The Story of Art without Men by Katy Hessel
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
The story of art for our times - one with women at its heart, brought together for the first time by the creator of @thegreatwomenartists How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Discover the ...Show more
Pencil by Carol Beggy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it, and to essentially destroy it. Pencils were used to ...Show more
Characters Cultural Stories Revealed Through Typography by Stephen Banham
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
Type and signage surround us. They are part of our daily lives and the history of whichever city we happen to live in. Whether old or new, each sign has a story to tell. In "Characters", Stephen Banham has meticulously researched the signage and typography of a city to present an exuberant collection of ...Show more
Universal Principles of Typography - 100 Key Concepts for Choosing and Using Type by Elliot Jay Stocks; Ellen Lupton (Foreword by)
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Series: Rockport Universal Ser.
Explore 100 key concepts, theories, and guidelines that are critical for choosing and using type. We communicate with text every single day, but what does it mean to really understand type--to use it with clear intent and purpose? The art and science of typography combines subtle tweaks to line lengths ...Show more
One Zentangle A Day: A 6-Week Course in Creative Drawing for Relaxation, Inspiration and Fun by Beckah Krahula
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Series: One A Day
One Zentangle A Day is a beautiful interactive book teaching the principles of Zentangles as well as offering fun, related drawing exercises. Zentangles are a new trend in the drawing and paper arts world. The concept was started by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas as a way to practice focus and meditation ...Show more
Indie Rock Poster Book by Yellow Bird Project
$29.95 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
From the authors that brought us the Indie Rock Coloring Book, this poster book features indie-music-inspired artwork by a roster of today's most cutting-edge illustrators.
The Story of Contemporary Art by Tony Godfrey
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
A lively introduction to and history of international contemporary art from 1960 to the present.What does it mean?Is it really art?Why does it cost so much?While these questions are perpetually asked about contemporary art, they are not the questions that E. H. Gombrich set out to answer in his seminal ...Show more
Ways of Drawing: Artists' Perspectives and Practices by Bell, Julian
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
A lavishly illustrated collection of essays on drawing as a vital intellectual, artistic and life practice, by the artists of the Royal Drawing School. Drawing is among the most profound ways of engaging with the world. It is absorbing, instinctive - a way not just of seeing, but of understanding what w ...Show more
Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism by Daniel Wildenstein
$110.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
No other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840-1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man Cézanne called "only an eye, but my God what an eye!" who stayed true to the principle of absolute fidelity to the visual sensation, paintin ...Show more
Hockney / Van Gogh by Hans Den Hartog Jager; Anon
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
Hockney/Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature presents unique insights into the influences of two world-renowned artists. Nature has been a substantial theme for both David Hockney and Vincent van Gogh, one that draws their work together--Hockney's Yorkshire landscapes are especially reminiscent of Vincent van G ...Show more
1000 Symbols: What shapes mean in art and myth by Rowena Shepherd
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
Symbols are often seen as constituting an international language and to some extent they do, but that language is far from universal - context means everything in this complicated but engrossing form of communication. Take, for example, a cross, a crane, or a swastika: each one has a different and disti ...Show more
Impressionism by Ralph Skea
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
It is often forgotten just how provocative and unsettling impressionist canvases seemed when they were first exhibited in 1874. Critics, professional artists, and gallery visitors alike were shocked to encounter the unorthodox paintings on display, with their seemingly unfinished surfaces and lack of an ...Show more