Making Art Public - Kaldor Public Art Projects, 1969-2019 by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Genevieve O'Callaghan (Editor); Mark Gowing (Designed by); Michael Landy; Nicholas Baume; Rebecca Coates; Ross Gibson; Ross Rudesch Harley; David Malouf; Emily Sullivan; Michael Brand (Foreword by); John Kaldor (Introduction by)
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Category: Art History | Series: Kaldor Art Projects 1969 - 2019
Shrouding one million square feet of Little Bay with fabric and rope, Wrapped Coast, 1969, by Christo and Jeanne-Claude was a groundbreaking piece of public art that propelled Sydney into the international art scene and left an indelible mark on Australian culture. On the fiftieth anniversary of Wrapped ...Show more
Matisse by Essers, Volkmar
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Category: Art History | Series: Basic Art Album S.
Le Bonheur de Vivre: The vital colors and shapes of a modernist masterThe work of Henri Matisse (1869 1954) reflects an ongoing belief in the power of brilliant colors and simple forms. Though famed in particular for his paintings, Matisse also worked with drawing, sculpture, lithography, stained glass, ...Show more
Merric Boyd and Murrumbeena: The Life of an Artist in a Time and a Place by Colin G. Smith
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Category: Art History
AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR In 1988 Colin Smith began researching the history of renowned Australian potter, Merric Boyd and his family in Murrumbeena and the relationship they had with their local community. This research would become Merric Boyd and Murrumbeena The Life of an Artist in a Time and a Place. As we ...Show more
Midawarr Harvest - The Art of Mulkum Wirrpanda and John Wolseley by Will Stubbs
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Category: Art History
Two artists, two completely different approaches, but one abiding passion - to celebrate the natural bounty to be found in the floodplains, swamps, savannas and woodlands of northern Australia. Mulkun Wirrpanda and John Wolseley, her adopted wawa (brother), have created a powerful body of works depictin ...Show more
Paper Crafts - A Maker's Guide by Victoria & Albert Museum; Rob Ryan (Foreword by)
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Category: Art History | Series: Maker's Guide Ser.
Paper crafts are as old as paper itself, with a profusion of different traditions originating around the world. The latest volume in the V&A's Maker's Guides series, Paper Crafts introduces a range of these fascinating traditions, offering paper projects inspired by a variety of diverse techniques, ...Show more
Picturing the Pacific: Joseph Banks and the Shipboard Artists of Cook and Flinders by James Taylor
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Category: Art History
For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of a new world in the form of oil paintings, watercolors and drawings--a sensational view of a part of the world few would ever see. Today these works represe ...Show more
Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes by Susan Whitfield
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Category: Art History
As world powers realign their cultural, economic and political outlooks, there is no better time to consider how Afro-Eurasia's complex network of ancient trade routes - which spanned the vastness of the steppe, vertiginous mountain ranges, fertile river plains and forbidding deserts across the continen ...Show more
Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy (HB) by Martin Gayford; David Hockney
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Category: Art History
"I intend to carry on with my work, which I now see as very important. We have lost touch with nature rather foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it." David Hockney On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquility for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of t ...Show more
The Art Public - A Short History by Oskar Bätschmann; Nick Somers (Translator); Oskar Bätschmann
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Category: Art History
A brief intellectual history of the idea of the art public. The Art Public explores the history of efforts to imagine a collective, general audience for art in the world. Oskar Bätschmann explores both written and pictorial evidence of the development of the "art public" as an idea and disentangles co ...Show more
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness - Insanity, Art and Hitler's First Mass-Murder Programme by Charlie English
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Category: Art History
'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe SandsThe little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill.In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn gathered a remarkable collection of works by schizophrenic patients that would astonish and deligh ...Show more
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum by James Gardner
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Category: Art History
Secondhand. A meticulously crafted, sparkling history of the legendary museum in Paris. Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any, are aware of the remarkable history of that location and of the bu ...Show more