Margaret Snowdon
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Blog post — 28 Nov 2013
The Best Art & Design Books of 2013
Here are our top five art and design books from 2013, as selected by our art & design specialist Margaret Snowdon. (Displayed in no particular order).
Blog post — 18 Nov 2013
Diana Vreeland Memos
Diana Vreeland was editor in chief at Vogue for 9 years from 1962 to 1971. Diana Vreeland Memos: The Vogue Years is the legendary editor in her own words, providing…
Review — 27 Jan 2020
Ash Road by Ivan Southall
I read Ash Road when I was in Primary School, probably when I was around 10 or 11. I distantly recall that after a reading diet of Louisa May Alcott…
Review — 13 Jun 2013
Australian Impressionists In France by Elena Taylor
Australian Impressionists in France explores an overlooked period in our art history. Many Australian artists spent time in France during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet this era…
Review — 6 Mar 2013
The Books That Shaped Art History edited by Richard Shone & John-Paul Stonard
Whereas many books introducing art history do so from the perspective of theories and methods, the points of embarkation for this volume are rather the landmark publications that have shaped…
Review — 3 Mar 2013
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec by Fred Vargas
The Times says of author Fred Vargas: ‘One of today’s few truly original writers of crime fiction; disturbing, unruly, droll and poetic.’ I agree with that – in a genre…
Blog post — 25 Nov 2012
The Best Art & Design Books of 2012
This year we’ve seen a bumper crop of books, music and film and over the next few weeks we’ll be presenting a series of our favourites, voted for and selected…
Review — 28 Oct 2012
Artists in Conversation by Janet Hawley
[[janet-hawley-rev]]If any book was to confirm the accepted notions of the artistic life, it could be this one. In her many years interviewing the stars of twentieth-century Australian art, Janet…
Review — 4 Oct 2012
Love Looks Not with the Eyes: Thirteen Years with Lee Alexander McQueen by Anne Deniau
If you are, or claim to be a fashionista of taste and style, and appreciate talent and genius, then I highly recommend you add this book to your collection.
Anne…