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Drag Queens Down Under: Australia's drag superstars in glorious
A glorious celebration of life in drag through the eyes of our most prominent drag superstars. Featuring a diverse range of artists from across Australia, with stunning photographs and stories...
Simone Martini
A study of the life and work of the painter Simone Martini (c.1284-1344) who was well-respected during his life-time but subsequently was considered less important than Giotto and his followers....
Street Art
Street Art is a phenomenon and subcultural movement that reaches from the darkest urban backstreets to the most glamorous international art fairs. Simon Armstrong examines how it evolved from its...
Soft Is Fast: Simone Forti in the 1960s and After
An innovative analysis of Simone Forti's interdisciplinary art, viewing her influential 1960s "dance constructions" as negotiating the aesthetic strategies of John Cage and Anna Halprin.Simone Forti's art developed within the...
Artist in Residence
For Simon Bill's drunken anti-hero, an abstract artist forced to haunt private views to siphon the free booze, the picture looks bleak. He has been dumped by his curator girlfriend...
Seven Keys to Modern Art
Author: Simon Morley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 As artists push further and further beyond their, and our, comfort zones, this book aims to help decipher the bizarre and...
Great Women Sculptors
Presenting a more expansive and inclusive history of sculpture, Great Women Sculptors surveys the work of more than 300 trailblazing artists from over 60 countries, spanning 500 years from the...
Untitled.
This huge, richly illustrated publication provides sensitive, rare and enticing insights into the lives, works and unique studio environments of 60 significant Australian artists. As artist Sonia Payes' latest publication,...
A Gallery For The People
$15.00 AUD
Author: Simon GreggBinding: PaperbackPublished: Gippsland Art Gallery., 2020Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis commemorative volume chronicles the rich history and enduring legacy...
A Frame For Murder
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedWhen a priceless painting becomes the centrepiece of a deadly conspiracy, A Frame for Murder by Roger Simons draws readers...
Museum of the Missing: The High Stakes of Art Crime
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Memory Theatre
A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscellany mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. Rooting through piles of papers, Critchley discovers a brilliant...
Hellblazer Volume 3: Rebirth
Author: Simon Oliver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The dark mage of the DC Universe is back in his own series as a part of DC Universe...
Self as a Stranger: Simon Lewty
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...
Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found
THE TIMES BESTSELLERFEATURING AN INTRODUCTION BY NICK CAVE'Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol's piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious artefact.' - NICK CAVE'In...
The War Artist
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Final Dress
$140.00 AUD
Author: John HousemanBinding: PaperbackPublished: SIMON AND SCHUSTER, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling memoir by a titan of the stage and screen chronicles the intricate world of...
Wordy
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Surrealist Painting
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Sexual instinct, feeling of death, physical notion of the enigma of space.... these, according to Salvador Dali, are the great vital constants that make up the vocabulary of the language...
Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths
A fascinating, richly illustrated study of the role and significance of ancient statues in Egyptian history and beliefWhy do ancient Egyptian statues so often have their noses, hands, or genitals...
Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol.1
The legendary cookbook that inspired Julie and Julia 'This isn't just any cookery book. It is Mastering the Art of French Cooking, first published in 1961, and it's a book...
The Avant-Garde In Painting: An Interpretive History Of The Great Innovators - From Giotto To Warhol
$85.00 AUD
Author: Germain BazinBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has light wear and tanning in placesThis comprehensive art history presents a...
Masterpiece
$15.00 AUD
Author: Thomas HovingBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon & Schuster, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsMasterpiece chronicles the thrilling, often clandestine, world of high art acquisition. This compelling narrative uncovers the...
Seven Keys to Modern Art
As artists push further and further beyond their, and our, comfort zones, this book aims to help decipher the bizarre and often intimidating aspects of modern and contemporary art by...
Spine Poems: An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers
Author: Annette Dauphin Simon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A charming, clever, and original collection of more than 100 spine poems-a popular form of found poetry composed by arranging...
The Art of Duncan Grant
Throughout his working life, Duncan Grant experimented with a variety of styles and techniques, from commercial interior decoration to ceramics, print-making and theatre work, as well as easel painting and...
Leonardo da Vinci and The Book of Doom: Bianca Sforza, The Sforziada
This in-depth investigation into the art, politics and murderous cynicism of Renaissance Milan is is an academic detective story sketched out with erudition and journalistic panache. Debunking the outrageous claim...
The Golden Age Of The English Theatre
$15.00 AUD
Author: Judith CookBinding: PaperbackPublished: SIMON & SCHUSTER, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Creased spine. The Golden Age Of The English Theatre...
Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms, The
$20.00 AUD
Until now there has been no single volume devoted to the key terms involved in the appreciation of modern art. From Abject Art to Zero, from Black Mountain College to...
The Simon & Schuster Book of the Opera A Complete Reference Guide 1597 to the Present with Over 400 Illustrations
$60.00 AUD
Author: Various AuthorsBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon & Schuster, 1978Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive guide provides an in-depth look at the history of opera, featuring over 400...
Selected Works Of Alfred Jarry
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedAt the chaotic crossroads of Symbolism, Surrealism, and outright theatrical anarchy stands Alfred Jarry — the maverick French writer whose...
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. 'Destined to become a new classic' Chris Kraus A...
Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box 44 (17 Books)
Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box 44 (17 Books) This gripping collection of seventeen thrillers and mysteries spans the full spectrum of the genre, from high-stakes espionage and gritty...
The Guardian Year 2001
$12.00 AUD
This book draws together the finest writing in the Guardian from 2001. From eyewitness reports to obituaries, art criticism to sports reporting, diary stories to editorials, politics to travel, The...
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900
A passionate history of a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians. A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding...
Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 One of the most beautiful handcrafted typefaces in the world, Albertus is also one of the most enduring. The face of...
The House of Footsteps
Author: Mathew West Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 If you loved The Haunting of Hill House, welcome to Thistlecrook... It's 1923 and at Thistlecrook House, a forbidding home on...
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the...
Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label
$12.00 AUD
'Hilarious, heart-wrenching and packed with British music history.' - COLDPLAY A Virgin Radio Book of the Year It's a life-and-near-death story. But whose life? And whose near-death?As a one-time NME...
The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays
Simon Leys' cultural and political commentary has long been legendary for its profundity and acerbic wit. In The Hall of Uselessness his most significant essays are finally gathered together, on...
Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found
'Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol's piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious artefact.' - Nick Cave On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Dr Nina...