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Anuschka Rees
Presents a strategic approach to identifying, refining, and expressing personal style and building the ideal wardrobe to match it, with every day style and shopping strategies.
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Lucy Adlington
Reveals the stories underlying the clothes we wear in this stylish tour of the most important developments in the history of fashion, from ancient times to the present day. This…
Andrew Blauvelt,Greg Castillo
Examining the art, architecture and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s, this title surveys the radical experiments that challenged societal and professional norms while proposing new…
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Gail Buckland
From the creator/editor of Who Shot Rock & Roll (“I loved this book” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times): the first book to show the range, cultural importance, and aesthetics…
Dieter Buchhart
The first book to explore the mutual influence of the groundbreaking modernists Kurt Schwitters, Joan Miro, and Hans Arp.
Peter Koepke
An insider’s guide to the world’s largest archive of patterns and textiles, the source of inspiration for the globe’s top designers
Max Bainbridge
This book appeals to the modern man and woman looking for a creative outlet that will connect them to their environment, be they in the city or the countryside. All…
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Art as a social tool for cross-cultural exchange
Catherine Hug
Among the great modern artists of the past century, Picabia is one of the most elusive, given his extreme eclecticism and persistent acts of self-contradiction. Though known as a Dadaist…
Louise Olsen,Stephen Ormandy
As young art students Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy began selling resin jewellery with a stall at Sydney’s Paddington markets. Today they have a business that employs 85 people and…
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Phaidon Editors
At last - the next instalment in the popular Vitamin series - the world’s hottest painters, selected by international experts
Kassia St Clair
The unforgettable history of colours and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-coloured volume
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Amber Creswell Bell,Keith Brymer Jones
Once upon a time pottery schools saw an increase in enrolments whenever the film Ghost aired on television. Today it is all year round. From decorative pieces to the primarily…
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Lesley Harding
In the style of Sunday’s Kitchen, Margaret Preston’s cookbook will tell a story of art, food and social times of this much-admired artist. The Margaret Preston recipe book (held in…
Alison Young
Based on twenty years of research in the graffiti and street art scenes, Street Art World is the first book to provide a history and context for the words and…
Rosie Martin
Suitable for those who want to sew your own clothes but are put off by the idea of cutting out pattern pieces covered with dotted lines and symbols, this book…
Timothy Godbold
A virtual pageantry of the many ways in which military styles inspire and influence contemporary fashion
Ma Yansong
The first complete overview of the most important contemporary architecture practice ever to have emerged from China
The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers, featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever
Kaffe Fassett,Liza Prior Lucy
An inside look at the design process of quilt expert Kaffe Fassett, plus new quilt patterns and needlepoints
Sebastian Smee
Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists-Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon-whose fraught, competitive friendships…
Olivier Dupon
Hailing from Australia, Brazil, France, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Russia, Turkey, the UK and USA, this book features over 35 master jewelry designers, organized alphabetically. Each designer…
David Hockney,Martin Gayford
The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. In this book, each chapter addresses an important question…
Spoke Art Gallery
The very best Wes Anderson-inspired artwork from the annual Bad Dads art exhibition, curated by Spoke Art Gallery
Rene Magritte
Available for the first time in an English translation, this selection of Rene Magritte’s writings gives non-Francophone readers the chance to encounter the many incarnations of the renowned Belgian painter–the…
It has been widely asserted that Bernard Smith established the discipline of art history in Australia. He was the founding professor of contemporary art and the….
Peter Walther
How the Farm Security Administration introduced America to Americans
Philip Jodidio
Pavilions have myriad forms and as many functions. This is a selection of the best examples produced in recent years. It features pavilions ranging from the advanced forms of Sou…
Ashleigh Wilson
The first authorized biography of this iconic twentieth-century artist, illustrated with classic artworks, rare notebook sketches and candid family photos.
Ian McLean
Superbly illustrated, and rich in detail and critical analysis, this book provides the first full historical account of Indigenous Australian art and shows that there is much more to the…
A S Byatt
Born a generation apart, they were seeming opposites: Mariano Fortuny, a Spanish aristocrat thrilled by the cultures of Crete and Knossos; William Morris, a British craftsman, in thrall to the…
Zerox Dreamflesh
Lockjaw (1983) was the most realised project by Zerox Dreamflesh (1979-1984), a loose group of writers, artists and musicians that produced a series of ‘zine-ish print objects, cassettes, Xerox postcards…
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Michael Craig-Martin
Provides lesson after valuable lesson to anyone wishing to know what it means and what it takes to be an artist today. In this book the author gives practical advice…
Tate Publishing
Performing for the Camera examines how the photograph has both documented and developed our understanding of performance since the invention of the photographic medium. It engages with both the serious…
Hiroshi Unno
The Book of Kells (said to be the most beautiful book in the world), Leicester Codex (the most expensive book by Leonardo da Vinci), Decorative Scripture in Middle Ages, gift…
Olafur Eliasson,Carol Diehl
An illustrated journey through spheres, tunnels, towers, walkways and archways, as well as pavilions and larger buildings realized by artist Olafur Eliasson and his studio since the late 1990s.
Tania Prill,Alberto Vieceli,Sebastian Cremers
This is a book about the pictures on banknotes: pictures of political subject-matter, historical milestones, distinguished personages, status symbols, and landscapes. By the trio of artists, Prill Vieceli Cremers
Rhonda Hetzel
‘Being in charge of your own life, and making decisions based on what you want to do rather than what you have to do, gives you a rare kind of…
Angus Hyland,Kendra Wilson
A stimulating and beautiful collection of images of all things avian, from international artists and illustrators, both historical and contemporary
Henry Wilson
From the illustrious Mughal Empire during its greatest period of monument-building and artistic creativity to the time of British rule, the richness of India’s architecture is overwhelming. The author’s fine…
Sheridan Palmer
Bernard Smith began life as a ward of the State; he would go on to become the father of Australian art history. In 2008, Smith invited writer and art historian…
Tristan Manco
Divided into three: ‘Draw’, ‘Paint’, ‘Make’, this book celebrates and discusses the work of forty-five urban artists, extraordinarily diverse but united by one basic principle: their work is completely fresh…
Naomi Pollock
The first comprehensive monograph on Japan’s most creative, experimental and visionary architect, Sou Fujimoto
Glen Proebstel,Karen McCartney,Sharyn Cairns
An interior design book that embodies a philosophy of thoughtfulness and creativity in living.
Ewan McEoin,Ewan McEoin,Lindsay Nolan Johnston
Peter Stutchbury’s award-winning architecture continues to stimulate a new and increasing awareness of the potential for designing with the Australian landscape and its environment. This book deals with of all…
Boris Groys
The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the internet
Jeffrey Mayer,Basia Szkutnicka
Features a collection of over 550 beautifully photographed details from previously unseen 20th-century vintage clothing. This title is a suitable reference to vintage detailing for fashion design students and professionals.
Dr Julie Cotter
Dr Julie Cotter of Monash University has provided a richly detailed account of the career of Heidelberg School artist Tom Roberts that focuses on his enormous range of portrait studies…
