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Goddess of the Automobile Age: The changing aspects of femininity and masculinity Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) stood at the center of the sophisticated Paris art world of the 1920s and...

Haunting and poignant, this collection of portraits from renowned Melbourne artist, George Petrou portrays a spirit like no other - the Anzac spirit. Australians from all walks of life have...

A superb collection of Robert Taylor's aviation art, accompanied by a commentary of each piece by the artist, make this volume a must for lovers of aviation and fine art...

The book titled Monet by the author William C. Seitz. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'I don't know what sort of photographer I am, but I try to be an honest one.' Joyce Evans was an unusual phenomenon in the Australian photography scene. Her conversion...

Yuhanna al-Armani has long been known by historians of Coptic art as an eighteenth-century Armenian icon painter who lived and worked in Ottoman Cairo. Here for the first time is...

As part of its Millennium celebrations, the National Gallery has invited over twenty major contemporary artists to create a new work in response to paintings in the Collection. Close Encounters:...

The book titled Stanley Spencer: A Sort of Heaven by the author Judith Nesbitt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

When Holbein died in 1543, exactly 450 years ago, he left behind him one of the most remarkable records of a royal court ever made. These portraits were executed while...

The French nineteenth-century painter Berthe Morisot (1841-95) was held by her contemporaries to be the 'quintessential Impressionist'. She was an influential member of the Impressionist group, whose exhibitions she organized...

Pollock and After: The Critical Debate brings together key writings on Abstract Expressionism and Modernist art history. It is an essential resource for understanding post-war American art and culture. The...

This publication accompanies Australian multidisciplinary artist Nicholas Mangan's survey exhibition "Limits to Growth." The exhibition and book bring together four of Mangan's most significant works of the past seven years,...

The book titled Neshat Shirin by the author Ruth Noack. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Rousseau's series of jungle paintings was and still continues to be the subject of controversy. This book answers many of the questions surrounding Rousseau's importance as an artist and examines...

Cezanne is often called the first modern painter. But how did he arrive at his way of seeing the world, and what was he aiming to express in his art?...

If, as the famous saying goes, you really are what you eat, then Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) was a consummate painter of the human soul. This artist was a master draftsman...

Revisiting one of the most celebrated trials in the history of art, this book details the late-nineteenth-century libel suit brought in London's courts by artist James McNeill Whistler against art...

The execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, in 1867, was the subject of a quartet of paintings by the French Impressionist and early Modernist Edouard Manet. These works are rarely...

Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger is a work of cultural history that situates the art works of one of the most important contemporary painters in relation to...

In a career spanning 60 years and thousands of paintings, Auguste Renoir ensured that his art communicated a sense of happiness and contentment. Through his sense of colour, he transformed...

Paul Cezanne - a solitary genius who overcame opposition from his family, friends and the official Salon - made painting the sole preoccupation of his life. He worked unceasingly to...

The works of Gaugin, and the story of his bohemian exploits.

The book titled Words of Gilbert and George by the author Hans-Ulrich Obrist. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Among the great twentieth-century masters, the Surrealist painter Joan Miro stands out for the atmosphere of wit and spontaneity which pervades his work. Miro's art went through many phases, and...

On the occasion of Doha being a cultural capital of the Middle East in 2010 and Istanbul being a cultural capital of Europe, Doha Orientalist museum is holding a symbolic...

The book titled A Forgotten Kingdom by the author Mike Nelson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This edition has been issued to coincide with the release of Christopher Hampton's film about Dora Carrington, and also with an exhibition at the Barbican. Best-known for her devotion to...

Poussin's scenes of bacchanalian revelry, tripping maenads and skipping nymphs are often described as 'dancelike' and 'choreographed'. The artist's dancing pictures helped him develop a new approach to painting that...

This issue of Art & Design takes its theme from an important exhibition, proposed by the American conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth for the Camden Arts Centre in London. It brings...

Born in Portugal, Paula Rego studied at the Slade School of Art, and since 1976 she has lived and worked in London. Rego is a figurative painter, interested in human...

Gerard Malanga was chief assistant at Andy Warhol's legendary Factory in New York from 1963 to 1970. As well as helping Warhol produce many, now instantly recognizable, works of art,...

Daniel Boyd (b 1982) is one of Australia's most acclaimed young artists. His practice is internationally recognised for its manifold engagement with the colonial history of the Australia-Great Ocean (Pacific)...

Together with Picasso and Matisse, George Braque is unquestionably one of the three great pillars of 20th-century art. Here is the first full-length biography of this remarkable figure.

'Octavio Paz, the most eminent public and literary figure in Mexico today, in this probing book conveys his awareness of Duchamp as a great cautionary figure in our culture, warning...

In 1959, Calvin Tomkins interviewed Marcel Duchamp for Newsweek, beginning his sixdecade-long career writing about art. He then joined The New Yorker, where he has contributed dozens of profiles on...

This text examines 20 years of work by Canadian artist, Jeff Wall, whose constructed photographs of suburban landscapes and dramatic mise-en-scene explore the topography of everyday relations. He combines the...

This entertaining and aesthetically appealing survey of Stanley Spencer's career spans its entire spectrum and places his remarkable oeuvre in the broader context of twentieth-century European art. This edition is...

Many of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases--naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarme, Rilke, and Cavafy. Enigmatic and sometimes hard...

Bradford Collins has assembled here a collection of twelve essays that demonstrates, through the interpretation of a single work of art, the abundance and complexity of methodological approaches now available...

Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of 20th-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its...

This work is about contemporary Tahitians and a long-dead French painter, sex today and sex in the late-19th century, and colonialism old and new. Paul Gauguin travelled to Tahiti in...

Pablo Picasso turned the ephemera of everyday life into pioneering cubist collage, and reinvented the paintings of old masters for the 20th century. Does this make him an artistic genius?...