Antonio lópez García's Everyday Urban Worlds - A Philosophy of Painting by Benjamin Fraser
$179.95 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Antonio López García's Everyday Urban Worlds: A Philosophy of Painting is the first book to give the famed Spanish artist the critical attention he deserves. Born in Tomelloso in 1936 and still living in the Spanish capital today, Antonio López has long cultivated a reputation for impressive urban scene ...Show more
Resistance Anew by Bernard Fibicher (Editor)
$62.95 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A critical reader on art, democracy and resistance today This volume of essays by leading international philosophers, cultural theoreticians and art historians offers new ideas and practices for resistance today. From case studies on artists (Nalini Malani) and recent events (StrikeMoMA, "artwashing") ...Show more
Affinities by Brian Dillon
$34.00 AUD
Category: Writing
What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say that affinities exist (not only formal) between such things? What do feelings of affinity imply about individual or collective experience of art, and of the world? The word áffinity'used to mean an attraction of opposites, between ...Show more
The History of African Art by Suzanne Preston Blier
$30.00 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
This indispensable introductory guide explores the art of the African continent from its early origins over 150,000 years ago to the contemporary, set in the context of postcolonial debates, the restitution of cultural objects and artifacts, and the challenges of the present. This enormous and complex f ...Show more
Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul
$55.00 AUD
Category: Writing
A great contemporary artist writes letters to her long-dead muse about the creative life, fighting for space in a male-dominated profession, and finding one's way through the tumult of life. Dearest Gwen, I know this letter to you is an artifice. I know you are dead and that I'm alive and that no usual ...Show more
The World According to Colour: A Cultural History by James Fox
$27.00 AUD
Category: Writing
The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the reader in a single colour, drawing together stories from the histories of art and humanity to illuminate the meanings it has been ...Show more
Guston in Time by Ross Feld
$38.00 AUD
Category: Writing
In this warm and vibrant work of memoir and criticism, ayoung writer forges a friendship with Philip Guston, one of the most influential and controversial painters of the twentieth century and the subject of Philip Guston Now, a much-discussed retrospective upcoming in several major museums. The late p ...Show more
Wabi Sabi For Artists Designers Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren
$30.00 AUD
Category: Writing
An updated version of the classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
A Year in the Art World: An Insider's View by Matthew Israel
$25.00 AUD
Category: Writing
A panoramic insider's account of the global art industry, revealing the fascinating but mysterious workings of the world of contemporary art.Over the last few decades the contemporary art world has become more globalized and more visible than ever before - and yet in many ways it remains closed and obsc ...Show more
Women Artists - The Linda Nochlin Reader by Linda Nochlin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Writing
Linda Nochlin was one of the most accessible, provocative, and innovative art historians of our time. In 1971, she published "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?"--a dramatic feminist call to arms that questioned traditional art historical practices and led to a major revision of the discipline. ...Show more
The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits by Jennifer Higgie
$35.00 AUD
Category: Writing
Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Lois Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula M ...Show more
The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits by Jennifer Higgie
$50.00 AUD
Category: Writing
Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula M ...Show more