This book has been tailored to create a unique and visionary publication, a meditation in drawings and texts on the theme Revolutions - Forms That Turn....more details Format:Hardback Pages:304
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Stephen Crafti
ISBN:9780975768495
The most up-to-date review of an architectural phenomenon and shows in 270 pictures chronicling 47 projects in Australia and New Zealand, the unique movement that has established a new country style....more details Format:Hardback Pages:272
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Patricia McDonald
ISBN:9789057035524
At eighty-six, Australian-born sculptor Barbara Tribe is still working in her Cornish studio. Tribe has worked with clay, wood and stone, and continues to exhibit with London's Royal Academy. Despite her long domicile overseas...more details Format:Hardback
This is a multi-faceted study of the development of modernism in Japan, with authors from Japan, the United States, and Australia, spanning the fields of art history...more details Format:Paperback
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SANDLER IRVING
ISBN:9789057040610
Imprint. For the past three decades, Bhavsar has been painting all over fields of variegated, fluid or cloud-like, continuums of colour in which there is no recognisable subject or discrete forms. His original style is inspired by a variant of Abstract Expressionsim and by his memories of "Holi"...more details Format:Hardback
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NGA
ISBN:9780642334008
This delightful book designed for children looks at details of paintings by famous 19th century French artist Edgar Degas. It includes his favourite subjects - ballerinas and dance classes...more details Format:Hardback Pages:56
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Wood
ISBN:9789057032325
Tracing the development of China's high-fired glaze tradition from its roots in the Bronze Age through to the monochrome stoneware glazes of the Song dynasty...more details Format:Hardback
Imprint. Probes the influences and forces that have shaped Southern California since the early 1980s and 1990s and introduces both the internationally recognised and lesser known artists and their art. Painters...more details Format:Hardback
Exploring the distinction between contemporary art jewellery and manufactured retail and costume jewellery, this work concentrates on the practice of contemporary art jewellery in Australia and New Zealand...more details Format:Hardback
Some of Scotland's most significant contemporary artists are sculptors. This book is an overview of contemporary Scottish sculpture and provides profiles of 24 notable artists. Presented is Scottish sculpture in its many forms...more details Format:Hardback
William Delafield Cook has established a reputation as one of Australia's foremost internationally known artists. His work has been widely recognized since the early 1970s...more details Format:Hardback
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Jessica Wrobel
ISBN:9789057034121
Divided into three sections - paper recipes, fabric recipes and other materials - this text provides a vast resource of skills to apply to a variety of mediums. For each technique there is a list of supplies...more details Format:Paperback
Examines the intriguing history of crystalline glazes, and discusses the various aspects of producing these fascinating glazes. It describes suitable clays and kilns...more details Format:Hardback
Imprint. Looks at the creative artworks of distinguished Cuban painter and ceramicist Nelson Dominguez, whose work reflects the values that identify him with both his culture and his country. He is an artist who captures the special essence of Cuba as a country...more details Format:Hardback
Imprint. A fascinating, personal exploration of the relationship between art, creativity and spirituality. The author is both a writer and an artist. Here he describes his encounters with a number of remarkable creative mystics and artists who...more details Format:Hardback
Brian Dunlop is one of Australia's leading figurative painters. He has lived and worked in Sydney, and at Panton Hill and Port Fairy in Victoria...more details Format:Hardback
This collection of best writings from international designers brings together telling ideas from many of the most influential design thinkers of the century. Covering famous logos and product images...more details Format:Paperback
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M Utley C & Magson
ISBN:9789057039119
Aimed at anyone who wnats to use clay with primary school aged children and who feels that some guidance towards possible projects would be helpful...more details Format:Hardback
Anne Marie Graham is one of Australia's most lyrical figurative painters. Here she turns her attention to the beauty and elegance of Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens...more details Format:Hardback
In this revised edition of the text, Harry Fraser not only describes the calculation of glaze composition but also the preparation and actual making of glazes...more details Format:Hardback
Denise Green is an Australian artist with an international reputation. This monograph follows the evolution of her art over twenty years. An expatriate who remains passionate about her Australian nationality...more details Format:Hardback
The response from some of the world's leading designers to the questions most frequently asked about the design profession. These alternative personal responses from thirty designers of different cultural backgrounds...more details Format:Hardback
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Yann Arthus-Bertrand
ISBN:9780810984769
From the author of Earth from the Air, spectacular imagery combined with stirring visual and textual narrative make this book (soon to be a film) “...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:192
Intended for students and general readers alike, this fine selection of contemporary Australian paintings has been compiled with a thematic perspective in mind. Drawing on works by established artists and also notable mid-career and emerging painters...more details Format:Hardback
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Ken Johnson
ISBN:9789057037122
As a boy, Johnson travelled around Australia with his father, and in this volume he describes how the opportunity to travel and experience the natural world has nourished his artistic drive. His mature work is the product of this experience in all its forms - the exotic places...more details Format:Hardback
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Karla Cikanova
ISBN:9789057033117
Imprint. This imaginative new book fo creative activities for children aged from 8 to 12 offers a broad range of artistic expression including drawing...more details Format:Hardback
Local Heroes provides an exciting overview of a group of architects in Queensland, Australia. Hailed as the successors to internationally renowned Glenn Murcutt's undisputed crown...more details Format:Hardback
A collection of essays which reasses the landscape tradition in Australian art. They provide valuable insights into the complex ways in which the landscape tradition influences contemporary art practice both through its development and its interpretation....more details Format:Paperback
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Clark Clark
ISBN:9789057040412
This is a comprehensive examination of the dynamic nature of modern Asian art, its roots in the 19th century and its importance on the international stage...more details Format:Hardback
Mould making used to be thought of as primarily an industrial technique. However, in the late-1990s, hobbyists and artists in a number of fields are finding it a useful tool in realizing their creative vision. In this text...more details Format:Hardback
This volume presents an outstanding collection of 75 compelling works by 34 of the best First Nations artist working on the Northwest Coast today. The power of their art comes from its deep roots in an ancient culture that is rich in ceremonial and aesthetic traditions. The mythic beings depicted in these works belong to the undersea...more details Format:Paperback
Celebrates the beauty, versatility, and wonder of paper scultpure, paper folding, paper mache, and paper as a medium for art. Shows paper artists in their own studios...more details Format:Hardback
A collection of ten essays by the Australian writer Darren Tofts. The essays explore the complexity of cultural production of the late twentieth century...more details Format:Paperback
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Jo KerrJoan & Holder
ISBN:9789057041419
This book is a collection of essays on feminist art, art history, criticism and museum practices in Australia today. Artists, art historians...more details Format:Hardback
Performance design involves settings, costumes, lighting and overall conceptualisation which influences the way the audience 'sees' a performance...more details Format:Hardback
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James Houston
ISBN:9789057034138
For this volume, James Houston has photographed dancers from Australia's three major dance companies: the Australian Ballet, the Sydney Dance Company...more details Format:Hardback
This work is a celebration of the potential of those who will be the heroes of tomorrow's generation of designers. The book is about today's young talent...more details Format:Hardback
Imprint. Photographer Derek Biermann travelled to northern India to obtain what became a rare and privileged insight into the sacred lives of devotees following different spiritual paths...more details Format:Hardback
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Young
ISBN:9789057031922
This volume is a useful guide to setting up a pottery workshop. It looks at fundamental issues of types of premises, equipment, materials and finance as well as giving useful advice on practical considerations such as making simple tools and ideas for marketing and promotion...more details Format:Hardback
Imprint. Traces the history of slipware and discusses the technique involved with coverage of a wide cross-section of contemporary practice. Illustrated with traditional pieces and the current work ofinternational artists including the work of Australian slipware potters Susan Robey and Jane Sawyer....more details Format:Hardback
Sound sculpture is an audio-visual, time-dependent artform which crosses the boundaries of fine art and musical art, challenging traditional notions of sculpture and sound...more details Format:Hardback
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Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
ISBN:9781877004162
This revised and updated edition explores Howard Arkley's influences and the milieu which nurtered and inspired him - from punk music and feminism to the exuberant art scene of the 1980s. Spray examines his work from its early development through abstraction...more details Format:Hardback
A series of poems by NZ born Lynne Strahan, accompanied by reproductions of recent work by Brian Dunlop, one of Australia's leading figurative painters. The poetry is framed around the metaphor of stone...more details Format:Hardback
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Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
ISBN:9789057030420
This monograph records Tim Storrier's creative metamorphosis from the early 1970s to present times. A highly accomplished painter of landscapes...more details Format:Hardback
In the first edition of his chronicle, Bevis Hillier parcelled the changing styles and lifestyles of the 20th century up to 1980 into an authoritative and entertaining design history...more details Format:Hardback
A history and critical appraisal of the tall office builging in Australia, emphasising their historical significance as part of the evolving story of Australian culture as it presents itself in the shifting montage of the city...more details Format:Hardback
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IAM
ISBN:9789057035425
Imprint. Seven distinguished writers discuss the influences and forces that have shaped Construction in Progress since its inception in 1981...more details Format:Paperback
Few firms in the history of Australian architecture can approach the sustained performance of Ancher, Mortlock and Woolley over the last 50 years. Their work has been innovative...more details Format:Hardback