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Hannah Wilke: Art for Life's Sake
Author: Tamara Schenkenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 252 One of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives...
Beyond the Best Dressed: A Cultural History of the Most Glamorous, Radical, and Scandalous Oscar Fashion
Author: Esther Zuckerman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 From the show-stoppingly elegant (Halle Berry winning the award for Monster's Ball in a breathtaking Elie Saab) to the decidedly kooky...
Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward
Author: Oliver Soden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 'This is the biography - truthful, sympathetic and thorough - that Coward deserves' DAILY TELEGRAPH The voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette...
Diaghilev's Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World
Author: Rupert Christiansen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Serge Diaghilev was the Russian impresario who is often said to have invented the modern art form of ballet. Commissioning such...
The Weakness in Me: The Selected Lyrics of Joan Armatrading
Author: Joan Armatrading Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Since the release of her debut album Whatever's For Us in 1972, Joan Armatrading has, across a fifty-year career, traversed styles...
Like Punk Never Happened: New expanded edition
Author: Dave Rimmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A story of money, sex, stardom, screaming fans and forgotten ideals, Like Punk Never Happened is Dave Rimmer's witty, authoritative, fast-moving...
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time
Author: Jenny Uglow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four year old Sybil Andrews. They...
Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials: A practical guide to graphite, charcoal, colored pencil, and more
Author: Elizabeth T. Gilbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials covers all drawing media, from graphite and colored pencils to crayons and pastels, as...
Percy Leason: An Artist's Life
Author: Margo Tasca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 300 Who would have thought that a boy born in 1889 from the Victorian Mallee would become a successful artist on New...
Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records
Author: Jim Ruland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Greg Ginn started SST Records in the sleepy beach town of Hermosa Beach, CA, to supply ham radio enthusiasts with tuners...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme
Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In...
Animal Art: 101 Creative Activities to Inspire and Guide You
Author: Lorna Scobie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Featuring 101 art activities that encourage engagement with the natural world, Lorna shows you that creating art with animals as subjects...
The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age
Author: John Woolf Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'A promising young historian with a taste for the exotic.' Stephen FryA radical new history of the Victorian age: meet the...
Be-Spoke: What the Most Important Fashion Designers in the World Told Only to Marylou Luther
Author: Marylou Luther Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A collection of witty and sometimes wry quotes, inspiring edicts, and philosophies about fashion and style by celebrated fashion designers-from Coco...
Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century
Author: Kate Molleson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The twentieth century was the century of modernity; in a world undergoing rapid transformation, musicians drew upon new technologies, social revolution...
The Beloved Vision: Music in the Romantic Age
Author: Professor Stephen Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Everyone loves romantic music: the sweet melody of a Schubert song, the heroine dying for love in an Italian opera,...
The Monster Book of Manga Creatures and Characters Coloring Book
Author: Estudio Joso Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 A collection of eye-catching images to color that capture the diversity of the manga universe and the unique personalities of its...
Dressing the Part: Television's Most Stylish Shows
Author: Hal Rubenstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From longtime fashion director, consultant, media personality, and author, Hal Rubenstein, comes a lush, full color, illustrated guide to the most...
Dosso's Fate - Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy
Author: . Ciammitti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Dosso Dossi has long been considered one of Renaissance Italy's most intriguing artists. A wealth of documents chronicle his life, but...
The Avant-garde Won't Give Up: Cobra and Its Legacy
Author: Alison M. Gingeras Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This definitive book on the renowned post-war avant-garde artistic movement offers a comprehensive insight into Cobra's history and achievements, and...
No Place Like Home: Interiors by Madeline Stuart
Author: Madeline Stuart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Stuart is hailed as an icon in Los Angeles for her exceptional work. Architectural Digest wrote, "In a city driven by...
The Art of the Body: Antiquity and Its Legacy
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Author: Reader in Classical Art Michael Squire (King's College London UK) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The classical human body is perhaps the single most important and wide-ranging legacy...
Later ... With Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic and Mayhem
Author: Mark Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later...' Nick Cave 'Later... is a...
Madame Cezanne
Author: Dita Amory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A new account of Cezanne's complex relationship with his wife, who served as the subject of some of his most iconic...
Preaching, Building, and Burying: Friars in the Medieval City
Author: Caroline Bruzelius Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant commitment to...
Mozart and Beethoven: The Concept of Love in Their Operas
Author: Irving Singer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 An exploration of the sensuous and the passionate, as expressed in operas by Mozart and Beethoven. Music, language, and drama come...
Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts
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Author: Allan Marett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Aboriginal musicians receive songs both from an eternal realm known as The Dreaming and from the ghosts of deceased ancestors. Songs,...
Chinese Houses of South East Asia: The Eclectic Architecture of Sojourners and Settlers
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Author: Ronald G. Knapp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Over a period of several years, noted Chinese cultural historian Ronald G. Knapp traveled throughout Southeast Asia, searching out homes...
Chinese Bridges: Living Architecture from China's Past
Author: Ronald G. Knapp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In Chinese Bridges, Ronald G. Knapp, one of the foremost experts on Chinese culture and historical geography, gives these under-regarded...
Doonesbury and the Art of G.B. Trudeau
Author: Brian Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An exciting look at the artistic evolution of the iconic style of Doonesbury on the 40th anniversary of its publication. Best...
Icons of Style: Denim
Author: The Daily Street Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Once a functional piece of workwear, denim has long since taken its place as a global style icon - but...
Lou Reed: A Life
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Author: Anthony Decurtis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed. As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground...
The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1: 1969-73
Author: Allan Kozinn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in...
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
Author: Caroline Vout Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The Greek and Roman body is often seen as flawless - cast from life in buff bronze and white marble, to...
Medical Grade Music
Author: Steve Davis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 No-one, least of all Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi themselves, expected the six-time former World Snooker champion and a British-Iranian underground...
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England
Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...
In Good Hands: The Making of a Modern Conductor
Author: Alice Farnham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Writing with refreshing passion, and with her own personal story at its heart,Alice Farnham sets out to explore what it means...
Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal
Author: Jeff Koons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 The most successful of living artists, Jeff Koons has been a focus of creative fascination and significance for more than thirty...
Contemporary Chinese Art: A History: 1970s-2000s
Author: Wu Hung Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 456 From its underground genesis during the Cultural Revolution, contemporary Chinese art has become a dynamic and hugely influential force in a...
Art in Hungary, 1956-1980: Doublespeak and Beyond
Author: Edit Sasvari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The international significance of the art produced in Hungary in the 1960s and 1970s has come to the fore in recent...
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop
Author: Bob Stanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 Let's Do It is the definitive history of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. The story begins in...
From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga
Author: S. H. Fernando Jr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 This is the definitive biography of rap supergroup, Wu-Tang Clan (WTC). Widely regarded as one of the most influential...
The Wolf Hall Picture Book
Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A photography book that is a vital accompaniment to the many fans of Hilary Mantel's bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy 'At the...
Cartier: The Story Behind the Style
Author: Rachael Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Cartier: The Story Behind the Style is a beautifully illustrated, handbag-sized visual history of one of the world's most iconic brands....
Lightning Striking
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Author: Lenny Kaye Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 'A true testimonial and epic love letter to the soul saving power of rock & roll . . . Read it...
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop
Author: Bob Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 656 Let's Do It is the definitive history of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. The story begins in...
Glass: The life and art of Klaus Moje
Author: Nola Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'It is always based on what I see, what is touching me.' For more than fifty years, Klaus Moje devoted his...
Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857-1893
Author: Vanessa Finney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Trade Illustration Selection in the 2020 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show SHORTLISTED for Australian Book Design Awards 2020 Best Designed...