Summer Reading: Art, Design & Photography
A Brush With Birds
$34.95 (Paperback book / National Lib Of Aust )
The paintings of Australian birds in A Brush with Birds are by artists whose work is represented in the National Library of Australia. They span the years from first settlement to the 1970s, telling us about the times as... More »
Art Of Australia: Volume One
$125.00$99.95 (Hardcover book / Macmillan )
"I have on my desk the printer's proof of Art of Australia. It is quite simply the most beautiful book I've ever been involved with. The text is marvellous - fascinating, compelling and definitive from Australia's pre-em... More »
Current: Contemporary Art From Australia And New Zealand
$120.00 (Hardcover book / )
The first truly comprehensive look at contemporary art in Australia and New Zealand in this century. It explores the particular regional uniqueness which comes from a mix between Indigenous, Western and Asian cultures. F... More »
An Anthology Of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons And True Stories: Volume Two
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr )
Comic art is a vital, highly personal art form in which change—rapid and unpredictable—is the norm. In this exciting new anthology, comic artist Ivan Brunetti focuses on very recent works by contemporary artists engaged ... More »
Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric
$32.95 (Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster )
Barry Feinstein is responsible for some of the most famous images of Dylan, Inspired by a series of his photographs Dylan wrote an extraordinary series of poems that have remained unpublished for decades. Thought-provoki... More »
Annie Leibovitz: At Work
$69.95 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )
The celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz, author of the New York Times bestselling book A Photographer's Life, provides the stories, and technical description, of how some of her most famous images came to be.
Startin... More »
The Language Of Things
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
We live in a world drowning in objects. But what do they tell us about ourselves? The Language of Things, Deyan Sudjic charts our relationship - both innocent and knowing - with all things designed. From the opulent exce... More »
Little People In The City: The Street Art Of Slinkachu
$32.99 (Hardcover book / Pan Macmillan )
Brings together the collected photographs of Slinkachu, a street-artist who for several years has been leaving little hand-painted people in the bustling city to fend for themselves, waiting to be discovered. More »
Lives Of The Papunya Tula Artists
$100.00 (Hardcover book / Iad Press )
Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists by Vivien Johnson presents, as never before, the biographies of over 200 Western Desert painters from the world-acclaimed Papunya Tula Artists company in Alice Springs. Established in 19... More »
Self Portrait: Renaissance To Contemporary
$45.00$16.95 (Paperback book / Art Gallery Of Nsw )
From Van Eyck and Carracci, Velazquez and Van Gogh to Kahlo, Bonnard, Bacon and Warhol, SELF PORTRAIT: Renaissance to Contemporary celebrates the lives of artists and their unique perspective on themselves and their work... More »
Vanity Fair Portraits: A Century Of Iconic Images
$120.00$99.95 (Hardcover book / Hardie Grant )
Vanity Fair Portraits traces the cultural history of the 20th Century and its leading personalities in the pages of a magazine that helped usher in the modern age and which has itself become a benchmark of modern achieve... More »
Lost Buildings
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Cameron House )
Lost Buildings is an invitation to visit buildings long vanished or those demolished within living history, some by dim politicians, others by war or acts of God, that we would pay good money and travel a long way to see... More »
Siteless: 1001 Building Forms
$29.95 (Paperback book / Mit Press )
Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container ... More »
Voyages Of Discovery: A Visual Celebration Of Ten Of The Greatest Natural History Expeditions
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
Voyages of Discovery is a mesmerising visual record of
ten of the most significant natural history expeditions.
Superb artworks and photographs spanning three centuries document
advances and watersheds in the field of n... More »
The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture
$275.00 (Hardcover book / )
Explore the best architecture of the 21st century in this collection of 1037 exemplary buildings sited all over the world in the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture. Divided into six world regions, the Phaid... More »
Surf-O-Rama: Treasures Of Australian Surfing
$45.00 (Paperback book / Miegunyah Press )
From the dawn of Australian surfing at Boomerang Camp, Freshwater Beach in Sydney in the summer of 1915, when the great Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku gave the first demonstration of surfboard riding on his solid timber board,... More »
The Woodblock Painting Of Cressida Campbell
$120.00 (Hardcover book / )
Cressida Campbell is a renowned and gifted artist who depicts the essence of her familiar subjects in watercolour, painted woodblocks and woodblock prints. Conscious of the legacy of Margaret Preston, Campbell portrays b... More »