Banksy: Completed by Carol Diehl

$49.99 AUD

Category: Art Craft Photography

There's more to Banksy than the painting on the wall- the first in-depth investigation into the mysteries of the world's most famous living artist. Banksy is the world's most famous living artist, yet no one knows who he is. For more than twenty years, his wryly political and darkly humorous spray paint ings have appeared mysteriously on urban walls around the globe, generating headlines and controversy. Art critics disdain him, but the public (and the art market) love him. With this generously illustrated book, artist and critic Carol Diehl is the first author to probe the depths of the Banksy mystery. Through her exploration of his paintings, installations, writings, and Academy Award-nominated film, Exit through the Gift Shop, Diehl proves unequivocally that there's more to Banksy than the painting on the wall. ...Show more

Louise Farnay - Cos Life's a Beach by Louise Farnay

$49.95 AUD

Category: Art Craft Photography

My book is a soft cover, pictorial journey of my creative career from Art School days until now.

Spowers & Syme by National Gallery of Australia

$39.99 AUD

Category: Art Craft Photography

Spowers & Syme celebrates the artistic friendship of Melbourne artists Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme. Their prints, drawings and paintings - remarkable for their expressive energy - capture the zeitgeist of the interwar years.

Marvel Universe Map By Map by DK

$69.99 AUD

Category: Art Craft Photography

A premium, lavishly illustrated compendium of specially curated essays, boasting stunning, newly commissioned maps, illustrations, and diagrams, which explores iconic Marvel locations.Navigate a universe of wonders. Chart a journey across Marvel Comics' vast and vibrant universe, from its Earthbound mea n streets and hidden lands, to its mythic realms and cosmic outer reaches. This Marvel-approved compendium of specially curated essays features stunning, newly commissioned cartography, illustrations, and diagrams to help readers navigate their way around iconic locales such as Asgard, Wakanda, Atlantis, Olympus, Hell's Kitchen, Latveria, Knowhere, The Savage Land, Battleworld, and many more.Marvel Universe- Map by Map delineates the contours of the ever-expanding, complex, and interconnected Marvel Universe, illuminating the incredible locations, epic events, and extraordinary characters that have shaped it. Boasting dazzling new artwork, gorgeous comic book visuals, and insightful, authoritative text, this is a premium, indispensable way finder for any armchair explorer. ...Show more

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: The Story of Two Lives, One Nation and a Century of Art Under Tyranny by Ai Weiwei

$49.99 AUD

Category: Art Craft Photography

In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet. Hailed as 'the most important artist wor king today' by the Financial Times and as 'an eloquent and unsilenceable voice of freedom' by the New York Times, Ai Weiwei has written a sweeping memoir that presents a remarkable history of China over the last 100 years while illuminating his artistic process. Once an intimate of Mao Zedong, Ai Weiwei's father was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as 'Little Siberia', where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labour cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol. With candour and wit, he details his return to China and his rise from artistic unknown to art world superstar and international human rights activist - and how his work has been shaped by living under a totalitarian regime. Ai Weiwei's sculptures and installations have been viewed by millions around the globe, and his architectural achievements include helping to design the iconic Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium in Beijing. His political activism has long made him a target of the Chinese authorities, which culminated in months of secret detention without charge in 2011. Here, for the first time, Ai Weiwei explores the origins of his exceptional creativity and passionate political beliefs through his own life story and that of his father, whose own creativity was stifled. At once ambitious and intimate, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows offers a deep understanding of the myriad forces that have shaped modern China, and serves as a timely reminder of the urgent need to protect freedom of expression. ...Show more

Glass - The Life and Art of Klaus Moje by Nola Anderson

$69.99 AUD

Category: Art Craft Photography

Printed: images by Australian Artists 1942 — 2020 by Roger Butler

$95.00 AUD

Category: Art Craft Photography

Printed: Images by Australian artists 1942-2020 traces the history of printmaking by Australian artists during an era of dramatic changes in Australian society and the visual arts. Arranged in three sections, it begins with the innovative wartime policy initiatives of the Commonwealth. Reconstruction Sc heme which laid the groundwork for crucial development in the arts. In this period émigré artists and Australian artists returning home helped established printmaking societies, art galleries and publishers — which underpinned the growing popularity of this most democratic of art forms.The second section explores the rise of political and social posters, which became one of the most dynamic forms of print practice in the 1970s and 1980s, and prints by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists which have been at the forefront of Australian art since the 1970s. The book's final section discusses the continuing responses by printmakers to key concerns of our time, focusing on the themes of land and identity. ...Show more

My First Book of Sewing by CATHERINE GUIDICELLI

$45.99 AUD

Category: Art Craft Photography

This easy-to-follow reference is specially written for beginners of all ages and makes learning the basics of sewing a breeze From choosing patterns, cutting fabric, and assembling the pieces to operating a sewing machine, hemming, and attaching buttons -- this book is the perfect companion. In these pages you'll find more than 20 fun projects to get you started -- including appliques, pennants, cushion covers, tote bags and other designs that offer an increasing challenge as you progress -- all with step-by-step instructions. They are accompanied by clear diagrams that explain the techniques behind each item. Either follow the projects in order, gradually building up your expertise, or pick and choose among them. ...Show more

This Dark Country: Women Artists and Still Life in the Early Twentieth Century by Rebecca Birrell

$49.99 AUD

Category: Art Craft Photography

'A brilliant book ... A truly radical aesthetics fit for the twenty-first century at last!' - Thérèse Oulton '[A] wonderful book. I am impressed and fascinated. It is beautifully written' - Celia Paul 'A magnificent debut by one of Britain's most electrifying new talents' Camilla Grudova Lemons gleam in a bowl. Flowers fan out softly in a vase. A door swings open in a sparsely furnished room. What is contained in a still life - and what falls out of the frame? For women artists in the early twentieth century, including Ethel Sands, Nina Hamnett, Vanessa Bell and Gwen John, who lived in and around the Bloomsbury Group, this art form was a conduit for their lives, their rebellions, their quiet loves for men and women. Gluck, who challenged the framing of her gender and her art, painted flowers arranged by the woman she loved; Dora Carrington, a Slade School graduate, recorded eggs on a table at Tidmarsh Mill, where she built a richly fulfilling if delicate life with Lytton Strachey. But for every artist we remember, there is one we have forgotten; who leaves only elusive traces; whose art was replaced by being a mother or wife; whose remaining artworks lie dusty in archives or attics. In this boldly original blend of group biography and art criticism, Rebecca Birrell brings these shadowy figures into the light and conducts a dazzling investigation into the structures of intimacy that make - and dismantle - our worlds. ...Show more

Colour Your Way: Botanicals by Edith Rewa by Edith Rewa

$14.99 AUD

Category: Art Craft Photography | Series: Colour Your Way Ser.

Colour Your Way: Botanicals by Edith Rewa is a gorgeous colouring book showcasing the unique flora of Australia as seen through the eyes of textile designer and illustrator Edith Rewa. Includes 80 pages of blank colouring-in artwork to help you find mindfulness through nature's beauty.  

Micro Life: Miracles of the Miniature World Revealed by DK

$59.99 AUD

Category: Art Craft Photography

This book combines graceful design and beautiful photography to provide an elegant introduction to microscopic natureExplore the everyday miracle of the microscopic worldWith spectacular macro photography and microscope images, this book reveals a hidden, living world full of intricate structures beyond the naked eye. Included are the tiniest insects and spiders, but looking deeper, you will discover truly microscopic creatures - even bacteria and viruses. Earth is home to more microbes, and more different types of microbes, than any other living organism. Bacteria on Earth outweigh humans by 1,100 to 1 and without them, all world ecosystems would collapse. This book reveals this vital, unseen realm, but it includes large life-forms too, in extreme close-up, so that you can wonder at the beauty of a pollen grain, a butterfly egg, the spore of a fungus, and the nerve cell of a human. The spectacular imagery in Micro Life exploits cutting-edge technology, such as focus-stacked macro photographs, as well as micrographs (microscope images) including scanning electron micrographs. Illustrations nearby explain the science - from the workings of an insect's eye to how a plant "breathes" through its leaves. The biology builds into a reference on how life works - and how all organisms, however small, solve the basic problems of movement, reproduction, energy, communication, and defence.Micro Life is a beautiful and surprising look at the natural world. ...Show more

Sticky Monsters by John Kenn Mortensen

$19.99 AUD

Category: Art Craft Photography

John Kenn Mortensen's day job is directing children's TV, and in his spare time he takes care of his young twins. But then, when darkness falls, he forgets everything cute and cuddly, takes out his pen and post-it notes, and wonderfully scary monsters burst forth on to the pad. Here we have collected so me of the best monster drawings in a delectable hardback edition. ...Show more