Speculation - Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art by Marina Vishmidt
$39.99 AUD
Category: History & Theory of Art
Engaging with the question of speculation in ways that encompass the artistic, the economic and the philosophical, with excursions into the literary and the scientific, this collection approaches the theme as a powerful logic of contemporary life, whose key instantiations are art and finance. Both are p ...Show more
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
Fray - Art and Textile Politics by Julia Bryan-Wilson
$104.95 AUD
Category: History & Theory of Art | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the group wryly envisioned female collective textile making as a practice that could upend conventions, threat ...Show more
Nick Cave: Forothermore by Nick Cave (Artist); Naomi Beckwith (Editor); Madeleine Grynsztejn (Foreword by); Romi Crawford (Text by); Krista Thompson (Text by)
$135.00 AUD
Category: Monographs
With a wealth of images and commentary, this is the essential career survey of Cave's socially responsive art The definitive volume on the ever-evolving and shape-shifting work of the Chicago-based artist, Nick Cave: Forothermore highlights the way Cave's practice has shifted and continues to shift in ...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
Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot's Russia by Maria Alyokhina (Editor); Tine Colstrup (Editor); Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir (Editor)
$95.00 AUD
Category: History & Theory of Art
Punk, humor, poetry and pure rage: the full story of Pussy Riot as told by the group's members The Russian art collective and activist group Pussy Riot, formed in Moscow in 2011, is famous for its spontaneous and courageous actions challenging the Russian regime. Edited by Maria (Masha) Alyokhina, membe ...Show more
Jean-Michel Basquiat Handbook by Larry Warsh (Text by, Foreword by, Editor); Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Contribution by); Henry Geldzahler (Contribution by); Hannah Alderfer (Designed by)
$39.95 AUD
Category: History & Theory of Art
Jean-Michel Basquiat Handbook navigates readers through the art, iconography and history of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). One of the first African American artists to reach international stature and wealth in the art world, Basquiat was celebrated for his fusion of multicultural sym ...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
Travelling Patterns
$129.99 AUD
Category: History & Theory of Art
Author: Aditi Jain, Ruchi Shah, Verena Gerlach, Henning Wagenbreth This collective book project features the work of artists from India and Germany. Inspired by images which feature in traditional Indian block-printed textiles, each has created a distinctive visual narrative, adapting and reworking exi ...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