Anna Atkins. Cyanotypes by Peter Walther
$250.00 AUD
Category: Monographs
At the dawn of the Victorian era in her open-air laboratory in Halstead, Kent, Anna Atkins embarked on a radical experiment to document botanical species using a completely new artistic medium. The inimitable cyanotype photograms of algae and ferns she created were made into the first books to feature p ...Show more
The Address Book by Sophie Calle
$59.95 AUD
Category: Monographs
"The Address Book," a key and controversial work in Sophie Calle's oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. Having found a lost address book on the street in Paris, Calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner. She then embarked on a search to come to k ...Show more
Sophie Calle - the Hotel by Sophie Calle
$85.00 AUD
Category: Monographs
A forensic conceptualist's inventory of the ordinary and extraordinary lives in a Venetian hotel In 1981 Sophie Calle took a job as a chambermaid for the Hotel C in Venice, Italy. Stashing her camera and tape recorder in her mop bucket, she not only cleans and tidies, but sorts through the evidence of t ...Show more
Paul Gauguin: The Other and I by Laura Cosendey
$115.00 AUD
Category: History & Theory of Art
Otherness and exploitation in the fraught oeuvre of Post-Impressionism's canonical painter This book accompanies the first exhibition to investigate Paul Gauguin's (1848-1903) relationship with the question of alterity and the exoticizing of otherness in his paintings. Adopting an engagingly critical t ...Show more
Seed
$120.00 AUD
Category: History & Theory of Art
Author: Gita Wolf, Tushar Vayeda & Mayur Vayeda A seed is a miracle – neither alive nor dead, it holds the potential for life. The astonishing variety of traits that a seed holds can be looked at in terms of botany, but also through the lens of art, culture and history. By connecting these threads, ...Show more
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D Garrard
$34.99 AUD
Category: Monographs | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
An accessible introduction to the life of the seventeenth-century's most celebrated women artists, now in paperback. Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic relations ...Show more
Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: The Definitive Collector's Edition (Woodblock Prints) by Andreas Marks
$69.99 AUD
Category: Monographs
A landmark book presenting the early 'deluxe' versions of Hiroshige's Edo prints for the first time!Utagawa Hiroshige's unique landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), first published in the 1850s, is among the best-known collections of Japanese prints and was revolutionary i ...Show more
Ham Darroch: Propeller by Tony Oates (Text by, Curated by); Terence Maloon (Text by, Editor); Katie Dyer (Text by); Doro Globus (Text by)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art
ANU Alumni and Canberra based artist Ham Darroch opened the Drill Hall’s 2020 exhibition program with a dynamic ensemble of colour, geometry and object-based form. In his paintings and object based sculptures Darroch investigates the visual tradition of hard edge abstraction of the 1960’s and 70’s. His ...Show more
Drawings - Elizabeth Newman by Elizabeth Newman; Francis Plagne; Helen Hughes; Erik Jensen
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Elizabeth Newman's minimalist works derive from her pursuit of the most authentic and primitive expression. Contrasting her drawings with her paintings reveals a distinct quality: her drawings evoke a sense of humor. Newman herself acknowledges this distinction, finding amusement in her drawings but uns ...Show more
Still Makin' History ... - Elizabeth Newman by Francis Plagne
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art
This luminous volume on artist Elizabeth Newman includes two essays by Francis Plagne, each of which cover different, crucial time-periods of Newman’s practice. Highly illustrated, the beautiful works collected here range from the very recent, to those created in the last ten years or so. Melbourne-base ...Show more
David Egan Colour Handling by David Egan; Tessa Laird (Introduction by)
$25.00 AUD
Category: History & Theory of Art
Colour Handling comprises a series of essays on colour written from a painter’s perspective. Each essay responds to an occurrence of colour in an artist’s work: Jutta Koether’s red paintings; Rosie Isaac’s green mirror; Tony Conrad’s Yellow Movies; Derek Jarman’s Blue; and Etel Adnan’s paintings of Moun ...Show more
24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns by Inti Guerrero (Editor); Cosmin Costina¿ (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Exhibition Catalogues
A catalogue of the art and artists presented as part of the 24th Biennale of Sydney 2024.