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A Secret Garden Affair

A Secret Garden Affair

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Author: Erica JamesFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 260g, 416 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Recapture the summer sunshine this autumn with the Sunday Times bestseller that readers are calling 'captivating'...
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East

Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East

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Author: Robert FiskFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 820g, 672 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING...AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE'...
The God of the Woods

The God of the Woods

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Author: Liz MooreFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 640g, 448 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF JIMMY FALLON'S SUMMER READS BOOK CLUBSELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER...
Traitors Gate (William Warwick Novels)

Traitors Gate (William Warwick Novels)

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Author: Jeffrey ArcherFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 260g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024The gripping new instalment in the William Warwick series, An Eye for an Eye, is available...
Einstein: The Man and his Mind

Einstein: The Man and his Mind

$110.00 AUD$88.00 AUD
Author: Gary BergerFormat: Hardback, 254mm x 330mm, 1980g, 212 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2022"This visual - and artistically beautiful - format differentiates Einstein: The Man And His Mind from all previous...
Diane Arbus Documents

Diane Arbus Documents

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Author: Diane ArbusFormat: Hardback, 216mm x 279mm, 2100g, 496 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2022Known for her evocative portraits, Diane Arbus is a pivotal figure in American postwar photography. Undeniably...
New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century

New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century

$55.00 AUD$44.00 AUD
Author: Hossein AmirsadeghiFormat: Paperback, 250mm x 285mm, 1640g, 288 pagesPublished: TransGlobe Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011Now in paperback!With over 500 stunning colour illustrations New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the...
Hagenbund: A European Network of Modernism 1900 - 1938

Hagenbund: A European Network of Modernism 1900 - 1938

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Author: Agnes Husslein-ArcoFormat: Hardback, 2420g, 448 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2014The revolutionary Viennese artists' association Hagenbund had a decisive influence on the art scene between 1900 and 1938, not only...
Andre Marfaing: Paintings 1948-1986

Andre Marfaing: Paintings 1948-1986

$180.00 AUD$144.00 AUD
Author: Christophe AvertyFormat: Hardback, 248mm x 330mm, 2000g, 288 pagesPublished: Editions Skira Paris, France, 2023Andre Marfaing (1925-87) was a French non-figurative painter and printmaker associated with abstract art and informalism....
The Young and Evil: Queer Modernism in New York 1930-1955

The Young and Evil: Queer Modernism in New York 1930-1955

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Author: Jarrett EarnestFormat: Hardback, 222mm x 298mm, 1040g, 160 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2020Lauded by Jerry Saltz as "one of the most reactionary yet radical visions of art," The...
Eyewitness 1917: The Russian Revolution through Eyewitness Accounts

Eyewitness 1917: The Russian Revolution through Eyewitness Accounts

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Author: Mikhail ZygarFormat: Hardback, 220mm x 290mm, 880g, 304 pagesPublished: Fontanka, United Kingdom, 2019A dramatic account of a year of two revolutions in Russia, told through extracts from contemporary diaries,...
Jean Pigozzi: The 213 Most Important Men In My Life

Jean Pigozzi: The 213 Most Important Men In My Life

$160.00 AUD$128.00 AUD
Author: Jean PigozziFormat: Hardback, 173mm x 230mm, 1960g, 600 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2021Collector and photographer Jean Pigozzi is renowned for his eclectic art collection and for his social circle, which...
At Home in the World: A Memoir: Ibrahim El-Salahi

At Home in the World: A Memoir: Ibrahim El-Salahi

$70.00 AUD$56.00 AUD
Author: The Africa InstituteFormat: Paperback, 165mm x 240mm, 980g, 246 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2022For more than a half century, Ibrahim El-Salahi has been at the forefront of African modernism in...
Azzedine Alaia Arthur Elgort: Freedom

Azzedine Alaia Arthur Elgort: Freedom

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Author: Arthur ElgortFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 327mm, 1080g, 240 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2023In the 1970s, despite not yet knowing each other, Azzedine Alaia and Arthur Elgort were about to go...
Hilma af Klint: Tree of Knowledge

Hilma af Klint: Tree of Knowledge

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Author: Hilma af KlintFormat: Hardback, 197mm x 273mm, 730g, 112 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2023"Revelatory and sublime...Her work remains conceptually open enough for viewers to draw their own conclusions,...
Kinship

Kinship

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Author: Dorothy MossFormat: Hardback, 178mm x 229mm, 540g, 120 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Recent events have pushed artists to visualize ideas of closeness in a new light. Kinship, published on...
Jason Rhoades: PeaRoeFoam

Jason Rhoades: PeaRoeFoam

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Author: David ZwirnerFormat: Hardback, 217mm x 314mm, 1010g, 112 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2016Up to his untimely death in 2006 at age 41, Jason Rhoades carried out a continuous...
Picturing People: The New State of the Art

Picturing People: The New State of the Art

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Author: Charlotte MullinsFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 275mm, 1270g, 192 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Figurative art is currently riding high. Contemporary works of figuration grace the walls of...
Tomas Esson: THE GOAT

Tomas Esson: THE GOAT

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Author: Gean MorenFormat: Hardback, 203mm x 254mm, 1400g, 296 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Tomas Esson: The GOAT is the first monograph of Afro-Cuban artist Tomas Esson. It features paintings created...
Jacoba van Heemskerck: Truly Modern

Jacoba van Heemskerck: Truly Modern

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Author: Kunsthalle BielefeldFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 260mm, 780g, 160 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2021In less than two decades, Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876-1923) created a powerful oeuvre comprising paintings, woodcuts, glass...
Modern World: The Art of Richard Hamilton

Modern World: The Art of Richard Hamilton

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Author: Michael BracewellFormat: Hardback, 200mm x 260mm, 1140g, 224 pagesPublished: Art / Books, United Kingdom, 2021Richard Hamilton was the most influential British artist of his generation. Often described as 'the...
Deanna Bowen

Deanna Bowen

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Author: Crystal MowryFormat: Hardback, 248mm x 305mm, 1700g, 234 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2022This black-on-black book brings together over 20 years of Deanna Bowen's commitment to the excavation and recontextualization...
Latin American Art Since 1900

Latin American Art Since 1900

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Author: Edward Lucie-SmithFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 500g, 240 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2020In this classic survey, now updated and with full-colour images throughout, Edward Lucie-Smith introduces...
Global Art

Global Art

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Author: Jessica LackFormat: Paperback, 138mm x 216mm, 400g, 176 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2020Jessica Lack introduces fifty pioneering modern and contemporary art movements born out of political...
Interior Design Since 1900

Interior Design Since 1900

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Author: Anne MasseyFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 560g, 272 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2020From the 19th-century Arts and Crafts movement to the present day, and from Art...
Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection

Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection

$65.00 AUD$55.25 AUD
Author: Alessandra NappoFormat: Paperback, 210mm x 270mm, 840g, 184 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022In its new presentation of the collection, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart establishes a dialogue between works from the...
Voyaging Out: British Women Artists From Suffrage to the Sixties

Voyaging Out: British Women Artists From Suffrage to the Sixties

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Author: Carolyn TrantFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 840g, 304 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2019Consider for a moment the history of modern art in Britain; you may struggle...
Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained

Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained

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Author: Susie HodgeFormat: Paperback, 140mm x 197mm, 490g, 224 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2012In the past, estimation of an artist's stature took great account of his or...
Modern Painting: A Concise History

Modern Painting: A Concise History

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Author: Simon MorleyFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 640g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023A new concise history of modern painting, offering an indispensable reference to the complexities...
Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art?

Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art?

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Author: Kyung AnFormat: Hardback, 148mm x 196mm, 320g, 136 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2020What is contemporary art? What makes it 'contemporary'? What is it for? And why...
Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain

Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain

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Author: Tanya HarrodFormat: Hardback, 185mm x 245mm, 1340g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022Humankind: Ruskin Spear is the first book on the painter Ruskin Spear RA (1911-1990)...
Make Your Mark: The New Urban Artists

Make Your Mark: The New Urban Artists

$55.00 AUD$46.75 AUD
Author: Tristan MancoFormat: Paperback, 260mm x 310mm, 1550g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016Make your Mark introduces the work of 45 artists who are extraordinarily diverse but...
Miquel Barcelo: Terra Mare

Miquel Barcelo: Terra Mare

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Format: Hardback, 220mm x 280mm, 1980g, 372 pagesPublished: Actes Sud, France, 2010Published to accompany the exhibition showing in Avignon in 2010, this book presents an ensemble of recent works by...
Marcel Broodthaers

Marcel Broodthaers

$110.00 AUD$93.50 AUD
Author: Marie-Puck BroodthaersFormat: Hardback, 256mm x 307mm, 2400g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013Marcel Broodthaers filled his twelve-year artistic career with more ideas and works than most...
Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit

Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit

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Author: Nadine BarthFormat: Hardback, 265mm x 265mm, 1630g, 240 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2021Ruth Orkin is a legend of street photography - her atmospheric pictures taken in cities such as...
Close Up (German edition): Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton

Close Up (German edition): Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton

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Author: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/BaselFormat: Paperback, 190mm x 260mm, 1180g, 344 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2021The portrait offers the possibility of observation and introspection, and is at the same time one...
The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology

The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology

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Author: William A. EwingFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 275mm, 1780g, 288 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2017In 1943 the American inventor and scientist Edwin H. Land was asked by...
Gerhard Richter - Brigid Polk: Koenigsklasse III

Gerhard Richter - Brigid Polk: Koenigsklasse III

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Author: Sabine KnustFormat: Paperback, 197mm x 260mm, 450g, 96 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2015In 1970 in Munich Gerhard Richter met Brigid Berlin alias Brigid Polk, Andy Warhol's legendary muse and...
Empire Roller Disco

Empire Roller Disco

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Author: Patrick PagnanoFormat: Hardback, 191mm x 254mm, 840g, 132 pagesPublished: Anthology Editions, United States, 2023"...Pagnano's photographs remind us of the importance of documenting moments as they occur so that we...
Alberto Giacometti: Space, Figure, Time

Alberto Giacometti: Space, Figure, Time

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Author: Ulf KusterFormat: Hardback, 171mm x 246mm, 420g, 96 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2009Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) was the son of the Swiss painter Giovanni Giacometti. Born and raised in Val...
Pants Wear Skirts: The Erfurt Women Artist's Group 1984-1994

Pants Wear Skirts: The Erfurt Women Artist's Group 1984-1994

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Author: Susanne AltmannFormat: Paperback, 195mm x 265mm, 780g, 256 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023Founded in 1984 by women around Gabriele Stoetzer, the Erfurt Women Artists' Group pursued a radically creative...
Madam and Eve: Women Portraying Women

Madam and Eve: Women Portraying Women

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Author: Liz RidealFormat: Hardback, 210mm x 292mm, 240 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2018Madam and Eve is a rich, varied and exciting overview of how women artists have depicted...
Nebula

Nebula

$60.00 AUD$51.00 AUD
Format: Hardback, 244mm x 300mm, 1190g, 128 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2016Jacqueline Roberts makes portraits on glass and aluminum plates using a 150-year-old technique called wet plate collodion. The long exposures...
Margrit Linck (Bilingual edition): Bird Women and Vase Bodies

Margrit Linck (Bilingual edition): Bird Women and Vase Bodies

$110.00 AUD$93.50 AUD
Author: Beat WismerFormat: Hardback, 205mm x 275mm, 1380g, 264 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Margrit Linck is one of the twentieth century's most prominent ceramics artists. Over the course of her...
Boris Lurie and Wolf Vostell (Bilingual edition): Art after the Shoah / Kunst nach der Shoah

Boris Lurie and Wolf Vostell (Bilingual edition): Art after the Shoah / Kunst nach der Shoah

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Author: Daniel KoepFormat: Paperback, 240mm x 280mm, 1620g, 336 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022The art of Boris Lurie (* 1924, Leningrad) and Wolf Vostell (* 1932, Leverkusen) is determined by...
Bill Viola

Bill Viola

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Author: John G. HanhardtFormat: Hardback, 260mm x 285mm, 2130g, 296 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Bill Viola began experimenting with video art in the early 1970s; today, he...
Tomi Ungerer (Bilingual edition): It's All About Freedom

Tomi Ungerer (Bilingual edition): It's All About Freedom

$90.00 AUD$76.50 AUD
Author: Harald FalckenbergFormat: Paperback, 225mm x 285mm, 1400g, 264 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022It's All About Freedom presents a comprehensive cross-section through nine decades of Tomi Ungerer's artistic work for...
Architecture for Health

Architecture for Health

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Author: Christine Nickl-WellerFormat: Hardback, 1110g, 176 pagesPublished: Braun Publishing AG, Switzerland, 2021Hospital architecture reflects society in a state of flux. How do we care for our patients? What working environments...