Penguin Books Australia

The ultimate visual guide to paintings and sculpture from around the world.

Bring a gallery of more than 2,500 of the world's most influential paintings and sculptures ever created into your home and learn everything you need to know about art history.

This definitive work charts the evolution of an influential movement that continues to provoke controversy today Over 250 images of performance, painting, photography, sculpture and installation bring together the largely untold story of these influential works with clear, insightful, explanatory texts A survey by Amelia Jones, a leading authority on body and performance art, illustrates the genre's...

New edition of this essential handbook for all artists, covering everything from pencil drawing to digital printing

Whether you're interested in the traditional art methods of drawing, painting and printmaking or modern art techniques such as digital photography, digital printing and digital image manipulation, this guide is for you.

14 essays focusing on issues raised by 20th-century art and theory.

Perhaps the single most revolutionary aspect of the Renaissance was the re-emergence of the gods and goddesses of antiquity. In the midst of Christian Europe, artists began to decorate luxury goods with scandalous stories from classical mythology, and rulers to identify themselves with the deities of ancient religion. The resulting fusion of erotic fantasy and political power changed the course of...