Looking At Art ABC, 123, and Colours is a delightful series of books that encourages children from 2 to 6 to look at art. The books feature wondrous paintings from the famous collection of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, including works by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, George Seurat, Pierre Bonnard, Claude Monet, Maurice Denis, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Edouard Vuillard. They also include poems to help children look closely at the paintings and are designed to be read to children or for children to read themselves.

Looking at Art ABC: Alphabet

National Gallery of Australia / Author

History

National Gallery of Australia

Looking At Art ABC, 123, and Colours is a delightful series of books that encourages children from 2 to 6 to look at art. The books feature wondrous paintings from the famous collection of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, including works by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, George Seurat, Pierre Bonnard, Claude Monet, Maurice Denis, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Edouard Vuillard. They also include poems to help children look closely at the paintings and are designed to be read to children or for children to read themselves.

Looking at Art 123: How Many Can You See?

Looking at Art Colours: What Colour Is That?

This innovative children’s book, first published in 1997, looks at the many animals depicted in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and provides a name of the animal both in English and in the Aboriginal language of the artist.Magpie geese (gurrumatji), a goanna (carda), saltwater crocodiles (baru), an emu (gugaamgan), possums (marrngu), sharks (balangu) and, of course, a kangaroo (wambuyn) are among the animals that can be found in the twenty six works of art illustrated in And a Kangaroo Too.

And a Kangaroo Too

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

This fun, colorful, and educational book introduces pre-schoolers to the art of Indigenous Australians and the idea of sharing and caring for our land. Children will develop their observation, manual-dexterity, and coordination skills as they piece together works of art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. Our Land will take children to places beyond their imagination as they learn new words and develop greater understanding of what it means to share our land. It includes ten 16-piece jigsaw puzzles featuring child-friendly works of art.

Our Land: A Puzzle Book of Indigenous Australian Art

Teen & Young Adult

Art, Music & Photography

Arthur Boyd: Agony and Ecstasy is a major exhibition of Boyd's art including more than 100 works across diverse media: paintings, prints, drawings, ceramic tiles and sculptures, and tapestries. This publication provides the opportunity to contemplate a number of works that have never or rarely been previously exhibited, and to rediscover Boyd as you have never seen him before.

Arthur Boyd: Agony and Ecstacy

Biographies & Memoirs

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