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What Are Museums For? by Jon Sleigh
19.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: What Is It For? Ser.
The days when museums were dusty, stuffy institutions displaying their wealth and wisdom to a reverential public are over. Museums today are a cultural battleground. Who should decide what is put on display and how it is presented? Who gets to set the narrative? In this passionately argued book, Jon Sle ...Show more
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross
39.99 AUD
Category: Art History
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts - and how this knowledge can improve our health, enable us to flourish, and build stronger communities. Many of us think of the arts as entertainmen ...Show more
The Elements of Art: Ten Ways to Decode the Masterpieces by Susie Hodge
35.00 AUD
Category: Art History
The Elements of Art deconstructs great works of art into manageable components so that you can better understand and appreciate them.Knowing how to interpret art is one of the biggest issues facing casual gallery-goers. They may ask themselves questions like: Why is the Mona Lisa so small? Why are some ...Show more
Ellis Rowan by National Library of Australia
34.99 AUD
Category: NLA Art | Series: Artists of the National Library of Australia Ser.
'Petite, plucky and always immaculately dressed in the constraint of Victorian finery...throughout her life she was acclaimed internationally, winning 29 medals, and accolades from leading art critics. Her work was also collected by royalty, including Queen Victoria.' — Patricia Fullerton, 2002Ellis Row ...Show more
Harold Cazneaux by National Library of Australia
34.99 AUD
Category: NLA Art | Series: Artists of the National Library of Australia Ser.
'[Cazneaux’s] work is what matters, its place in the history of Australian photography and its influence on past, present and future generations of photographers.' — Max Dupain, 1978Harold Cazneaux (1878-1953) is widely considered the greatest Australian photographer of the early twentieth century. In p ...Show more
Greg Hansell: Purity of Australian Light by LOU KLEPAC
79.95 AUD
Category: Art History
The first book on Australian artist Greg Hansell
The Artist Explorers - Painting the New World by John Fairley
70.00 AUD
Category: Art History
It was in large part the lure of riches, such as spices and gold, and the promise of fertile land which tempted the British and other Europeans to venture out to unknown lands.These intrepid explorers, who devoted and often lost their lives on journeys of discovery, were frequently accompanied by artist ...Show more
Artful Lives: The Cohen Sisters by Penny Olsen
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From Melbourne to the Islands - The Artful Lives of the Cohen Sisters 'Romance is in all of us. We long to fashion romantic careers for ourselves. We yearn to read those of others, whether they be of love, life, wealth' -so wrote artist-journalist Valerie Frankel Cohen in 1936. The Cohen sisters lived f ...Show more
Gauguin and Polynesia by Nicholas Thomas
79.99 AUD
Category: Art History
Paul Gauguin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest modern artists. He is renowned for resplendent, mythic imagery from Oceania, for a life of restless travel and for his supposed immersion in Polynesian life. But he has long been regarded ambivalently, and in recent years both Gauguin's sexual be ...Show more
British Women Artists: From Suffrage to the Sixties by Carolyn Trant
29.99 AUD
Category: Art History
The story of modern British art history told through the stories of its women. Consider for a moment the history of modern art in Britain; you may struggle to land on a narrative that features very many women. On this journey through a fascinating period of social change, artist Carolyn Trant fills in s ...Show more
Griselda Pollock on Gauguin by Griselda Pollock
29.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Pocket Perspectives Ser.
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable littl ...Show more
Joyce Evans by Sasha Grishin
39.99 AUD
Category: NLA Art
‘I don’t know what sort of photographer I am, but I try to be an honest one.’Joyce Evans was an unusual phenomenon in the Australian photography scene. Her conversion to photography did not occur until she was already in her forties, while her engagement in professional photography had to wait until she ...Show more