This is Dali by Catherine Ingram
$19.99 AUD
Category: Famous artists | Series: This is
Salvador Dalí is one of the most popular artists in the world, known for his lavish lifestyle, gravity-defying moustache, and bizarre art. This book tells the story of Dalí's life and explores the meaning of his Surrealist paintings. It goes beyond his fine art practice and discusses his venture into th ...Show more
Beckmann by Reinhard Spieler
$45.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists | Series: T25
Max Beckmann (1884-1950) found his central theme in the loneliness of the twentieth century man, threatened by catastrophe and torn between materialism and freedom of mind and spirit. His early pictures showed the influence of Impressionism, with a preponderance of biblical, historical, and allegorical ...Show more
A Day with Marie-Antoinette: An Intimate Portrait of Her Life at Versailles by Hélène Delalex; Francis Hammond; Catherine Pégard
$49.99 AUD
Category: Famous artists | Series: A\Day At Ser.
Featuring personal correspondence, lavish illustrations, and a wealth of unpublished material, this handsome slipcased volume reveals an intimate portrait of Marie Antoinette, her personal collections, and Versailles. Marie Antoinette was a mirror of her time. Never has a queen been so passionately admi ...Show more
Monet: The Early Years by George T. M. Shackelford
$65.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
This elegant volume is the first to be devoted to the young genius of Claude Monet (1840-1926). Bringing together the greatest paintings from his early career-including his first Salon-exhibited work, the Kimbell Art Museum's La Pointe de la Heve at Low Tide; Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) ...Show more
Sanctuary by Transglobe
$100.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
From Botticelli to Bacon, da Vinci to Damien Hirst, artists have invested their personalities in the environments in which they have worked. Although today numerous artists have abandoned the studio model in favor of new modes of working enabled by new technologies, the studio space, often containing th ...Show more
Klimt and the Women of Vienna's Golden Age, 1900 1918 by Tobias G. Natter
$110.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
This authoritative and generously illustrated book highlights Gustav Klimt s portrayals of women in his work. Klimt was a central figure in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, and a crucial link between nineteenth-century Symbolism and Modernism. His sensual portrayals of women are among his mo ...Show more
Tate Watercolor Manual: Lessons from the Great Masters by Joyce H. Townsend; Tony Smibert
$29.95 AUD
Category: Famous artists
A classic medium, watercolor is practiced by many but mastered by few. This accessible and clear workbook is both a practical guide and an informative history. Beginning with a "1-day course," the chapters cover technique, equipment, general theory, painting plein air, and conservation. The authors also ...Show more
Basquiat by Himself by Dieter Buchhart
$80.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
An American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) first made a name for himself as part of a graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams on the Manhattan's Lower East Side during the 1970s, a place and time that saw the coalescence of hip hop, punk, and street art cult ...Show more
Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces by Miles J. Unger
$36.99 AUD
Category: Famous artists
Among the immortals-Leonardo, Rembrandt, Picasso-Michelangelo stands alone as a master of painting, sculpture, and architecture. He was not only the greatest artist in an age of giants, but a man who reinvented the practice of art itself. Throughout his long career he clashed with patrons by insisting t ...Show more
Margaret Olley by Barry Pearce
$120.00 AUD
Category: Famous artists
Margaret Hannah Olley AC (24 June 1923 -- 26 July 2011) was an Australian painter. She was the subject of more than 90 solo exhibitions. Margaret Olley was born in Lismore, New South Wales. She attended Somerville House in Brisbane during her high school years. She was so focused on art that she dropped ...Show more
This is Pollock by Catherine Ingram
$19.95 AUD
Category: Famous artists | Series: This is
In 1956 Time magazine referred to Pollock as 'Jack the Dripper'. His iconic paintings stretch out with the generosity and scale of the landscape of America's West where the artist grew up. Pollock said that he painted 'out of his consciousness': the cathartic dribbled paint reflected his troubled mind. ...Show more
A Day with Claude Monet in Giverny by Adrien Goetz
$49.99 AUD
Category: Famous artists | Series: A Day with | Reading Level: General Adult
This beautiful, slipcased volume offers an intimate tour inside Monet's home and through the idyllic Giverny garden that inspired his most iconic paintings. Monet first spotted the village of Giverny from the window of a train and then relocated to the rural haven outside Paris in 1883. An artist with a ...Show more