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Tate Modern: The Handbook
Celebrating the opening of the new Tate at Bankside, London, this book introduces readers to the building, the collection and the new approach to modern and contemporary art. The gallery...
Creating the British Galleries at the V&A: A Study in Museology
$50.00 AUD
The creation of the British Galleries 1500-1900 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, was the largest gallery project for 50 years at the world's most important museum of design...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Leonardo Da Vinci
This books attempts to explain who this great genius was and why he became such a creative man. His inquistitive mind led him to investigate every field of knowledge and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership
Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally presented an individual's lone struggle for self-expression. In this book, critics and historians challenge these assumptions in a series of essays that focus...
Culture: The surprising connections and influences between
It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth century Nigerian theatre and Modernist poetry,...
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,...
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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Cultured Colonists: George Alexander Gilbert and His Family, Settlers in Port Phillip
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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
$20.00 AUD
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Diaries: 1967-87
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Style Legends, Rebels, and Visionaries Notecards: 20 Notecards and Envelopes
Author: Bijou Karman Format: Cards Number of Pages: 20 Style Legends, Rebels, and Visionaries is an inclusive and eclectic collection of twenty illustrated portraits of fashion iconoclasts in the fields...
Culture: A new world history
Author: Martin Puchner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The surprising connections and influences between civilisations. 'Genius' - William Dalrymple Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues...
Beyond the Future: The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial
$25.00 AUD
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European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century
$20.00 AUD
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Dance for Joy: An Illustrated Celebration of Moving to Music
Author: Aurelia Durand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Dance can be radical self-expression, community celebration, revolutionary protest, or pure elation. Whether you're a professional ballet dancer or the first...