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The Art of Peter Sculthorpe: Paintings Spanning Four Decades
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...
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin - and the first...
Michael Wm. Kaluta The Complete Sketchbooks
$550.00 AUD
Michael Wm. Kaluta has been creating beautiful imagery for more than 40 years. Highlights of his career include what many consider to be the definitive version of The Shadow, the...
Banksy: Building Castles in the Sky
Catalogue to a major traveling exhibition focused on Banksy, the world's most popular graffiti artist whose real identity remains unknown despite his domination of the global street art scene for...
Nicole Hollis: Artistry of Home
Celebrated for her "delightfully elegant, understated interiors" ( House Beautiful ), and her fusing of artisanal elements into a contemporary approach to spaces, Nicole Hollis's second book presents an inspirational...
Sarah Sze: Paintings
The first and only monograph to give a comprehensive examination of acclaimed American artist Sarah Sze's painting practice Since the late 1990s, Sarah Sze has developed a signature visual language...
Van Gogh
The career of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90) as a painter was short, but his paintings revolutionized artistic practice and styles. The intensity of his vision, his wonderful sense of colour...
Monet
Impressionism took its name from the title of a painting that Claude Monet (1840-1926) exhibited in 1874. More than any other artist, Monet was the creator of the Impressionist vision,...
KAWS + Warhol
As celebrated artists that draw from popular culture, KAWS and Andy Warhol are known for creating art that is approachable beyond the confines of the traditional art world. While at...
Annette Kierulf, Caroline Kierulf: To Make a World
Since the mid-1990s, Annette and Caroline Kierulf have practiced what they themselves call "woodcut as cultural critique". Drawing on the medium's rich history as a means of communication and protest,...
Anita Albus (Bilingual edition): Die Kunst zu sehen The Art of Seeing
At first glance, Anita Albus's artistic practice seems like a welcome anachronism in the midst of the fast pace of contemporary art production: the artist creates detailed images of plants...
Leonardo
$15.00 AUD
One of a series of hardback, colour illustrated books on great artists of the world, illustrating their major works.
Paul Winstanley: Threshold : Paintings 1989-2007
$80.00 AUD
This book documents eighteen years of work by English painter Paul Winstanley. It was published on the occasion of the exhibition, Paul Winstanley : paintings 1989-2007 organised and exhibited at...
Rashid Johnson
'Johnson is a leading voice of his generation.' - New York Times The most comprehensive publication to date on widely celebrated artist Rashid Johnson Working with a variety of media...
Rembrandt's Themes: Life into Art
Rembrandt van Rjin (1606-1669) was among the few celebrated old masters who enjoyed considerable freedom in his choice of subject matter. Living and working in the Protestant Netherlands, he painted...
Lorenzo Lotto Portraits
Discover the expressive sensitivity and immediacy of Lorenzo Lotto's portraits in this sumptuous book, which accompanies the major exhibition at the Prado Celebrated as one of the greatest portraitists of...
Simryn Gill
$30.00 AUD
Sydney-based Simryn Gill is interested in how we locate ourselves in the world through objects. By photographing, casting, collecting and arranging various objects, she demonstrates how meaning is dependent on...
VENICE THE ARTISTS VISION
$30.00 AUD
This book is both an absorbing social history and a comprehensive reference guide to 19th-century British and American artists who took Venice as their inspiration. The first part of the...
Andrew Stevovich: Beyond the Figure
Fifty years of "essential" painting by the Austrian-born American figurative painter (1948). Andrew Stevovich is a deceptive painter. His figures flattened, his interest is focused on the line that defines...
Jane Benson: A Place for Infinite Tuning
This book surveys the landscape of Jane Benson's acute, yet lyrical practice, forging a trajectory through the past decade as she splits, fractures and skews archetypal structures into poignant re-assemblies....
Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature's Underworld
Dive into the art world of the closely allied artists Mark Dion & Alexis Rockman. Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature's Underworld accompanies the first two-person survey exhibition...
Natela Iankoshvili: An Artist's Life between Coersion and Freedom
Natela Iankoshvili is regarded as the most important woman artist in Georgia during the 20th century. Born in Tiflis in 1918, she spent her entire life in Georgia. The career...
Andrea Buttner
Visualizing Hidden Structures in Art and Society In her artistic practice, Andrea Buttner combines art history with social and ethical issues. Since the early 2000s, she has been exploring a...
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....
Ai Weiwei: Under Construction
This strikingly designed book explores how, through his work, Ai Weiwei raises a series of questions about cultural violence and critically reflects on China's history. He continues to fashion the...
Self as a Stranger: Simon Lewty
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...
Chasing Lionel through Spain in the Footsteps of the 'Other' Lindsay
When Colin Holden wanted to know more about Australian artist Lionel Lindsay and his trips to Spain in the middle of the last century, he went to Europe to find...
Il Gran Cardinale: Alessandro Farnese, Patron of the Arts
During much of the sixteenth century, Rome was the artistic centre of the known world, and Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, the wealthy and powerful grandson of Pope Paul III, was the...
Hans-Ulrich Obrist Hear Us: Featuring Bill Burns
In her Foreword to the publication, Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda recognizes that the after-effect of Burns' work is deeply disillusioning, breaking up and foreclosing the harmonious unity of identity,...
Juan Davilla
Juan Davila is a painter who passionately believes in using art to facilitate social change. Davila was born in Santiago, Chile, and moved to Australia in the 1970s to escape...
Painter and Priest: Giovanni Canavesio's Visual Rhetoric and the
Giovanni Canavesio, a Piedmontese artist-priest active in the last decades of the fifteenth century in the southern Alps, left behind a significant body of work, including pictorial cycles and altarpieces....
Parviz Tanavoli: Poets, Locks, Cages
Among the foremost contemporary Iranian artists and a pioneer of modern sculpture. Parviz Tanavoli - who has been widely recognised as the only Iranian artist to fully capture the duality...
Xenia Hausner: True Lies
Xenia Hausner ranks among the most important Austrian painters of our time. This splendid volume focuses on the aspect of stagecraft which characterizes all her works. Starting from the early...
The Life of Raphael
Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550 and 1568) is a classic of cultural history. A monumental assembly of artists' lives from Giotto to...
Jack Milroy: Cut Out
'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
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...
In The Gaze Of Medusa: The Life and Works of Louis de Wet
Louis de Wet (1930 2018) was an artistphilosopher born in South Africa. Over the course of his life, he created a significant body of meticulously crafted drawings and paintings, using...
Guerrilla Girls
Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly is the first book to catalog the entire career of the Guerrilla Girls from 1985 to present. The Guerrilla girls are a collective...
Carlo Crivelli
$500.00 AUD
Carlo Crivelli (c. 1430 - 1495) is a painter whose individuality of style and mastery of powerful line have fascinated many, but whose life and art have remained enigmatic. This...
I Hope So: Sane Wadu
I Hope So: Sane Wadu follows the expansion and development of Wadu's conceptual preoccupations, beginning with an early interest in bucolic scenes of pastoral life which has evolved into incisive...
Trailblazer: The First Feminist to Change Our World
Author: Jane Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Acclaimed historian, Jane Robinson brings out of the shadows one of Victorian Britain's most influential but forgotten women. First wave feminist,...
Epstein: A Biography
Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) ranks among the finest and most influential sculptors of this century. This biography traces his often turbulent private life and assesses his sculpture and paintings. It also...
Muse: Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind Art History's Masterpieces
Uncovering the hidden figures behind art history's masterpieces Meet the unexpected, overlooked and forgotten models of art history. Who was Picasso's 'Weeping Woman'? Why was Grace Jones covered in graffiti?...
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
A TIMES , DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST , NEW STATESMAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF...
Pablo Atchugarry: A Journey Between Matter and Light
Atchugarry's father, an artist as well, passed on to him the love for this profession - and he proved to be successful. At his first solo exhibition in Montevideo (...
Richard Serra: Torqued Spirals,Toruses and Spheres
$60.00 AUD
Serra was born in San Francisco in 1939 and since the 1960s has exhibited extensively throughout the world. In recent years, Serra has explored the effects of torqued forms in...
James Turrell (German Edition): Extraordinary Ideas-Realized
For more than fifty years, James Turrell (*1943, Los Angeles), one of the most prominent artists of our time, has devoted himself to the exploration of the (im)materiality and perception...
The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
A fascinating biography of the drugmaker Albert Barnes, whose pioneering collection of modern art was meant to transform America's soul From prominent critic and biographer Blake Gopnik comes a compelling...