In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris, 1900-1910 by Sue Roe
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art history
In In Montmartre, Sue Roe vividly brings to life the bohemian world of art in Paris between 1900-1910. When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre...The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to ...Show more
A History of Pictures : From the Cave to the Computer Screen by David Hockney
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art history
The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two-thirds of it is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are from about 40,000 years ago. But what a 40,000 years, explored here by David Hockney and Martin Gayford in a ...Show more
Masters: Michelangelo by Gabriele Bartz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art history
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatil ...Show more
The Twenty First Century Art Book by The Editors of Phaidon Press
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art history
The 21st‐Century Art Book is an A‐to‐Z guide of contemporary artists featuring established art‐world figures – Maurizio Cattelan, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall – alongside rising stars of the next generations. Global in scope, the book features work from 50 countries across a variety of mediums, from paintin ...Show more
Art in America 1945-1970 - Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism: (Library of America #259) by Various
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art history | Series: Library of America
Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art, in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were there: In the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers transformed the face of American art and shifted the center ...Show more
Artists in Love From Picasso and Gilot to Christo and Jeanne-Claude, a Century of Creative and Romantic Partnerships by Veronica Kavass
$95.00 AUD
Category: Art history
For centuries, great artists have been drawn together in friendship and in love. In "Artists in Love," curator and writer Veronica Kavass delves into the passionate and creative underpinnings of the art world's most provocative romances. From Picasso and Francoise Gilot to Lee Miler and Man Ray to Saul ...Show more
Alexander Calder - Performing Sculpture by Alison Smith
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art history | Series: BORCHARDT-HUME A
The first major retrospective of the work of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) in the UK for twenty years opens at Tate Modern in November 2015. This title explores the notion of performance as a driving force in Calder's sculpture and his use of other media, including drawing, design, film, and theatre.
Van Gogh's Ear: The True Story by Bernadette Murphy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art history
On a dark night in Provence in December 1888 Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is an act that has come to define him. Yet for more than a century biographers and historians seeking definitive facts about what happened that night have been left with more questions than answers. In Van Gogh's Ear Berna ...Show more
The Elizabethan Image - An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558-1603 by Roy Strong
$84.99 AUD
Category: Art history
Fifty years after his seminal Tate gallery London exhibition, 'The Elizabethan Image', leading authority Roy Strong returns with fresh eyes to the subject closest to his heart, The Virgin Queen, her court and our first Elizabethan age From celebrated portraits of the Queen and paintings of knights and ...Show more
Archie 100: A Centenary Of The Archibald Prize by Natalie Wilson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art history
A tribute to portraiture, as well as the artists and sitters, Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize marks 100 years of Australia's oldest and most-loved annual portraiture award. Curator Natalie Wilson unearths fascinating stories behind more than 100 artworks representing every decade. Arranged ...Show more
The Great Artists: The Lives and Works of 100 of the World's Greatest Artists by Susie Hodge
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art history
The Great Artists introduces readers to 100 of the world's most important artists, from the 13th century to the present, concentrating on their lives, works, ideas, influences, artistic development, contributions, creative output and where they fit in history. Concise and readable, The Great Artists is ...Show more
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