Great Women Artists by Phaidon Editors
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Five centuries of fascinating female creativity presented in more than 400 compelling artworks and one comprehensive volume. The most extensive fully illustrated book of women artists ever published, Great Women Artists reflects an era where art made by women is more prominent than ever. In museums, ga ...Show more
Intrepide - Australian Women Artists in Early Twentieth-Century France by Clem Gorman; Therese Gorman
$34.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Biography Ser.
It is hard for us to imagine the oppressed lives of single women in the first half of the twentieth century. Yet a few Australian women took a leap into the unknown and carved careers for themselves in Paris. They studied, painted, and haunted galleries and salons. They had a little fun too, at social g ...Show more
Into the Woods - Trees and Photography by Martin Barnes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Photography Library
Wild or cultivated, rural or urban, solitary or within a forest, trees have long provided a compelling source of inspiration for artists and photographers alike. Both as stand-alone aesthetic objects and as symbols of broader cultural significance, trees have an understated, sometimes underappreciated, ...Show more
Corridors - Passages of Modernity by Roger Luckhurst
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
We spend our lives moving through passages, hallways, corridors, and gangways, yet these channeling spaces do not feature in architectural histories, monographs, or guidebooks. They are overlooked, undervalued, and unregarded, seen as unlovely parts of a building's infrastructure rather than architectur ...Show more
Contemporary Sand Sculpture by E. Ashley Rooney; Barbara Purchia
$20.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Part performance art and part engineering, sand sculpture has become amazingly sophisticated as artists explore the boundaries of their skill with sand as a medium. Within a very short time, a sculptor can create an awesome, thought-provoking experience that will completely vanish after a few weeks. The ...Show more
The Colossal Book of Colour by Lorna Hendry
$27.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Colours takes a broad and fascinating look at the science behind the paints and pigments that bring joy to our world. With particular focus on primary and secondary colours, how colours are made, as well as their history and cultural importance, Colours also includes various activities and thought exper ...Show more
Ben Quilty by Ben Quilty
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: 4 non fiction
Ben Quilty has worked across a range of media including drawing, photography, sculpture, installation and film. His works often respond to social and political events, from the current global refugee crisis to the complex social history of Australia; he is constantly critiquing notions of identity, patr ...Show more