Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Frida Kahlo; Hayden Herrera (Introduction by)
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
Frida Kahlo is now an icon. In the decades since her death, Kahlo has been celebrated as a proto-feminist, a misunderstood genius, and a leftist hero, but during her lifetime most knew her as ... Diego Rivera's wife. Featuring conversations with American scholar and Marxist, Bertram D. Wolfe, and art cr ...Show more
Art From Milingimbi: Taking Memories Back by Cara Pinchbeck
Category: Art and Design
Drawn from a unique collection held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, this book includes 62 bark paintings produced in the 1950s, as well as woven forms, paperbark objects, carved wooden figures and feathered body ornamentation. Together with essays on the artists, the art and the history of Miling ...Show more
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum by James Gardner
Category: Art and Design
Secondhand. A meticulously crafted, sparkling history of the legendary museum in Paris. Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any, are aware of the remarkable history of that location and of the bu ...Show more
The Art of Looking Up by Catherine McCormack
Category: Art and Design
The Art of Looking Up surveys 40 spectacular ceilings around the globe that have been graced by the brushes of artists including Michelangelo, Marc Chagall and Cy Twombly. From the floating women and lotus flowers of the Senso-ji Temple in Japan, first painted in the year 645, through to the religious i ...Show more
Frida Kahlo Masterpieces of Art by Flame Tree Studio (COR)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art
The painful, exquisite art of Mexico's favourite artist was a product of immense physical pain, and an emotional tumultuous life. The new book features the range and power of her heavily autobiographical work, from the early, disturbing explorations of personal suffering to the more dulled, painkiller-d ...Show more
May Morris: Arts & Crafts Designer by Anna Mason, Jan Marsh, Jenny Lister, Rowan Bain, Hanne Faurby
Category: Art and Design
The first fully illustrated and comprehensive introduction to May Morris's work as an artist, designer and embroiderer, published in association with the V&A.May Morris (1862-1938), younger daughter of William Morris, was a significant figure in the British Arts and Crafts movement and a pioneer of ...Show more
The Diary of Frida Kahlo - An intimate self-portrait by Frida Kahlo; Sarah M. Lowe; Carlos Fuentes
Category: Art and Design
Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life. These passionate, often surprising, intimate records, kept under lock and key for some 40 years in Mexico, reveal many new dimensions in the complex personal life of this remarkable M ...Show more
Still Life Contemporary Australian Painters by Amber Creswell Bell
Category: Art and Design
Winner Indie Awards 2022 for Illustrated Non-Fiction 'A collection of objects, no matter how mundane, tells a story. They are like a little world; you can get lost in them.' - John Bokor Still Life explores the diverse practices of more than forty contemporary Australian artists and documents a repert ...Show more
Looking at Pictures by Susan Woodford
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
Beautifully illustrated with some of the world's greatest pictures, from cave paintings and Roman mosaics to Picasso and Damien Hirst, this affordable guide explains the art of looking at and understanding pictures, equipping the reader with the vision and tools to approach any museum picture with confi ...Show more
Songlines Tracking the Seven Sisters by Margo Neale (Editor)
Category: Art and Design
This stunning companion to the National Museum of Australia's blockbuster Indigenous-led exhibition, Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, explores the history and meaning of songlines, the Dreaming or creation tracks that crisscross the Australian continent, of which the Seven Sisters songline is one ...Show more
Creature: Paintings, Drawings and Reflections (HB) by Shaun Tan
Category: Art and Design
A collection of Shaun Tan’s artwork from the past 25 years.The drawings and paintings in the book come from his work in picture books and other works including films and graphic novels. Others were created for no specific purpose beyond the desire to see what something looks like, or just to follow a sk ...Show more
This is Matisse by Catherine Ingram
Category: Art and Design | Series: This is
In the history of twentieth century modernism, Henri Matisse is a calm and unstoppable revolution of creative genius. Trained originally in the French classical manner, he was inspired by the Impressionists and Cezanne to create in a style that brought out the beauty of colour, form and line by reducing ...Show more