Anna Atkins. Cyanotypes by Peter Walther
$250.00 AUD
Category: Art
At the dawn of the Victorian era in her open-air laboratory in Halstead, Kent, Anna Atkins embarked on a radical experiment to document botanical species using a completely new artistic medium. The inimitable cyanotype photograms of algae and ferns she created were made into the first books to feature p ...Show more
Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art by ABERTH SUSAN L
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art
Now available for the first time in paperback, this book remains the definitive survey of the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). Carrington burst onto the Surrealist scene in 1936, when, as a precocious nineteen-year-old debutante, she escaped the stultifying demands of ...Show more
Portrait of Humanity Vol 5 - 200 Photographs That Capture the Changing Face of Our World by Hoxton Mini Press
$63.00 AUD
Category: Photography
- The new volume in this popular series that captures 200 astonishing portraits from around the worldOur universe may be ever expanding but these moving portraits from all over this small planet remind us that what holds us together is stronger than any forces that seek to pull us apart. The fifth editi ...Show more
Love and Authority in the Work of Paula Rego - Narrating the Family Romance by Ruth Rosengarten
$83.00 AUD
Category: Art
Rosengarten explores the narrative operations of Rego's work by mobilising both psychoanalytic theory and social history. She confronts, as case studies, three complex figure paintings from different moments in Rego's oeuvre: The Policeman's Daughter (1987), The Interrogator's Garden (2000), and The Fir ...Show more
Sign Painting: A practical guide to tools, materials, techniques by Mike Meyer & Friends
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
This book introduces the fundamentals of sign painting, allowing readers to learn about the tools, materials and techniques needed to create painted signs. All the basics are covered, from choosing and using brushes, paints, mahl sticks, dippers and pencils, to how to prepare and finish surfaces, transf ...Show more
Mamma Andersson: Sleepless by Mamma Andersson; Karl Ove Knausgaard
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art
A celebration of the representation, figuration, and classical antiquity in Mamma Andersson's newest paintings. "When I look at this collection of pictures, . . . what strikes me first is the image-making capacity itself and the endless stream of images it brings forth and always has brought forth into ...Show more
Freya Douglas Morris - This Star I Give to You by Kirsten Cave (Introduction by)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Hurtwood Contemporary Artist Ser.
* The first publication on the work of London-based artist Freya Douglas-Morris documents her first solo exhibition, This star I give to you, with Alexander Berggruen, New York, in autumn 2023 * Showcasing the eight large oil paintings on canvas and five oil paintings on copper that were displayed, expl ...Show more
Giorgio Morandi: Time Suspended by Marilena Pasquali (Editor)
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
After Conrad Marca-Relli, a new chapter devoted to the great Italian and international masters of the 20th centuryThe book Giorgio Morandi. Il tempo sospeso (The Suspended Time) shows how, as a man and an artist, Morandi (1890-1964) was firmly anchored to the 20th century: he lived through two world war ...Show more
Women in Revolt - Art and Activism in the UK 1970-90 by Linsey Young (Editor); Alice Correia
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
Women in Revolt! is a crucial exploration of the wealth and diversity of work by women artists working in the 1970s and 1980s during a period of seismic social and political change. Across a wide variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, film and photography, this exten ...Show more
Brenda Draney: Drink from the river by Graham Foy, David Garneau, Ken Lum, Souvankham Thammavongsa
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
Brenda Draney's work explores the complex nature of intimacy. Referencing her own memories and experiences, the Canadian artist examines the layered meanings embedded in everyday motifs and situations. The cumulative portrait that emerges references a collective self that encompasses not only her own ex ...Show more
Saul Leiter by Margit Erb; Michael Parillo; Michael Greenberg (Text by); Adam Harrison Levy (Text by); Lou Stoppard (Text by); Asa Hiramatsu (Text by)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Photofile Ser.
A new edition of this collection of Saul Leiter's distinctive work, featuring twelve new photographs. Saul Leiter was one of those photographers who sought neither fame nor commercial success, despite his talent for imagemaking. Born in Pittsburgh, he spent his entire adult life in New York City's Eas ...Show more
Matisse, Derain and Friends - Paris Avant-Garde 1904-1908 by Arthur Fink (Editor); Claudine Grammont (Editor); Josef Helfenstein (Editor)
$130.00 AUD
Category: Art
At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of artists around Henri Matisse and André Derain were carrying out revolutionary colour experiments. The art critic Louis Vauxcelles gave them their name in 1905: the "Fauves". Translated into English, this means something like "beasts" or "wild animals". Th ...Show more