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Invisible
Simon & Schuster UK 2011; Not AvailableThe impressionistic memoir of an artist who was blinded in a sudden act of violence, leading to a profound meditation on what it means to see and be seen 'You live in a city like New York. You read the papers. You look at the television. But you never think it will happen to you. It happened to me one evening'. One summer night in 1978, Hugues de... more...
Time, Synchronicity and Calendar Change
Law of Time Press 2011; US$ 16.99One time is ending, but another is just beginning, an entirely new era in the history of the Earth: the noosphere. This is the message of José Argüelles. In this authorized Biography, Stephanie South leads the reader into the world of one of the most unique visionaries in history, exploring the nature of time, telepathy, Earth changes, prophecy, synchronicity... more...
Caravaggio
Random House 2012; US$ 30.01Of all Italian painters, Caravaggio (c. 1565-1609) speaks most intensely to the modern world. His early works suggest a fascination with his own youth and sexuality and the trancience of love and beauty his later religious art speaks of violence, passion, solitude and death. Ugly, almost brutal-looking, Caravaggio was constantly embroiled in fights... more...
The Patagonian Hare
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012; US$ 17.99?Even if I lived a hundred lives, I still wouldn?t be exhausted.? These words capture the intensity of the experiences of Claude Lanzmann, a man whose acts have always been a negation of resignation: a member of the Resistance at sixteen, a friend to Jean-Paul Sartre and a lover to Simone de Beauvoir, and the director of one of the most important... more...
Meeting Fairies
Allen & Unwin 2011; US$ 22.95Fascinating meetings with fire and water spirits and interactions with the elf king?one person's remarkable encounters with the fairy realm More than 40 years ago Robert Ogilvie Crombie, or Roc as he was affectionately known, found himself in Edinburgh Botanical Gardens, where, to his great surprise, he found himself looking at a faun. The remarkable,... more...
Goya
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 29.95Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia ( The Fatal Shore ), the modern art movement ( The Shock of the New ), the nature of American art ( American Visions ), and the nature of America itself as seen through its art ( The Culture of Complaint ), now turns his renowned... more...
John Constable
Random House 2012; US$ 21.33Born in 1776 in East Anglia near the river Stour, John Constable was destined for his father's business of milling and grain-shipping. But he was obdurately opposed to this and persuaded his family he should become an artist instead. In the same determined spirit, he wooed Maria Bicknell in the teeth of opposition from her formidable grandfather,... more...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 35.00This work examines the fascinating life and art of the African American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). more...
Mr JW Lewin, Painter & Naturalist
University of NSW Press 2012; US$ 31.99Author, illustrator, printmaker and natural historian, John William Lewin created the first illustrated book ever published in Australia Birds of New South Wales, in 1813. Featuring more than 150 exquisite artworks, Mr JW Lewin takes a fascinating look at Lewins life and work, his place in colonial Australian society and the natural history... more...
Seven Years with Banksy
Michael O' Mara Books 2012; US$ 9.99A memoir of Banksy, one of the world's most celebrated graffiti artists, offering an insight into his life and work through the experiences that he and the author shared together during Banksy's formative years. more...









