Category: Art
Known for his multi-storey murals gracing buildings all over the world, Melbourne-based artist Rone uses his work to explore the friction and connection between beauty and decay, youth and ruin.Rone was a seminal figure in the explosive Melbourne street art scene of the early 2000s. With his beginnings ...Show more
Category: Art
Arthur Boyd - Agony and Ecstasy is a major exhibition of Boyd's art including more than 100 works across diverse media: paintings, prints, drawings, ceramic tiles and sculptures, and tapestries. This publication provides the opportunity to contemplate a number of works that have never or rarely been pre ...Show more
Category: Art | Series: Masterworks
Salvador Dali was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, as well as a cultural figure who challenged convention. He worked in an incredible array of different media, but is best-known for his Surrealist paintings, abound with Symbolism representing eroticism, death and decay, and de ...Show more
Category: Art | Series: Bay Art Ser.
The third in our "Bay Art Revival" series, this edition of Russell Drysdale has been fully revised to integrate the paintings into the body of the text and includes a new introduction by author Lou Klepac, written to put Drysdale's iconic paintings into a contemporary context. This book traces the caree ...Show more
Category: Art
Jackson Pollock the artist needs no introduction--but perhaps lesser known is Jackson Pollock the gardener, baker, and dinner-party host. From starters and entrees to side dishes, breads, and desserts, Dinner with Jackson Pollock features more than fifty recipes collected from handwritten pages scrawled ...Show more
Category: Art
After experiencing a religious vision, James Tissot (1836-1902) shifted his artistic focus and devoted himself to a project to illustrate the New Testament. This is the first comprehensive explorotion of this extraordinary body of work.
Category: Art
In paintings as pretty as the porcelain they depict, this gift book celebrates one of the finest teacup collections in the world: the 300-piece archive of the Clark Art Institute, which dates back to the eighteenth century and represents coveted designs of the day from Europe and China. Artist Molly Hat ...Show more
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Since its first publication this book has been hailed as the most up-to-date and wide-ranging history of art ever published in a single volume. This quote from Andrew Graham Dixon describes the book: 'Spanning continents and millennia, ranging from man's earliest cave paintings to the works of Picasso a ...Show more
Category: Art
In 1779 the family of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first prime minister, sold his remarkable art collection to Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. More than two centuries later, these masterpieces, rarely seen outside Russia since that time, are returning to Houghton Hall, the great house built by ...Show more
Category: Art | Series: 50 Ways to Wear Ser.
This charming little book shows 50 different ways to wear a scarf. From the Capri to the Paris, the Top Down, the Necklace and the Clutch, there are creative scarf styles here for any occasion and mood. Jaunty illustrations from fashion illustrator Lauren Friedman break down the steps for each style and ...Show more
Category: Art
A beautiful, highly illustrated book published in conjunction with a major retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Australian artist John Russell (1858-1930) was an active and influential member of the French 19 th century avant‐garde, he was a close friend of Tom Roberts, Vin ce ...Show more
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Cult of pleasure: Feminine sensuality by the Vienna Secession's greatest proponentGustav Klimt's ornate, sensual, and decadent style made him not only the most prominent of the Vienna Secessionists but one of the best loved artists of all time. In his own time, Kilmt (1862-1918) was a highly successful ...Show more
