Art and Design

More tham 450 stunning photographes taken on expeditions to the South and North Poles with descriptions of the explorations and biographies of the men taking part.

This issue of Art & Design takes its theme from an important exhibition, proposed by the American conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth for the Camden Arts Centre in London. It brings...

Futurism, brainchild of the Italian writer and impresario, F.T. Marinetti, was the defining avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. This book traces it from its origins in dissident underground...

Modernism is a broad term, used generally to convey a faith in progress and a healthy scepticism for received ideas and traditional values. More specifically, the Modernist tendency has often...

Winner of the 2014 Annual Book Prize of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (USA). Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent...

Daniel Boyd (b 1982) is one of Australia's most acclaimed young artists. His practice is internationally recognised for its manifold engagement with the colonial history of the Australia-Great Ocean (Pacific)...

The avant-garde is a twentieth-century phenomenon. By the turn of the nineteenth century, artists were beginning to address a far larger audience than ever before, and it was one on...

Winner of the American Publishers Association's Award for an outstanding Professional and Scholarly title and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 1996 from the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.In...

Visuality before and beyond the Renaissance examines the phenomenon of "seeing" through a study of art works from Ancient Mesopotamia, China, Africa, and European works ranging from Antiquity to the...

Looking at Art from the Inside Out highlights the role played by the psychological world of the artist in shaping the subject-matter and form of art works. Analysing masterpieces by...

Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of 20th-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its...

The book titled Technique Anglaise: Current Trends in British Art by the author Andrew Renton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Women - as warriors, workers, mothers, sensual women, even absent mothers - haunt 19th- and 20th-century Western painting. This text brings together Linda Nochlin's most important and pioneering writings on...

Pablo Picasso turned the ephemera of everyday life into pioneering cubist collage, and reinvented the paintings of old masters for the 20th century. Does this make him an artistic genius?...

This study combines close readings with theoretical concerns, in an examination of the many froms taken by the mythic of phantasmic mother in literary, psychoanalytical and artistic representations. It explores...

The history of twentieth-century visual arts can no longer be written as a succession of avant-garde movements, contends eminent art historian Bernard Smith in this stimulating book. He argues that...

Streeton's letters express his interests and anxieties about his work, show his development from a romantic youth to a weary old man, and provide an insight into Australian society and...

This book is intended for students of art history; Australian art; aboriginal art.

Briefly traces the development of the city, describes buildings of historic and architectural significance, and includes information about architects and architectural terms and styles.

Featuring breathtaking photographs of masks created by a renowned twenty-first-century craftsman, this book provides a unique perspective into noh and kyogen, two of the oldest surviving forms of theater in...

The book titled Ian Burn: Minimal - Conceptual Work: Minimal Conceptual Work by the author Mel et al Rasmden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled Earls of Creation: Five Great Patrons of 18th Centiry Art by the author James Lees-Milne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

*One of The Village Voice 's Favourite Books for 2012* This collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and...

Around the middle of the nineteenth century, painters, novelists, playwrights, and theorists of architecture seized on the interior as a metaphor for selfhood, vision and spatiality. This book shows how...

This is the fascinating autobiography of a society heiress who became the bohemian doyenne of the art world. Written in her own words it is the frank and outspoken story...

A moving account of how war is remembered - and by whom 'Impressive. A hundred individual histories, skillfully assembled, built into a poignant meditation on why they still matter' David...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBorn at the intersection of raw artistic vision and independent publishing, Zine Inonica Mag is a self-published photographic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew writers in the English language have wielded wit as a weapon quite like Oscar...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before streaming algorithms dictated what audiences would watch, Australia's television drama industry fought its own...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodStep back into the storied streets of nineteenth-century Victoria with Historic Melbourne Sketchbook, a richly illustrated tribute to one of Australia's most architecturally magnificent...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the first convict performances on the shores of Sydney Cove in 1788 to the rich theatrical tapestry of the Federation era,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat separates a truly literary mind from a merely learned one? The Unprosaic Imagination: Essays and Lectures on the Study...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingEric Gill — sculptor, typographer, printmaker, and one of the most provocative Catholic intellectuals of the twentieth century — gathers his final meditations into...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingBefore George Bernard Shaw conquered the theatrical world with his incendiary plays and polemical wit, he spent nearly a decade as one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFor any devotee of the operatic stage, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera stands as the definitive companion to one of the world's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFor craftsmen who seek to master one of woodworking's most rewarding disciplines, The Practical Wood Turner stands as an indispensable guide to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew Australian painters achieved the level of international acclaim that Rupert Bunny did, yet his extraordinary legacy remained...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the vivid, boundary-defying world of Mousganistan, Belgian-Moroccan photographer Mous Lamrabat constructs an entirely imaginary nation — a utopian land where Islamic culture collides, fuses, and...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn The Bush in Bloom: A Wildflower Artist's Year in Paintings & Words, celebrated Australian botanical artist Kathleen McArthur invites...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: One tear on front of jacket. Few partnerships in the history of the performing arts have achieved the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew artists have captured the fragile poetry of human existence quite like Amedeo Modigliani, whose elongated portraits and luminous nudes remain among the most recognizable...