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Oceanic Art by Nicholas Thomas
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
The dazzling colours and patterns of the art of the Pacific Islands have long entranced Western audiences, not least artists such as Gauguin and Picasso. The tendency has been to regard Oceanic art as 'primitive', mysterious and shrouded in taboo, but Nicholas Thomas, in looking at and beyond the famili ...Show more
Outsider Art by Colin Rhodes
$28.00 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Series: World of Art S.
Surveys the history and reception of outsider art, work produced outside the mainstream of modern Western art. From the spirit-guided Madge Gill to the schizophrenic Adolph Wolfli, the book explores how these individuals passionately and obsessively explore the pictorial expression of their vision.
Surrealist Art by Sarane Alexandrian
$28.00 AUD
Category: Galleries | Series: World of Art S.
Surrealism was a revolution. Unlike other modern movements such as cubism and geometrical abstraction, it was not based purely on artistic innovation; its aim was nothing less than the liberation, in art and in life, of the resources of the subconscious mind. Sarane Alexandrian traces the development of ...Show more
The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art Theory/Movements | Series: World of Art Ser.
In the twenty-first century, photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a legitimate medium, equal in status to painting and sculpture. The Photograph as Contemporary Art introduces ...Show more
The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design by Nikolaus Pevsner; Kenneth Frampton (Foreword by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art Ser.
The turn of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design, leading to the emergence of two contrasting styles: art nouveau and the International Style. Professor Nikolaus Pevsner brings clarity to this period of dynamic change by tracing the origins of twe ...Show more
The World of Late Antiquity - Ce 150-750 by Peter Brown
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
The first century CE was one of momentous events: the end of the Roman Empire, the rise of Christianity across Western Europe, and the disappearance of Persia from the Near East. An era in which the most deep-rooted ancient institutions disappeared, creating divergent legacies that are still present tod ...Show more
Turner by Graham Reynolds; David Blayney Brown (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Artists | Series: World of Art Ser.
Few British artists have ever achieved such a wide range of style in oil painting, watercolor, drawing, and engraving as J. M. W. Turner. This classic book in the World of Art series traces the artist's career from youthful, picturesque views and watercolors of Gothic ruins, to romantic landscapes and h ...Show more
William Blake by Kathleen Raine
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: World of Art Ser.
Prophet, poet, painter and engraver -- William Blake was an artist of uniquely powerful imagination and far-reaching creative gifts. His work expresses the spiritual drama of the English national being, integrating poetry and visual art in a sustained work of visionary creativity unparalleled in English ...Show more
Women, Art, and Society by Whitney Chadwick
$39.99 AUD
Category: Artists | Series: World of Art Ser.
Art historian Whitney Chadwick's acclaimed bestselling study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who "transcended" their gender to produce major works of art. While introducing some of the many women since the Middle Ages whose contributions to visual culture ha ...Show more