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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
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 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
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