Di Bresciani: Compositions in Colour by Bresciani Di
$99.95 AUD
Category: Australian Art And Design
The paintings of Di Bresciani, artist and musician, were exhibited at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in Touwnsville in August to coincide with the renowned Australian Festival of Chamber Music. Texts in this multiauthored, richly colour illustrated publication focus on relationshiops between music and ...Show more
Drunken Buddha the by Ian Fairweather
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian Art And Design
In 1965, UQP first published Ian Fairweather's The Drunken Buddha. His iconic translation of an ancient Chinese novel, illustrated with his paintings, was praised by scholars and readers alike. Fairweather was fascintated by Chinese calligraphy and possessed great knowledge of popular Buddhism; his tran ...Show more
Art of Australia Voume 1: Exploration to Federation by John McDonald
$125.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art And Design | Reading Level: very good
In this first volume of a brilliant history of Australian art, John McDonald, the highly-regarded art critic of the Sydney Morning Herald, takes us from the times of pre-history, settlement and exploration, to the end of the colonial era. In the first comprehensive overview of the field since the 1960s, ...Show more
Ancestral Connections: Art And An A by Morphy, Howard
$48.95 AUD
Category: Australian Art And Design
Gordon Bennett - Selected Writings by Angela Goddard (Editor); Tim Riley Walsh (Editor)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art And Design
Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings is the first publication to survey the writing practice of the late Gordon Bennett (1955 2014), giving vital insight into one of Australia's most important contemporary artists in his own words. Bringing together nearly forty published and unpublished essays, artist's s ...Show more
Old Masters: Australia's Great Bark Painters by National Museum of Australia
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Art And Design
Bark painting, as practised by Aboriginal artists of Arnhem Land for millennia, is one of the great traditions of world art. Yet it was only recognised as such late in the 20th century. Old Masters: Australia's Great Bark Artists highlights the work of 40 master painters who have carried one of the olde ...Show more
Treasures of Botanical Art by Shirley Sherwood; Martyn Rix
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art And Design | Series: KEW GARDENS
Drawing from the Kew and Shirley Sherwood collections, Treasures of Botanical Art reveals the history of botanical painting, a genre devoted to beauty and science in equal measure. With its origins in fifteenth-century illustrations used to explain the medicinal and culinary uses of plants, botanical ar ...Show more