A Painted Landscape: Across Australia from Bush to Coast by Amber Creswell Bell
Category: Art and Design | Series: Across Australia from Bush to Coast
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me! Dorothea Mackellar's words have a knack for swelling the metaphorical chest of many Austr ...Show more
McCulloch's Contemporary Aboriginal Art : The Complete Guide by Susan McCulloch; Emily McCulloch Childs
Category: Art and Design
A unique melding of art and guide book, this title traces the development of modern Aboriginal art through its regional differences.
Afro Modern Journeys Through Black Altantic by Tanya Barson
Category: Art and Design
Addresses a key area of post-colonial studies coined by the British academic Paul Gilroy in 1993 - the notion of 'The Black Atlantic' - and its relation to visual art from 1900 onwards. This work features illustrations, a timeline of key figures and events, and an extensive bibliography.
Symphonic Space: Paintings, Drawings and Assemblage by MICHAEL BERRY
Category: Art and Design
Rembrandt: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Sophie Collins
Category: Art and Design | Series: Biographic
The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots. Many people know that Rembr ...Show more
Art Since 1980: Charting the Contemporary by Peter R. Kalb
Category: Art and Design
Art Since 1980 holds up a mirror to our society while charting the story of art in contemporary global culture. With over 300 pictures of painting, photography, sculpture, installation, performance and video art, we are led on a fascinating journey via the individuals and communities who have shaped wor ...Show more
This is Leonardo Da Vinci by Joost M. Keizer
Category: Art and Design | Series: This is
Leonardo da Vinci lived an itinerant life. Throughout his career - from its beginnings in the creative maelstrom of fifteenth-century Florence to his role as genius in residence at the court of the king of France - Leonardo created a kind of private universe for himself and his work. Leonardo also spent ...Show more
Matisse - In 50 Works by John Cauman
Category: Art and Design
This enthralling and comprehensive new book on Henri Matisse is an eye-opener for all students and art lovers interested in early twentieth-century art. Taking fifty of Matisse's most iconic works of art, John Cauman provides an accessible narrative about the man and his work, deciphering the themes, me ...Show more
Blooms and Brushstrokes: A floral history of Australian art by Penelope Curtin, Tansy Curtin
Category: Art and Design
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 a long line of Australian artists. Mother-and-daughter team Penelope and ...Show more
Botticelli Reimagined by Mark Evans
Category: Art and Design
Published to accompany the VA's major spring exhibition, Botticelli Reimagined, 5 March to 3 July 2016 The Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is one of the greatest artists of all time. Renowned for the iconic Birth of Venus and Primavera, his work has become part of our collective visual ...Show more
Art of Renaissance Florence - A City and Its Legacy by Scott Nethersole
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Art Ser.
In this vivid account Scott Nethersole examines the remarkable period of cultural, artistic and intellectual blossoming in Florence from ca. 1400 to 1520 - the period traditionally known as the Early and High Renaissance. He looks at the city and its art with fresh eyes, presenting the well-known within ...Show more
Dalí. The Paintings by Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret
Category: Art and Design | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
The seminal surrealist: Exploring Dali's grandiose and grotesque oeuvre Picasso called Dali "an outboard motor that's always running." Dali thought himself a genius with a right to indulge in whatever lunacy popped into his head. Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was on ...Show more