Art & design books from 2016

The Best of Grand Designs Australia
The Best of Grand Designs Australia is a selection of inspiring homes from Australia's best loved home design show, featuring some of the most innovative and inspirational homes to feature through series 1-5.
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Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present
From the creator/editor of Who Shot Rock & Roll ("I loved this book" --Dwight Garner, The New York Times): the first book to show the range, cultural importance, and aesthetics of sports photography through the work...
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The Curated Closet: A Simple System for Discovering Your Personal Style and Building Your Dream Wardrobe
Presents a strategic approach to identifying, refining, and expressing personal style and building the ideal wardrobe to match it, with every day style and shopping strategies.
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The Urban Woodsman
This book appeals to the modern man and woman looking for a creative outlet that will connect them to their environment, be they in the city or the countryside. All projects are displayed and explained clearly so that you will...
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Experience: Culture, Cognition, and the Common Sense
A book that produces sensory experiences while bringing the concept of experience itself into relief as a subject of criticism and an object of contemplation.
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Jeppe Hein: This Way
Art as a social tool for cross-cultural exchange
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The Secret Lives of Colour
The unforgettable history of colours and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-coloured volume
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Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear
Reveals the stories underlying the clothes we wear in this stylish tour of the most important developments in the history of fashion, from ancient times to the present day. This title shows how the way we dress is inextricably...
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The Art of Dinosaur Designs
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Clay: Contemporary Ceramic Artisans
Once upon a time pottery schools saw an increase in enrolments whenever the film Ghost aired on television. Today it is all year round. From decorative pieces to the primarily functional to sculptural works pushing the boundaries...
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Frida Kahlo at Home
Frida Kahlo at Home explores the influence of Mexican culture and tradition, La Casa Azul and other places Frida Kahlo called home, on her life and work.
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Margaret Preston: Recipes for Food and Art
In the style of Sunday's Kitchen, Margaret Preston's cookbook will tell a story of art, food and social times of this much-admired artist. The Margaret Preston recipe book (held in the NGA collection) is full of handwritten...
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Street Art World
Based on twenty years of research in the graffiti and street art scenes, Street Art World is the first book to provide a history and context for the words and images that appear in cities all around the world. Inviting the reader...
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Plant, Exploring the Botanical World
The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers, featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever
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Kaffe Fassett’s Bold Blooms: Quilts and Other Works Celebrating Flowers
An inside look at the design process of quilt expert Kaffe Fassett, plus new quilt patterns and needlepoints
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The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists-Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon-whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred...
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Fine Jewelry Couture: Contemporary Heirlooms
Hailing from Australia, Brazil, France, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Russia, Turkey, the UK and USA, this book features over 35 master jewelry designers, organized alphabetically. Each designer is introduced...
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The Hinterland: Cabins, Love Shacks and Other Hide-Outs
Exploring architecture and design approaches to creating the remote refuge wherever it may be
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A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen
The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. In this book, each chapter addresses an important question: What happens when we try to express reality in two...
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Brett Whiteley: Art, Life And The Other Thing
The first authorized biography of this iconic twentieth-century artist, illustrated with classic artworks, rare notebook sketches and candid family photos.
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The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads: Art Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson
The very best Wes Anderson-inspired artwork from the annual Bad Dads art exhibition, curated by Spoke Art Gallery
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The Legacies Of Bernard Smith: Essays on Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics
It has been widely asserted that Bernard Smith established the discipline of art history in Australia. He was the founding professor of contemporary art and the....
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The New Pavilions
Pavilions have myriad forms and as many functions. This is a selection of the best examples produced in recent years. It features pavilions ranging from the advanced forms of Sou Fujimoto to Zaha Hadid's Chanel pavilion, from...
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Melbourne Street Art Guide
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Rene Magritte: Selected Writings
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New Deal Photography. USA 1935-1943
How the Farm Security Administration introduced America to Americans
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Peacock and Vine: Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work
Born a generation apart, they were seeming opposites: Mariano Fortuny, a Spanish aristocrat thrilled by the cultures of Crete and Knossos; William Morris, a British craftsman, in thrall to the myths of the North. Yet through their...
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Fairy Tale Fashion
A conceptually innovative and visually stunning investigation of the interconnected worlds of high fashion and fairy tales
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Performing for the Camera
Performing for the Camera examines how the photograph has both documented and developed our understanding of performance since the invention of the photographic medium. It engages with both the serious business of art and...
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Family Photography Now
Explores the ways in which photographers from across the globe are viewing the complicated dynamics of family life. This title analyses the complex attachments between brothers and sisters, parents and children, step-families and...
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The Book of the Bird: Birds in Art
A stimulating and beautiful collection of images of all things avian, from international artists and illustrators, both historical and contemporary
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Hegel’s Owl: The Life Of Bernard Smith
Bernard Smith began life as a ward of the State; he would go on to become the father of Australian art history. In 2008, Smith invited writer and art historian Sheridan Palmer to write his biography. Through years of interviews...
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Make Your Mark: The New Urban Artists
Divided into three: 'Draw', 'Paint', 'Make', this book celebrates and discusses the work of forty-five urban artists, extraordinarily diverse but united by one basic principle: their work is completely fresh, original and the...
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Money
This is a book about the pictures on banknotes: pictures of political subject-matter, historical milestones, distinguished personages, status symbols, and landscapes. By the trio of artists, Prill Vieceli Cremers
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On Being An Artist
Provides lesson after valuable lesson to anyone wishing to know what it means and what it takes to be an artist today. In this book the author gives practical advice and insights gained from his own professional highs and lows. It...
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Under the Edge: The Architecture of Peter Stutchbury
Peter Stutchbury's award-winning architecture continues to stimulate a new and increasing awareness of the potential for designing with the Australian landscape and its environment. This book deals with of all his works and his...
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Perfect Imperfect: The beauty of accident, age & patina
An interior design book that embodies a philosophy of thoughtfulness and creativity in living.
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Norwegian Wood
The phenomenal Norwegian bestseller - Everything you wanted to know about wood but were afraid to ask
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Dream Treehouses: Extraordinary Designs from Concept to Completion
French design company La Cabane Perchee presents 40 extraordinary treehouses designed and built by the acclaimed team.
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The Simple Home
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Vintage Details: A Fashion Sourcebook
Features a collection of over 550 beautifully photographed details from previously unseen 20th-century vintage clothing. This title is a suitable reference to vintage detailing for fashion design students and professionals.
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Margaret Preston
An illustrated monograph that looks at the life and art of Margaret Preston, an artist who practised in her native Australia from the mid-1890s right up to her death in 1963.
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Half the Sky: Conversations with women artists in China
The dynamic artistic centres of China are producing some of the most interesting and compelling contemporary art of our time. But there are fascinating stories as yet insufficiently told: the stories of women artists. It was...
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Serious Play: The Art of Kevin Mortensen
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Floral Patterns of India
From the illustrious Mughal Empire during its greatest period of monument-building and artistic creativity to the time of British rule, the richness of India's architecture is overwhelming. The author's fine photographs reveals...
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Inside Street Art Melbourne
Inside Street Art Melbourne is the ultimate beginner's photographic springboard to street art. Go on your own self-guided tour or take a vicarious visual trip via the images of these powerful and inspiring works of art.
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Lumitecture: Illuminating Interiors for Designers & Architects
Light makes an architectural space livable, shapes it and guides us within it. The role of light reaches well beyond practical needs and can create environments, emotions and spatial illusions. This publication captures the most...
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Inside Haute Couture: Behind the Scenes at the Paris Ateliers
With exclusive photographs by Guillaume de Laubier and text by Desiree Sadek, Inside Haute Couture offers a private tour of 10 meccas of French fashion
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Tom Roberts: and the Art of Portraiture
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