The History of Colour: A Universe of Chromatic Phenomena by Neil Parkinson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory
This comprehensive, beautiful book delves deep into the complex but fascinating story of our relationship with colour throughout human history. Color is fundamental to our experience and understanding of the world. It crosses continents and cultures, disciplines and decades. It is used to convey inf ...Show more
Portraits by Sophie Cunningham, W. H. Chong, Michelle de Kretser, John Wolseley
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory
From award-winning book designer and artist W. H. Chong, Portraits is a collection of 300 drawings of artists, writers and musicians he has sketched over the last decade. Portraits is a love letter to our culture makers, a sparkling collection of more than 300 drawings of artists, writers, musicians, t ...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
Picturing a Nation: The art and life of A.H. Fullwood by Gary Werskey
$20.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory
The untold story of a major Australian artist. Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A.H. Fullwood (1863–1930) was also the most widely viewed British–Australian artist of the Heidelberg era.Fullwood's illustrations for the popular Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and the ...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
The Da Vinci Women - The Untold Feminist Power of Leonardo's Art by Kia Vahland
$22.50 AUD
Category: Art Theory
This new biographical look at Leonardo da Vinci explores the Renaissance master's groundbreaking portrayal of women which forever changed the way the female form is depicted.
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory | Series: Classics Ser.
"If ever there was any doubt that Van Gogh's letters belong beside those great classics of artistic self-revelation, Cellini's autobiography and Delacroix's journal, this excellent edition dispels it." --The Times (London) "Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost e ...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
The Lives of the Artists
$24.95 AUD
Category: Art Theory | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the pe ...Show more
Drawing Thought - How Drawing Helps Us Observe, Discover, and Invent by Andrea Kantrowitz
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory
Drawing as a tool of thought: an investigation of drawing, cognition, and creativity that integrates text and hand-drawn images.Drawing is a way of constructing ideas and observations as much as it is a means of expressing them. When we are not ready or able to put our thoughts into words, we can someti ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory
'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very hard painting the hallway magnolia after this inspiring primer.'Simon GarfieldThe Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of ...Show more
The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd by Finlay Macdonald
$36.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory
The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd is both a tale of remarkable success and a window into a brilliant creative mind.Finlay Macdonald's beautifully told, visually gorgeous biography of Dame Lynley Dodd and her creation, the rascally dog Hairy Maclary. 'A visual delight' NZ Listener's 100 Best Books of 2013' ...Show more