Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton; John Armstrong
$29.95 AUD
Category: History & Theory of Art
" What is art's purpose? In this engaging, lively, and controversial new book, bestselling philosopher Alain de Botton and art historian John Armstrong propose a new way of looking at familiar masterpieces, suggesting that they can be useful, relevant, and - above all else - therapeutic for their viewer ...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
Griselda Pollock on Gauguin by Griselda Pollock
$29.99 AUD
Category: History & Theory of Art | Series: Pocket Perspectives Ser.
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable littl ...Show more
James Hall on the Self-Portrait by James Hall
$29.99 AUD
Category: History & Theory of Art | Series: Pocket Perspectives Ser.
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable littl ...Show more
Artistic Places by Susie Hodge; Amy Grimes (Illustrator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: History & Theory of Art | Series: Inspired Traveller's Guides
Take an artistic pilgrimage to some of the worlds most inspirational places for aesthetes and creatives with Artistic Places.
Jens Hoffmann: (Curating) from Z to A by Jens Hoffmann
$29.00 AUD
Category: History & Theory of Art | Series: Hapax Series
The sequel to the 2014 bestseller (Curating) From A to Z, this book extends the investigation of curatorial practice that the writer, exhibition maker and educator Jens Hoffmann (born 1974) began in the first volume. (Curating) From Z to A offers a summary of the development of curatorial practice over ...Show more
Timelines of Art by DK
$55.00 AUD
Category: History & Theory of Art
KeynoteA breathtaking visual tour of world art - fully revised and updatedThis beautiful book brings you the very best of art throughout history - using a truly innovative timeline-led approach.Savour iconic paintings such as Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper and Monet's Waterlilies, and discover less wel ...Show more
100 Artists' Manifestos - From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Danchev Alex
$27.99 AUD
Category: History & Theory of Art | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism, Vorticism, Stridentism, Cannibalism and Stuckism, taking in along the way film, architect ...Show more
Heritage - A History of How We Conserve Our Past by James Stourton
$29.99 AUD
Category: History & Theory of Art
What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions belong to its organisations, tens of thousands volunteer for it, and politicians pay lip service to it. When the Victorians began to employ the term in something ...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
Julian Bell on Painting by Julian Bell
$29.99 AUD
Category: History & Theory of Art | Series: Pocket Perspectives Ser.
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable littl ...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