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Two Hundred and Forty Years of New Zealand Painting
$50.00 AUD
This landmark book on New Zealand artists and their work was first published in 1971, extended to 1990 by art historian Michael Dunn and now again to 2010 by art...
Picasso, Vollard Suite
The book titled Picasso, Vollard Suite by the author Angel Gonzalez Garcia. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Celebrating Australia's Magnificent Wildlife: The Art of Daryl Dickson
The Art of Daryl Dickson is a celebration of her diverse style and beautiful work. From black-winged stilts to brushtail possums, see the variety and colour of Australian wildlife contained...
Holbein and the Court of Henry VIII
$15.00 AUD
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...
Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aesthetics
An unprecedented photographic record of cat creativity that will intrigue cat lovers and art lovers alike.
Surrealist Painting
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Sexual instinct, feeling of death, physical notion of the enigma of space.... these, according to Salvador Dali, are the great vital constants that make up the vocabulary of the language...
Pollock and After: The Critical Debate
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...
Henri Rousseau: Dreams of the Jungle
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...
Interpreting Cezanne
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?...
Arcimboldo
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...
Painting Four Seasons of Fabulous Flowers
A flower might bloom for only one season, but readers using the tips and techniques in Painting Four Seasons of Fabulous Flowers can enjoy some of their favourite flowers all...
How to Design Your Own Painting Projects
With this book, readers will learn how to create their own decorative painting designs in seven easy steps, starting with finding ideas and inspiration, then applying the principles of a...
PRISCILLA HAUSER'S DEC PAINTING TEC
This diary serves as an introduction to painting decorative flower motifs on a variety of surfaces. In washes of colour with ink detail, every month features a particular flower: rose,...
The Cubist Epoch
Cubism was one of the most important and influential movements in twentieth-century art. In the eight years between 1906 and 1914, Cubism - Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in particular...
Picturing Australia
A stimulating collection of visual imagery, Picturing Australia is a volume of stories: of adventure, near tragedy and deliverance, of success, failure and ultimate triumph, that are a testament to...
Renoir: Sensuous Vision
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...
Cezanne: The First Modern Painter
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...
Gauguin: The Quest for Paradise
The works of Gaugin, and the story of his bohemian exploits.
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
First published in 1893, this fascinating collection of writings reveal Whistler's thoughts on the late 19th-century Aesthetic movement, of which he was the presiding genius. It includes both his own...
Paula Rego: a Retrospective
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...
Modernism (Movements Mod Art)
Modernism is a broad term, used generally to convey a faith in progress and a healthy scepticism for received ideas and traditional values. More specifically, the Modernist tendency has often...
Wyndham Lewis: Art and War
The book titled Wyndham Lewis: Art and War by the author Paul Edwards. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Twelve Views of Manet's Bar
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...
Richard Larter
$40.00 AUD
Recognises and celebrates the work of one of Australia's most significant and engaging artists and is the first major book of his work. Born in England in 1929, Larter moved...
Representing Women
Women - as warriors, workers, mothers, sensual women, even absent mothers - haunt 19th- and 20th-century Western painting. This text brings together Linda Nochlin's most important and pioneering writings on...
The Picasso Papers
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?...
Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century
This first volume in the series focuses on aspects of Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism in Paris between 1848 and 1900. Discussing works by Courbet, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Morisot, and...
Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes
This book highlights the intimate relationship between landscape and portraiture in the work of the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918). Plants, natural environments, and townscapes determine the spaces Egon...
Portraits: John Berger on Artists
John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of...
Body, Place, and Self in Nineteenth-Century Painting
Around the middle of the nineteenth century, painters, novelists, playwrights, and theorists of architecture seized on the interior as a metaphor for selfhood, vision and spatiality. This book shows how...
Claude Monet: Magician of Color
Now available in paperback, this beautifully illustrated biography is the perfect introduction to Monet's artistic achievements. How did Monet's childhood at the seaside influence his art? Why was he so...
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry
Kerry James Marshall is a monumental monograph covering the entire career of painter Kerry James Marshall, focusing on the last 35 years of work. Definitive monograph on contemporary African-American painter...
A Painter and a Poet: Conversations in Colour
This beautiful book, of paintings by Alice Mumford and poems by Sue Leigh, brings together exciting new work from the two makers. Collaboration is perhaps not the right word for...
Allied Photo Reconnaissance of World War II-Chris Staerck
$25.00 AUD
The book titled Monthly Journal by the author "Ditz". This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night Artisan Art Sketch Book
Artisan Art Sketch Books from Flame Tree come in a range of hues to suit the moment and are embellished with a wide variety of well-known art on their tactile,...
The Diver and The Lover: From the bestselling author of MURDER ON LINE
'The lives of the characters get entangled in this powerful read' WOMAN'S OWN 'A pacy, gripping tale of secrets, love and betrayal in 1950s Catalonia, written with skill and colour....
Baroque: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting
Every conceivable expression of this epoch, from Roman baroque to Dutch painting and naturally the unfolding splendour of Louis XIV is gathered in this volume. This work includes: chronological depiction...
The Art of Faux: Complete Sourcebook of Decorative Painted Finishes
More than 60 recipes are outlined for a range of decorative surfaces. Each recipe includes a detailed drawing of the pattern, photographs showing the work in progress, and the hand...
The Beaver Hall Group: 1920s Modernism in Montreal
Taking their name from the downtown street in Montreal where members shared a studio in the early 1920s, The Beaver Hall Group were early adopters of new modernistic approaches to...
Stolen Treasure: The Hunt for the World's Lost Masterpieces
This book by two Russian art historians sets out to reveal how they did this and what happened to these works of art. With the end of the Soviet Union,...
Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up
Frida Kahlo (1907-1958) is an artist with a unique international appeal. Her instantly recognizable work draws extensively on her life and her extraordinarily personal reflections upon it. On Kahlo's death,...
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...
It's a Beautiful Day: New Painting in Australia: 2
The book titled It's a Beautiful Day: New Painting in Australia: 2 by the author Bala Starr. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
French Painters, Russian Collectors
$50.00 AUD
Originally published in 1983, this book tells the story of the two Moscow merchants, Sergey Shchukin and Ivan Morozov, who between them amassed the greatest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist...