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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...
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...
Crafting a Better World: Inspiration and DIY Projects for Craftivists
"Progressive crafters will be galvanized by this celebration of homespun resistance." - Publishers Weekly From beloved craftivist Diana Weymar, creator of the brilliantly subversive Tiny Pricks Project, a collection of...
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,...
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...
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 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...
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...
James Gleeson: Beyond the Screen of Sight
This book is a journey through his distinct vision—a realm populated by metamorphic figures, strange organic machinery, and vast, desolate geological forms that challenge the viewer to look "beyond the...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
A PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY won pretty much every prize for which it was eligible This tremendously attractive, ambitious, dizzying book is in every way a worthy successor to Figes' bestselling A...
Splendid Life: And Other Paintings by Scott C.
Enter the whimsical world of internationally acclaimed pop artist Scott C. in this charming book featuring all-new paintings, drawings, and illustrations.Celebrated pop artist Scott C. continues to captivate audiences around...
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
$12.00 AUD
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....
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...
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...
Postmark Paris: A Story in Stamps
The colorful world-within-a-world of postage stamps illustrates this lyrical account of a young girl's experiences in Paris.When she and her family move to the city for a year, one of...
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...
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
$25.00 AUD
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Whistler and Montesquiou: The Butterfly and the Bat
$30.00 AUD
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Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race
Author: Esi Edugyan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that...
Open House: Recollections of My Early Life
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Diaries: 1967-87
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