A Day with Claude Monet in Giverny by Adrien Goetz
$49.99 AUD
Category: Famous artists | Series: A Day with | Reading Level: General Adult
This beautiful, slipcased volume offers an intimate tour inside Monet's home and through the idyllic Giverny garden that inspired his most iconic paintings. Monet first spotted the village of Giverny from the window of a train and then relocated to the rural haven outside Paris in 1883. An artist with a ...Show more
Vitamin P2 - New Perspectives in Painting by Barry Schwabsky
$49.95 AUD
Category: Painting | Reading Level: very good
A dynamic overview of the best new contemporary painting from around the world. The first volume of Vitamin P, published in 2002, inaugurated a vibrant period for painting. Since its publication, a whole new generation of painters has emerged, some inspired by the artists who appeared in that book, othe ...Show more
Muse: A Journey Through an Art Collection by Holmes a Court, Janet
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art
Muse offers an inside view of the development of a contemporary Australia art collection. Janet Holmes a Court, in conversation about art and the intense interest she shared with her late husband Robert from the 1960s, offers a rationale-along with an emotional soundtrack-for the 146 works she singles o ...Show more
The Art Museum (Revised Edition) by Phaidon Editors (COR)
$79.95 AUD
Category: Art galleries/museums, collections
Visit the world's most comprehensive and compelling museum in a book - from pre-historic times to the present, - over 1,600 artworks created with the expertise of 28 art world curators and historians."Unprecedented, unique, and vast in scope... a visually spectacular survey of world art. Destined to del ...Show more
The Essence of Watercolour by Hazel Soan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Painting
A paperback reissue Hazel Soan's classic practical art book. Hazel Soan is a well-known and popular artist and an enthusiastic and inspirational teacher. In The Essence of Watercolour Hazel shows how wonderfully versatile and beguiling the medium of watercolour is and how to get the most out of it. Haze ...Show more
Georgia O'Keeffe at Home by Alicia Inez Guzmán
$49.99 AUD
Category: Famous artists
"When I got to New Mexico that was mine. As soon as I saw it that was my country."Beginning with her teaching career in Texas, through her time in New York City and Lake George, and ending at her two desert ranches in New Mexico, this sumptuous life history explores the influence of the various landscap ...Show more
Mindfulness & the Art of Drawing: A Creative Path to Awareness by Wendy Ann Greenhalgh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Colouring/Drawing | Series: Mindfulness
Wendy Ann Greenhalgh explores how drawing creates a deeper connection with ourselves and the world around us, and is as natural to us as breathing. Through mindful creative exercises and personal anecdote, she reveals how artists can rediscover the playful pleasure of drawing, and doodlers can experienc ...Show more
Ngaanyatjarra - Art of the Lands by Tim Acker; John Carty
$55.00 AUD
Category: Indigenous art | Reading Level: very good
Ngaanyatjarra: Art of the Lands is a glorious illustrated book documenting the six art centres (Warakurna, Papulankutja, Tjarlirli, Kayili, Maruku and Tjanpi) that make up the Western Desert Mob group. This book combines the aesthetics of an art catalogue with the rigour of an academic art history, and ...Show more
Paul Winstanley : In Which the Artist Considers the Process of Thinking About and Making Work by Paul Winstanley
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art galleries/museums, collections
British artist Paul Winstanley (born 1954) has established an international reputation for his atmospheric photorealistic paintings of nondescript places and anonymous figures. Here he takes 59 of his own works as a starting point to discuss what it means to make paintings.
Vienna: Art and Architecture by Rolf Toman (Editor); Achim Bednorz (By (photographer)); Gerald Zugmann (By (photographer))
$99.00 AUD
Category: Art galleries/museums, collections
At the mention of Vienna, many visitors think of Sachertorte, romantic open carriage trips and an evening in one of local wine taverns. But the old imperial city has much more to offer - Vienna presents a comprehensive, richly illustrated view of the art treasures to be found in the Danube metropolis. T ...Show more
Artists' Homes - Live/Work Spaces for Modern Makers by Tom Harford-Thompson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Famous artists
In this beautifully illustrated book, writer and photographer Tom Harford-Thompson presents individual, eccentric homes and workspaces, from a music producer's studio to an ecowarrior's treehouse. His evocative photographs show how our life/work spaces, whether a tumbledown cottage, a country farmhouse, ...Show more
Mr Guilfoyle's Shakespearian Botany by Edmée Cudmore; Diana Hill
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art
'What's in a name? That which we call a RoseBy any other name would smell as sweet.'William ShakespeareThe great William Guilfoyle, credited as the architect of Melbourne's Royal Botanic gardens, was an eminent landscape designer, botanist and writer. Here are his collected writings on the dozens of pla ...Show more