Vincent Namatjira by Vincent Namatjira
$90.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
'Welcome to the past, present and future. I stand side-by-side with my great-grandfather, who I never met - two painters from the centre of this country, standing up and making our voices heard. I believe in the power of art, the power of the paintbrush. I know that art can change lives. It changed mine ...Show more
The River by Brian Simmonds
$35.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
Award-winning artist Brian Simmonds brings Australia's waterways to life with his oils and mixed media colour paintings and sketches. Over ninety beautiful illustrations accompany uniquely local poetry and prose from well-known writers such as John Kinsella, T A G Hungerford and Elizabeth Jolley. The pe ...Show more
Gustav Klimt: The Interiors by TOBIAS G. NATTER
$105.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
This unique and utterly fascinating appreciation of Gustav Klimt's oeuvre reveals some of his most famous works in their original settings and offers valuable historic insight into his artistic vision. Interior design was supremely important to Gustav Klimt, and many of his paintings were created for sp ...Show more
Creature: Paintings, Drawings and Reflections (HB) by Shaun Tan
$64.95 AUD
Category: Famous artists
A collection of Shaun Tan’s artwork from the past 25 years.The drawings and paintings in the book come from his work in picture books and other works including films and graphic novels. Others were created for no specific purpose beyond the desire to see what something looks like, or just to follow a sk ...Show more
Artists at Home - Inside the Creative Spaces of 32 Female Artists in Australia by Karina Dias Pires
$59.99 AUD
Category: Famous artists | Reading Level: near fine
Painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, photography, installation, printmaking, film ... no matter what the medium, these formidable artists are united by their strength, passion and honesty. This richly layered compilation invites the reader into the creative spaces of 32 female artists, offering an in ...Show more
Henri Matisse: Rooms with a View by Shirley Nielsen Blum
$90.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
This book brings together for the first time the rich collection of Matisses paintings of interiors and windows. The distinguished art historian Shirley Blum analyses more than fifty works, from the early painting "Studio Under the Eaves" (1901-02) to the great stained glass window at the "Chapel of the ...Show more
VERMEER'S WOMEN SECRETS AND SILENCES by WIESMANN MARJORIE
$39.95 AUD
Category: Famous artists
Centring on the extraordinary "Lacemaker" from the Musee du Louvre, this beautiful book investigates the subtle and enigmatic paintings by Johannes Vermeer that celebrate the intimacy of the Dutch household. Moments frozen in paint that reveal young women sewing, reading or playing musical instruments, ...Show more
This is Warhol by Catherine Ingram
$19.95 AUD
Category: Famous artists | Series: This is
Andy Warhol, the iconic Pop artist, presented himself as the vacuous, dumb kid, famously saying, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings . and there I am. There's nothing behind it." This book penetrates the surface and explores Warhol's art from his beginnin ...Show more
Funemployed by Justin Heazlewood
$24.99 AUD
Category: Famous artists
Funemployed goes beyond the press releases and the hype to show what it's really like to be a working artist in Australia. Through candid interviews, brutal honesty and lacerating wit, Justin Heazlewood (aka The Bedroom Philosopher) provides a fascinating portrait of life in Australia for artists and as ...Show more
Arthur Boyd - Agony and Ecstasy by National Gallery of Australia
$59.95 AUD
Category: Famous artists
Arthur Boyd - Agony and Ecstasy is a major exhibition of Boyd's art including more than 100 works across diverse media: paintings, prints, drawings, ceramic tiles and sculptures, and tapestries. This publication provides the opportunity to contemplate a number of works that have never or rarely been pre ...Show more
Jenny Saville Oxyrhynchus by John Elderfield
$180.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
Oxyrhynchus is a city in upper Egypt that was established in 332 BC and is considered one of the most important archaeological sites ever discovered. Saville references the layer upon layer of discoveries at Oxyrhynchus in her new body of work, the final effect being a mysterious narrative of layered bo ...Show more
The World is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cezanne by Benedict Leca
$69.99 AUD
Category: Famous artists
There is a real lack of published material on Paul Cezanne's still lifes; this groundbreaking new volume offers a complete, thematic reappraisal of Cezanne's still life paintings, looking at them both within the broader context of his complex artistic and psychological development and within the wider h ...Show more