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The Chinese Scholar's Studio: Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period

The Chinese Scholar's Studio: Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period

$40.00 AUD
Author: LI, Chu-Tsing & WATT, James C.Y.Binding: HardbackPublished: Thames & Hudson, 1987Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the artistic life during the Late Ming period through...
Serious Art: A Study Of The Concept In All The Major Arts

Serious Art: A Study Of The Concept In All The Major Arts

$30.00 AUD
Author: John PassmoreBinding: HardbackPublished: Duckworth, 1991Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the concept of serious art across various artistic disciplines, analyzing its significance and impact in...
The Australian Landscape and its Artists

The Australian Landscape and its Artists

$30.00 AUD
Author: Elywn LynnBinding: HardbackPublished: Bay Books, 1977Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the profound relationship between Australian artists and the unique landscapes of...
Donald Friend Australian War Artist 1945

Donald Friend Australian War Artist 1945

$25.00 AUD
Author: Gavin Fry; Colleen Fry; Donald FriendBinding: HardbackPublished: Currey O' Neil, 1982Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the life and work of Donald...
Conrad Martens in Queensland the Frontier Travels of a Colonial Artist

Conrad Martens in Queensland the Frontier Travels of a Colonial Artist

$20.00 AUD
Author: J.G. SteeleBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Queensland Press, 1978Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the artistic journey of Conrad Martens, a colonial artist,...
Oscar Wilde: Art and Egotism

Oscar Wilde: Art and Egotism

$60.00 AUD
Author: Rodney ShewanBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1977Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the relationship between Oscar Wilde's work, highlighting Wilde's artistic ego and the dynamics of his...
The Oxford Dictionary of Art

The Oxford Dictionary of Art

$15.00 AUD
Author: Ian ChilversBinding: SoftbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1993Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Oxford Dictionary of Art is the unrivalled one-volume guide to the art of the...
The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape

The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape

$35.00 AUD
Author: Allen StaleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Clarendon Press, 1973Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThe Pre-Raphaelite Landscape explores the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement on 19th-century landscape painting. Based on...
Al Taylor: Druckgrafik

Al Taylor: Druckgrafik

$83.50 AUD$66.80 AUD
Author: Michael SemffFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 300mm, 1800g, 272 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2012The present publication is the catalogue raisonne of Al Taylor's graphic works and introduces a previously nearly...
Strange Impressions

Strange Impressions

$21.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Author: Romaine BrooksFormat: Paperback, 108mm x 178mm, 150g, 144 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2022Most known for her bold and darkly painted portraits, Brooks was revolutionary in her feminist renderings...
Two Cities

Two Cities

$19.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Author: Cynthia ZarinFormat: Paperback, 108mm x 178mm, 80g, 112 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2020From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on two...
The Art Museum in Modern Times

The Art Museum in Modern Times

$59.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
Author: Charles Saumarez SmithFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 770g, 272 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021The National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy all saw...
Hundertwasser (German edition): Furdie Zukunft

Hundertwasser (German edition): Furdie Zukunft

$35.00 AUD$28.00 AUD
Author: Pierre RestanyFormat: Paperback, 200gPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2020The paintings and architecture by the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser are nothing less than revolutionary with respect to nature and individual creativity. His...
Re-Thinking Kirchner

Re-Thinking Kirchner

$80.00 AUD$64.00 AUD
Author: Martina NommsenFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 280mm, 1580g, 240 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2021A major conference was heldin 2018 in Davos, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's elective home, to mark the 80thanniversary...
Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz

$65.00 AUD$52.00 AUD
Author: Carla Schulz-HoffmanFormat: Hardback, 170mm x 225mm, 640g, 144 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2019The Bavarian State Painting Collections hold 31 masterpieces by Georg Baselitz from all the artist's creative phases....
A Well-dressed Gentleman's Pocket Guide

A Well-dressed Gentleman's Pocket Guide

$29.95 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Paula Modersohn-Becker

Paula Modersohn-Becker

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Paula Modersohn-BeckerFormat: Hardback, 140mm x 205mm, 280g, 72 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2020When Paula Modersohn-Becker's artistfriends examined her extensive estate afew weeks after her death, they were overwhelmed.They only...
The Lives of the Surrealists

The Lives of the Surrealists

$39.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Desmond MorrisFormat: Paperback, 165mm x 240mm, 550g, 272 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte...
Hannah Ryggen: Threads of Defiance

Hannah Ryggen: Threads of Defiance

$49.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Marit PaascheFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 240mm, 940g, 288 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2019The significance of Hannah Ryggen (1894-1970) as one of the most important figures in...
The New York Subway Map Debate: At Cooper Union April 20, 7:30 pm

The New York Subway Map Debate: At Cooper Union April 20, 7:30 pm

$70.00 AUD$35.00 AUD
Author: Gary HustwitFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 229mm, 300g, 140 pagesPublished: Plexi Productions, United States, 2022The New York Subway Map Debate documents a pivotal event in design history: the 1978 debate...
The Magazine

The Magazine

$45.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Gwen AllenFormat: Paperback, 148mm x 210mm, 560g, 240 pagesPublished: Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom, 2016 Part of the acclaimed 'Documents of Contemporary Art' series of anthologies . Intrinsically collaborative, the...
Raphael

Raphael

$10.99 AUD$6.00 AUD
Author: Nicoletta BaldiniFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 168mm, 180g, 96 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2010Skira Mini ARTbooks is a pocket-sized series, conveniently priced, very practical and with lots of images dedicated to...
Daisy Chain

Daisy Chain

$49.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Phillip Bogart DuncanFormat: Paperback, 222mm x 273mm, 940g, 128 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2023Daisy Chain is the new platform from Phillip Bogart Duncan and Charles Daigrepont Desselle. Published by Damiani,...
Rose Wylie: painting a noun...

Rose Wylie: painting a noun...

$49.99 AUD$39.99 AUD
Author: Rose WylieFormat: Hardback, 171mm x 241mm, 460g, 76 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2020Celebrated British painter Rose Wylie-whose works are at once tactile, cerebral, and humorous-often draws her influence...
Art for No One (Bilingual edition): 1933-1945

Art for No One (Bilingual edition): 1933-1945

$85.00 AUD$68.00 AUD
Author: Ilka VoermannFormat: Hardback, 205mm x 270mm, 1180g, 352 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Between 1933 and 1945, artistic creativity within the German Reich was almost totally under the control of...
Art and Activism at Tougaloo College

Art and Activism at Tougaloo College

$60.00 AUD$48.00 AUD
Author: Turry M. FluckerFormat: Hardback, 195mm x 248mm, 700g, 128 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022This book spotlights a complex art collection established at the intersection of modern art and social...
The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice

The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice

$45.00 AUD$36.00 AUD
Author: Judith MackrellFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 790g, 408 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2017Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power...
Gianni Arnaudo (Bilingual edition): Anti-design

Gianni Arnaudo (Bilingual edition): Anti-design

$75.00 AUD$60.00 AUD
Author: Gianni ArnaudoFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 280mm, 1740g, 224 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2021An extensive monograph on this architect and designer's oeuvre Gianni Arnaudo is an architect and designer with a...
Johannes Itten & Thun: Nature in Focus

Johannes Itten & Thun: Nature in Focus

$65.00 AUD$52.00 AUD
Author: Helen HirschFormat: Hardback, 1260g, 192 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2020The Bauhaus master Johannes Ittenis one of the prominent protagonists of early Modernism in twentieth-century art. Few people are aware...
Gert & Uwe Tobias: Grisaille

Gert & Uwe Tobias: Grisaille

$65.00 AUD$52.00 AUD
Author: Michael HeringFormat: Hardback, 238mm x 319mm, 1420g, 172 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2017The twins Gert & Uwe Tobias are among the most famous German artists in the field of...
New Bauhaus Chicago: Experiment Photography

New Bauhaus Chicago: Experiment Photography

$70.00 AUD$56.00 AUD
Author: Bauhaus-ArchivFormat: Paperback, 230mm x 250mm, 1060g, 208 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2018This lavishly illustrated volume, which comes in four different colours and with an open Japanese binding, looks from...
Royal Book Lodge

Royal Book Lodge

$120.00 AUD$96.00 AUD
Author: John C. WelchmanFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 340mm, 2220g, 348 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023A study and a guidance device, the first book on the Royal Book Lodge (RBL) is...
John Baldessari: The Stadel Paintings

John Baldessari: The Stadel Paintings

$75.00 AUD$60.00 AUD
Author: Martin EnglerFormat: Hardback, 280mm x 280mm, 1510g, 176 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2016John Baldessari is an important American conceptual artists and the last member of the American postwar avant-garde....
Werner Graeff: Ein Bauhauskunstler berichtet / Recollections of a Bauhaus Artist

Werner Graeff: Ein Bauhauskunstler berichtet / Recollections of a Bauhaus Artist

$70.00 AUD$56.00 AUD
Author: Eveline BergerFormat: Hardback, 196mm x 250mm, 1180g, 288 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2017Werner Graeff - painter, graphic artist, typographer, photographer and sculptor - is an important Bauhaus artist and...
Adorning Fashion: The History of Costume Jewellery to Modern Times

Adorning Fashion: The History of Costume Jewellery to Modern Times

$135.00 AUD$108.00 AUD
Author: Deanna Farneti CeraFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 300mm, 2600g, 400 pagesPublished: ACC Art Books, United Kingdom, 2019Costume jewellery is commonly understood to mean fashionable yet affordable adornments made from non-precious...
Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art

Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art

$120.00 AUD$96.00 AUD
Author: Nicholas HallFormat: Hardback, 1580g, 248 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2019Endless Enigma takes as its point of departure Alfred H. Barr Jr.'s legendary 1936 exhibition at The Museum of...
Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. And Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society

Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. And Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society

$80.00 AUD$64.00 AUD
Author: Adriana ProserFormat: Hardback, 1060g, 208 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2020Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon presents sixty-seven masterpieces collected by John D. Rockefeller the third and his wife Blanchette...
Castaway Modernism: Basel's Acquisitions of "Degenerate" Art

Castaway Modernism: Basel's Acquisitions of "Degenerate" Art

$120.00 AUD$96.00 AUD
Author: Eva ReifertFormat: Hardback, 220mm x 280mm, 1480g, 344 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Torn Modernism illuminates an important moment in the history of the Kunstmuseum Basel's collection. In 1937 the...
Cosmos Ottinger (Bilingual edition)

Cosmos Ottinger (Bilingual edition)

$110.00 AUD$88.00 AUD
Author: Cagla IlkFormat: Hardback, 220mm x 310mm, 1400g, 276 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022As a painter, filmmaker, and photographer, Ulrike Ottinger has created an entire artistic universe, a Cosmos Ottinger....
Arts of the Hellenized East: Precious Metalwork and Gems of the Pre-Islamic Era

Arts of the Hellenized East: Precious Metalwork and Gems of the Pre-Islamic Era

$90.00 AUD$72.00 AUD
Author: Martha L. CarterFormat: Hardback, 219mm x 276mm, 2410g, 424 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, houses one of the world's most spectacular collections of...
Mondrian and Photography: Picturing the Artist and his Work

Mondrian and Photography: Picturing the Artist and his Work

$115.00 AUD$92.00 AUD
Author: Wietse CoppesFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 270mm, 2080g, 368 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023The general public's image of Mondrian is of a serious man in a suit and tie with...
Donald Judd: Complete Writings 1959-1975: Gallery Reviews * Book Reviews * Articles * Letters to the Editor * Reports * Statements * Complaints

Donald Judd: Complete Writings 1959-1975: Gallery Reviews * Book Reviews * Articles * Letters to the Editor * Reports * Statements * Complaints

$89.95 AUD$71.96 AUD
Author: Donald JuddFormat: Paperback, 216mm x 279mm, 890g, 240 pagesPublished: Distributed Art Publishers, United States, 2016Originally published in 1975, reprinted in 2005 and out of print for many years, this...
Bauhaus Imaginista: A School in the World

Bauhaus Imaginista: A School in the World

$80.00 AUD$64.00 AUD
Author: Marion von OstenFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 308mm, 2190g, 312 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2019Bauhaus Imaginista is a major international project marking the centenary of this fascinating...
Renoir: Rococo Revival

Renoir: Rococo Revival

$120.00 AUD$96.00 AUD
Author: Alexander EilingFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 280mm, 1940g, 328 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Like hardly any other artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir has shaped our understanding of the atmospheric figure paintings of...
Gainsborough's Family Album

Gainsborough's Family Album

$55.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Islamic Art: Close-Up

Islamic Art: Close-Up

$29.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Sheila R. CanbyFormat: Paperback, 215mm x 215mm, 590g, 144 pagesPublished: British Museum Press, United Kingdom, 2015This stunning book offers an introduction to and an exceptional view of an imposing...
Natural Light: The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science

Natural Light: The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science

$49.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Julian BellFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 800g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023A brand-new perspective on early modern art and its relationship with nature as reflected...
Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation's Cultural Heritage

Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation's Cultural Heritage

$49.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Andrey KurkovFormat: Hardback, 172mm x 216mm, 780g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022A celebration of Ukraine's rich cultural heritage, drawing on over 100 of the country's...