Art
Art and artists from the earliest rock art to the flowering of the Renaissance and diverse contemporary work.
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Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind [Hardback]
Jill Cook (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780714123332
Published by : British Museum Press
The accompanying title to the major exhibition at the British Museum: Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind, 7 February - 26 May 2013.
This is a thought-provoking exploration of the masterpieces of sculpture, drawing and... .... Learn More -
Childhood as Memory, Myth and Metaphor: Proust, Beckett, and Bourgeois [Hardback]
Catherine Crimp (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975394
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
A fascination with childhood unites the artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) and the writers Samuel Beckett (1906-89) and Marcel Proust (1871-1922). But while many commentators have traced their childhood images back to memories of... .... Learn More -
Henry Mayo Bateman (1887-1970): The Man Who...Loved Gozo [Paperback]
Bernardine Scicluna (Editor)
£14.50ISBN: 9789993274148
Published by : Midsea Books
Malta and Gozo of the sixties must have carried some distinct appeal as artistic and creative celebrities were attracted to visit regularly or actually reside here. Among others these included authors such as: Anthony Burgess, Des... .... Learn More -
Di Bresciani: Compositions in Colour [Hardback]
Di Bresciani (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9781921394959
Published by : Macmillan Art Publishing
The paintings of Di Bresciani, artist and musician, are currently exhibited at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in Townsville to coincide with the renowned Australian Festival of Chamber Music. Texts in this multiauthored, richly ... .... Learn More -
Whitewash and the New Aesthetic of the Protestant Reformation [Paperback]
Victoria George (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597643
Published by : Pindar Press
This book is a reconsideration of the practice of whitewashing church interiors during the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is the first detailed study of its kind which challenges the view tha... .... Learn More -
Hot Springs: The Northern Territory and Contemporary Australian Artists [Hardback]
Daena Murray (Author); Nicholas Rothwell (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9781921394416
Published by : Macmillan Art Publishing
Dr. Daena Murray, former and now Emeritus Curator of the Museum and Art Gallery of The Northern Territory, has collected together an extraordinary range of contemporary artworks with qualities that clearly identify them with the N... .... Learn More -
In Praise of Landscape: The Art of John Borrack [Hardback]
Lucy Grace Ellem (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9781921394843
Published by : Macmillan Art Publishing
This magnificent book, authored by Lucy Ellem, outlines the life and career of a major proponent of the art of watercolour. John Borrack is a significant Australian landscape artist who has travelled the country recording its extr... .... Learn More -
Power + Colour: New Painting from the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art [Hardback]
Jane Raffan (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9781921394744
Published by : Macmillan Art Publishing
The enthralling power and colour of Aboriginal painting of Tjukurpa (Law) and country has brought Aboriginal art to the forefront of contemporary art practice in Australia. Aboriginal art has also played an important role in the f... .... Learn More -
Vassilieff and His Art [Paperback]
Felicity St John Moore (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781921394874
Published by : Macmillan Art Publishing
Danila Vassilieff, a passionate, freedom-loving Cossack who burst upon the Australian art scene in the mid-1930s is, in this book, posited as the missing link in the story of 20th century painting in Australia. The author suggests... .... Learn More -
Interpreting the images on Greek vases: an introduction [Paperback]
Klaus Junker (Author)
£17.99ISBN: 9780521720076
Published by : Cambridge University Press
From the age of Homer until late antiquity the culture of ancient Greece and Rome was permeated by images of Greek myths. Gods and heroes were represented as statues, on vase and wall paintings, on temples, on sarcophagi as well as in other med... .... Learn More