The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain by Tristram Hunt
$26.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory
A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from acclaimed historian and director of the Victoria and Albert Museum Josiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his kilns ...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
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
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
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
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory
A charming and highly personal introduction to the artists of the Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of the place where he had ended up, Moser threw himself into the world of the painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Rem ...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
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
Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton; John Armstrong
$29.95 AUD
Category: Art Theory
" 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