Creative Folk Art and Beyond: Inspiring tips, projects, and ideas for creating cheerful folk art inspired by the Scandinavian concept of hygge by Flora Waycott
Category: Art | Series: Creative...and Beyond
Continuing the hugely popular Creative ... & Beyond series, Creative Folk Art & Beyond features the whimsical and colourful folk-art style of Scandinavia ... and beyond! Inspired by the concept of hygge, Creative Folk Art & Beyond includes creative prompts, easy exercises, and step-by-step p ...Show more
Seeing Saltwater Country by Sally Mayman
Category: Art
Seeing Saltwater Country is an art collaboration between photographer Sally Mayman, painter Dale Kentwell and the people of the Dampier Peninsula in Australia's north-west. Sally and Dale are based in Sydney and were invited to the Dampier Peninsula by Bardi Nyul Nyul man Albert Wiggan. There they met m ...Show more
Inside Australia by ANTONY GORMLEY by GORMLEY ANTONY
Category: Art
"Antony Gormley: Inside Australia", newly available in paperback, showcases Turner Prize-winning artist Gormley's stunning 51-statue installation on Lake Ballard, a 10 square kilometre dry salt lake in a remote region of Western Australia. Photographs, maps and drawings present the entire creative proce ...Show more
Making Modernism: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin by DOROTHY PRICE
Category: Art | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Painterly transformations of feminine identity from a group of German Expressionists. Käthe Kollwitz, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin are among the exceptional artists associated with the emergence of Expressionism in Germany in the early decades of the 20th century. Each c ...Show more
Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse by Stanley Meisler
Category: Art
For a couple of decades before World War II, a group of immigrant painters and sculptors, including Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine and Jules Pascin dominated the new art scene of Montparnasse in Paris. Art critics gave them the name "the School of Paris" to set them apart from the French ...Show more
How to Work with Ceramics: Easy Techniques and Over 20 Great Projects by Collins & Brown
Category: Art | Series: How to...
This book marries modern appeal with an age-old craft. Featuring a collection of techniques beginning with basics such as making pinch pots, coil building and slab construction to more advanced techniques such as throwing and mould-making.All techniques are followed by several inspiring projects such as ...Show more
Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete Paintings and Drawings by Johannes Nathan
Category: Art
Da Vinci in detail: Leonardo's life and work all pictures, all drawings! One of the most fully achieved human beings who has ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci(1452 1519) is recognized the world over as a figure ofinfinite curiosity, feverish imagination and sublime artistic ability.Thisupdated editionof our ...Show more
Margaret Preston by Art Gallery Art Gallery of NSW; Deborah Edwards
Category: Art
Bearing 'the conspicuous mark of talent' from an early age, the fiercely independent and opinionated Margaret Preston is one of Australia's most innovative early modernists. From the 1920s Preston moved rapidly to the forefront of Australian progressive art, producing a body of work that has remained cr ...Show more
Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave by Timothy Clark (University of Durham)
Category: Art
An acknowledged master during his lifetime, Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of ninety. Exhibitions since the 1980s have presented his long career as a chronological sequence. This publication, which will coincide with an exhibition ...Show more
Blek Le Rat by Ken McGregor
Category: Art
"Blek le Rat is known worldwide for the quirky ideas and radical politics he has brought to his art form - stencilled street art. His paintings are autobiographical, born of his personal experience, and his art has inspired the post-graffiti street artists who have followed. After stencilling provocativ ...Show more
Chromaphilia: The Story of Colour in Art by Stella Paul
Category: Art
Unlock the secrets of colour - learn how and why it has been used in art over the centuries This vibrant and compelling book uses 240 artworks as case studies to tell the story of ten individual colours or colour groups. It explores the history and meaning of each colour in art, highlighting fascinatin ...Show more
Hokusai by Tim Clark
Category: Art
Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of ninety. Publications have hitherto presented his long career as a chronological sequence. This book takes a fresh approach based on innovative scholarship: thematic groupings of works are related ...Show more