fame 1968 - 2011 by William Feaver
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Reading Level: near fine
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZECHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATORTHE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Explosively enjoyable, bursting with life and art ... A centr ...Show more
Making Comics : Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art History
"Magnificent! The best how-to manual ever published." -- Kevin Kelly, Cool Tools Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design. ...Show more
Art and Fear - Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by Ted Orland; David Bayles
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Art & Fear is about the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. Drawing on the authors' own experiences as two working artists, the book delves into the internal and external challenges to makin ...Show more
Mirka Mora: A Life Making Art by Sabine Cotte
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Mirka Mora features a rich insight into the intellectual life and art practice of one of Australia's most versatile, creative and prolific modern artists. A Melbourne cultural icon, Mirka, along with her ex-husband Georges, was instrumental in helping to establish Australian modern art on a global stag ...Show more
Tales From Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art History | Reading Level: very good
Breathtakingly illustrated and hauntingly written, Tales from Outer Suburbia is by turns hilarious and poignant, perceptive and goofy. Through a series of captivating and sophisticated illustrated stories, Tan explores the precious strangeness of our existence. He gives us a portrait of modern suburban ...Show more
A Year with Wendy Whiteley: Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening by Ashleigh Wilson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: srg22
A must-have for culture lovers, A Year with Wendy Whiteley sees the biographer and critic Ashleigh Wilson painting a portrait of the inimitable Wendy Whiteley-in her own words. We sit at the table, opposite each other, a tape recorder and a microphone between us, and I begin by saying that I don't want ...Show more
Hokusai by Tim Clark
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art History
Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of ninety. Publications have hitherto presented his long career as a chronological sequence. This book takes a fresh approach based on innovative scholarship: thematic groupings of works are related ...Show more
Picture This by Molly Bang
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideasâabout how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a storyâremain unparalleled in ...Show more
Men to Avoid in Art and Life by Nicole Tersigni
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Men to Avoid in Art and Life Ser.
Men to Avoid in Art and Life pairs classical fine art with modern captions that epitomize the spirit of mansplaining. This hilarious book perfectly captures those relatable moments when a man explains to a woman a subject about which he knows considerably less than she does. Situations include men sha ...Show more
Art Made from Books - Altered, Sculpted, Carved, Transformed by Alyson Kuhn
$34.95 AUD
Category: Art History
This volume collects a jaw-dropping assortment of art made from books--by cutting, painting, sawing, laminating, balancing or stacking. The definitive guide to the emerging art form, Art Made from Books showcases groundbreaking work by today's best practitioners, from Su Blackwell's whimsical pop-up lan ...Show more
Belonging by Jeannie Baker
$15.95 AUD
Category: Art History
Observed through the window of a house in a typical urban neighbourhood, each picture shows the developments of the land being reclaimed from built up concrete to a gradual greening, shown through the artist's collage illustrations. This is a hopeful environmental message.
Artists : Their Lives and Works by DK
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art History
A stunning exploration of over 80 famous artists and their fascinating lives, from Giotto to the present day.Artists- Their Lives and Works tells the inspiring stories behind the world's most famous masterpieces and their creators, including their influences, development, friendships, loves, and rivalri ...Show more