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A.A. PHILLIPS ON THE CULTURAL by PHILLIPS, A.A.
$14.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: MUP Masterworks Ser.
The Australian writer, critic and teacher A.A. Phillips coined the term 'the cultural cringe' in 1950 to describe an Australian tendency to identify our literature and art as inferior to work produced overseas, particularly in Britain and the United States. The term has resonated in debates about Austra ...Show more
Art Nouveau Masterworks: Posters, Illustration and Fine Art from the Glamorous Fin de Siècle by Michael Robinson; Rosalind Ormiston
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Masterworks Ser.
Art Nouveau is still popular today, notable for the sinewy, organic stylings which adorn the new edition of this long term bestseller.The rise of the Art Nouveau style across Continental Europe and the US in all forms of art was remarkable and is explored in this beautifully illustrated book. Discussing ...Show more
Art Nouveau: Posters, Illustration & Fine Art from the Glamorous Fin de Siecle by ROSALIND ORMISTON
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Masterworks Ser.
This beautifully illustrated book is a celebration of Art Deco's expression through the graphic arts and illustration. Divided into three sections - the movement, its fashion and advertising - the reader gains great insight into the artists and innovators that helped popularize the Art Deco movement, su ...Show more
Claude Monet - Waterlilies and the Garden of Giverny by Flame Flame Tree (Created by); Julian Beecroft
$44.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Masterworks Ser.
A gorgeous new edition with the cover printed on silver. Towards the end of his life and much inspired by Japanese water gardens, Monet spent a great deal of time in his beloved Giverny. Adorned with poppies, blue sage, dahlias and irises, the waters were disturbed only by bamboos and water lilies. His ...Show more
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built hum ...Show more
Erte: Art Deco Master of Graphic Art & Illustration by James Peacock; Rosalind Ormiston; Ray Perman (Foreword by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Masterworks Ser.
Perhaps no individual is more associated with the 20th century art deco revival than Russian-born French artist and designer, Ert . Although his talent spanned many creative fields, Erte is perhaps best-known for his theatre and fashion designs, which were often later translated into beautiful silkscree ...Show more
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The Hollow Man. On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of ga ...Show more
Italian Renaissance - Masterworks (HB) by Peter Crack; Luke Uglow (Foreword by)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Masterworks Ser.
The Renaissance of the 14th-16th centuries was, and forever will be, one of the most pivotal periods in the development of Western art. Its roots spread wide and deep, and much social and intellectual revitalization had begun before this revered time, but the renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman ...Show more
Louis Comfort Tiffany - Masterworks by Camilla de la Bédoyère
$44.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Masterworks Ser.
A gorgeous new edition with the cover printed on silver. Tiffany was highly skilled in jewellery design, ceramics, enamels, and metalwork but he is best known for his beautiful stained-glass designs. Using opalescent glass in a variety of colours and textures, he created a stunning range of jewel-like A ...Show more
Revelation Space (Revelation Space #1) by Alastair Reynolds
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists now settling the Amarantin homeworld Resurgam, it's of little more than academic interest, even after the discovery of a long-hidden, almost perfect Amarantin city and a colossal statue of a winged Amarantin. For ...Show more
The Difference Engine by William Gibson; Bruce Sterling
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
The 20th anniversary edition of the classic steampunk novel With new commentary by the authors 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. Three ext ...Show more
The Forever War (PB) by Joe Haldeman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards: A futuristic masterpiece, "perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam" (Junot Díaz). In this novel, a landmark of science fiction that began as an MFA thesis for the Iowa Writers' Workshop and went on to become an award-winning classic--inspiring a ...Show more