Category: Art
A stunning exploration of fashion's premier art form with internationally renowned illustrator Megan Hess. Hundreds of hours, many expert hands and unimaginable metres of fabric: couture is truly wearable art, where creativity and craftsmanship collide. Megan Hess has spent her career documenting fashi ...Show more
Category: Art | Series: Bibliotheca Paediatrica Ref Karger Ser.
When life (in a global pandemic) imitates art . . . Van Gogh's Starry Night made out of spaghetti? Cat with a Pearl Earring? Frida Kahlo self-portraits with pets and toilet paper? While the world reeled from the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), thousands of people around the gl ...Show more
Category: Art
Colour has an enormous impact on our connection with an object. This curated anthology of furniture, fabric, lights and decorative objects shows how colour has defined key designs over the last century. A Century of Colour in Design delivers an incisive, shortform history of the role that colour has pla ...Show more
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With his remarkable evocations of light and the landscape, Australian artist Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) remains one of the most enduring and popular painters in Australian art. His sun-drenched impressionist landscapes from the 1880s, joyful depictions of Sydney beaches and harbour in the 1890s, and pa ...Show more
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A frank and revealing memoir by the son of Australia's greatest living painter. Tim Olsen is the son of arguably Australia's most famous living painter, John Olsen. Son of the Brush is his fascinating, candid memoir of what it was like to grow up in the shadow of artistic genius, with all its wonder, ex ...Show more
Category: Art | Series: Draw in 15 Minutes Ser.
THE SUPER-FAST DRAWING TECHNIQUE ANYONE CAN LEARN Anyone can draw, and anybody who can already draw can always learn to draw better. In this book, leading art tutor Matthew Brehm gives you all the skills you need to sketch the urban environment in just 15 minutes. Good drawings aren't always the ones ...Show more
Category: Art | Series: Pocket Editions Ser.
This book documents the most exciting and diverse period in fashion: from 1900 on, when women's lives and manner of dress changed dramatically. From home dressmaking to couture, from rationing to "The New Look," from the birth of the teenager to mass manufacture, this selection of over 400 photographs a ...Show more
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New York: Through a Fashion Eye is an illustrated guide to one of the world's most-loved fashion cities by one of the world's most-loved fashion illustrators. Let Megan Hess take you on an adventure through New York, showing you the hottest places to eat, sleep and play - all illustrated in ...Show more
Category: Art
When he died in 1992 Brett Whiteley left behind decades of ceaseless activity - some works bound to a particular place or time, others that are masterpieces of light and line. Whiteley had arrived in Europe in 1960 determined to make an impression. Before long he was the youngest artist to have work ac ...Show more
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Grab a pen and explore hours of masterful and intricate art anywhere!Now in an all-new format, the creative technique exercises from The Art of Ballpoint by illustrator Matt Rota are reconfigured into this useful art pack which includes an informational book and companion sketchpad featuring prompts and ...Show more
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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
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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
