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Border Crossing
Brooks' second poetry collection gathers together some of his best work from the last two decades. It features in particular the kind of spare, existential lyrics, written about the coastal...
Colonial Constructs: European Images of Maori 1840 - 1914
How did early European artists of Australia and New Zealand perceive the Maori? What sort of images of Maori society and culture did they create? What ethnic preconceptions lay behind...
Street Logos
Graffiti art is constantly changing. Fresh coats of paint and newly pasted posters appear overnight in cities across the world. New artists, ideas and tactics displace faded images in a...
Piano
$20.00 AUD
Piano traces the evolution of the instrument and its birth in the 18th century, showing all the main varieties of early piano from the prominent manufacturing houses. Additional close-up and...
Wurnan: Sharing on Ngarinyin Country
In the Kimberley region of Western Australia, a group of Ngarinyin people have been engaging with archival material and travelling back to Country to remember and record traditional harvesting and...
Futures: 50 Years In Space: The Challenge of the Stars
This is a sequel to the ground-breaking "Challenge of the Stars", by Hardy & Moore, published in 1972. Dave Hardy is one of the world's most prominent "space artists" with...
The Art of Illustrated Maps: The Art of the Illustrated Map
$70.00 AUD
While literally hundreds of books exist on the subject of "cartographic" maps, The Art of Illustrated Maps is the first book EVER to fully explore the world of conceptual, "imaginative"...
Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition
A pioneering study of how Picasso, Braque, and Gris engaged with the pictorial tradition of illusion and deception in their influential Cubist works The age-old tradition of pictorial illusionism, known...
Brook Andrew Peace and Hope
$15.00 AUD
The book titled Brook Andrew Peace and Hope by the author Marcia Langton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.
Tomi Ungerer (Bilingual edition): It's All About Freedom
It's All About Freedom presents a comprehensive cross-section through nine decades of Tomi Ungerer's artistic work for the first time-from drawings from the nineteen-thirties to objects from the two thousand-tens....
The Gallery Companion: Understanding Western Art
'Every picture tells a story' - but for many of us the subjects and themes of the great paintings of Western art are something of a mystery. The Gallery Companion...
Dominik Schmitt: ironic iconic
Dominik Schmitt (*1983) is primarily interested in philosophical and biological questions about the self and the unimaginably vast network of causes and effects to which everything in life is subject....
Getting Started: Discover your "inner artist" as you explore the basic
This 64-page book provides the perfect starting point for aspiring graphite artists. Accomplished artist Carol Rosinski guides readers through the basics of drawing in pencil, starting with the essential tools...
Art of Australia: v. 1
In this first volume of a brilliant new history of Australian art, John McDonald, the highly regarded art critic of the Sydney Morning Herald, takes us from the times of...
Marvel's Avengers - The Art of the Game
Delve into the world of Marvel's Avengers in this extraordinary collection of art. Packed with concept art, final designs, storyboards, and artist commentary. Assemble your team of Earth's Mightiest Heroes,...
Jangarh Singh Shyam: A Conjuror's Archive
$60.00 AUD
Before any sound critical framework could be evolved around the phenomenal artist Jangarh Singh Shyam as the originator of an extraordinary individualistic idiom of painting, ruthless market forces regrettably came...
Like a Ghost I Leave You: Quotes by Edvard Munch
A gem of a book that stays with you long after you have finished it. Edvard Munch wrote continuously; letters, diaries, literary texts and other notes. In Like a Ghost...
Foundations of Art and Design
Through a wide range of illustrations, the author demonstrates how an artist or designer fills a blank canvas - nothingness - with points, lines, shapes, textures and colours in order...
Fire and Shadow HB
The book titled Fire and Shadow HB by the author Nevill Drury. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Art Of War
$40.00 AUD
Art Under Fire focuses on the wars that have been such an unrelenting feature of the past hundred years; showing how war changed art in the twetieth century and how...
Australian Surrealism: The Agapitos/Wilson Collection
The book features the collection of Australian surrealist art from the period 1925 - 1955, collected since 1990 by Sydney private collectors James Agapitos and Ray Wilson. It features major...
Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol
$30.00 AUD
Pandora was the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, Voltaire, and Goethe, she is...
The Different View: National Library of Australia
$30.00 AUD
Highlights the National Library's architecture and the artworks on display in the Library's public spaces, Leonard French's jewel-like windows, Tom Bass' Library Lintel Sculpture, Mathiew Mategot's tapestries, Henry Moore's sculpture,...
Double War: Shaun Gladwell: visual culture and the wars in Afghanistan
Dr Kit Messham-Muir's Double War: Shaun Gladwell, visual culture and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is the first published sustained critical investigation into the artwork of Shaun Gladwell, one...
Petra Cortright
Petra Cortright's varied style is finally encapsulated in a wide-encompassing monograph that covers the directions her art has taken throughout her career. Known for her video works available on YouTube...
Sean Scully (Bilingual edition): Material World
Creating works with a fascinating range of tone and expression, Sean Scully's oeuvre is a continuous exploration of his core motif of lines and swaths of color. Captivating the observer...
Deadpool Comeback Creator: More Than 150,000 Retorts from the Merc
Trash talk like Deadpool with this hilarious authorized book that contains the best insults from the Deadpool comics, allowing you to create thousands of snarky comebacks worthy of the fast-talking...
Renk (Bilingual edition): Always the Sky
Originally from Brittany, Renk-whose real name is Walig Nicolet-grew up in Rennes in a family of artists. He left school at a very young age and began painting in the...
Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art
The inclusion of text in works of art was a revolutionary creative advancement of the twentieth century, with artists subverting traditional conceptions of 'art' and 'writing.' Younger generations of artists...
Full Frame: Futura 2000
Futura: Full Frame is a book by Magda Danysz exploring the life of legendary graffiti artist Futura, aka Lenny Mc Gurr, from the 1980s until today, including backstage images of...
Living with Wood
Living with Wood provides inspiration for anyone who appreciates the beauty of this wonderful natural material. A superb compilation of the most beautiful projects with wood - both indoor and...
Action Painting
All works presented in this book no longer exist. Gone for good, washed off the sides of the trains, sometimes only hours after they were first created. Often what remains...
Little People in the City: Foreword by Will Self
He's like Banksy - but not as big... They're not pets, Susan, says a stern father who has just shot a bumblebee, its wings sparkling in the evening lamplight; a...
Art Hiding in New York: An Illustrated Guide to the City's Secret
There's so much to love about New York, and so much to see. The city is full of art, and architecture, and history -- and not just in museums. Hidden...
Mr. Brainwash: Franchise of the Mind
This fully illustrated volume explores the ardent voice of contemporary pop artist Mr. Brainwash from screen to street art to gallery. Every surface in the world is a cloak-and-dagger canvas...
2Create: Art Collaborations in New York City
This beautifully designed book showcases the work of nine pairs of New York City's finest graffiti and street artists, delving deep into their backgrounds, techniques, and collaborative processes. Each duo...
Uptown & Downtown: Old Skool Paintings on NYC Subway Maps
New York graffiti writers who cut their teeth painting trains in the '70s and '80s transfer Old Skool street art to a more permanent, collectible medium in this book, using...
Robbie Conal: Streetwise: 35 Years of Politically Charged Guerrilla
Featuring every image in Robbie Conal's storied poster campaigns, this is the definitive history of "America's foremost street artist" (Washington Post). A foreword by Shepard Fairey, American contemporary street artist...
Stencil Graffiti Capital: Melbourne
An edgy, lavishly visual survey that shows the best work of the best street artists working in Melbourne, Australia. Bansky, the well known British stencil artist, after a visit to...
Small China: Early Chinese Miniatures
Small China presents Chinese miniatures from 5,000 BCE up to the fifteenth century. The pocketsized representations of supernatural beings, people, animals, or everyday objects are virtually uncharted in East Asian...
Artists in Residence: Seventeen Artists and Their Living Spaces, from
This charmingly illustrated book invites readers to peer behind the closed doors of 17 legendary and contemporary artists' homes.Peek inside Georgia O'Keeffe's adobe courtyards.Stroll through Henri Matisse's vibrant aviary.Peruse Jean-Michel...
Shopping Lists: A Consuming Fascination
Some years ago, Ingrid Swenson began collecting found shopping lists from the same North London Waitrose.Enlightening and funny, fascinating, and poetic, these private notes to self-detailing someone's weekly shop-rocket and...
The Artful Eye Bargain Book Box
The Artful Eye Bargain Book Box (14 Books) This collection offers a comprehensive survey of visual culture, spanning the foundational principles of interior and furniture design to the radical disruptions...
The Anatomical Tattoo
'The Anatomical Tattoo' is an introduction to the growing phenomenon of anatomical imagery as tattoos and highlights the best examples in the world today. Working with over 80 tattoo artists...
The Chalk Garden
$120.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book. Please see condition notes at end of description. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear...
Burchan Dogancay: Works on Paper 1951-2000
Author: Richard Vine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 228 Dogan ay's drawing , watercolour, fumage, collage, and mixed media are surveyed with an eye to illuminating the unique combination of...
19th Biennale of Sydney 2014: You Imagine What You Desire
$25.00 AUD
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