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Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
John Cleese teaches us all how we can be more creative. ____________________________ We can all be more creative. John Cleese shows us how. Creativity is usually regarded as a mysterious,...
What They Didn't Teach You in Art School: What you need to know to
You have the artistic talent, but do you know how to make a success of it? The thing they don't teach you in art school is just how active and...
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...
Search for the Real and Other Essays
The writings of the "dean of the New York School of Abstract-Expressionist Painting." "The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature; translating the impulse received from nature...
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...
Creative Careers: Paths for Aspiring Actors, Artists, Dancers,
$15.00 AUD
Offering a wealth of creative career paths, accurate income information, job descriptions, and relevant college courses to take, this guide shows that creative people aren't doomed to be "starving artists"...
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...
Super Stereogram
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The sequel to the bestselling Stereogram features two-dimensional pictures containing three-dimensional images that can be seen by shifting one's focus. One of the newest styles featured in this book is...
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...
Night on Earth: Photographs by Art Wolfe
Every night, an often unseen buzz of activity takes place all around the globe. This gorgeous collection of photographs takes the reader on a magical journey from dusk to dawn....
New on Earth: Baby Animals in the Wild
Glimpse into the lives of the very youngest members of these majestic, endangered wild species. For the last twenty years, Suzi Eszterhas has dedicated her life and her work as...
Into Africa: The Poster Portfolio: 12 Frameable Images
Journey Into Africa through the lens of National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting, whose images have created an enduring vision of Africa's diverse landscapes and wildlife. Into Africa: The Poster Portfolio...
Ron Mueck
Using fibreglass resin as his preferred material, Mueck creates what's known as 'hyperrealist' human sculptures, astonishing human-like creations, both gigantic and miniature in scale. His work is now firmly on...
Monuments and Maidens
Marina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female form, and examines the tension between women's historic and symbolic roles....
Creative Couples
In the same series as her bestselling title Visionary Women, published by Assouline in 2015, author Angella Nazarian continues to chart the lives of inspiring and ground-breaking personalities, this time...
Homage to Barcelona: The City and Its Art, 1888-1936
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Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes
Perfect for readers of Women in Clothes , this beautifully designed philosophical guide to fashion explores art, literature, and film to uncover the hidden meaning of a well-chosen wardrobe. We...
Style Legends, Rebels, and Visionaries Notecards: 20 Notecards and Envelopes
Style Legends, Rebels, and Visionaries is an inclusive and eclectic collection of twenty illustrated portraits of fashion iconoclasts in the fields of music, film, art, pop culture, and more. This...
Ways of Curating
The world's most famous curator shows how we can use the process of curation outside the art world Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations - from staging his first...
Paris by Design: An Inspired Guide to the City's Creative Side
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Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed STEP ACROSS THIS LINE From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie,...
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023 BARNES & NOBLE'S BEST SCIENCE & NATURE BOOKS OF 2023 The arts can deliver potent, accessible and proven solutions...
A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
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Track Record: Me, Music, and the War on Blackness: THE REVOLUTIONARY
The ground-breaking memoir by acclaimed rapper and podcast host, George the PoetBorn to Ugandan parents on the St Raphael's Estate in Neasden, north-west London, George has always been an ambitious...
Un-Friended
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You have some queer friends the queerness doesnt matter, so long as theyre friends. Share a laugh, shed a tear as you reminisce about the times spent with your friends....
Traditional Japanese Arts and Culture: An Illustrated Sourcebook
Japanese artists, musicians, actors, and authors have written much over the centuries about the creation, meaning, and appreciation of various arts. Most of these works, however, are scattered among countless...
Human Flow: Stories from the Global Refugee Crisis
Mashable's 20 Books from 2020 That Make Great GiftsIn the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his...
A House Full of Music: Strategies in Music and Art
Before John Cage (1912-1992), there was hardly anyone as consistent as he was in questioning the boundaries of music and its connections to other fields of art and the everyday...
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century
Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois...
Part-Time Ink: Create Your Own Stylish Henna Designs and Temporary Tattoos
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Track Record: Me, Music, and the War on Blackness: THE REVOLUTIONARY
The ground-breaking memoir by acclaimed rapper and podcast host, George the PoetBorn to Ugandan parents on the St Raphael's Estate in Neasden, north-west London, George has always been an ambitious...
The Street Art Manual
The Street Art Manual is the world's first book to combine practical advice and tactical guidance for creating 11 forms of street art in public space around the world. Every...
Dubious Documents: A Puzzle
An intriguing epistolary puzzle posed by a mysterious character named Magnus Berlin. Readers must study Berlin's introductory note, list of clues, and 16 multifaceted letters to decode cryptic anagrams, picture-grams,...
Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race
History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals,...
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century
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Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois...
Louise Bourgeois (German Edition)
Author: Ulf KusterFormat: Paperback, 122mm x 191mm, 180g, 144 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2011Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was born on December 25, 1911. This book, which is devoted to the central...
Jasper Johns: Pictures Within Pictures 1980-2015
Author: Fiona DonovanFormat: Hardback, 235mm x 310mm, 2040g, 288 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2017Jasper Johns is one of the most important artists of our time. This book...
New Waves: Contemporary Art and the Issues Shaping its Tomorrow
Author: Marta GnypFormat: Paperback, 165mm x 240mm, 1080g, 344 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2021Marta Gnyp has chosen to interview the most trailblazing names in contemporary art to reflect on the changes...
Can Art Aid in Resolving Conflicts?: 100 Perspectives
Author: Noam Lemelshtrich LatarFormat: Hardback, 250mm x 290mm, 1810g, 264 pagesPublished: Frame Publishers BV, Netherlands, 2018Throughout t he centuries, art has documented the atrocities of wars, participated in propaganda campaigns,...
Gurlitt Status Report
Author: Kunstmuseum BernFormat: Hardback, 238mm x 280mm, 1820g, 344 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2017When over 1,000 artworks by outstanding artists of the modern era appeared on the scene in 2012,...
Secrets of the Studio / Ateliers a la loupe: From Monet to Ai Wei Wei
Author: Damian ElwesFormat: Hardback, 218mm x 244mm, 600g, 80 pagesPublished: Editions Skira Paris, France, 2018Join Detective Damian on his investigations... Visit the studios of Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Gauguin,...
Women, Art, and Society
Author: Whitney ChadwickFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 1220g, 600 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2020Whitney Chadwick's acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to...
Art and Climate Change
Author: Maja and Reuben FowkesFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 610g, 296 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022A timely introduction to the fields of environmental art, art and ecology,...
A Year in the Art World: An Insider's View
Author: Matthew IsraelFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 260g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023A panoramic insider's account of the global art industry, revealing the fascinating but mysterious...
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 450g, 416 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the...