Hiroshige and Eisen. The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido. 40th Ed. by Rhiannon Paget
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art History
The Kisokaidō route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country's then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage between Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto. Inns, shops, and restaurants were established to provide sustenan ...Show more
Redoute. Roses by H. Walter Lack
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art History
The revered tradition of botanical illustration dates back to the Renaissance. It emerged from the desire to catalog nature in its unpredictable splendor, and the process demanded the most precise and talented of artists.With a remarkable skill that captured the most intricate subjects in nature, Pierre ...Show more
Australia’s Birds in Watercolour by Richard Steele
$99.00 AUD
Category: Art History
A comprehensive selection of drills and practices that relate to the key aspects of the modern game. An extremely valuable resource to assist coaches at all levels to plan and conduct effective training sessions.
Picasso: the Blue and Rose Periods by Pablo Picasso (Artist); Claire Bernardi (Text by); Raphaël Bouvier (Text by); Laurent Le Bon (Text by); Marilyn McCully (Text by)
$79.99 AUD
Category: Art History
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Picasso's death, this spectacular volume of the artist's early paintings and sculptures is being reissued. The paintings from his so-called Blue and Rose periods to early Cubism, created between 1901 and 1907, are milestones on Picasso's path to becoming the most f ...Show more
Vermeer: Masters of Art by ALEXANDER ADAMS
$26.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Filled with brilliant reproductions and engaging texts and reflecting the latest scholarship, this portable and attractively priced volume is the perfect introduction to the most celebrated painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Highlighted by domestic scenes and witty allegories that fuse the ordinary with ...Show more
Odd Roads to Be Walking: 156 Women Who Shaped Australian Art by Paul Finucane, Catherine Stuart
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art History
'It was an odd road to be walking, this of painting.' So wrote Virginia Woolf in her classic 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. While the life journeys of many artists can be described as 'odd roads', few were as original and challenging as those of the pioneering Australian women of art from the late 19th ...Show more
Art of the Grimoire An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells by Owen Davies
$51.95 AUD
Category: Art History
A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks. Grimoires, textbooks of magic and occult knowledge, have existed through the ages alongside other magic and religious texts in part because of the need to create a physical record of magical phenomena, but al ...Show more
Reading the Rooms Behind the paintings of the State Library of NSW by Neville, Richard, Franks, Rachel
$89.99 AUD
Category: Art History
The incredible painting collection of the State Library of New South Wales is documented for the first time.The State Library of New South Wales holds an unrivalled collection of oil paintings. Unlike an art gallery where the focus is usually on aesthetic excellence, the rationale behind the Library’s c ...Show more
Ikuntji Textiles by Chrischona Schmidt (ed.)
$69.00 AUD
Category: Art History
Ikuntji Textiles outlines and explores the development of the Ikuntji Artists textiles designs, the female artists and their stories, and the collaborations that have taken place since the formation of the art centre. This full-colour publication gives an insight into Ikuntji Artists range of wearable a ...Show more
Emily Kam Kngwarray by Kelli Cole, Hettie Perkins, Jennifer Green (eds)
$89.95 AUD
Category: Art History
A comprehensive and richly illustrated publication celebrating the timeless art of Emily Kam Kngwarray - a pre-eminent Australian artist and one of the most significant painters of the 20th century. An Anmatyerr woman from Central Australia, Kngwarray devoted the last decades of her life to new artist ...Show more
The Art of Annemieke Mein: Wildlife Artist in Textiles by Annemieke Mein
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Search Press Classics
A collection of astonishingly skilled textile artworks combining fabric, stitching and paints with hand and machine embroidery The textile works of Annemieke Mein display a rare standard of artistry. She has explored beyond the bounds of craft and developed new techniques in her use of textiles and ...Show more