Art & design: c 1900 to c 1960

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Book Cover:  Gustav Stickley
By David Cathers

Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) founded his own design company, Craftsman Workshops, with his brother in upstate New York in 1898. The company was highly successful through the 1920s and eventually became a national enterprise with retail stores in New York, Boston, and Washington, DC.

Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) founded his own design company, Craftsman Workshops, with his brother in upstate New York in 1898. The company was highly successful through the 1920s and eventually became...

Published: 24/02/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714861111
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover:  Dada: Themes & Movements
By Rudolf Kuenzli

Dada developed in distinct periods and locations, providing the structure of the book. From Europe and New York during the First World War it spread to Eastern Europe and Japan in the 1920s. Its re-emergence as Neo-Dada in the 1950s and influence on Fluxus in the 1960s was linked to emigres such as Marcel Duchamp and Hans Richter.

Dada developed in distinct periods and locations, providing the structure of the book. From Europe and New York during the First World War it spread to Eastern Europe and Japan in the 1920s. Its re-emergence...

Published: 10/02/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714861135
RRP: $55.00
Book Cover:  Robert Motherwell and the New York School: Storming the Citadel
By Kenneth Cavander
The battle led by Abstract Expressionists to make American painting equal.
The battle led by Abstract Expressionists to make American painting equal.
Published: 27/09/1999
Format: Audio Visual
ISBN: 9780714860237
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Jackson Pollock
By Melvyn Bragg
A survey of the career of the leading Abstract Expressionist.
A survey of the career of the leading Abstract Expressionist.
Published: 05/02/1996
Format: Audio Visual
ISBN: 9780714860251
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Surrealism: Themes & Movements
By Mary Ann Caws

Surrealism is a survey of the twentieth century's longest lasting and, arguably, most influential art movement. Championed and held together by André Breton for over forty years, Surrealism was France's major avant-garde artistic tendency from 1924 onwards, rapidly spreading around the globe to become an international phenomenon. During World War II Surrealism's exiled artists and writers had...

Surrealism is a survey of the twentieth century's longest lasting and, arguably, most influential art movement. Championed and held together by André Breton for over forty years, Surrealism was France's...

Published: 25/05/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714856735
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting
By Bob Nickas

The definitive survey of contemporary abstract painting, featuring eighty of the most innovative painters from around the world.

Painting is more popular than ever. Collectors and museumgoers can't seem to get enough, with record auction prices and blockbuster exhibitions cementing the medium's priveleged position in the public heart. Most of the attention around painting in recent years has focused...

The definitive survey of contemporary abstract painting, featuring eighty of the most innovative painters from around the world.

Painting is more popular than ever. Collectors and museumgoers can't seem...

Published: 29/10/2009
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714849331
RRP: $89.95
Book Cover:  Art & Today
By Eleanor Heartney

ART & TODAY is the most comprehensive survey of contemporary art of the past three decades. The book's original thematic organization gives a welcome order to the flux of contemporary art. Over four hundred of the most significant contemporary artists from around the world are represented, including emerging as well as established figures. The book's lively, straightforward, and authoritative writing...

ART & TODAY is the most comprehensive survey of contemporary art of the past three decades. The book's original thematic organization gives a welcome order to the flux of contemporary art. Over four...

Published: 01/02/2008
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714845142
RRP: $100.00
Book Cover:  Abstract Expressionism
Published: 11/10/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714844152
RRP: $89.95
Book Cover:  Surrealism: Themes & Movements
By Mary Ann Caws
A comprehensive survey of the 20th-century's longest lasting art movement.
A comprehensive survey of the 20th-century's longest lasting art movement.
Published: 31/10/2004
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714842592
RRP: $89.95
Book Cover:  Cubism
By Neil Cox

An up-to-date, engaging survey of the most important revolution in early twentieth-century art.

Cubism remains perhaps the single most important development in the history of twentieth-century art. It was the creation of just two artists - Georges Braque, a Frenchman, and Pablo Picasso, a Spaniard - between the years 1907 and 1914. Working alongside each other in Paris, then the artistic capital of...

An up-to-date, engaging survey of the most important revolution in early twentieth-century art.

Cubism remains perhaps the single most important development in the history of twentieth-century art. It...

Published: 31/10/2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714840109
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century
By Steven Heller

A survey of avant-garde cultural and political magazines and journals.

A survey of avant-garde cultural and political magazines and journals.

Published: 30/06/2003
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714839271
RRP: $89.95
Book Cover:  Frank Lloyd Wright
By Robert McCarter

The definitive monograph on one of the masters of modern architecture.

Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the great masters of modern architecture. His career spanned over 60 years, and his unique stylistic invention kept ahead of any ephemeral fashion. This definitive monograph provides an unparalleled account of Wright's momentous career. It explores the key themes in Wright's work, and presents the consistent...

The definitive monograph on one of the masters of modern architecture.

Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the great masters of modern architecture. His career spanned over 60 years, and his unique stylistic...

Published: 26/08/1999
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714838540
RRP: $59.95
Book Cover:  Ben Nicholson
By Norbert Lynton

A subtle and sensitive study of this pioneer of abstract art.

Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. A pioneer of abstract art in Britain, he first came to prominence with his famous 'white reliefs', but also maintained a lifelong attachment to landscape and still-life forms and, in a career of over 60 years, produced a remarkable range of carved reliefs...

A subtle and sensitive study of this pioneer of abstract art.

Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. A pioneer of abstract art in Britain, he first came to...

Published: 21/05/1998
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714837505
RRP: $55.00
Book Cover:  Art Deco Painting
By Edward Lucie-Smith

The first book to define Art Deco painting as a genre.

The first book to define Art Deco painting as a genre.

Published: 29/09/1996
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714835761
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Bonnard: an introduction to the work of Pierre Bonnard
By Julian Bell

Bonnard is acknowledged as a master of modern art, following in the tradition of the Impressionists. He is best known as a painter of intimate, domestic interiors but he was also a highly accomplished draughtsman who produced a wealth of lithographs and drawings. This volume illustrates the full range of his output, from his early works inspired by Japanese prints, to the richly coloured works of his...

Bonnard is acknowledged as a master of modern art, following in the tradition of the Impressionists. He is best known as a painter of intimate, domestic interiors but he was also a highly accomplished...

Published: 14/04/1994
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714830520
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  Cubism
By Phillip Cooper

Cubism was one of the most influential movement in Western art this century. Beginning with the revolutionary experiments of Picasso and Braque in Paris between 1906 and 1908, cubism gathered momentum and soon spread to the rest of Europe and America. The movement's rejection of illusionistic representation in favour of an autonomous pictorial language opened the way to abstraction. The Cubists also...

Cubism was one of the most influential movement in Western art this century. Beginning with the revolutionary experiments of Picasso and Braque in Paris between 1906 and 1908, cubism gathered momentum...

Published: 31/03/1995
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714832500
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  Dada and Surrealism
By Matthew Gale

This stimulating introductory survey traces the origins and development of these two roughly parallel revolutionary twentieth-century art movements, exploring the full range of artistic production, including film, photography, collage, painting, graphics and object making.

Matthew Gale skilfully places the art within a context of ideas ranging from the disillusionment and questioning of accepted values...

This stimulating introductory survey traces the origins and development of these two roughly parallel revolutionary twentieth-century art movements, exploring the full range of artistic production, including...

Published: 30/11/1997
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714832616
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover: The Story of Modern Art
By Norbert Lynton
One of the most readable and intelligent introductions to modern art.
One of the most readable and intelligent introductions to modern art.
Published: 10/08/1989
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714824222
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Room 606: The SAS House and the Work of Arne Jacobsen
By Michael Sheridan

This text reconstructs a building that no longer exists, in order to rediscover a lost world of beauty and sensation and gain a new insight into the work of Danish architect Arne Jacobsen. That building is the SAS House, a luxury hotel and airline terminal completed in Copenhagen in 1960. Designed for the Scandinavian Airlines System at the dawn of the jet age, the SAS House was Jacobsen's masterpiece...

This text reconstructs a building that no longer exists, in order to rediscover a lost world of beauty and sensation and gain a new insight into the work of Danish architect Arne Jacobsen. That building...

Published: 10/02/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714861081
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover:  Max Ernst
By Peter Schamoni
A study of the work of a leading member of the Surrealists.
A study of the work of a leading member of the Surrealists.
Published: 12/11/1999
Format: Audio Visual
ISBN: 9780714860121
RRP: $29.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

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