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French Moderns: Monet to Matisse 1850-1950
The years between the Revolution of 1848 and the end of World War II were characterised by profound social, intellectual and political change in France. The art world, centred in...
The Royal Collection: Paintings from Windsor Castle
The book titled The Royal Collection: Paintings from Windsor Castle by the author Christopher Lloyd. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.
Kubra Khademi (Multi-lingual edition): Political Bodies
The artist Kubra Khademi (b. 1989) lives in Paris and focuses in her work on her life as a woman and a person with direct experience as a refugee. This...
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...
The Gallery Companion: Understanding Western Art
'Every picture tells a story' - but for many of us the subjects and themes of the great paintings of Western art are something of a mystery. The Gallery Companion...
Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art
$60.00 AUD
The wall paintings and reliefs of ancient Egyptian tombs and temples record a continuity of customs and beliefs over nearly 3000 years. Even the artistic style of the scenes seems...
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....
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...
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...
Italian Altarpieces, 1250-1550
Since the 1960s, the Italian altarpiece has attracted much scholarly attention, bringing liturgical, social and technical considerations to bear on the subject. The eight contributors to this book provide a...
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...
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible
We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks. In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between...
A Life Of Picasso Volume I: 1881-1906
A Life of Picasso magnificently combines meticulous scholarship with irrestible narrative appeal. John Richardson draws on his close friendship with Picasso, his own diaries, with the collaboration of picasso's widow...
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
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are you experienced?
This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of the same name, on view at the Art Gallery of Hamilton through summer and fall 2015, curated by Melissa Bennett, Curator of Contemporary Art...
Love; A Curious History
'Edward Brooke-Hitching's delightful book is a collection of curiosities. From a 19th-century lonely hearts ad to a nuptial blessing of the bride's buttocks, an entertaining history of love over the...
A Complete Guide to Chinese Brush Painting: Ink, Paper, Inspiration -
Paint the classic subjects that inspired ancient Chinese masters. This book introduces the venerable art of painting with ink on rice paper using traditional techniques developed over a thousand years...
Painting Flowers on Silk
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The book titled Painting Flowers on Silk by the author Lydie Ottelart. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter
The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master...
Tiepolo: Vicentine Villas
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The book titled Tiepolo: Vicentine Villas by the author Maria Elisa Avagnina. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Impressionists A Retrospectiv Kapos, Martha
The book titled Impressionists A Retrospectiv Kapos, Martha by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Dali
Salvador Dali (1904-89) was one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the twentieth century. A painter of considerable virtuosity, he used a traditional illusionistic style to create disturbing...
French Moderns: Monet to Matisse 1850-1950
The years between the Revolution of 1848 and the end of World War II were characterised by profound social, intellectual and political change in France. The art world, centred in...
At Home in the World: A Memoir: Ibrahim El-Salahi
For more than a half century, Ibrahim El-Salahi has been at the forefront of African modernism in the visual arts. A renowned artist, writer, critic, and teacher, El-Salahi continues to...
Andre Marfaing: Paintings 1948-1986
Andre Marfaing (1925-87) was a French non-figurative painter and printmaker associated with abstract art and informalism. This catalogue raisonne of is a complete repertory of his painted work, from his...
Emma Stibbon: Melting Ice / Rising Tides
Working principally in drawing and print media on paper, Emma Stibbon RA (b. 1962) depicts landscapes and environments that are undergoing dynamic transformation, among them the polar regions, volcanic areas,...
Volker Hermes: Hidden Portraits: Old Masters Reimagined
Volker Hermes: Hidden Portraits gathers the essential works by one of the most beguiling artists of the present era, in a very modern reinterpretation of historical privilege. Using only elements...
British Paintings 1880-1980
This catalogue brings together one hundred years of British Painting, from 1880 1980. Women are at the forefront: the essential process of rewriting their work into the narrative continues.
The Cut-Ups 2: More Tattoo Flash from the Third Mind
A collection of over 100 hand-painted tattoo flash designs by Brian Kelly, showcasing innovative cut-up techniques and traditional artistry methods for tattoo enthusiasts and artists. Dive into the vibrant and...
Art Journal # 53 (Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria, 53)
The book titled Art Journal # 53 (Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria, 53) by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
Art Journal # 52 (Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria, 52)
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The book titled Art Journal # 52 (Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria, 52) by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
Palma Vecchio
Palma Vecchio (1480-1528) was a leading painter of the italian Renaissance in Venice. As a contemporary of Titian, his short career unfolded at the beginning of the sixteenth century, the...
Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743
Every painted work that is on display in the Uffizi Gallery, The Pitti Palace, the Accademia, and the Duomo is included in the book, plus many or most of the...
100 Masterpieces of Australian Painting
The book titled 100 Masterpieces of Australian Painting by the author William Splatt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Raphael: A Passionate Life
Craving pleasure as well as knowledge, Raphael Sanzio was quick to realize that his talent would only be truly appreciated in the liberal, carefree and extravagantly sensual atmosphere of Rome...
The Art Movement In Australia
The book presents a wide range of documentary and visual material, revealing the importance of the ornamental arts within urbanizing Australian society at the end of the 19th century.
The Paintings in the Royal Collection: A Thematic Exploration of the
Gathered over the centuries by successive British monarchs, the Royal Collection contains some 7000 paintings. This book describes the formation of the collection by three successive connoisseur sovereigns, Charles I,...
In Celebration: Art of the Country House
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Five centuries of private collecting are represented in this publication of some of the finest art treasures preserved in Britain's historic houses. In addition to paintings by Canaletto, Van Dyck,...
Emily Kngwarreye Paintings
$300.00 AUD
The late Emily Kngwarreye (1910-1996) was a senior member of the Utopia Community north-east of Alice Springs and is widely regarded as one of the most notable Aboriginal artists of...
The Paintings
The book titled The Paintings by the author Edouard Manet. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Sketchbooks of the Romantics
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The book titled Sketchbooks of the Romantics by the author Robert Upstone. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Spanish School
A catalogue covering all the Spanish paintings in the National Gallery with revised listings of all new acquisitions procured since 1970. Each entry includes details of condition, technique and place...
Story and Space in Renaissance Art: The Rebirth of Continuous
This book focuses on a puzzling but ubiquitous feature of Renaissance art: continuous narrative, in which several episodes, each including the characters, are shown in a single space or setting....
Duccio
The book titled Duccio by the author Andrear Weber. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found
A revelatory new biography of the enigmatic Dutch artist, published to coincide with the 350th anniversary of his death The paintings of Johannes Vermeer of Delft are some of the...
Francesco Albani
This is the first full-scale study of the artist, his career and his key contribution to the 17th century Bolognese school of painting. Beginning with an account of Albani's life...