The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art History
"A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition. Against the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning - of humanism which penetrated and explored the ...Show more
The Van Gogh Sisters by Willem-Jan Verlinden
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Many people are familiar with the life and art of Vincent van Gogh, and his extensive correspondence with his brother Theo. But their sisters--Ana, Lies, and Wil van Gogh--have gone overlooked until now. In this compelling group biography based on extensive primary resources, art historian Willem-Jan Ve ...Show more
The Whole Picture - The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why We Need to Talk about It by Alice Procter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art History
If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again. Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonise' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall? From the stolen Wakandan art in Black Panther, to Emmanuel Macron's recent commitment to art restitution, and Bey ...Show more
This Dark Country: Women Artists and Still Life in the Early Twentieth Century by Rebecca Birrell
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art History
'A brilliant book ... A truly radical aesthetics fit for the twenty-first century at last!' - Thérèse Oulton '[A] wonderful book. I am impressed and fascinated. It is beautifully written' - Celia Paul 'A magnificent debut by one of Britain's most electrifying new talents' Camilla Grudova Lemons gleam ...Show more
Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved by Steven Naifeh
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art History
The compelling story of how Vincent van Gogh developed his audacious, iconic style by immersing himself in the work of others, featuring hundreds of paintings by Van Gogh as well as the artists who inspired him--from the New York Times bestselling co-author of Van Gogh: The Life Vincent van Gogh's p ...Show more
Vivienne Binns: on and Through the Surface by Anneke Anneke Jaspers (Editor); Hannah Mathews (Editor)
$49.00 AUD
Category: Art History
Vivienne Binns: On and Through the Surface is the first monograph on the artist's six-decade career and accompanies a major survey presented at Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, in 2022. Edited by Anneke Jaspers and Hannah Mathews, the publicat ...Show more
Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies by Alexandra Harris
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Piper in the 20th, looking up at the same skies and walking in the same brisk air, have felt very different things and woven them into their novels, poems and pa ...Show more