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Amanzona: The Art of Chris Achilleos

Amanzona: The Art of Chris Achilleos

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Massively popular and highly regarded, Chris Achilleos science fiction/fantasy artwork ranges from his acclaimed Doctor Who and Star Trek book covers to the erotic pin-ups that made him famous, embracing...
Judy Watson

Judy Watson

$39.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Judy Watson is one of Australia s leading contemporary artists. Her art explores territory that includes the dispossessed Indigenous Australians with whom she shares a family history and heritage. Judy...
Life in the Folds

Life in the Folds

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Life in the Folds makes use of an encrypted alphabet as a typographical and visual resource in approaching the project created by Carlos Amorales for the Mexican pavilion of the...
We Think the World of You: People and Dogs Drawn Together

We Think the World of You: People and Dogs Drawn Together

$44.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
David Remfry MBE RA has long been fascinated by the relationships that develop between dogs and their owners. In this charming new book, his delicate portraits in watercolour and gouache...
Strook: Portraits

Strook: Portraits

$125.00 AUD$60.00 AUD
This is the first monograph on contemporary Belgian artist Stefaan De Croock (b.1982), alias Strook. He is known for his collaged portraits made from reclaimed and found wood, and attracts...
Paul McCarthy: WS - CSSC Drawing, Painting, Performance

Paul McCarthy: WS - CSSC Drawing, Painting, Performance

$170.00 AUD$100.00 AUD
Paul McCarthy is one of the most provocative and influential living voices in contemporary art. This over-sized book - between a monograph and an artist book - was conceived by...
Donald Judd: Paintings 1959-61

Donald Judd: Paintings 1959-61

$95.00 AUD$50.00 AUD
This book presents an important, unpublished, and unseen body of work by Donald Judd, one of the most significant artists of the 20th-century. Donald Judd remains an important artist, whose...
Anna Maria Maiolino

Anna Maria Maiolino

$105.00 AUD$50.00 AUD
Accompanying the first major American museum retrospective of Anna Maria Maiolino's work, this book surveys a prodigious career that has spanned numerous decades, genres, and themes. Born in Calabria, Italy,...
Andy Warhol: The Complete Commissioned Record Covers

Andy Warhol: The Complete Commissioned Record Covers

$280.00 AUD
Count Basie, Tchaikovsky, Aretha Franklin, Lou Reed, Diana Ross, John Lennon and the Rolling Stones all had their music promoted by Andy Warhol's record covers. This stunning volume reproduces all...
Andy Warhol: The Complete Commissioned Magazine Work

Andy Warhol: The Complete Commissioned Magazine Work

$280.00 AUD$200.00 AUD
Beginning with the cover of a 1948 issue of Carnegie Tech's student magazine, Cano, and ending with a 1987 issue of Jet Society International, this stunning book explores, for the...
Monastic

Monastic

$95.00 AUD$80.75 AUD
With her eye for architectural details, Friederike von Rauch captures the contemplative power of monastery interiors and simultaneously separates them from their religious context. The Berlin-based artist has lived and...
Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative

Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative

$41.95 AUD$20.00 AUD
A collection of work from contemporary Afro-Cuban American artist Harmonia Rosales. This vibrant catalog presents the work of contemporary artist Harmonia Rosales. Featuring over twenty paintings and a monumental sculptural...
Jack Milroy: Cut Out

Jack Milroy: Cut Out

$69.99 AUD$59.49 AUD
'Jack Milroy: Cut Outs' is the first substantial publication on the work of the prolific British artist Jack Milroy who has been active for over 50 years. The book explores...
John Hall: Travelling Light: A 45-Year Survey of Paintings

John Hall: Travelling Light: A 45-Year Survey of Paintings

$49.99 AUD$42.49 AUD
Covering over four decades of work, John Hall: Travelling Light is an exquisitely illustrated retrospective on one of Canada's most established contemporary artists. Hall's hyperreal paintings can be seen a...
Picasso: The Artist and His Muses

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses

$39.99 AUD$33.99 AUD
Taking a fresh approach to discussions around one of the twentieth century's greatest artists, Picasso: The Artist and His Muses examines the significance of the six women who were most...
Jason Brooks: Perpetual Orgy

Jason Brooks: Perpetual Orgy

$59.99 AUD$50.99 AUD
Perhaps best known for hyper realistic portraits of subjects from Kate Moss to the heavily tattooed Mr. X and Zoe which take the process of portraiture beyond the photographic medium,...
Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable

Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable

$80.00 AUD$68.00 AUD
*Carolee Schneemann is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award at the 57th Venice Bienalle 2017* Carolee Schneemann is one of the most important artists of the...
Self as a Stranger: Simon Lewty

Self as a Stranger: Simon Lewty

$60.00 AUD$51.00 AUD
Artist Simon Lewty is known for his large scale and intensely detailed works where the layering of text and image serve to create a dream-like reality. Narrative is rarely followed...
An-Li: A Chinese Ghost Tale

An-Li: A Chinese Ghost Tale

$79.95 AUD$20.00 AUD
Presenting a stunning new body of works by Hong Kong-born, Melbourne-based artist Kate Beynon, 'An-Li: A Chinese Ghost Tale' marks Art & Australia's second iteration of the Dott Tales series,...
Pastels

Pastels

$162.80 AUD$120.00 AUD
Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French

Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French

$65.00 AUD$30.00 AUD
The artist who created the statue for the Lincoln Memorial, John Harvard in Harvard Yard, and The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) is America's best-known sculptor...
Swiss Made: the Art of Falling Apart

Swiss Made: the Art of Falling Apart

$37.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Swiss Made is devoted to the work of fifteen Swiss artists, each of whom has made a permanent impression in the field of contemporary art. Their work is included in...
Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World

Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World

$105.00 AUD$30.00 AUD
Published in conjunction with the first North American survey of the work of Jimmie Durham, this beautifully illustrated catalogue explores Durham's vital contributions to contemporary art since the 1970s, both...
Kathryn Maple - A Year of Drawings

Kathryn Maple - A Year of Drawings

$85.00 AUD$72.25 AUD
Kathryn Maple (b. 1989, Canterbury) is an artist specialising in drawing and painting. Her large-scale paintings feature urban, suburban and rural landscapes which are frequently populated by human figures. Her...
Loring W. Coleman: Living and Painting in a Changing New England

Loring W. Coleman: Living and Painting in a Changing New England

$90.00 AUD$76.50 AUD
This publication examines the art of this distinguished American watercolour painter and teacher, produced over a career of 50 years through a recounting of the artist's experiences as a student,...
Dog

Dog

$144.00 AUD$65.00 AUD
DOG is an unprecedented collection of Tetro's dog illustrations presented as art in a luxurious, deluxe format. Included here are finished drawings, sketches, and even some never-before-seen artworks created exclusively...
An-Li: A Chinese Ghost Tale

An-Li: A Chinese Ghost Tale

$79.95 AUD$40.00 AUD
Presenting a stunning new body of works by Hong Kong-born, Melbourne-based artist Kate Beynon, 'An-Li: A Chinese Ghost Tale' marks Art & Australia's second iteration of the Dott Tales series,...
Pierre Guariche

Pierre Guariche

$150.00 AUD$127.50 AUD
Pierre Guariche (1926-1995) was a leading interior architect, furniture, and lighting designer in postwar France. He created a prolific body of work during what is known as the Thirty Glorious...
Robert Kipniss: Paintings and Poetry, 1950-1964

Robert Kipniss: Paintings and Poetry, 1950-1964

$99.00 AUD$50.00 AUD
This intriguing monograph of painter and printmaker Robert Kipniss is an intimate look at a memorable period in his life and career. Robert Kipniss: Paintings and Poetry, 1950-1964 is the...
Elmgreen & Dragset: Trilogy: Celebrity - The One & The Many * The Collectors * The Welfare Show

Elmgreen & Dragset: Trilogy: Celebrity - The One & The Many * The Collectors * The Welfare Show

$64.00 AUD$54.40 AUD
The three outstanding exhibitions featured in this publication form a trilogy: * The Welfare Show (Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; BAWAG Foundation, Vienna; Serpentine Gallery, London; The Power Plant, Toronto) * The...
Warhol: A Life as Art

Warhol: A Life as Art

$35.00 AUD$29.75 AUD
The definitive biography of one of the most famous and influential artists the world has ever seen When critics attacked Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings as shallow, the Pop artist was...
The Art of Peter Sculthorpe: Paintings Spanning Four Decades

The Art of Peter Sculthorpe: Paintings Spanning Four Decades

$105.00 AUD$84.00 AUD
This compilation of the classic artwork of Peter Sculthorpe spans four decades. By considering light, the passage of time, the use of different mediums and sizes, and inspiring locations, Peter...
Jonny Hannah: Greetings from Darktown: An Illustrator's Miscellany

Jonny Hannah: Greetings from Darktown: An Illustrator's Miscellany

$85.00 AUD$68.00 AUD
The illustrator Jonny Hannah was born and bred in Scotland, and now lives by the sea in Southampton, but he also resides in Darktown a mysterious coastal town, not found...
Jonny Hannah: Greetings from Darktown: An Illustrator's Miscellany

Jonny Hannah: Greetings from Darktown: An Illustrator's Miscellany

$85.00 AUD$40.00 AUD
The illustrator Jonny Hannah was born and bred in Scotland, and now lives by the sea in Southampton, but he also resides in Darktown a mysterious coastal town, not found...
Nantucket Portrait: Fun & Games with the Super Rich...The Birth of Hard-Edge Realism

Nantucket Portrait: Fun & Games with the Super Rich...The Birth of

$105.00 AUD$50.00 AUD
Jim Cromartie first came to Nantucket as a college student, but for the past 35 years he has called the island home. As a young artist, his major patron was...
Escape Artist: The Art of Fran Forman

Escape Artist: The Art of Fran Forman

$95.00 AUD$45.00 AUD
In this rich and dream-like collection of photo-paintings, artist and fabulist Fran Forman offers characters, scenes and visual narratives that lure the imagination. She explores the multiple meanings of the...
Man Ray: Writings on Art

Man Ray: Writings on Art

$70.00 AUD$56.00 AUD
Man Ray (1890-1976), a pioneer of the Dada movement and a central protagonist of surrealism, is best known for his innovative photographs, but his writings are also remarkable expressions of...
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child

Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child

$90.00 AUD$72.00 AUD
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fabric works from the last two decades in the career of legendary artist Louise Bourgeois. "I've always had a fascination with the...
Andy Warhol: The LIFE (R) Years 1949 - 1959

Andy Warhol: The LIFE (R) Years 1949 - 1959

$65.00 AUD$52.00 AUD
In 2011 a sensational find came to light in Andy Warhol's estate: an extensive collection of drawings that provides impressive evidence of Warhol's artistic talents. He used iconic photographs and...
Art from Art

Art from Art

$109.95 AUD$50.00 AUD
Andy Warhol, a painter and graphic artist, also produced a significant body of film work, including his famous Chelsea Girls. He was equally well known in the late sixties and...
Torn Posters

Torn Posters

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Jean-Pierre Vorlet's images are everywhere, taken all over the world but establishing common ground, transferable and translatable. In spite of a snatch of Italian or a word or two in...
Armin Mueller-Stahl: Arbeiten auf Papier

Armin Mueller-Stahl: Arbeiten auf Papier

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For Armin Mueller-Stahl (* 1930) the time that he can spend alone in his studio is liberating: "When I am drawing, time slips out of my body." Born into an...
Clare Woods: Strange Meetings

Clare Woods: Strange Meetings

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British artist Clare Woods is internationally regarded as one of the most significant painters working today. Her paintings and works on paper are found in important public and private collections...
Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World

Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World

$52.99 AUD$42.39 AUD
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearA Wall Street Journal Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA New Yorker...
Percy Leason: An Artist's Life

Percy Leason: An Artist's Life

$80.00 AUD$64.00 AUD
Who would have thought that a boy born in 1889 from the Victorian Mallee would become a successful artist on New York's Staten Island? This finely illustrated, exhaustively researched and...
Picasso and the Model: Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette

Picasso and the Model: Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette

$130.00 AUD$104.00 AUD
She was known as "the girl with the ponytail" and her image has become one of the art world's most iconic. Sylvette David was a shy girl when she met...
Max Beckmann at the Saint Louis Art Museum: The Paintings

Max Beckmann at the Saint Louis Art Museum: The Paintings

$120.00 AUD$96.00 AUD
One of the greatest German painters of the 20th century, Max Beckmann (1884 - 1950) came to America in the mid-1940s and settled in St. Louis. There he met the...
Otto Freundlich: Cosmic Communism

Otto Freundlich: Cosmic Communism

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A German painter and sculptor of Jewish origin, Otto Freundlich was widely known in the art circles of his day. He was on close terms with the leading artists of...