Fine Arts

Artist Simon Lewty is known for his large scale and intensely detailed works where the layering of text and image serve to create a dream-like reality. Narrative is rarely followed...

'Every picture tells a story' - but for many of us the subjects and themes of the great paintings of Western art are something of a mystery. The Gallery Companion...

The wall paintings and reliefs of ancient Egyptian tombs and temples record a continuity of customs and beliefs over nearly 3000 years. Even the artistic style of the scenes seems...

Juan Davila is a painter who passionately believes in using art to facilitate social change. Davila was born in Santiago, Chile, and moved to Australia in the 1970s to escape...

This book, now recognised as a classic, has done perhaps more than any other single work to change the face of art criticism in the twentieth century. Whereas previous books...

Giovanni Canavesio, a Piedmontese artist-priest active in the last decades of the fifteenth century in the southern Alps, left behind a significant body of work, including pictorial cycles and altarpieces....

Among the foremost contemporary Iranian artists and a pioneer of modern sculpture. Parviz Tanavoli - who has been widely recognised as the only Iranian artist to fully capture the duality...

Xenia Hausner ranks among the most important Austrian painters of our time. This splendid volume focuses on the aspect of stagecraft which characterizes all her works. Starting from the early...

Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550 and 1568) is a classic of cultural history. A monumental assembly of artists' lives from Giotto to...

2021 IFPDA Book Award (Excellence in research, scholarship, and the discussion of new ideas in the field of fine prints) Prints and Their Makers takes you behind the scenes to...

Carlo Crivelli (c. 1430 - 1495) is a painter whose individuality of style and mastery of powerful line have fascinated many, but whose life and art have remained enigmatic. This...

Since the 1960s, the Italian altarpiece has attracted much scholarly attention, bringing liturgical, social and technical considerations to bear on the subject. The eight contributors to this book provide a...

A stunning collection of artwork from the Arborealists, a group of highly-skilled artists who feature trees, forests and woodland as their most vital subjects. The Arborealists' diverse and influential work...

The sculptural flowering of the Italian Baroque - the sensuous beauty of Bernini's Apollo and Daphne ; the spectacular papal tombs in St Peter's; dramatic altarpieces such as the mystical...

The book titled Where's My Baby Now? by the author Claire Bretecher. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Still More Frustration by the author Claire Bretecher. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) ranks among the finest and most influential sculptors of this century. This biography traces his often turbulent private life and assesses his sculpture and paintings. It also...

A Life of Picasso magnificently combines meticulous scholarship with irrestible narrative appeal. John Richardson draws on his close friendship with Picasso, his own diaries, with the collaboration of picasso's widow...

The book titled Biographees by the author Victoria Roberts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Providing simple instructions for making a selection of dipped, moulded and novely candles, this book starts with a description of the tools of the trade and the raw materials required,...

A TIMES , DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST , NEW STATESMAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF...

The book titled Decorative Painting of the World: A Project Book of Folk Art by the author Tracy Marsh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of the same name, on view at the Art Gallery of Hamilton through summer and fall 2015, curated by Melissa Bennett, Curator of Contemporary Art...

Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Christopher Bland Prize Longlisted for The Wainwright Prize for Illustrated Books ' Trees in Winter by Richard Shimell is a wonderful, beautiful book.'...

Paint the classic subjects that inspired ancient Chinese masters. This book introduces the venerable art of painting with ink on rice paper using traditional techniques developed over a thousand years...

The book titled Painting Flowers on Silk by the author Lydie Ottelart. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master...

The book titled Tiepolo: Vicentine Villas by the author Maria Elisa Avagnina. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Impressionists A Retrospectiv Kapos, Martha by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Carole A. Feuerman is one of the founding members of the hyperrealist movement in American sculpture that began in the 1970s and continues to capture the attention and acclaim of...

Colouring, exercises and inspiration for a more mindful day. Make the most of your colouring experience with these simple, tailored exercises that transform colouring into a mindful and calming activity....

Author: Anne Sefrioui Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 Gorgeously displayed in an accordion-fold binding, this is a visual ode to the beauty of cherry blossoms-harbingers of spring-by legendary artists...

Author: Frederick Harris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The art of Japanese woodblock printing, known as ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world"), reflects the rich history and way of...

Salvador Dali (1904-89) was one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the twentieth century. A painter of considerable virtuosity, he used a traditional illusionistic style to create disturbing...

The years between the Revolution of 1848 and the end of World War II were characterised by profound social, intellectual and political change in France. The art world, centred in...

For more than a half century, Ibrahim El-Salahi has been at the forefront of African modernism in the visual arts. A renowned artist, writer, critic, and teacher, El-Salahi continues to...

Andre Marfaing (1925-87) was a French non-figurative painter and printmaker associated with abstract art and informalism. This catalogue raisonne of is a complete repertory of his painted work, from his...

Working principally in drawing and print media on paper, Emma Stibbon RA (b. 1962) depicts landscapes and environments that are undergoing dynamic transformation, among them the polar regions, volcanic areas,...

Kenneth Draper (b.1944) is one of the most innovative artists of his generation. For over six decades he has worked equally with sculpture, painting and drawing. He describes himself as...

Volker Hermes: Hidden Portraits gathers the essential works by one of the most beguiling artists of the present era, in a very modern reinterpretation of historical privilege. Using only elements...

This catalogue brings together one hundred years of British Painting, from 1880 1980. Women are at the forefront: the essential process of rewriting their work into the narrative continues.

This book presents a distinguished quartet of lectures by the late Erwin Panofsky, universally acknowledged as one of the twentieth century's leading interpreters of the meaning of works of art....

A collection of over 100 hand-painted tattoo flash designs by Brian Kelly, showcasing innovative cut-up techniques and traditional artistry methods for tattoo enthusiasts and artists. Dive into the vibrant and...

In the 1930s sculptors began to heat and shape metal directly and a new type of sculpture and artist emerged. This revised and expanded edition retains all the techniques and...

The book titled Art Journal # 53 (Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria, 53) by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

The book titled Art Journal # 52 (Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria, 52) by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

Palma Vecchio (1480-1528) was a leading painter of the italian Renaissance in Venice. As a contemporary of Titian, his short career unfolded at the beginning of the sixteenth century, the...

Every painted work that is on display in the Uffizi Gallery, The Pitti Palace, the Accademia, and the Duomo is included in the book, plus many or most of the...