Skip to main content
Search Button
Australia Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...

Criticism eBooks

If you like Criticism eBooks, then you'll love these top picks.
Showing 1 - 24 of 3137 Results
Skip side bar filters

  • Design for a Better World

    Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered

    by Donald A. Norman ...
    How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us.The world is a mess. Our dire predicament, from collapsing social structures to the climate crisis, has been millennia in the making and can be traced back to the erroneous belief that the earth’s resources are infinite. The key to change, says Don Norman, is human behavior, covered in the book’s three major ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • Reparative Aesthetics

    Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography

    by Professor Susan Best ...
    By offering a new way of thinking about the role of politically engaged art, Susan Best opens up a new aesthetic field: reparative aesthetics. The book identifies an innovative aesthetic on the part of women photographers from the southern hemisphere, who against the dominant modes of criticality in political art, look at how cultural production can be reparative.The winner ofthe Art Association ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD

  • The Artist's Way

    A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

    by Julia Cameron ...
    'A really good starting point to discover what lights you up' - Emma Gannon'Unlock your inner creativity and ease your anxiety' Daily TelegraphTHE MULTI-MILLION-COPY WORLDWIDE BESTSELLERSince its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss, Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

  • The Awakening Artist

    Madness and Spiritual Awakening in Art

    by Patrick Howe ...
    The Awakening Artist: Madness and Spiritual Awakening in Art is an art theory book that explores the collision of human madness and spiritual awakening in art. It examines a condition of insani... ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Ways of Seeing

    by John Berger ...
    series Penguin Modern Classics
    How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever."Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • If Walls Could Talk

    An intimate history of the home

    by Lucy Worsley ...
    Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries, did people fear fruit?All these questions - and more - are answered in this juicy, truly intimate history of the home.Through the ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Home Edit Life

    The Complete Guide to Organizing Absolutely Everything at Work, at Home and On the Go, A Netflix Original Series – Season 2 now showing on Netflix

    by Clea Shearer, Joanna Teplin ...
    series Home Edit
    The New York Times Number One BestsellerA Netflix Original Series.'Move over, Marie Kondo - Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin are the professional organisers the A-list now let rifle through their drawers.' - Sunday Times Style'A fantastic primer on how to Mary Poppins your kitchen.' Financial TimesClea Shearer and Joanna Teplin are back again to bring both function and beauty to ... ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • Line Color Form

    The Language of Art and Design

    by Jesse Day ...
    Design students today are more visually literate than ever before, and their learning style naturally favors the visual over the textual. So why should they learn art and design theory from a traditional textbook? The only guide of its kind, Line Color Form offers a thorough introduction to design theory and terminology in a visually appealing and accessible format. With hundreds of illustrations ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • On Photography

    by Susan Sontag ...
    series Penguin Modern Classics
    Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. Photographs have the power to shock, ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Girl in a Green Gown

    The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait

    by Carola Hicks ...
    WITH A FOREWORD BY GRAYSON PERRYCarola Hicks sets out to solve the mystery of one of art history’s greatest paintings, The Arnolfini PortraitThe Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck in 1434 hangs in the National Gallery in London and remains a mystery to this day. Is the painting of the girl in the green gown the celebration of marriage or pregnancy, a memorial to a wife who died in childbirth, a ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • Feel Free

    Essays

    by Zadie Smith ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM 2019From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time - discover a second unmissable collection of essays from Zadie Smith'Generous, courageous, and tough-minded... [A] classic English essayist in the vein of Orwell, Woolf and Angela Carter' Financial Times'Engrossing, astute... ... ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • How to Be an Artist

    The New York Times bestseller

    by Jerry Saltz ...
    The New York Times Bestseller"I wish I had read these rules forty years ago and carried them around like a bible. By chance or design I've followed most of them at some point but it took me a lifetime as an artist to find what worked. They are the generous, loving, enthusiastic, bullshit-free advice of a master communicator, just reading them makes me want to charge back into the studio" - Grayson ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • On Chapel Sands

    My mother and other missing persons

    by Laura Cumming ...
    **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**Uncovering the mystery of her mother's disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story.'A modern masterpiece' GuardianAutumn 1929 - a young girl is kidnapped from a beach. Five agonising days go by before she is discovered safe and... ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Erotic Comics

    A Graphic History, Vol 1 (PB)

    by Tim Pilcher, Aline Kominsky Crumb, Gene Kannenberg Jr ...
    Crammed full of exquisite art from around the world, with fascinating background stories about the artists, editors and publishers, Erotic Comics: A Graphic History examines how this much maligned artform developed into a publishing phenomenon that spans the globe. Volume 1 delves deep into comic history, from the bawdy English cartoons of the 17th century, through the magazines impacted by the ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Monsters

    A Fan’s Dilemma

    by Claire Dederer ...
    ***BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK***'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, SUNDAY TIMES'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life' JENNY OFFILLA passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #MeToo... ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Complete Works of Jane Austen (In One Volume)

    Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady ... Sandition, and the Complete Juvenilia

    by Jane Austen, Red Deer Classics ...
    The Complete Works of Jane Austen includes all six novels, and Austen's shorter works; Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition, and her complete Juvenilia. Jane Austen is famous for her six novels, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Her works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely ... Read more

    Free

  • 100 Artists' Manifestos

    From the Futurists to the Stuckists

    by Alex Danchev ...
    series Penguin Modern Classics
    In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism, Vorticism, Stridentism, Cannibalism and Stuckism, taking in along the way film, architecture, fashion, and cookery.Artists' manifestos are nothing if not revolutionary. They are ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • A Month in Siena

    by Hisham Matar ...
    FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss' Guardia**n'Everybody should get to spend a month with Mr. Matar, looking at paintings' Zadie Smith, Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year_______________________________________________Matar was nineteen years old when his father was kidnapped. ... ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • What Are You Looking At?

    150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye

    by Will Gompertz ...
    What Are You Looking At? by Will Gompertz - a wonderfully lively and accessible history of Modern Art by the BBC Arts Editor'An essential primer not only for art lovers but for art loathers too' **** ExpressWhat is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? Join Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

    by Roger Scruton ...
    series Very Short Introductions
    Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • On Freedom

    Four Songs of Care and Constraint

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    What can freedom really mean?'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' OLIVIA LAINGIn this invigorating, essential book, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience or talk about freedom. Drawing on pop culture, theory and real life, she follows freedom - with all its complexities - through four realms: ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    series Penguin Great Ideas
    One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly – and what the troubling social and political implications of this are.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

  • Hang-Ups

    Essays on Painting (Mostly)

    by Simon Schama CBE ...
    Pre-eminent author and art historian Simon Schama has written widely on art for many years to great acclaim. In Hang-Ups, a personal selection of his articles from, amongst others, The New Yorker, appears in Britain for the very first time. Brilliantly and lucidly written by one of the most singular voices in non-fiction, this volume of provocative and often idiosyncratic essays makes hugely ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • Picture This

    How Pictures Work

    Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas—about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story—remain unparalleled in their simplicity and genius. Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD $3.99 AUD