Mangasia : The Definitive Guide to Pan-asian Comic Art by Paul Gravett
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
This beautiful and engaging volume charts the evolution of manga from its roots in late 19th-century Japan through the many and varied forms of comics, cartoons and animation created throughout Asia for more than 100 years. World authority on comic art Paul Gravett details the evolving meanings of the m ...Show more
Trees (How to Draw: In Simple Steps) by Denis Naylor
$10.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Series: How to Draw
A great book for anyone interested in this subject with simple step-by-step drawings and a fantastic selection of popular species.
Fairy House by Debbie Schramer; Mike Scramer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
Fairy House is a fascinating adventure into the making of miniscule kingdoms of the fairytale realm from objects found in nature. Through more than 350 clear, detailed, full-color photographs and understandable yet whimsical guidance, the reader will learn to fashion intricate, tiny cups from acorn pods ...Show more
Complete Guide to Life Drawing by Gottfried Bammes
$42.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
This highly informative book represents the distillation of many years spent studying and teaching the human form by the author, Gottfried Bammes. This exceptional guide to life drawing is second to none in terms of depth of treatment, clarity and accessibilityand is therefore suitable for artists of al ...Show more
500 Self-portraits by Julian Bell
$29.95 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Reading Level: very good
A new version of a Phaidon classic published in 1937, this evocative and fascinating book, now issued as a paperback, presents 500 of the world's greatest self-portraits, arranged in a simple chronological sequence from ancient times to the late twentieth century. 'The mirror, above all - the mirror is ...Show more
Voyaging Out - British Women Artists from Suffrage to the Sixties by Carolyn Trant; Anon; Joyce Townsend
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
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 some of the gaps in traditional art histories. Introducing the lives and works o ...Show more
Tolkien: Treasures by Catherine McIlwaine
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
This beautifully illustrated book showcases the highlights of the Tolkien archives held at the Bodleian Library. From J. R. R. Tolkien's childhood in the Midlands and his experience of the First World War to his studies at school and university, from his exquisite illustrations for The Silmarillion, The ...Show more
Indian Art Art And Ideas by Vidya Dehejia
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Series: Art and Ideas Ser.
A full and up-to-date history of the subcontinent's artistic heritage.
Monsters and Myths - Surrealism and War in the 1930s And 1940s by Oliver Shell + Oliver Tostmann Ed.
$85.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements
Despite the political and personal turmoil, it was a period of surprising brilliance and fertility: avant-garde artists on both sides of the Atlantic pushed themselves to engage artistically with the psychological forces propelling contemporary history, and some of the most potent and striking images of ...Show more
Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters by Martin Gayford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Series: Bacon, Freud, Hockney & The London Painters
'What can painting do?' This question bound together a diverse community of artists in London after the Second World War. In answering it, many became household names: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Gillian Ayres, Frank Bowling, Howard Hodgkin and more.Drawing ...Show more
Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now by Antony Gormley, Martin Gayford
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Reading Level: new
Sculpture is the universal art. It has been practised by every culture throughout the world and stretches back into the distant past. The first surviving shaped stones may even predate the advent of language. The drive to form stone, clay, wood and metal into shapes evidently runs deep in our psyche and ...Show more