Renaissance Watercolours - From dürer to Van Dyck by Mark Evans
$79.99 AUD
Category: Art
Celebrate the vibrancy of Renaissance watercolors Many of the most beautiful Renaissance portraits, botanical illustrations, and landscape paintings are watercolors. This book, published to accompany an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, presents these diverse and fragile artworks ...Show more
Caravaggio (HB) by Gianfranceschi Michela
$85.00 AUD
Category: Art
Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio is one of the most revolutionary and celebrated artists of all time. His explosive manner exceeded the academic precepts that idealised nature, describing the world in its varied complexity and therefore also in its most humble and raw aspects. This volume traces ...Show more
V&A Pattern: William Morris by Parry Linda
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: V&a Patterns Ser.
V&A Pattern: William Morrishighlights both popular and lesser-known patterns designs by the most famous designer of the Arts and Crafts Movement. A source of inspiration for designers from William Morris to Alexander McQueen, the V&A holds over three million designs for textiles, decorations, ...Show more
Kahlo by Kettenmann Andrea
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Suffering and the female experience The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most important 20th century painters, and one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputation. In 1983 her work was declared the property of the Mexican state.Kahlo was one of the daughter ...Show more
Notebooks by Betty Churcher
$44.99 AUD
Category: Art
In this gorgeously illustrated book, join Betty Churcher on a personal tour of her most beloved works, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Velazquez, Courbet, Vermeer and Cezanne. A trained artist, Betty's sketches reveal the secrets within the artworks and the processes of their creation. ...Show more
Gisela Krohn: Inner Circle by Gisela Krohn (Artist); Katharina Henkel (Text by)
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Large scale paintings highlighting humans' destruction of natureIn German painter Gisela Krohn's (born 1966) large-scale canvases, humans appear only in the form of the marks they have left on the landscape. She depicts asphalt roads and man-made pathways cutting through forests, attesting to human inte ...Show more
Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec by ANNE DUMAS
$56.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Best known for their superlative oils on canvas, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and numerous other Impressionists and Post-Impressionists also regularly used paper as a support for works in watercolour, gouache, pencil, tempera and that most elusive of media, pastel. Their practice t ...Show more
Japanese Woodblocks: Masterpieces of Art by MICHAEL ROBINSON
$32.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
Quick introduction, and packed with illustration the Masterpieces of Art focuses on the popular work of Hiroshige and Hokusai whose visions of waves and Mount Fuji have dominated the popular imagination for over 200 years. Woodblock printing is a traditional artistic medium in Japan most renowned for it ...Show more
Wild Light: A printmaker s day and night by Angela Harding
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
With over 70 original illustrations, printmaker Angela Harding invites you to look at how the light changes the world around us, and how that changes us in its turn. "I, like many other people, find great inspiration in the way mornings, evenings or bright midday light changes the way we see the things ...Show more
Lives of Rembrandt by JOACHIM VON SANDRART
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Never before available complete in English, the three major contemporary sources for the life of Rembrandt. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (c.1606-1669) was the most talked-about painter of the seventeenth century and quite possibly of the following centuries too. His prodigious talent, extraordinary emot ...Show more
Frida & Diego: Love & Revolution The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Modernism by Tansy Curtin
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
At the centre of the story of twentieth-century Mexican art, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are known not simply for their artistic contribution to the nation but also for their fascinating and all-consuming love affair. Twenty years her senior, Rivera was already a celebrated artist when he met Kahlo in ...Show more
The Tudors - Art and Majesty in Renaissance England by Elizabeth Cleland; Adam Eaker; Marjorie E. Wieseman (Contribution by); Sarah Bochicchio (Contribution by)
$103.95 AUD
Category: Art
A fascinating new look at the artistic legacy of the Tudors, revealing the dynasty's influence on the arts in Renaissance England and beyond Ruling successively from 1485 through 1603, the five Tudor monarchs changed England indelibly, using the visual arts to both legitimize and glorify their tumult ...Show more