Artists on Art: How They See, Think & Create (PB) by Holly Black
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory
Through a carefully curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, Artists on Art reveals what matters most to the masters. You'll discover how the giants of the different artistic genres developed their distinctive visual styles, the core ideas that underpin their practice and, most important ...Show more
The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments by Kelly Grovier
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory
A unique approach to the history of art told through the story of colour and pigments.Did you know that the ultramarine that shimmers at the centre of Vermeer's Milkmaid connects that masterpiece with 6th-century Zoroastrian paintings found on the walls of cave temples in Bamiyan, Afghanistan? Or that t ...Show more
Colours of Art: The Story of Art in 80 Palettes by Chloe Ashby
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory
Colours of Art takes the reader on a journey through history via 80 carefully curated artworks and their palettes. For these pieces, colour is not only a tool (like a paintbrush or a canvas), but the fundamental secret to their success. Colour allows artists to express their individuality, evoke certain ...Show more
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory
A major new book from one of the world's leading writers and art critics John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated art writers, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of artists. In Portraits, Berger grounds the artists in the ...Show more
The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris by Marc Petitjean; Adriana Hunter (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory
In 1939, after her divorce from Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo travelled from the US to France - the beginning of a unique period of her life. Now, for the first time, this previously overlooked part of her story is brought to light in exquisite detail. Marc Petitjean takes the reader to Paris, where Kahlo s ...Show more
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory
This is the paperback edition of the highly successful Chromatopia. Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic colour; or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? Throughout history, artists' pigments have been made from deadly metals, poisonous minerals, urine, cow dun ...Show more
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts - and how this knowledge can improve our health, enable us to flourish, and build stronger communities. Many of us think of the arts as entertainmen ...Show more
Art of Renaissance Rome: Artists and Patrons in the Eternal City by John Marciari
$20.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory | Series: Renaissance Art Ser.
John Marciari tells the story of the monuments, artists, and patrons of Renaissance Rome in this compelling book. In no other city is the ancient world so palpably present, and nowhere else is the mission of the church so evident. At the same time as the humanists sought to preserve and recreate the anc ...Show more
Lives of Gainsborough by PHILIP THICKNESSE
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory
One of the best loved painters in English history, Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) was also one of the most personally engaging. Bon vivant, wit, amateur and enthusiastic musician, he charmed sitters and friends alike. His ebullient, if not always reliable, personality comes to life in these two memoirs ...Show more
Lives of Rubens by GIOVANNI BAGLIONE
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory
Never before translated: the first biographies of Rubens, by an Italian, a German and a Frenchman, conveying to the full his extraordinary public career. The unparalleled brilliance of Rubens' career changed perceptions forever not only about painting but also about painters. Here was a man whose astoni ...Show more
Ruskin and His Contemporaries by Robert Hewisson
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory
- A dazzling collection examining artist, critic and radical John Ruskin's life and work in his 19th-century world and milieu, and extensively proving his continued relevance In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of Victorian Britain's greatest thinkers, the art critic and social r ...Show more
An Introduction to Pontormo A Great but Neglected Painter and Draftsman of the First Part of the 16th Century by Jonah Jones
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art Theory | Series: Storie Del Mondo Ser.
The Author's main purpose is to re-evaluate and recognize the contribution of Jacopo Pontormo within the history of art and, more specifically, Italian Renaissance. While the first sections provide the context of his personal life and career as the pre-eminent painter in mid-sixteenth century Florence, ...Show more