Art is...
$24.95 AUD
Category: Art history
What is art? This engaging gift book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers nearly 200 illustrated answers to that question, all presented in simple, concise observations about selected works in the museum's stellar collection. For example, a Nigerian mask is symmetry, a Van Gogh still life is compo ...Show more
A Brush with the Real: Figurative Painting Today by Marc Valli
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art history | Series: Elephant Books
A Brush with the Real: Figurative Painting Today presents a dynamic new approach to figurative painting. By examining the work of a carefully curated collection of 51 contemporary artists, this book celebrates the unprecedented revival of figurative painting in its many new forms. Arranged in three them ...Show more
Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature by Rick Gekoski
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art history
Like Sherlock Holmes' dog in the night time, sometimes the true significance of things lies in their absence. Rick Gekoski tells the very human stories that lie behind some of the greatest losses to artistic culture - and addresses the questions such disappearances raise. Some of the items are stolen (t ...Show more
The Art Book (Mini) by Tom Melick
$16.95 AUD
Category: Art history
The Second Edition of The Art Book is a substantially expanded and updated version of the hugely successful original. Introducing 100 new artists selected from all periods and from across the globe, the new edition includes for the first time leading figures from the fields of photography and performanc ...Show more
Delacroix by Simon Lee
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art history | Series: Art & Ideas
Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while ...Show more
Vermeer by Wayne E. Franits
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art history | Series: Art & Ideas
Johannes Vermeer (1632-75), known as the 'painter of light', is one of the most mesmerising painters of the Dutch Golden Age. He is one of the most popular Old Master painters, and his 36 surviving paintings are both tranquil and deeply mysterious -- meticulously painted, sensuously composed and histori ...Show more
Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting by Michael Jacobs
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art history
Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance of the painting by following the trails of associations from each individual character in the pictur ...Show more
33 Artists in 3 Acts by Sarah Thornton
$24.95 AUD
Category: Art history
Is being an artist a radical form of entrepreneurship or a vocational calling like the priesthood? Is it an extension of philosophy or an offshoot of entertainment? In three richly interlinked but distinct 'acts' - Politics, Kinship and Craft - Sarah Thornton compares and contrasts answers to the simple ...Show more
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art history | Series: Illustrated History of Colour
Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic color and used it to create the famous blue crown of Queen Nefertiti? Or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? In the Roman Empire, hundreds of thousands of snails had to be sacrificed to produce a single ounce of dye. Throu ...Show more
Writing the Modern - Selected Texts on Art and Art History in Singapore, Malaysia and Southeast Asia, 1973-2015 by T. K. Sabapathy; Ahmad Mashadi; Susie Lingham; Peter Schoppert; Joyce Toh; Singapore Art Museum Staff (Contribution by)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art history
Published by the Singapore Art Museum T. K. Sabapathy has been writing on the art of Southeast Asia for more than four decades, as a critic, curator, and art historian. He is a penetrating critic and ardent advocate for the art and artists of Singapore and Malaysia. His art historical methods, critical ...Show more
Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation’s Cultural Heritage by Thames and Hudson; Victoria Burlaka (Contribution by); Andrey Kurkov (Foreword by); Andriy Puchkov (Contribution by); Christian Raffensperger (Contribution by); Diana Klochko (Contribution by); Maksym Yaremenko (Contribution by); Alisa Lozhkina (Contribution by); Myroslava M. Mudrak (Contribution by); Oleksandr Soloviev (Contribution by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art history
A celebration of Ukraine's rich cultural heritage, drawing on over 100 of the country's most important works of art and architectural monuments from prehistory to the present.
Art in Time - A World History of Styles and Movements by The Editors of Phaidon Press
$89.95 AUD
Category: Art history
An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to 150 of the most significant styles and movements that have shaped art history through time. All art is of its time, and this book is the first survey that explicitly embeds styles, schools and movements within the politics and culture in which they arose, by mean ...Show more