10,000 Years of Art
$16.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: compact guide
Includes 500 great works of art from different periods and regions in the world. This book reveals the diversity of man's artistic achievements through time and around the globe. It includes both fine and decorative arts - most commonly painting and sculpture, but also textiles, masks, ceramics and jewe ...Show more
20th Century Pewter: Art Nouveau to Modernism by Paul Carter Robinson
$115.00 AUD
Category: Art
Pewter is a versatile alloy which has been used to make a wide variety of domestic objects since antiquity. Malleable and lustrous, it was commonly used for making tableware until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when porcelain and glass became more popular. An inexpensive alternative to silver, ...Show more
50 Impressionist Paintings You Should Know by Ines Janet Engelmann
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: 50 You Should Know Ser.
This fascinating reference guide offers a captivating look at the most important works of the Impressionist movement. From the early nineteenth through the early twentieth century, 50 masterpieces are gorgeously reproduced, including the best of Monet, Degas, Van Gogh and Renoir. It is a veritable tour ...Show more
A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage and the Quest for the Colour of Desire by Amy Butler Greenfield
$32.99 AUD
Category: Art
"A Perfect Red" recounts the colourful history of cochineal, a legendary red dye that was once one of the world's most precious commodities. Treasured by the ancient Mexicans, cochineal was sold in the great Aztec marketplaces, where it attracted the attention of the Spanish conquistadors in 1519. Shipp ...Show more
Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana
$24.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: World of Art S.
This revised edition of Caruana's comprehensive survey contains new illustrations and updated information covering developments in the field of Aboriginal art, which thrives in a variety of contexts - sacred and secular - and in wide range of media.
Animal Anatomy (Anatomy Drawing School #2) by Andras Szunyoghy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Art
The Anatomical Drawing School recognises the prominent role of the anatomy for the fine arts. The impressively detailed illustrations of the Hungarian master Andras Szunyoghy have accompanied artists as well as anatomists all over the world for more than a decade. The current two-volume edition is inten ...Show more
Art: A Visual History by Robert Cumming
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Big Ideas
Art: A Visual History is the complete visual guide to Western art, now updated and repackaged in a themed slipcase. How to tell Impressionism from Expressionism, a Degas from a Monet, early Medieval art from early Christian? Art: A Visual History explains it all -- painting, sculpture, great artists, s ...Show more
Artists: Their Lives and Works by DK
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art
A stunning exploration of over 80 famous artists and their fascinating lives, from Giotto to the present day.Artists- Their Lives and Works tells the inspiring stories behind the world's most famous masterpieces and their creators, including their influences, development, friendships, loves, and rivalri ...Show more
Asian Treasures: Gems of the Written Word by Andrew Gosling
$9.99 AUD
Category: Art
Asian Treasures: Gems of the Written Word showcases Asian writing, printing, and books of beauty and historical significance that are housed in the National Library of Australia. Written by Andrew Gosling, former chief librarian for the Library���s Asian Collections, Asian Treasures provides a fascinati ...Show more
Be an Artist in 10 Steps: Drawing, Watercolour, Oils, Acrylics, Pastels by Ian Sidaway
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art
Whether you're a complete beginner or keen to improve your skills, this book is sure to help you on your way to becoming a true artist. Spanning five separate art forms, this amazing guide takes you through all the essential techniques needed to produce fantastic artworks using pastels, pencils, acrylic ...Show more
Capital & Country: The Federation Years 1900-1913 by Miriam Kelly
$24.95 AUD
Category: Art
Capital and country: the Federation years 1900-1913 celebrates the art of the newly-federated Australia alongside the work of Australians working in Europe during these formative years of the new century. The forty-six works in Capital and country range from sunlit pastoral scenes that convey the nation ...Show more
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Illustrated History of Colour
Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic color and used it to create the famous blue crown of Queen Nefertiti? Or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? In the Roman Empire, hundreds of thousands of snails had to be sacrificed to produce a single ounce of dye. Throu ...Show more