South African Art Now by Sue Williamson

$49.95 AUD

Category: Art and Design

Presents an analysis of a wide variety of South African art genres and mediums, from painting and sculpture to photography, from performance and traditional craft-making to video.

Regency: British Art and Design 1800-1830 by MENZ, CHRISTOPHER

$9.95 AUD

Category: Art and Design

Holbein by ROBERTS, JANE

$14.99 AUD

Category: Art and Design | Series: Chaucer Library of Art S.

The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in our Museums & Why we Need to Talk About it by Alice Procter

$39.99 AUD

Category: Art and Design

If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again.Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonise' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall? From the stolen Wakandan art in Black Panther, to Emmanuel Macron's recent commitment to art restitution, and Beyo ncé and Jay Z's provocative music video filmed in the Louvre, the question of decolonising our relationship with the art around us is quickly gaining traction. People are waking up to the seedy history of the world's art collections, and are starting to ask difficult questions about what the future of museums should look like. In The Whole Picture, art historian and Uncomfortable Art Tour guide Alice Procter provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art, and fills in the blanks with the stories that have been left out of the art history canon for centuries. The book is divided into four chronological sections, named after four different kinds of art space: The Palace The Classroom The Memorial The Playground Each section tackles the fascinating and often shocking stories of five different art pieces, including the propaganda painting that the East India Company used to justify its control in India; the Maori mokomokai skulls that were traded and collected by Europeans as 'art objects'; and Kara Walker's controversial contemporary sculpture A Subtlety, which raised questions about 'appropriate' interactions with art. Through these stories, Alice brings out the underlying colonial narrative lurking beneath the art industry today, and suggests different ways of seeing and thinking about art in the modern world.The Whole Picture is a much-needed provocation to look more critically at the accepted narratives about art, and rethink and disrupt the way we interact with the museums and galleries that display it. ...Show more

Afro Modern Journeys Through Black Altantic by Tanya Barson

$24.95 AUD

Category: Art and Design

Addresses a key area of post-colonial studies coined by the British academic Paul Gilroy in 1993 - the notion of 'The Black Atlantic' - and its relation to visual art from 1900 onwards. This work features illustrations, a timeline of key figures and events, and an extensive bibliography.

This Other Eden: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art by WARNER, MALCOLM

$14.99 AUD

Category: Art and Design

Unruly Alphabet by McKinney,Aaron

$19.95 AUD

Category: Art and Design

Albrecht Durer by Konemann

$9.99 AUD

Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art

Provides portraits of European art history. This book gives insights into the artists' biographies and their styles of working.

Baroque - OLD ISBN by -

$29.95 AUD

Category: Art and Design

Every conceivable expression of this epoch, from Roman baroque to Dutch painting and naturally the unfolding splendour of Louis XIV is gathered in this volume. This work includes: chronological depiction of the fine arts from their origins in Rome through the late baroque and rococo; explanation of the socio-political background: the Counter-Reformation, the development of Protestantism, absolutism, and the French Revolution; and various ways the baroque left its mark, including city planning, architecture, garden design, sculpture, painting and emblems. During the baroque period, architecture and the other fine arts were the instruments of a staging of "world theatre" on a grand scale. The baroque art of the popes in Rome, the displays of power and opulence in the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and Dutch painting - they all reflect different aspects of the underlying tension between pleasure in life and fear of death that was such a prominent feature of the baroque world view. This volume portrays the entire span of the fine arts of the baroque era, from rich splendour to religious asceticism. ...Show more

Arcimboldo: Forty by ARCIMBOLDO

$7.99 AUD

Category: Art and Design

The Art of Beatrix Potter: Sketches, Paintings, and Illustrations by Emily Zach; Steven Heller; Linda Lear; Eleanor Taylor

$29.99 AUD

Category: Art and Design | Series: The Art of...

Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth, this magnificent collection celebrates the artist behind The Tale of Peter Rabbit and numerous other beloved children's books. Brimming with famous images and rarely seen gems--ranging from character sketches and notebook pages to watercolour landscapes and natural history illustrations--this monograph explores Potter's artistic process and reveals the places that inspired her timeless work. Organised geographically and featuring more than 200 images from the artist's oeuvre, The Art of Beatrix Potter includes illuminating essays by Potter scholar Linda Lear, illustration historian Steven Heller, and children's book illustrator Eleanor Taylor. A definitive volume on one of the world's most influential authors, a woman whose artistry deserves to be fully celebrated. ...Show more

THOMAS LAWRENCE by GEOFFREY ASHTON

$9.99 AUD

Category: Art and Design