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Piero della Francesca: The Complete Paintings - 96 Slides
$100.00 AUD
Author: Edizione ScalaBinding: HardbackPublished: Edizione Scala, 1973Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book features a comprehensive collection of the works of Piero della Francesca, presented...
Massaccio: Collected Works - 96 Slides
$100.00 AUD
Author: -Binding: HardbackPublished: Edizione Scala, 1974Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a collection of 96 slides showcasing the works of the renowned painter...
Neoclassicism and Romanticism 1750-1850 2 Volume Set (Volume 1: Enlightenment/Revolution Volume 2: Restoration/Twilight of Humanism)
$50.00 AUD
Author: Lorenz EitnerBinding: SoftbackPublished: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970; 1971Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markings This comprehensive two-volume set explores the artistic and literary movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism, covering key...
Raphael: A Critical Catalogue of His Pictures, Wall-Paintings and Tapestries
$50.00 AUD
Author: Luitpold DusslerBinding: HardbackPublished: Phaidon, 1971Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis critical catalogue provides an extensive overview of Raphael's works, including his paintings, wall-paintings, and tapestries. It...
Taman Indera Malay Decorative Arts and Pastimes
$60.00 AUD
Author: Mubin SheppardBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1972Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the rich and diverse decorative arts and pastimes of the Malay culture,...
The Grammar of Chinese Ornaments
$100.00 AUD
Author: Owen JonesBinding: HardbackPublished: Studio, 1987Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the intricate and rich tradition of Chinese ornamentation, providing insights into the cultural significance and...
The Joker Ruled Pocket Journal
Featuring fourteen pages of in-world content and original illustrations before giving way to blank ruled pages, this pocket-size notebook lets readers feel like they're part of the Joker's world. In...
All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art:
'One of the hottest memoirs of 2024' Sunday Times StyleA Guardian 'Books to look out for in 2024' pick * A Financial Times 'What to Read in 2024' pick'An art...
Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After
How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stephane Mallarme.At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium...
Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths
A fascinating, richly illustrated study of the role and significance of ancient statues in Egyptian history and beliefWhy do ancient Egyptian statues so often have their noses, hands, or genitals...
Ferdinand Columbus: Renaissance Collector
Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus and author of the first published account of a voyage to the New World, was also the owner of one of the largest private...
Modern Art in Egypt: Identity and Independence, 1850-1936
Following a spectacular surge in interest for Egyptian masters, Modern Art in Egypt fills the void in Egyptian art history, chronicling the lives and legacies of six pioneering artists working...
Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions of Modern and Contemporary Art
The modern and contemporary art of Iran has often been understood, and positioned by commercial institutions, as decorative or ethnic - hence the focus on calligraphy and veiled women. At...
Poetics of the Poster: The Rhetoric of Image-Text
This book sets out to explore the way, with the onset of a new and integral relationship between text and image, the modern poster is able to evolve distinctive persuasive...
Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945
Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars...
Pictures in Peril
$35.00 AUD
Author: H. H. ParsBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber, 1957Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerPictures in Peril is a first edition book published in 1957, featuring...
The Arts of Mankind
$40.00 AUD
Author: Hendrik Willem Van LoonBinding: HardbackPublished: George G Harrap, 1955, November ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThe Arts of Mankind is a comprehensive exploration of...
Wang Guangyi: Works and Thoughts 1985-2012
The first monograph conceived for the international market devoted to one of the most important Chinese contemporary artists. Wang Guangyi is considered one of the emblems of new China, because...
Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea
In the past two decades, there have been major developments in Korean art, as the country has opened up under the influence of globalization. This unprecedented book focuses on the...
Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome: Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art
In Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome, Frances Gage undertakes an in-depth study of the writings of the physician and art critic Giulio Mancini. Using Mancini's unpublished treatises as...
Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England: Working-Class Dress and Rural Life
Author: Rachel WorthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the...
Otto Wagner
$12.00 AUD
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Gauguin by Himself
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Costume and Fashion
Author: James LaverFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 670g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2020From the momentus invention of the needle some 40,000 years ago to the development...
Degas: A New Vision
$30.00 AUD
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The Lives of the Surrealists
Author: Desmond MorrisFormat: Paperback, 165mm x 240mm, 550g, 272 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte...
The New York Subway Map Debate: At Cooper Union April 20, 7:30 pm
Author: Gary HustwitFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 229mm, 300g, 140 pagesPublished: Plexi Productions, United States, 2022The New York Subway Map Debate documents a pivotal event in design history: the 1978 debate...
Raphael
Author: Nicoletta BaldiniFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 168mm, 180g, 96 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2010Skira Mini ARTbooks is a pocket-sized series, conveniently priced, very practical and with lots of images dedicated to...
Le Livre de Kells: Guide Officiel
The Book of Kells, dating from about 800, is a brilliantly decorated manuscript of the four Gospels. This new official guide (French language edition), by the former Keeper of Manuscripts...
How to Paint Without a Brush: The Art of Red Hong Yi
Author: Red Hong YiFormat: Hardback, 187mm x 235mm, 240 pagesPublished: Abrams, United States, 2023How to Paint Without a Brush introduces artist Red Hong Yi's creative process-the tools and methods she...
Klasse Gesellschaft (German edition): Alltag im Blick niederlandischer Meister mit Lars Eidinger und Stefan Marx
Author: Sandra Pisot for the Hamburger KunsthalleFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 280mm, 2160g, 336 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022One feature of seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting is its focus on daily life....
Dead Style: A Long Strange Trip into the Magical World of Tie-Dye
Author: Mordechai "Mister Mort" RubinsteinFormat: Hardback, 205mm x 255mm, 840g, 224 pagesPublished: Abrams, United States, 2020An in-depth look at the in?uence of the Grateful Dead and hippie culture on contemporary...
El Libro de Kells: Guia Oficial
Author: Bernard MeehanFormat: Paperback, 190mm x 248mm, 390g, 96 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018The Book of Kells, dating from about 800, is a brilliantly decorated manuscript of...
Renoir: Rococo Revival
Author: Alexander EilingFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 280mm, 1940g, 328 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Like hardly any other artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir has shaped our understanding of the atmospheric figure paintings of...
Picasso - El Greco
Author: Carmen GimenezFormat: Hardback, 227mm x 290mm, 1220g, 192 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Some 40 carefully chosen juxtapositions of masterpieces by both artists trace a dialogue that ranks among the...
The Duchamp Dictionary
Author: Thomas GirstFormat: Hardback, 143mm x 210mm, 480g, 224 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) has entered mainstream culture as one of the founding fathers of...
Romanian Contemporary Art 2010-2020: Rethinking the Image of the World: Projects and Sketches
Author: Adrian BojenoiuFormat: Paperback, 239mm x 304mm, 1200g, 224 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2020Contemporary art is more than just simple contemporaneity. It is a new way of seeing and making...
Digital Art
Author: Christiane PaulFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 570g, 272 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Digital technology has revolutionized the way we produce and experience art. Here, Christiane Paul...
Kinship
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...
Memoria: Tales of a different History
Author: Nadine HounkpatinFormat: Paperback, 212mm x 246mm, 440g, 112 pagesPublished: Actes Sud, France, 2021Memoria: stories from another History is the idea of a collective memory made up of a myriad...
Jean-Michel Wilmotte: Product Design
Author: Anne BonyFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 310mm, 3500g, 560 pagesPublished: Editions Skira Paris, France, 2023Jean-Michel Wilmotte's unique adventure took off in the mid-1970s and continues today, with undisputed relevance. The...
Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain
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)...
Art Day by Day: 366 Brushes with History
Author: Alex JohnsonFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 580g, 464 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021Art Day by Day presents snapshots of the most exciting, unusual and noteworthy art...
Vittoria Martini: Thomas Hirschhorn: The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival, The Ambassador's Diary
Author: Claire BishopFormat: Paperback, 140mm x 210mm, 280g, 184 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival is an artwork, a sculpture, created by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn in a peripheral...
Imagining England's Past: Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession
Author: Susan OwensFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 860g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023Imagining England's Past takes a long look at the country's invented histories, from the...
Miquel Barcelo: Terra Mare
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...
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 450g, 416 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the...
documenta fifteen Handbook
documenta fifteen is no ordinary art exhibition. Envisioned under the guiding concept of lumbung, the Indonesian collective ruangrupa is less concerned with individual works than with models of collaborative practice....