New art & design books

The Life & Love of the Forest
We are not alone: plants make up 80 per cent of the total biomass of Earth, while humans are only 0.0001 per cent.
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Living Outside: Reviving the Australian Modernist Garden
The Australian garden was born mid-20th-century, a time of postwar confidence and growing national identity. Gardens became outdoor rooms for recreation and healthy living - removing the barriers between inside and out - and bold...
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Chalet Monet
Situated in a dress circle position on the slopes of the village of Les Avants, overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland, Chalet Monet is the magnificent home of Dame Joan Sutherland OM AC DBE and her husband, Maestro Richard...
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The Art Book, revised edition
A brand-new revised and updated edition of Phaidon's accessible, acclaimed A-Z guide to the most important artists of all time
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The Design Book
The ultimate collection of the most innovative, beautiful, and influential products ever designed - now fully up to date
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Atlas of Brutalist Architecture
A landmark survey of one of architecture's most controversial yet popular styles - in a great, new, classic edition
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MMXX
MMXX tells the story of architecture in Australia in the first two decades of the 21st century.
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Streeton
With his remarkable evocations of light and the landscape, Australian artist Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) remains one of the most enduring and popular painters in Australian art.
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Why French Women Wear Vintage: and other secrets of sustainable style
The French way to an eco-conscious, super-stylish wardrobe from Paris-based style coach Alois Guinut.
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Mau MC24: Bruce Mau’s 24 Principles for Designing Massive Change in your Life and Work
24 global, generous, and galvanizing principles to overhaul the way we think and to inspire massive change
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In Search of Elsewhere
A unique collection of previously unseen images spanning Steve McCurry's extraordinary career.
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Dronescapes
The ultimate aerial tour of creative drone photography, brimming with remarkable images from around the globe and selected from the world's leading drone photography website.
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Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers how Artemisia overcame a turbulent past to become one of the foremost painters of...
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The Honest Art Dictionary
The Honest Art Dictionary is an informative and entertaining dictionary of over 300 art terms - from the peculiar to the pretentious. Authoritative and informative, humorous and informal, the book will act as a valuable primer for...
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How to Be an Artist
Irreverent and inspiring advice for awakening your creative potential, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic.
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Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now
One of the greatest living sculptors and a well-known art critic examine the central role of sculpture in the development of human culture from prehistory to the present day.
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Abstract Art: A Global History
An important new survey on abstract art that takes content as a guide to form, and breaks open the canon to make room for artists from across the globe.
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Van Eyck
Accompanies the biggest ever exhibition on the Flemish master Jan Van Eyck, a once-in-a-lifetime experience that makes the artist's world more tangible than ever before.
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Life Meets Art: Inside the Homes of the World’s Most Creative People
An inspiring collection of the extraordinary private spaces of 250 of the world's most creative people, past and present
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High Grade Living
A handbook for shifting from stressed, anxious and overwhelmed to creative, grounded and happy, using ancient knowledge applied to modern living.
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Homes For Our Time (40th Anniversary Edition)
Across small cottages and lavish villas, beach houses and forest refuges, discover the world's finest crop of new homes.
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Living In
Take a rare look inside of some of the world's most extraordinary homes, curated by leading design magazine, Openhouse.
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Robin Boyd: Late Works
Robin Boyd: Late Works unveils the urban and public architectural projects designed by Robin Boyd, one of Australia's most iconic mid-century modernists, in the final decade before his untimely death in 1971.
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Becoming Our Future: Global Indigenous Curatorial Practice
This volume explores the way Indigenous visual art and culture operates within, and from, a structural framework that is unique to the cultural milieu.
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Unfinished Business: The Art of Gordon Bennett
Unfinished Business offers fresh insight into the work of Australian artist Gordon Bennett (1955-2014), including new interpretations of his intelligent synthesis of influences and ideas and globally recognised contribution to...
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Philip Hughes: Painting the Ancient Land of Australia
Taking in deep varicoloured mines, broad rolling plains, vast imposing landforms and exquisite calm bays, the landscape paintings of Philip Hughes comprise a love letter to Australia.
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Makers Paris
Meet the extraordinary community of artisans and creative entrepreneurs making their mark on Paris today.
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Adelaide Hills Gardens
The Adelaide Hills charts the evolution of gardening in Australia. And though anchored deeply in history, many of its gardens have their sights set firmly on the future.
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The Garden State
Photographed across all four seasons, The Garden State showcases the finest private gardens of Victoria from all angles, highlighting the diversity of each region.
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Home by Natural Harry
Down-to-earth recipes for a resourceful, tox-free and waste-free home life.
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Resident Dog
Stylish, architecturally designed homes and the canine heads of the house.
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Sustainable & Fashionable: Melbourne
As consumers grapple with the sustainability and ethics of mass production 80 Melbourne makers offer a gentle - and beautiful - alternative. From clothing and shoes to jewellery to hats this guide showcases the incredible talent...
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A Century of Colour in Design
An engaging and informative review of the importance and application of colour in design.
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Humans
The thrilling new book that brings people all around the world together by the creator of Humans of New York
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Truth Bomb
If anyone can teach us how to pursue the life and work of an artist, it is the artists in Truth Bomb.
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Northside: A time and place
From the photographer behind Westography and Suburbia.
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Living in the Mountains
A breathtaking survey of contemporary homes, each with a deep connection to the landscapes and vistas of the mountains
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Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom
A comprehensive and sumptuous survey that celebrates the beauty and appeal of flowers throughout art, history, and culture
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Materialising Colour: Journeys with Giulio Ridolfo
A fascinating journey into the world of textiles and color through the eyes of Kvadrat expert Giulio Ridolfo
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Kristian Fredrikson: Designer
This book examines the life and career of acclaimed designer for the theatre, Kristian Fredrikson (1940-2005). Fredrikson worked across theatrical genres including in theatre, dance, opera, and film and television. ...
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Rone: Street Art and Beyond
Known for his multi-storey murals gracing buildings all over the world, Melbourne-based artist Rone uses his work to explore the friction and connection between beauty and decay, youth and ruin.
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Still: The Slow Home
A stunning visual journey through the homes of people from around the world who have taken steps to simplify their lives and embrace the principles of slow living.
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Do You Read Me?
Lose yourself in the pages of this showcase of some of the most beautiful, innovative, and successful bookshops around the world.
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The Stranger Artist
Set in the striking landscape of the East Kimberley, The Stranger Artistis a true story of life, loss and friendship that cuts to the heart of one of Australia's most celebrated art movements.
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Ellis Rowan: A Life in Pictures
A first-generation Australian, driven by the pioneering spirit of her parents, Ellis Rowan decided early that she would search out, collect and paint an entire collection of wild Australian flora. Her life's work made an important...
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Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader
The definitive anthology of writings on women in art by the late Linda Nochlin, one of the most influential and revolutionary voices in feminist art history.
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Latin American Art Since 1900 (World of Art)
The only one-volume introduction to modern and post-modern art from Latin America, perhaps the most exciting and rewarding art scene in the world today.
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Petal: The World of Flowers Through an Artist’s Eye
A lush celebration of nature's most beautiful work, the flower.
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Thrust: A Spasmodic Pictorial History of the Codpiece
A laugh-out-loud visual history of the strangest piece of men's clothing ever created: the codpiece.
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The Modern Embroidery Workshop
Quench your creative thirst and feel recharged with The Modern Embroidery Workshop.
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Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk
The kimono is the ultimate symbol of Japan, revered within the country as the embodiment of national culture and regarded internationally as an exotic fascination. The iconic garment is often viewed as traditional, unchanging and...
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Build a Flower: A Beginner’s Guide to Paper Flowers
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Extraordinary Things to Cut Out and Collage
If you want to discover the fun of collage then this fabulous book is the perfect kit. Highly respected and successful collage artist Maria Rivans has gathered hundreds of beautiful, quirky, and downright daft images, and they're...
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The Mindfulness in Knitting
The Mindfulness in Knitting casts fresh light on a famously calming craft, and reveals how the simple repetition of plain and purl can in itself nurture wellbeing.
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Global Art (Art Essentials)
An essential guide to the multifarious and increasingly connected world of global art from 1900 to today.
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Greek and Roman Art (Art Essentials)
An introductory guide to the art of ancient Greece and Rome, capturing the passion and inspiration that fired the artists of these civilizations
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Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia’s Silver Age
'Excellent ... an A-Z of Tsarism's last, magnificent flowering of the arts' Independent on Sunday
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Embroidered Life
Social-media rock stars Sarah K. Benning and Sara Barnes present gorgeous contemporary embroidery in a fresh, innovative package.
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Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art?
An accessible and irreverent introduction to the art and art world of today, written by two curators at the heart of the contemporary art scene.
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Get Up & Gouache
Unleash your creativity and discover a new medium with 20 colourful gouache projects.
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Craftland Japan
A photographic voyage to the remote studios of Japan's most fascinating and ingenious contemporary craftspeople.
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Frida A to Z
This intricately illustrated and fastidiously-researched book unpacks the life of Frida Kahlo, who herself was larger-than-life. From growing up in Coyocoan, Mexico City, in her family home, where she embraced sports - including...
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Acrylic: Do More Art
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Kimono
A lavish survey of the Khalili Collection's world-renowned holdings of traditional Japanese kimono, from the Edo period to the 20th century.
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Warhol: A Life as Art
The definitive biography of one of the most famous and influential artists the world has ever seen.
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Grayson Perry
The first book to concentrate on the early ceramic work of 'Transvestite Potter', bestselling author, broadcaster and social commentator Grayson Perry.
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Jessie Traill
Jessie Traill, one of Australia's most outstanding etchers, worked in an uncommon field for women. This biography explores her remarkable life - as artist, humanitarian and independent spirit.
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Vogue The Jewellery
A must-have visual sourcebook for all those who love fashion and jewellery by the jewellery editor of British Vogue.
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F**k Fast Fashion: 101 ways to change how you shop and help save the planet
An illustrated, empowering little book giving 101 practical and proactive tips on how to shop more sustainably and help save the planet
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Supreme
Over the past 25 years, Supreme has transformed itself from a downtown New York skate shop into an iconic global brand.
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Abstract Art (World of Art)
A succinct but thorough introduction to abstract art since 1900, revised and updated.
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Monet (World of Art)
The most authoritative and up-to-date introduction to Monet on the market, written by a world authority on Impressionism and 19th-century French art.
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Movements in Art Since 1945
A new edition of the classic introduction to art since the end of the Second World War.
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Bauhaus (World of Art)
An accessible history of the Bauhaus, tracing the ideas behind its conception and its highly influential teaching methods.
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Costume and Fashion
A concise account of the history of fashion and costume from prehistoric times through to today.
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Postmodern Architecture: Less is a Bore
A curated collection of Postmodern architecture in all its glorious array of vivid non-conformity
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Korean Art from 1953: Collision, Innovation, Interaction
The first comprehensive survey to explore the rich and complex history of contemporary Korean art - an incredibly timely topic
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The Whole Picture
If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again.
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Arthur Elgort: I Love…
In his latest book, the great American fashion photographer presents photographs of women that he has taken throughout his career, in homage to their power, their beauty, their joy, and their strength.
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Video/Art: The First Fifty Years
The curator who founded MoMA's video program recounts the artists and events that defined the medium's first 50 years
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Small but Smart: Design Solutions for Mini Homes
The challenging task to develop enthralling room concepts and convincing spatial solutions for the efficient use of small houses and living spaces.
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Bedtime: Inspirational Beds, Bedrooms & Boudoirs
A visual journey into the sleepiest, yet most salacious, room of the house. Celia Forner whisks you through the bedrooms of queens and emperors, designers and decorators, today's most exclusive hotels, and even the most evocative...
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Nan Goldin: The Other Side
An expanded and updated version of Goldin's seminal The Other Side, originally published in 1993, featuring a revised Introduction by the author and, for the first time, the voices of those whose stories are represented.
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The Street Photographer’s Manual
A new edition of this essential overview of the most exciting, dynamic form of photography.
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Solar Guerrilla: Constructive Responses to Climate Change
At a time when extreme climatic phenomena, air quality, and industrial impact are among the most pressing issues on the public agenda, the dramatic change in the climate has led to the realization that capitalism has a destructive...
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100 Ideas that Changed Photography
This compelling book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped photography from the invention of the daguerreotype in the early 19th century up to the digital revolution and beyond.
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Modern Mending
Bring new life to your old clothes and fabrics with this fun, easy-to-follow guide to modern mending
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