Penguin Books Australia

Husband-and-wife team Philippa and Alex Nikulinsky travel into isolated outback regions, often staying for months at a time, to paint the Australian bush.

Cape Arid National Park is a fascinating and remote area on the far south-eastern coast of Western Australia. Braving howling winds, grit, sleet, 43-degree heat and thousands of flies, the Nikulinskys travel rough sandy tracks to be rewarded by shimmering...

Amedeo ('Beloved of God') Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as Van Gogh's. In Modigliani's time, his work was seen as an oddity: contemporary with the Cubists but not part of their movement. His work was a link between such portraitists as Whistler, Sargent, and Toulouse-Lautrec and that of the Art Deco painters of the 1920s as well as...

Published on the occasion of the 2009 Venice Biennale, MADDESTMAXIMVS - PLANET & STARS SEQUENCE is a project book a and catalogue, documenting a new major body of work by Shaun Gladwell.

Mike Parr is Australia's most significant performance artist. His contribution to the development and establishment of performance art in Australia remains continuous and resolute. Parr's dedication and research into the boundaries of performance art within the parameters of art history and theory are unprecedented.

David Gentleman has been drawing London all his adult life. But can you look afresh at the place where you live? Over the past year he has immersed himself in his home city to try to find out. His days have been spent drawing and painting it: the surprising expanse of its changeable skies and the crushed closeness of the tube, as well as the hidden places and unique people from Rainham Marshes to Hampstead...

An inspirational guide to drawing plants.

An intimate understanding of botany will help any artist create vibrant and realistic art. Sarah Simblet's masterclass provides you with an awareness and appreciation of plants and flowers and shows how to apply that knowledge to your art.

For the past twenty years Adam Derums has made artworks that question what is beauty and how we experience it.  This book allows us to explore the creative evolution of one of our most significant artists over his substantial career.

Following in the footsteps of DK's bestselling adult title Animal , which sold in excess of 2 million copies, Animals: A Visual Encyclopedia reveals the wonders of the animal kindgom to a younger readership. Introductory spreads provide a scientific definition of the term 'animal' and show how the animal kingdom fits into the greater tree of life. The important subdivisions of the animal kingdom and...

* More than 250 specially commissioned photographs and 100 drawings are used to reveal and celebrate the body

* Drawings and photographs interact to illustrate the relationship between the surface appearance of the human form and the complexities of its underlying structure

* Practical drawing...

American artist Elizabeth Peyton has been credited with breathing new life into the ancient art of portraiture. Her highly stylized, idealized oil paintings, drawings, and watercolors are driven by the emotional, adoring eye of an unrequited lover. Willowy, melancholy young men and women contemporary pop stars, royalty, artists, and friends are the magnetic subjects of her devotion. Caught as if in...

Pawel Althamer (b. 1967) originally trained as a sculptor, but his work also bears the marks of relational art -- social, collaborative, participatory art that is concerned less with producing objects than with composing human interactions. Often dematerialized to the point of invisibility, this work also increasingly enlists human participants, often in what the artist describes as 'reality directed'...

Revised and expanded final edition of the authoritative monograph on this modern master.

R B Kitaj (b.1932) is recognized universally as a modern master. His powerful, controversial and highly personal paintings, pastels and drawings reflect his unfashionable commitment to the human figure as a subject, and his complex involvement with the art of the past, especially their political and social issues...