Art & design books 2019
Australian Designers at Home
A tour through the homes of twenty of Australia's leading interior designers.
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Step into Paradise: Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson
Step into Paradise explores the compelling stories and creative practice of iconic designers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson, whose pioneering style created a bold and unashamedly Australian fashion identity.
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Postures: Body Language in Art
This copiously illustrated book, by the ever-provocative Desmond Morris, is a pioneering and lively exploration of the importance of body language in how we understand art.
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Great Women Artists
Five centuries of fascinating female creativity presented in more than 400 compelling artworks and one comprehensive volume
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Ways of Drawing
A generously illustrated collection of essays on drawing as a vital intellectual, artistic, and life practice--by the artists of the Royal Drawing School.
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In An Australian Light: Photographs from Across the Country
The light in Australia is like nowhere else on Earth
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Threads: Contemporary Embroidery Art
Showcasing over 80 international artists who incorporate embroidery into their practice, this book provides a survey of embroidery in contemporary art, illustrating the huge range of ways in which the craft has been embraced as a...
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Iconic: Modern Australian Houses, 1950-2000
Karen McCartney's bestselling books on modern Australian architecture now in a collectable single best-of edition with completely updated design.
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Olive Cotton
A landmark biography of a singular and important Australian photographer, Olive Cotton, by an award-winning writer - beautifully written and deeply moving.
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Hildegard von Bingen: A Journey into the Images
Describing 26 of Hildegard's religious visions in text and a series of 35 miniature illustrations, this series narrates the journey of the humanity in Eve's womb, represented as bright stars, as it joins with the stars in the sky:...
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Present Tense: Anna Schwartz Gallery and Thirty-Five Years of Contemporary Australian Art
This vivid and revealing account of thirty-five years of art and history revolves around the locus of the internationally renowned Anna Schwartz Gallery and its eponymous founder.
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Australian Galleries: The Purves Family Business First Four Decades, 1956-1999
This beautiful publication is a celebration of the significant contribution Australian Galleries has had on the Australian commercial gallery scene.
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Elegance: The Beauty of French Fashion
Best-selling author Megan Hess is back with her ode to classic French fashion.
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Dorodango: The Japanese Art of Making Mud Balls
Alongside beautiful photographs of the process, master dorodango maker Bruce Gardner covers every aspect of making and finishing your dorodango, accompanied by inspiring words on the mindful qualities of this earthy activity.
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Dogs in Space: A Film Archive
Dogs in Space - The Diaries presents for the first time the candid (and entertaining) 'shoot diary', kept by Lowenstein over the course of conceiving, funding and making the film between 1984 and 1987
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Courtyard Living: Contemporary Houses of the Asia-Pacific
An inspiring architecture and interior design survey of the most stunning courtyard houses of the Asia-Pacific region.
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The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters and Revelations
Bestselling author of Modernists & Mavericks Martin Gayford recounts some of the extraordinary journeys he has made in the name of art.
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Joseph Banks' Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook’s First Voyage
A compact edition of Joseph Banks' extraordinary botanical engravings of flora discovered on Captain Cook's first voyage.
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Queer X Design
Published in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Stonewall and the Gay Pride Parade, this is the first-ever illustrated history of the iconic art, symbols, and design that represent more than 5 decades of LGBTQ pride and...
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Concrete Houses: The Poetics of Form
Concrete Houses explores the sculptural possibilities of concrete as the material of choice in landmark contemporary houses across the world
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Connecting: Harness Your Emotions to Enhance Your Creativity
Connecting is an homage to our creative forces. Each page is an illustrative example designed to enlighten, illuminate, challenge and provoke. You can start anywhere, dip in and out or read it end to end.
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Appearance Stripped Bare
The first book to explore two of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art side by side, Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons
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Almost Alive: Hyperrealistic sculpture in art
From the 1960s and 1970s onwards, different sculptors became involved with a mode of realism based on the physically lifelike ap pearance of the human body. By deploying traditional techniques of modelling,...
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Art & Queer Culture
A revised, updated edition of the acclaimed historical overview of Queer art - available for the first time in paperback
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Walter Gropius
Bauhaus was more than an architectural trend - it was the birth of a new way of thinking. This is a captivating biography of the visionary Walter Gropius whose ideas still set the pattern for the way we live, work, and think...
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Hockney – Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature
A parallel look at Hockney and Van Gogh's love of nature as expressed in their landscape paintings.
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Japanese Style at Home: A Room by Room Guide
A highly practical guide that shows readers how to add Japanese style to their home one room at a time.
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The World Exists to be Put on a Postcard: Artists' Postcards from 1960 to Now
The postcard as you've never seen it before. This appealing book collects the best of these mail-able, miniature works of art by the likes of Yoko Ono and Carl Andre.
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52 Assignments: Street Photography
A photographic workshop and journal filled with prompts and projects, sparks, nudges, innovations and inspirations to put the creativity back into your photography.
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Shared Living
A source book for 20 and 30-somethings living in 'grown-up' share houses Interiors inspiration and styling advice for share homes around the world.
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Blooms and Brushstrokes: A Floral History of Australian Art
Blooms and Brushstrokes takes you on a unique journey through the history of Australian art, one flower at a time, examining the blooms depicted in still lifes, floral portraits, decorative interiors and botanical illustrations by...
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Elmgreen & Dragset
Elmgreen & Dragset's constructed environments have been celebrated all over the world for their mischievous, cerebral, and accessible nature. This is the first comprehensive presentation of the duo's work, from their early...
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The Designer’s Dictionary of Type
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Mid-Century Modern: Icons of Design
This gift book, featuring sophisticated illustrations of classic pieces, is a must- have for lovers of Mid- Century Modern design.
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Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective
Forty five key women of the Bauhaus movement.
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Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism
Brimming with some of the brightest stars in the contemporary art world, this is a far-reaching exploration of the very best landscape painting now.
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Taxidermy
The most comprehensive and beautiful survey of taxidermy ever published.
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Shapes Of Knowledge
‘Shapes of Knowledge' revolves around notions of research, the laboratory, and learning and teaching in relation to art practice. The exhibition at Monash University Museum of Art is the most extensive survey of its kind in...
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Tate: Colour: A Visual History
Discover the fascinating stories of how colour was recorded, explored and brought to the masses.
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The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality
Once again, women are on the march. And since its inception in the 19th century, the women's movement has harnessed the power of images to transmit messages of social change and equality to the world.
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So Much Longing in So Little Space
Karl Ove Knausgaard on the artist Edvard Munch, and how we experience the world through art
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Women Artists
Small, smart, essential - a chronological introduction to women artists through 500 years of history, providing a rich understanding of key female artists from the Baroque to today.
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The Book of the Flower: Flowers in Art
A beautiful and informative gift book of flowers in art
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Surrealism
Small, smart, essential - an incisive overview of Surrealism, introducing the movement's key artists and capturing its essential and enduring concepts.
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New York Postcards
Award-winning artist Marco Luccio's latest exhibition-NEW YORK POSTCARDS-featuring over 150 works in varying mediums including ink, acrylic, and drypoint, composed on original postcards collected in New York.
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The Short Story of Modern Art
The Short Story of Modern Art explains the how, why and when of modern art - who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and why they matter.
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30,000 Years of Art
An accessible, comprehensive, freshly-updated celebration of the vast range of human artistry from 28,000 BC to today
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Ben Quilty
Ben Quilty has worked across a range of media including drawing, photography, sculpture, installation and film. His works often respond to social and political events, from the current global refugee crisis to the complex social...
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Bauhaus. Updated Edition
This handy, updated edition explores the Bauhaus School of Art and Design through some 575 illustrations and biographies of its key personalities. Realized in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin, the reference work is...
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