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Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana
$19.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
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
Abstract Art by Anna Moszynska
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
Since the early years of the twentieth century, Western abstract art has fascinated, outraged, and bewildered audiences. Its path to acceptance within the artistic mainstream was slow. This revised edition traces the origins and evolution of abstract art, placing it in broad cultural context.Well-respec ...Show more
Bauhaus by Frank Whitford; Michael White (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
The aesthetic of our contemporary environment, including everything from housing developments to furniture and websites, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919, the Bauhaus. While in operation for only fourteen years before being shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the ...Show more
Contemporary African Art by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by one particular style, technique, or theme, but by a bricolage-like attitude toward art making, incorporating and building upon the structures from w ...Show more
Costume and Fashion by James Laver
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fashion | Series: World of Art Ser.
From the momentous invention of the needle some 40,000 years ago to the development of blue denim, from Neolithic weavers to the biggest names in the fashion industry today, this classic guide covers the landmarks of costume history. Costume and Fashion explores the forms and materials used in fashion t ...Show more
Greek Art by Boardman, John
$27.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: World of Art Ser.
"One of the very best short histories of Greek Art." -- The Financial Times John Boardman, one of the best known and acknowledged scholars of the classical Greek world, has updated his definitive survey of its arts, the most influential and widely known historic artistic tradition of the Old World. In t ...Show more
Monet by James H. Rubin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
One of the most famous and admired painters of all time, Claude Monet (1840- 1926) was the architect of impressionism--a revolution that gave birth to modern art. His technique of painting outside at the seashore or in city streets was as radically new as his subject matter: the landscapes and middle-cl ...Show more
Movements in Art Since 1945 by Edward Lucie-Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
Revised and redesigned for the first time since 2001, this standard introduction to visual art in the postwar era examines the movements, trends, and artists from abstract expressionism to the present day.Writing with exceptional clarity and a strong sense of narrative, Edward Lucie- Smith demystifies t ...Show more
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