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ILL OF CONTEN T B O O K S H O P M E L B O U R N E & S Y D N E Y 86 Bourke Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Ph: (03) 9662 9472 Fax: (03) 9662 2527 hoc@collinsbooks.com.au 275 Darling Street Balmain NSW 2041 Ph: (02) 9555 6055 Fax: (02) 9555 6077 hocsyd@bigpond.com www.hillofcontentbookshop.com.au Find us on Facebook Cover image: By Melbourne artist Gillian Lodge. These paintings will be on display in our Bourke Street store over summer.
Art The Art Museum HB $225.00 The Art Museum is the finest art collection ever assembled between two covers. This revolutionary and unprecedented virtual art museum in a book features 1,000 oversized pages of over 2,700 works of art. It is the most comprehensive and visually spectacular history of world art ever published, accessible for everyone from casual art fans to experts in the field. Picasso To Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters MoMA HB $59.95 This volume highlights the work of 14 masters of 20th century art from Constantin Brancusi and Jasper Johns to Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso. Organised into monographic sections that provide a lively introduction to each artist and their practice, Picasso to Warhol allows readers to explore the achievements of these great figures and to look closely at many of their most significant artworks. Girl In A Green Gown Carola Hicks HB $39.95 The Arnolfini portrait, painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434, is one of the world’s most famous paintings. It intrigues all who see it. Scholars and public alike have puzzled over the meaning of this haunting and beautiful double portrait of a wealthy Bruges merchant and his wife. Using her acclaimed forensic skills as an art historian, Carola Hicks set out to decode the mystery, uncovering several few surprises. The Louvre: All The Paintings Erich Lessing & Vincent Pomarede HB $89.99 Endorsed by the Louvre and for the very first time ever, every painting from the world’s most popular and renowned museum is now available in one stunning book. All 2,981 paintings on display in the permanent collections of the Louvre are presented in full color in this striking slip-cased book, which comes with an enclosed, supportive DVD-ROM. A Bigger Message: Conversations With David Hockney Martin Gayford HB $37.95 David Hockney is possibly the world’s most popular living painter, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. Here are the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. Artist’s Houses Gerard-Georges Lemaire HB $39.95 The homes of some of the world’s most celebrated artists are featured in this lavishly illustrated volume. From Frederic Church’s castle on New York’s Hudson River to Claude Monet’s house and garden at Giverny in France to Giorgio de Chirico’s sophisticated Roman apartment and William Morris’s arts and crafts-style Kelmscott Manor, this book reveals each artist’s tastes and fashionable flair.
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Page 5 and 6: Australian Tony Robinson’s Histor
Page 7 and 8: Australian Fiction Forecast: Turbul
Page 9 and 10: Fiction Daniel Stein, Interpreter L
Page 11 and 12: Military History The Beauty And The
Page 13 and 14: History Leningrad Anna Reid HB $49.
Page 15 and 16: Biography Vincent Van Gogh Steven N
Page 17 and 18: Film & Photography Pilgrimage Annie
Page 19 and 20: Food Indochine Luke Nguyen HB $69.9
Page 21 and 22: Craft Make Hey While The Sun Shines
Page 23 and 24: Gardening Paul Bangay’s Guide To
Page 25 and 26: Literary, Poetry, Essays Planet Wor
Page 27 and 28: Psychology & Philosophy The Better
Page 29 and 30: Sport The Long Road To Paris Cadel
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Page 33 and 34: Picture Books King Jack And The Dra
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