Judith Wright and Emily Carr - Gendered Colonial Modernity by Dorothy Jones; Erik Tonning (Series edited by); Matthew Feldman (Series edited by); Anne Collett; David Tucker (Series edited by)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Historicizing Modernism Ser.
Knitting together two fascinating but entirely distinct lives, this ingeniously structured braided biography tells the story of the lives and work of two women, each a cultural icon in her own country yet lesser known in the other's. Australian poet Judith Wright and Canadian painter Emily Carr brok ...Show more
Odd Roads to be Walking: 156 Women who shaped Australian Art by Paul Finucane, Catherine Stuart
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art History
'It was an odd road to be walking, this of painting.' So wrote Virginia Woolf in her classic 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. While the life journeys of many artists can be described as 'odd roads', few were as original and challenging as those of the pioneering Australian women of art from the late 19th ...Show more
Self-Portrait by Celia Paul
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art History
I'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer. Self-Portrait reveals a life truly lived through art. In this short, intimate memoir, Celia Paul moves effortlessly through time in words and images, folding in her past and present selves. From her move to the Slade Sch ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
Asian Modern by JOHN CLARK
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art History
AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR John Clark's magisterial 'The Asian Modern' reconstructs the notion of art and its historiography. Writing the history of the Asian modern through the social life of artists, he generates a new paradigm for the narration of art. Both volumes meticulously chart his analysis of art in As ...Show more
Australia at the Venice Biennale: A Century of Contemporary Art by Kerry Gardner
$79.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Before the winds of World War I blew Europe apart, a rowdy and radical group of Australian artists would gather in the salons of Paris and London to embrace new ways of painting and seeing the world. By 1914 twelve of them had shown their works at the Venice International Exhibition, now known as the Ve ...Show more
Blooms and Brushstrokes: A floral history of Australian art by Penelope Curtin, Tansy Curtin
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art History
Blooms and Brushstrokes takes you on a unique journey through the history of Australian art, one flower at a time, examining the blooms depicted in still lifes, floral portraits, decorative interiors and botanical illustrations by a long line of Australian artists. Mother-and-daughter team Penelope and ...Show more
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: the Early Years - An Interview by Matthias Koddenberg by Matthias Koddenberg
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art History
This monograph shares unprecedented insights into Christo and Jeanne-Claude's early work Features archival images and photos of the artists' oeuvre published for the very first time Accompanies an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris from 18 March to 15 June 2020 and at the PalaisPopulaire in Berl ...Show more
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art History
This is the paperback edition of the highly successful Chromatopia. Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic colour; or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? Throughout history, artists' pigments have been made from deadly metals, poisonous minerals, urine, cow dun ...Show more
Circles and Squares - The Lives and Art of the Hampstead Modernists by Caroline Maclean
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art History
A spellbinding portrait of the Hampstead Modernists, threading together the lives, loves, rivalries and ambitions of a group of artists at the heart of an international avant-garde. Hampstead in the 1930s. In this peaceful, verdant London suburb, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson have embarked on a lo ...Show more
Clare Leighton's Rural Life: An Anthology by Clare Leighton
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art History
A stunningly packaged anthology of writings and artwork by noted wood engraver Clare Leighton, including beautifully reproduced extracts and a detailed introduction to the artist’s life and work, reflecting Leighton’s lifelong fascination with the virtues of the countryside and the people who worked the ...Show more
Designing Modern Japan by Sarah Teasley
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art History
From woodblock prints and porcelains to Hello Kitty, Issey Miyake and the Honda Civic, Japanese design has indelibly marked our everyday life for the past 150 years. This comprehensive history, the first of its kind in English, explains the emergence, development and social, political and economic impa ...Show more