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Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana
$19.95 AUD
Category: ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT/DRAWING/HOME AND GARDEN | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A superlative introduction to the diversity of Aboriginal art, this concise survey introduces the work of Australia's indigenous artists from all parts of the continent. For some 50,000 years, Aboriginal artists have built on traditions and worked in a variety of contexts, from the sacred and secret rea ...Show more
Gauguin by Belinda Thomson
$29.99 AUD
Category: ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT/DRAWING/HOME AND GARDEN | Series: World of Art Ser.
Artist Paul Gauguin achieved a high public profile during his lifetime and was one of the first artists of his generation to achieve international recognition. But his prominence has always been tangled up with the dramatic and problematic events of his life--his self-imposed exile on a remote South Sea ...Show more
Modern Architecture: A Critical History by Kenneth Frampton
$39.99 AUD
Category: ARCHITECTURE | Series: World of Art Ser.
Kenneth Frampton's highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since 1750 that drove the modern movement, moving through the creation of modern architecture, and exploring the effects of global ...Show more
The Classical Language of Architecture by John Summerson
$19.99 AUD
Category: ARCHITECTURE | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Classical architecture is a visual "language" and like any other language has its own grammatical rules. Classical buildings as widely spaced in time as a Roman temple, an Italian Renaissance palace and a Regency house all show an awareness of these rules even if they vary them, break them or poetically ...Show more
The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton
$29.99 AUD
Category: ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT/DRAWING/HOME AND GARDEN | Series: World of Art Ser.
In the twenty-first century, photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a legitimate medium, equal in status to painting and sculpture. The Photograph as Contemporary Art introduces ...Show more
Women, Art, and Society by Whitney Chadwick
$39.99 AUD
Category: ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT/DRAWING/HOME AND GARDEN | Series: World of Art Ser.
Art historian Whitney Chadwick's acclaimed bestselling study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who "transcended" their gender to produce major works of art. While introducing some of the many women since the Middle Ages whose contributions to visual culture ha ...Show more
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