Creature: Paintings, Drawings and Reflections (HB) by Shaun Tan
$64.95 AUD
Category: Art & Design
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
Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschlager
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art & Design
A magnificent new biography of the founder of Impressionism. In the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in western art. Misunderstood and mocked at the beginning of his career, he risked everything to pursue his ...Show more
Bring No Clothes - Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art & Design
Why do we wear what we wear? To answer this question, we must go back and unlock the wardrobes of the early twentieth century, when fashion as we know it was born. In Bring No Clothes, acclaimed fashion writer Charlie Porter brings us face to face with six members of the Bloomsbury Group - the collect ...Show more
The Lost City of Melbourne: This Is a Story of Marvellous Melbourne, Before Whelan the Wrecker Was Here by Gus Berger (Compiled by, Concept by, Based on a movie by)
$75.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
In the 1850s, Melbourne was the fastest growing city in the world. "They dreamt big, they built big. It was a city jumping out of its skin". It became an epicentre of film culture and its hotels, restaurants and cafes became world renowned. However, the attempted 'modernisation' of Melbourne in the ...Show more
Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art & Design | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more
From the Other Side : the Monstrous Feminine
$25.00 AUD
Category: Art & Design
Produced in association with the upcoming ACCA exhibition of the same name, this publication casts a lens upon feminist, queer and non-binary subjectivities to consider the transgressive pleasures and liberations of horror, as makers, masters and consumers of the genre. Featuring curatorial texts by El ...Show more
Frida Kahlo. 40th Ed. by Luis-Martín Lozano
$49.99 AUD
Category: Monographs
Among the women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty extraordinary self-portraits, has been admired by generations; along with hundreds of photographs taken by notable artists ...Show more
Harley-Davidson: An Illustrated Guide by Peter Henshaw, Ian Kerr, Garry Stuart
$45.00 AUD
Category: Photography
This illustrated guide is packed with interesting facts and follows the history of the famous Harley-Davidson company and the developmentof its famous bikes, which have earned a special place in the hearts of enthusiasts everywhere. The story dates from 1903 when Bill Harley andthe Davidson brothers, wi ...Show more
Old Brand New: Colourful Homes For Maximal Living by Dabito
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art & Design
A deeply personal and compassionate look at more than 50 rooms designed by interior designer, photographer and Instagram star Dabito.
Open Questions: Twenty-Five Years of Writing about Art by Helen Molesworth
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art & Design
An illustrated reader featuring a collection of essays from trailblazing curator and writer Helen Molesworth - the first book of her collected writings Over the past three decades, Helen Molesworth's singular voice and lively curatorial vision has established her as one of the most dynamic and influent ...Show more
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art & Design
A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, fema ...Show more
Art Rules: How great artists think, create and work by Cassie Packard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art & Design
The best thing about rules is that you can break them: here are over 100 mantras for anyone interested in creating great art. What can we learn from great artists? When we hold their practices up to the light, what do we see - and how might those encounters reshape our own thinking about art? Delvi ...Show more