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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
Looking at Pictures by Susan Woodford
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Category: General Art and Design | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
Beautifully illustrated with some of the world's greatest pictures, from cave paintings and Roman mosaics to Picasso and Damien Hirst, this affordable guide explains the art of looking at and understanding pictures, equipping the reader with the vision and tools to approach any museum picture with confi ...Show more
Street Art - Art Essentials by Simon Armstrong; Anon; Makoto Azuma
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Category: Art Theory/Movements | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
A comprehensive history and interpretation of the street art movement, featuring all of the key practitioners in a colorful combination of sharp images and insightful commentary. Street art is a phenomenon and subculture movement that reaches from the darkest urban backstreets to the most glamorous inte ...Show more
Surrealism - Art Essentials by Amy Dempsey
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Category: Art Theory/Movements | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
Surrealism was launched as a literary and artistic movement by French poet Andre Breton in 1924, and by the time of his death in 1966 it had become one of the most popular and recognizable art movements of the twentieth century. Contrary to common belief, surrealism was created in contrast to the chaos ...Show more
The Self-Portrait - Art Essentials by Natalie Rudd
$21.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
A lively and accessible introduction to self- portraiture, reflecting on the work of over sixty artists from the Renaissance to the present day. After six centuries, self-portraiture shows no sign of losing its ability to capture the public imagination. Self-portraits have the power to illuminate a ran ...Show more
Women Artists by Flavia Frigeri
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Category: Artists | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
Focusing on fifty diverse women artists, from Lavinia Fontana and Artemisia Gentileschi through Judy Chicago, Ana Mendieta and the Guerrilla Girls to Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and Louise Bourgeois, this book equips the reader with a general understanding of the history of art by women, as well as an ...Show more
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