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20th Century Ceramics by Edmund De Waal
$17.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: World of Art S.
Ceramics have kept pace with - or even led - new movements in art, from Art Nouveau, Art Deco, the Bauhaus and Futurism, through Abstract Expressionism, Pop and Performance, to Land Art and Installation Art. From orientalism and colour theory to modernism, postmodernism and the profuse diversity of appr ...Show more
AMERICAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE by Michael J. Lewis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
This new survey provides a complete history of American art and architecture from its seventeenth-century colonial beginnings to the latest installation and video work. Structured chronologically, the book defines the characteristics of the different periods and highlights the consistent forms, techniqu ...Show more
Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana
$19.95 AUD
Category: No Category | 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
BLACK ART A CULTURAL HISTORY by Richard J. Powell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
From musings on the "the souls of black folk" in early twentieth-century painting, sculpture, and photography to questions of racial and cultural identities in performance, media, and computer-assisted arts in the 1990s, the book draws on the works of hundreds of artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, ...Show more
Fashion Since 1900 by Valerie Mendes
$29.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: World of Art
From Belle Epoque tea gowns to Diors 1947 New Look and fashion blogs in the 2000s, this survey explores the significant developments in fashion from 1900 onwards.
Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers by Alan Livingston
$30.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: World of Art | Reading Level: very good
Revised and updated to include all aspects of graphic design from 1840 to the present day, this classic reference defines key movements, trends, styles and techniques, and covers an enormous range of graphic designers, typographers, illustrators, poster artists and printers. It ensures that the names at ...Show more
The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec : 5th Edition by Mary Ellen Miller
$21.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: World of Art
This expanded and fully revised fifth edition of Mary Ellen Millers classic book features a completely new chapter on Teotihuacan discussing the rulership and ethnicity of that powerful yet enigmatic city. Exciting new discoveries and ongoing research help clarify the links between the Olmecs and the Ma ...Show more
The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: World of Art Ser.
Every year, millions of visitors are drawn to Egypt and to museum collections around the world to marvel at the fabulous culture of the pharaohs. The ancient civilization of the Nile Valley offers a bewildering array of kings and dynasties, gods and goddesses, temples and tombs, and this new dictionary ...Show more
The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers by Georgina Callan O'Hara
$29.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: World of Art
"A fashion bible."--"Vogue,""Invaluable."--"The World of Interiors" This indispensable guide to fashion provides in more than 1200 entries detailed information on the life and work of every important designer from 1840 to the present day, including not only couturiers but also shoe, hat, and knitwear s ...Show more
The Theatre by Phyllis Hartnoll
$29.95 AUD
Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
Acting, direction, stagecraft, theatre architecture and design, above all the whole extraordinary evolution of dramatic literature - here is a history of theatre, worldwide in scope and ranging from its ancient origins in the choral hymns sung round the altar of Dionysus to the fascinating variety of fo ...Show more
The Theatre: A Concise History : 4th edition by Phyllis Hartnoll
$19.95 AUD
Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: World of Art
Acting, direction, stagecraft, theatre architecture and design, the extraordinary evolution of dramatic literature here is an all-embracing and richly illustrated history, global in scope and ranging from the ancient origins of the theatre in the choral hymns sung around the altar of Dionysus to the fas ...Show more
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