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Anna Maria Maiolino
Accompanying the first major American museum retrospective of Anna Maria Maiolino's work, this book surveys a prodigious career that has spanned numerous decades, genres, and themes. Born in Calabria, Italy,...
Wolfgang Beltracchi: The Return of Salvator Mundi
In recent years, painter and legendary art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi has opened a new chapter of his career. The core of his latest work is an extensive series of paintings,...
Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography
When Aubrey Beardsley died in 1898, he was aged only 25. In his short but crowded career he had become one of the defining figures of the fin-de-siecle, a precocious...
Ink & Paper: A Printmaker's Art
"Ink and paper are my muses. Using hand press printing and printers' ink to create original prints has absorbed me for the last 47 years. I love the qualities of...
Menacing Love: a Statue by Falconet
One of the most famous statues from eighteenth-century France is the mischevious-looking marble cupid of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. It was made in 1757 by Etienne-Maurice Falconet for Madame de Pompadour,...
Maria Blanchard
Revisiting the work of an overlooked female Spanish painter who was both a friend and contemporary of Picasso and Gris This catalog offers a chronological journey through the different stages...
Monastic
With her eye for architectural details, Friederike von Rauch captures the contemplative power of monastery interiors and simultaneously separates them from their religious context. The Berlin-based artist has lived and...
Andy Warhol: Velvet Rage and Beauty
Andy Warhol's continuous pursuit of ideal beauty-visible in a body of his work that is brought here together for the first time. Andy Warhol is arguably one of the most...
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...
HFT The Gardener
HFT The Gardener presents the culmination of a project comprising multiple bodies of work by the fictional character Hillel Fischer Traumberg. Traumberg is an algorithmic high-frequency trader (HFT), who experiments...
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,...
Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable
*Carolee Schneemann is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award at the 57th Venice Bienalle 2017* Carolee Schneemann is one of the most important artists of 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...
Looking at Manet: Writings on manet by Emile Zola
Manet's career was surrounded by controversy almost from the very start. The hard-edged technique of his early works was not what Salon audiences expected, and when he started painting subjects...
Rembrandt
These 29 books all feature the works of a legendary artist, each a master of the period in which they painted. From old masters Rubens and Rembrandt, to impressionists Monet...
An-Li: A Chinese Ghost Tale
Presenting a stunning new body of works by Hong Kong-born, Melbourne-based artist Kate Beynon, 'An-Li: A Chinese Ghost Tale' marks Art & Australia's second iteration of the Dott Tales series,...
Banksy's Lost Works: On the trail of his vanishing street art
In this richly illustrated landmark book, author and journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones documents the sold, stolen and destroyed works of Banksy, perhaps one of the most renowned and controversial artists of...
Maeda @ Media
Hailed as one of the '21 Most Important People of the 21st Century' by Esquire magazine in recognition of his contribution to contemporary visual culture, John Maeda's mission is to...
Rene Myrha (Multi-lingual edition): A Singular Universe
At the centre of Rene Myrha's (*1939) expressive oeuvre lie landscapes and rigorous compositional room perspectives which are transformed into stage-like settings. They form the scenery for the choreography of...
Banksy's Lost Works: On the trail of his vanishing street art
In this richly illustrated landmark book, author and journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones documents the sold, stolen and destroyed works of Banksy, perhaps one of the most renowned and controversial artists of...
Frank Stella: Alexej-von-Jawlensky-Preis 2022
Frank Stella (*1936) situates his oeuvre not only in the present. Abstraction or representation, simulacrum, sign, and ornament, as well as questions of surface and space have fascinated him anew...
Karin Hanssen: The Borrowed Gaze
For a long time Belgian artist Karin Hanssen has been a well kept secret among the inner art crowd; now she is on the verge of a breakthrough. Her work...
Damian Ortega: Estridentopolis
Estridentismo (Stridentism), a vanguard cultural movement (c. 1921) which united artists and writers in a quest for artistic innovation and social reform, became embodied in an ideal but incomplete place...
Prestel Dictionary of Art and Artists in the 20th Century
This full-color, one-volume dictionary provides an authoritative and up-to-date guide through the maze of twentieth-century artists, movements, photographers, techniques, styles, and turn-of-the-century precursors.
Whispering Gallery
Contains 55 poems each prompted by a work of art drawn from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. The art works are reproduced alongside the poems for immediate...
Alexander McQueen
This title is dedicated to Alexander McQueen's work and talent, and exhibits not simply visually electrifying fashion images, but also reveals the deep reservoir of the designer's imagination. Judith Watt,...
Cezanne: A life
Today we view Cezanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839 1906), many did not understand him or his work. With brilliant insight, drawing on a vast range...
The Clinton Years: The Photographs of Robert Mcneely
Robert McNeely -- President Bill Clinton's official photographer from 1992 to 1998 -- has traveled the world and roamed the halls of the White House, a virtual fly-on-the-wall, documenting the...
Van Gogh's Van Goghs
This work is published to coincide with an exhibition in the USA of a group of Van Gogh's paintings from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The collection is based...
Eugene von Guerard
$120.00 AUD
Today the beautiful portrayals of the Australian landscape by artist Eugene von Guerard have become critically relevant to understanding our fragile environment. This illustrated art reference book draws on new...
Nightingale and the Rose
$100.00 AUD
This spectacular new series of artworks by Del Kathryn Barton is inspired by Oscar Wilde's classic story 'The Nightingale and the Rose'. The book contains 20 new paintings and drawings...
Doonesbury and the Art of G.B. Trudeau
An exciting look at the artistic evolution of the iconic style of Doonesbury on the 40th anniversary of its publication. Best known for his wry and incisive takes on American...
60:Innovators Shaping Our Creative Future: Innovators Shaping Our
Artists, photographers, architects, fashion designers, product designers, street artists, graphic designers: all are helping to redefine our aesthetics, values and ideas about the future. Here, a group of international experts...
On the Line: Conversations with Sean Scully
A unique insight into the life and art of Sean Scully, an internationally celebrated artist and creative practitioner at the height of his powers. Sean Scully's paintings of brushy stripes...
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...
The Raphael Trail
St George and the Dragon is a supremely beautiful painting. It is an exquisitely rendered vision of a universal tale of good and evil. And it is also an example...
Marrinon, Linda
$20.00 AUD
Linda Marrinon's work is funny, but in a funny way. her mixtures of abstraction and figuration, of cartoons and classicism, and of heroes and clowns are not intended to demean...
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...
The Apple is Everything
In mythology, art history and religious iconography, the apple has been imbued with every imaginable human desire. It has been a symbol of love and beauty, of temptation, of immortality,...
Permanent Revolution
In 1961 the 22-year-old Mike Brown joined the New Zealand artist, Ross Crothall, in an old terrace house in inner Sydney s Annandale. Over the following two years the artists...
Chihuly and Architecture
Internationally acclaimed artist Dale Chihuly's site-specific installations in the form of architectural commissions and exhibitions Forty years of Dale Chihuly's spectacular site-specific glass installations are captured in this large-format publication...