Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Art and Craft

Akira Isogawa delves into the creative world of one of Australia's best known and most loved designers. Beautifully illustrated and with more than 50 garments, it explores the background, inspirations, impulses and cultural references that have contributed to the making of a fashion original.Born...

"Albrecht Dürer was the first artist to truly employ the power of reproduction. He reinvented the way people looked at, and understood, art. He painted signs and wonders; comets, devils, horses, nudes, dogs, and blades of grass so accurately that even today they seem hyper-real, utterly modern i...

When a bestselling author and a much-esteemed painter meet at a party, they soon cook up the idea to collaborate and make a book about the life cycle of a woman...Two brilliant artists get together and plan a dramatic book in words and images about the twists and turns in the life cycle of a woma...

"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.