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
A Century of Colour in Design: 250 innovative objects and the stories behind them by David Harrison
Category: Art and Design
Colour has an enormous impact on our connection with an object. This curated anthology of furniture, fabric, lights and decorative objects shows how colour has defined key designs over the last century. A Century of Colour in Design delivers an incisive, shortform history of the role that colour has pla ...Show more
Kaffe Fassett in the Studio: Behind the Scenes with a Master Colorist by Kaffe Fassett
Category: Art and Design
World-renowned artist and textile designer Kaffe Fassett provides a window into his creative process, offering readers new patterns, new ideas, and new inspirationWith successes like Bold Blooms and Dreaming in Color, the latest book from Kaffe Fassett brings together all the best elements of his work a ...Show more
The Picasso Century by Didier Ottinger
Category: Art and Design
The Picasso Century draws on the renowned collections of the Musée national d'art moderne-Centre de créationindustrielle (MNAM-CCI), Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Musée national Picasso-Paris. It provides a nuancedexploration of Pablo Picasso's life, career and many artistic exchanges, and of the comp ...Show more
A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works by Kelly Grovier
Category: Art and Design
A new way of appreciating art that puts the artwork front and centre, brought to us by one of the freshest and most exciting voices in cultural criticism. What makes great art great? Why do some works pulse in the imagination, generation after generation, century after century? From Botticelli's Birth o ...Show more
South African Art Now by Sue Williamson
Category: Art and Design
Presents an analysis of a wide variety of South African art genres and mediums, from painting and sculpture to photography, from performance and traditional craft-making to video.
Intrepide - Australian Women Artists in Early Twentieth-Century France by Clem Gorman; Therese Gorman
Category: Art and Design | Series: Biography Ser.
It is hard for us to imagine the oppressed lives of single women in the first half of the twentieth century. Yet a few Australian women took a leap into the unknown and carved careers for themselves in Paris. They studied, painted, and haunted galleries and salons. They had a little fun too, at social g ...Show more
Keith Haring: The Story of His Life by PAOLO PARISI
Category: Art and Design
Celebrated artist, activist and humanitarian, Keith Haring is the perfect subject for this graphic novel. Focused on three colours, this comic-book tells the fascinating life story of a man who lived his truth on all kinds of canvases. From his boyhood days spent drawing compulsively through his tragic ...Show more
Cressida Campbell by National Gallery of Australia
Category: Art and Design
Cressida Campbell celebrates the career of an exceptional Australian colourist who has worked between painting and printmaking for over forty years. Combining keen observation with formal design, Campbell uses an innovative technique to create woodblock paintings and unique woodcut prints that take dire ...Show more