Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting by Catherine Lampert
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art
Born in Berlin in 1931 to Jewish parents, the eight-year-old Auerbach was sent to England in 1939 to escape the Nazi regime. His parents stayed behind and died in a concentration camp in 1943. Now in his eighties, Auerbach is still producing his distinctly sculptural paintings of friends, family and sur ...Show more
Ravilious & Co.The Pattern of Friendship by Andy Friend
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
Eric Ravilious is one of the best-known twentieth-century English artists. For many, his watercolors capture the spirit of midcentury England. But while he had a style of his own, he did not work in isolation; he worked within a network of artists that included fellow students at the Royal College of Ar ...Show more
Bruegel by Elke Oberthaler; Sabine Pènot; Manfred Sellink; Ron Spronk; Sabine Penot; Anon
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art
Nearly 450 years after his death, Pieter Bruegel the Elder is widely regarded as the 16th century's greatest Netherlandish painter. This book is the tie-in catalog for a once-in-a-generation exhibition of Bruegel's work at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.Bruegel's work is renowned for its stunnin ...Show more
David Lynch: The Unified Field by Robert Cozzolino
$62.00 AUD
Category: Art
David Lynch is internationally renowned as a filmmaker, but it is less known that he began his creative life as a visual artist and has maintained a devoted studio practice, developing an extensive body of painting, prints, photography, and drawing. Featuring work from all periods of Lynch's career, thi ...Show more
A Parisian Cabinet of Curiosities: Deyrolle by Prince Louis Albert de Broglie
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art
This handsome gift volume celebrates a world-famous temple to taxidermy and the natural world, where extraordinary curiosities highlight the intersection of science and art. With an abundance of preserved flora and fauna, taxidermy, and otherworldly creations, the Deyrolle boutique is dedicated to showc ...Show more
The World New Made Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century by Timothy Hyman
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Category: Art
Figurative painting is due a reappraisal. From the early 1950s to the early 1980s, modern art and abstraction were almost synonymous, with figurative painters cast as 'backward children', conservative throwbacks and outdated survivors. In The World New Made , Timothy Hyman argues that figuration never w ...Show more
The Book of Kells by Bernard Meehan
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art
"The Book of Kells" is a masterpiece of medieval art a brilliantly decorated version of the four Gospels with full-page depictions of Christ, the Virgin and the Evangelists as well as a wealth of smaller decorative painting. This new book, by the Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Library, Dublin, ...Show more
Spectacle of Illusion: Magic .. Mind by Matthew Tompkins
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art
In The Spectacle of Illusion, professional magician-turned-psychologist Matthew Tompkins traces the evolution of the arts of magic and illusion from the 18th century onwards. Organized thematically within a broadly chronological trajectory, the book presents the art of witches, magicians, illusionists, ...Show more
The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel. 40th Ed. by Julia Voss, Rainer Willmann
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Category: Art | Series: 40th Edition Ser.
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher, and doctor who spent his life researching flora and fauna from the highest mountaintops to the deepest ocean. A vociferous supporter and developer of Darwin's theories of evolution, he denounced religio ...Show more
Animal: Exploring the Zoological World by Phaidon Editors
$79.95 AUD
Category: Art
Explore the beauty and diversity of the animal world through more than 300 captivating images from across time and from every corner of the globe Animal: Exploring the Zoological World is a visually stunning and broad-ranging survey that explores and celebrates humankind's ongoing fascination with anima ...Show more
Michael Borremans - Fire from the Sun by Michaël Borremans + Michael Bracewell
$45.44 AUD
Category: Art
Known for his ability to recall classical painting, both through technical mastery and subject matter, Borremans's depiction of the uncanny, the perhaps secret, the bizarre, often surprises, sometimes disturbs the viewer. In this series of work, children are presented alone or in groups against a studio ...Show more
The Art Deco Poster by W. Crouse William; Alastair Duncan
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art
Long-time poster aficionado William Crouse has selected over 300 of the most soughtafter examples of poster art created between the wars for this definitive volume. Organized thematically into subject categories (aviation, communication, fashion and more), this book includes over 300 highly rare and eve ...Show more