Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Art and Craft

Have you ever looked at a button and wondered about its history? Where it's from? The craftmanship involved in its creation? In A Button a Day, author Lucy Godoroja takes readers on a visual tour of buttons great and small, offering fascinating insights into their peculiar history and sharing an ...

Every schoolchild recognises their protagonists: the Avengers, the X-Men, your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. The superhero comics that Marvel has published since 1961 make up the biggest self-contained work of fiction ever created: over half a million pages and counting. Eighteen of the 100 ...

Make something fun for the kitchen -- pretty placemats, or an apron for the cook. Each project comes with step-by-step instructions and adorable artworks by Gemma Correll -- so just grab a needle and thread and get down to some seriously creative crafting.

All the Buildings in Sydney is a love letter to author James Gulliver Hancock's home town of Sydney, told through his unique and charming drawings of the city's diverse architectural styles and cityscape. His buildings are colourful and full of fun and offbeat details, yet he successfully capture...

"What do we hope to get out of seeing a famous piece of art? Jeannie Marshall asked that question of herself when she started visiting the Sistine Chapel frescoes. She wanted to understand their meaning and context--but in the process, she also found what she didn't know she was looking for. All ...

This book presents a new account of one of the most distinctive, long-lasting and fascinating chapters of modern British art: how artists have used painting to record their personal, sensuous, immediate and often intense experiences of life. Spanning a century, this history encompasses a diverse ...

"This publication, Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse, accompanies the NGV exhibition of the same name. It includes texts authored by curators at LACMA that explore the cycles of inspiration and existential themes that provided the foundation for the unique worlds that McQueen built with each ...

All Animal Beings is a 'coffee table book' containing beautiful photographs of the animals in our lives that we think we know best. Some of these animals we call family, some we call foe, some we call food.