The Promised Party - Kahlo, Basquiat and Me by Jennifer Clement
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art Biography
Growing up in '60s Mexico City, Jennifer Clement lived next door to Frida Kahlo's house. It was an unorthodox and bohemian childhood, living alongside artists, communists, revolutionaries and poets, and one that allowed an awakening of creative freedom and curiosity about the world. Leaving behind the ...Show more
Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur by Catherine Hewitt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art Biography
A new biography of the wildly unconventional 19th-century animal painter and gender equality pioneer Rosa Bonheur. Rosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits, she rejected marriage - and she wore trou ...Show more
Artful Lives: The Cohen Sisters by Penny Olsen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art Biography
From Melbourne to the Islands - The Artful Lives of the Cohen Sisters 'Romance is in all of us. We long to fashion romantic careers for ourselves. We yearn to read those of others, whether they be of love, life, wealth' -so wrote artist-journalist Valerie Frankel Cohen in 1936. The Cohen sisters lived ...Show more
Battarbee and Namatjira by Martin Edmond
$32.95 AUD
Category: Art Biography
Battarbee and Namatjira is the biography of two artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira, one white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, the other Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the Hermannsburg Mission south of Alice Springs. From their first encounters in the early 1930s, when Battarbe ...Show more
Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing by Ashleigh Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art Biography
When he died in 1992 Brett Whiteley left behind decades of ceaseless activity - some works bound to a particular place or time, others that are masterpieces of light and line. Whiteley had arrived in Europe in 1960 determined to make an impression. Before long he was the youngest artist to have work acq ...Show more
Eye of the Sixties : Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art by Judith E. Stein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art Biography
A man with a preternatural ability to find emerging artists, Richard Bellamy was one of the first advocates of pop art, minimalism, and conceptual art. The founder and director of the fabled Green Gallery on Fifty-Seventh Street, this witty, poetry-loving art aficionado became a legend of the avant-gard ...Show more
Growing up Queer in Australia by Benjamin Law
$32.99 AUD
Category: Art Biography | Series: Growing Up
'No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.’ ‘The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.’ ‘I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.’ ‘All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints.’ ‘I became acutely aware of ...Show more
Henri Matisse: A Second Life by Alastair Sooke
$22.00 AUD
Category: Art Biography
Henri Matisse by Alastair Sooke - an essential guide to one of the 20th century's greatest artists. 'One January morning in 1941, only a fortnight or so after his seventy-first birthday, the bearded and bespectacled French artist Henri Matisse was lying in a hospital bed preparing to die.' Diagnosed wit ...Show more
Malice in Wonderland - My Adventures in the World of Cecil Beaton by Hugo Vickers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Art Biography
The witty and perceptive diaries kept by Cecil Beaton's authorised biographer during his many fascinating encounters with extraordinary--often legendary--characters in his search for the real Cecil Beaton Hugo Vickers' life took a dramatic turn in 1979 when the legendary Sir Cecil Beaton invited him ...Show more
Out of Silence - Marcel Marceau by Jan Dalman by Jan Dalman (Photographer); Andreas Dalman (Preface by, Editor, Designed by, Cover Design by); Elizabeth Cameron Dalman (Preface by, Editor); Stephen Best (Preliminary Work by); Marcel Marceau (Performed by); Anne Prost (Translator); Robyn Archer (Foreword by); Barbie Robinson (Contribution by); Sheree Tirrell (Introduction by)
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art Biography
A coffee table book containing a collection of 75 exquisitely personal and highly evocative photographs of Marcel Marceau taken between 1965 and 2003 from the wings on-stage as he performed live to an audience in Adelaide, SA, Australia. Included are stories, in English and French side-by-side, of the m ...Show more
Pauline Boty - British Pop Art's Sole Sister by Marc Kristal
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art Biography
The first biography of pioneering female Pop Artist Pauline Boty Pauline Boty (1938 -1966) was a founding member of the British Pop Art movement and one of its very few women.She attended Londons Royal College of Art at a watershed moment when its students included David Hockney,Peter Blake, R.B. Kitaj ...Show more
Sidney Nolan : A Life by Nancy Underhill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art Biography
Digging through the myths around Australia’s most famous artist, many of which he created himself as a masterful self-promoter, this book is the biography that Sidney Nolan deserves. In an authoritative, insightful and often irreverent biography that fully charts Nolan’s life and work, Nancy Underhill p ...Show more