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Arts Management: A practical guide
Arts management is no longer a resting place for enthusiastic amateurs or artists with insufficient talent to make the big time. Rather, it is increasingly being recognised as a profession...
The Art Book
Updated for only the third time in its 16-year history, this new edition of the award-winning landmark publication has been refreshed with more than 40 important new artists, including many...
Jasper Johns: Pictures Within Pictures 1980-2015
Jasper Johns is one of the most important artists of our time. This book offers the first comprehensive study of his art since 1980, a period in which the artist...
The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre
Authoritative and wide-ranging, this absorbing account of the history of theatre draws on the latest scholarly research to describe and celebrate theatre's greatest achievemenst over 4,500 years, from festival performances...
Sebastiao Salgado. Genesis. Postcard Set
For Sebastiao Salgado, Genesis is a "love letter to the planet." TASCHEN's postcard set allows you to send on that wonder with 25 individual images from the complete Genesis portfolio,...
The Life of Bryan: A Celebration of Bryan Robertson
Bryan Robertson (1925-2002) was the greatest director the Tate Gallery never had. In 1952, at the age of 27, and against formidable competition (which included David Sylvester and Lawrence Gowing),...
Nature's Palette: A colour reference system from the natural world
First published in 1814 and expanded in 1821 - long before the era of colour photography or print - Syme's edition of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours attempted to establish a...
Freelancing in the Creative Industries
What are the most challenging aspects of freelancing in the creative Industries? Freelancing requires a breadth of skills across managing projects and timelines, having the space and energy to maintain...
Dystopia: Post-Apocalyptic Art, Fiction, Movies & More
$15.00 AUD
We have an obsession with broken societies set in futuristic worlds , curious but terrifying new technologies and post-apocalyptic dusty wastelands where survivors grow more desperate every day. Dystopian worlds...
Gurlitt Status Report
When over 1,000 artworks by outstanding artists of the modern era appeared on the scene in 2012, the find was celebrated as a sensation, though the suspicion that it might...
The Interpretation Matters Handbook
From "radical unreality" to "leggy plasticity", The Interpretation Matters Handbook dissects some of the most baffling examples of art lingo going, kickstarting a conversation about written interpretation practice in galleries....
Self Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary
$60.00 AUD
This text celebrates the lives of artists and their unique perspective on themselves and their work. Am impressive array of self-portraits is presented in this major survey of the genre...
People, Paths, and Purposes: Notations for a Participatory
$300.00 AUD
Philip Thiel believes that environmental design and research should be based on the eye-level experience of the users in the course of their movement through the environment. He also argues...
Creators Take Control: How NFTs Revolutionize Art, Business, and
A leading legal scholar offers a compelling new theory to explain the meteoric rise of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and their impact on art, business, entertainment, and society, and explains how...
How to Buy and Sell Art
The art world can be an intimidating one for the experienced buyer let alone the aspiring collector, but with this highly-regarded and witty handbook to the world of collecting, Michael...
The Art and Science of Dance/Movement Therapy: Life Is Dance
This second edition of The Art and Science of Dance/Movement Therapy offers a broad understanding of dance/movement therapy as well as an in-depth exploration of how and where it can...
Masters of Comics
Go inside the master's studio and explore the creative spaces and processes of the legendary artists who brought you Batman: Year One , Akira , Saga , and more! Readers...
Noisy Autumn: Sculpture and Works on Paper by Christy Rupp
Christy Rupp emerged as an American artist and activist in Manhattan in the late 1970s, using commodified materials to construct three-dimensional, sculptural works imbued with a dynamic sense of life....
Kaleidoscope Sticker Mosaics Manga
Perfect for those who are interested in colouring books, with Kaleidoscope Sticker Mosaics: Manga, creatives can create a bright and beautiful masterpiece one sticker at a time! This book features...
A Touch of Code: Interactive Installations and Experiences
Fill in the Blank: An Inspirational Sketchbook
With more than 100 different spreads to envision, design, and draw, FILL IN THE BLANK lets you create everything from new products (cars, shoes, vegetables) to new works of architecture...
The Secret Museum
The Secret Museum is a unique treasure trove of the most intriguing artifacts hidden away in museum archives from all over the world - curated, brought to light, and brought...
Through the Eyes of Children: Quotes from Childhood Interrupted by War
A heartrending and beautiful trilingual book that gives voice to the children of war-torn Ukraine, interspersed with moving works of art. What is it like to be a child living...
Captivate: Stories from National Art School and Darlinghurst Gaol
In 2022 the National Art School celebrated two important milestones: the 100-year anniversary of the Art School's presence on its current site in Darlinghurst, and 200 years since the first...
Protecting Indigenous Art: From T-shirts to the Flag
A personal account of how copyright protects Indigenous art There is the country non-Indigenous people can see, and then there is the country Indigenous people see that the rest of...
Karakoram: Hidden Treasures in the Northern Areas of Pakistan
$100.00 AUD
This volume addresses these issues through the description of a series of interventions of territorial planning, environmental protection, recovery of historic buildings and traditional villages and the provement of living...
Skate, Surf & Art
Skateboarding, as we know it today, originated in California during the 1960s. The first boards were simple designs made by attaching roller skate wheels to planks and crates. By the...
Talking Bodies: Image, Power, Impact
How advertising and art manipulate body-image norms: a visual analysis with strategies for resistance. Images of bodies operate as powerful signifiers and as cultural determinants. Normative ideas of the body...
Art Studio Secrets: Tools and Techniques to Inspire: Tools and
Award-winning illustrator/painter Marjorie Sarnat presents an outstanding refresher course in creative thinking, suitable for artists of every level. In this guide, she shares the tips and techniques she's discovered in...
Performing the Archive: The Transformation of the Archive in
Instead of smoothing over contemporary art's violent and iconoclastic dimensions, instead of sanitizing and making complex artworks docile in terms of archival possibilities, this book suggests we abandon our fantasy...
A Distant Prospect
'Autobiography of the very finest quality. Having enjoyed in the course of reading it the loudest and longest laughs I have enjoyed in the last two years I am quite...
Unfinished Journeys
This book documents recent journeys to far-flung destinations throughout the world by thirteen Australian artists charged with the mission of recording their experiences in their own unique artistic terms. Each...
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
Seize the day in the name of art. This creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman combines his extraordinary words with deft and striking illustrations by Chris...
Granta 143: After the Fact
Britain is leaving the European Union. Donald Trump is the president of the United States. Palmyra's monuments have been destroyed by ISIS. The Antarctic shelf is breaking up. The warnings,...
Collecting Authentic Indian Arts and Crafts
A volume on identifying and collecting contemporary Indian artefacts, crafts and jewellery, this guide shows how to identify authentic crafts, how to recognise fraudulent work, and what to do if...
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...
Theory for Art History: Adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by
Theory for Art History provides clear and concise introductions to thirty key figures of contemporary theory: four essential predecessors -- Freud, Marx, Nietzsche, and Saussure -- and twenty-six major moderns...
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...
The A to Z of Arts Management: Reflections on Theory and Reality
The world of arts management is a world of complexity and uncertainty, creativity and poverty, joy and frustration. But management itself is an art, not a science. You can't learn...
The Spirit Of Britain
A unique and beautifully illustrated survey of the arts in Britain from the Celts to the present day - the companion volume to The Story of Britain. In this comprehensive...
Everything You Know About Art is Wrong
A highly entertaining read for anyone with even a passing interest in art and art history. This myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through the lives of starving...
Film Making for Newbs
The complete guide to producing, distributing, and marketing your film on any budget. Award winning Director and Producer Kyle Lawrence (THE SCARF and LOGAN), shares tips, tricks, advice, anecdotes, and...