The Drawings of Vincent van Gogh by Christopher Lloyd
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art
A compelling and authoritative overview of the drawings of Vincent van Gogh, one of the most celebrated and intriguing figures in the history of art.Vincent van Gogh's (1853-1890) drawings are some of the most familiar and expressive in the history of art. Van Gogh believed that drawing was the 'root of ...Show more
Art Class: Line and Colour: Doodling your way to creativity by Bobby Clark
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Art Class Ser.
"Join artist Bobby Clark for a guided art class. No experience necessary. Discover 25 drawing and painting exercises from doodling, blind drawing and continuous line portraits to shape studies, abstract floral still lifes and blot painting. This is an introduction to materials and techniques including p ...Show more
Drawing and Painting: Materials and Techniques for Contemporary Artists by Kate Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art
A comprehensive reference covering an extensive range of painting and drawing styles. Bursting with practical techniques, engaging artist profiles and inspirational galleries, Drawing and Painting combines an authoritative approach with a contemporary aesthetic guaranteed to appeal to all artists. The ...Show more
Bring No Clothes - Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
Why do we wear what we wear? To answer this question, we must go back and unlock the wardrobes of the early twentieth century, when fashion as we know it was born. In Bring No Clothes, acclaimed fashion writer Charlie Porter brings us face to face with six members of the Bloomsbury Group - the collect ...Show more
Art of Alchemy From the Middle Ages to Modern Times by DAVID BRAFMAN
$99.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
- All there is to know about alchemy, in beautiful pictures and fascinating stories - Easy to read, richly illustrated with unique images and prints - By David Brafman, Curator of Rare Books at the Getty Research Institute - New book in the successful Wunderkammer series "Among all the arts, it is the a ...Show more
Elegies Of Love by Ovid Rodin Illus
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art
- Ovid's matchless love poems in a glittering translation by the young Christopher Marlowe, illustrated by Rodin's astonishingly free and improvisatory woodcuts, made in his later years Never reprinted since their first, posthumous appearance in 1935, these woodcuts were the only printed versions of his ...Show more
Artist's Drawing Techniques: Discover How to Draw Landscapes, People, Still Lifes and More, in Pencil, Charcoal, Pen and Pastel by DK
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
Master more than 80 drawing techniques with step-by-step workshops and advice from professional artistsKickstart your creativity and create a masterpiece with step-by-step workshops and advice from professional artists.Whether you want to try your hand at drawing for the first time or fine-tune your art ...Show more
Portraits by Sophie Cunningham, W. H. Chong, Michelle de Kretser, John Wolseley
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art
From award-winning book designer and artist W. H. Chong, Portraits is a collection of 300 drawings of artists, writers and musicians he has sketched over the last decade. Portraits is a love letter to our culture makers, a sparkling collection of more than 300 drawings of artists, writers, musicians, t ...Show more
The World According to Colour: A Cultural History by James Fox
$26.99 AUD
Category: Art
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
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, fema ...Show more
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts - and how this knowledge can improve our health, enable us to flourish, and build stronger communities. Many of us think of the arts as entertainmen ...Show more
The invisible painting: My memoir of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art
Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother, revealing the woman and the artist behind the iconic persona. He ...Show more