Collection: Reference

The Art of The Polar Express celebrates the transformation of Chris Van Allsburg's celebrated children's book The Polar Express into a full-length, animated feature film through a fascinating collection of concept art, production storyboards, and computer-generated renderings. Production designer...

The shoe is considerable in the history of civilization and art. The shoe has been used from the bottom to the top of the social ladder, by all the individuals of any given group, from group to group, by the entire world.

The story of Walt Disney and the company he built based entirely on the creations of his extraordinary imagination. Illustrations include concept art, background paintings, film stills and views of theme park attractions.

Attempts to survey art form 1940 to the present as a accumulation of unique contributions by individual artists, interspersed with a few chapters that concern the broader context of the six decades.

""Boyd's work is an extraordinary mixture of fantasy, eroticism and humanism. His prodigious creativity in all media is magnificently conveyed in this beautiful and original study.

Fully illustrated with over eighteen hundred drawings, arranged to trace the network of connections between Boyd's drawings and his work in other media, as well as the links between the drawings themselves.

The Australia's Best series support studies of Australians' achievements in diverse fields of endeavour. Each title contains profiles of remarkable individuals who have made significant contributions to Australian society, culture and history, outlining t