Maori Art: History, Architecture, Landscape & Theory by Dr Rangihiroa Panoho
$99.95 AUD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
Up until now books on Maori art have described the work as either traditional (carving, weaving, painting) or contemporary, work produced post-1950s. This book presents a unique focus on Maori art by exploring the connection between the traditional and contemporary, and the place of Maori art within an ...Show more
Holbein: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Rosalind Ormiston
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art & Entertainment
Hans Holbein the Younger's life is discovered through his artworks, his family, his patrons and the people who met him. Born into a family of talented artists, Holbein learnt to be a draughtsman, a painter, a portraitist, and a designer for woodcuts. What could not be taught was his remarkable skill ...Show more
Conversatio: In the Company of Bees by Anne Noble
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art
RENOWNED PHOTOGRAPHER FOCUSES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BEES Conversātiō looks at the astounding practice of leading photographer Anne Noble, set against the issues of ecosystem collapse and climate change and examining what an artist can do in response. Its creative focus is on that most important insect, ...Show more
Rita Angus: An Artists Life by Jill Trevelyan
$65.95 AUD
Category: Art | Reading Level: near fine
Jill Trevelyan won the Non Fiction Award at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2009 for this magnificent biography of one of New Zealands leading 20th century artists. Now back in print, this revised edition brings the book up to date with new assessments of Angus and in the context of the big Royal ...Show more
Auckland Architecture: A Walking Guide - Revised Edition by John Walsh & Patrick Reynolds
$27.95 AUD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: near fine
In this handy pocket guide, brought up to date in 2021 with the inclusionof twelve new buildings, well-known architecture writer John Walsh teamsup with architectural photographer Patrick Reynolds to offer a self-guidedwalking tour of 60 significant Auckland buildings, from the Victorian era tothe brand ...Show more
Landfall 240 by Neale Emma
$32.95 AUD
Category: Art & Entertainment | Reading Level: near fine
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, reviews and cultural commentary. Landfall 240 also features the winner of the 2020 Landfall Essay Competition as well as judges' comments. ...Show more
Mātāmua ko te Kupu! - Kotahi Rau Pukapuka #1 by Timoti Karetu
$32.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Kotahi Rau Pukapuka
Mātāmua ko te Kupu! He kohinga whakaaro, he kohinga wheako hoki mō te waiata me te haka nā tētahi tokānuku kua aua atu e tū ana i taua ao. Ko Tā Tīmoti Kāretu tētahi o ngā tohunga reo Māori o te motu – ko ia te kaiarataki i Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, i Te Māngai Pāho, i Te Kōhanga Reo tae atu ki Te ...Show more
Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists by Leonard Bell
$79.95 AUD
Category: Art
For fifty years, Marti Friedlander (1928-2016) was one of New Zealand's most important photographers, her work singled out for praise and recognition here and around the world. Friedlander's powerful pictures chronicled the country's social and cultural life from the 1960s into the twenty-first century. ...Show more
Billy Apple: Life/Work by Christina Barton
$79.95 AUD
Category: Art
A major study of New Zealand’s most internationally significant living artist. Billy Apple (born Barrie Bates in Auckland, 1935) is New Zealand’s most internationally significant living artist and a pioneer of pop and conceptual art. At the Royal College of Art in London from 1959–62, Apple studied with ...Show more
Gottfried Lindauer's New Zealand: The Maori Portraits by Ngahiraka Mason
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art
An exquisite piece of art publishing that showcases Bohemian artist Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand in 75 plates and detailed contextual essays. From the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the Bohemian immigrant artist Gottfried Lindauer travelled to marae and rural towns around New Zealand and – c ...Show more
Me, According to the History of Art by Dick Frizzell
$64.95 AUD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
Throughout his long career, New Zealand painter Dick Frizzell has often gone way out on a limb to see where it would take him. From his early Pop art influenced approach to his experiments with landscape and the contested area of appropriation, he's always been brave. Now, he takes on the history of art ...Show more
with 35 Projects and 800 Photographs Drawing & Painting Portraits & Figures: A Complete Step by Step Course by Vincent Sarah & Milne Hoggett
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
Human figures and faces have always dominated art. This practical book offers budding artists the chance to learn the art of drawing and painting the human body. Tutorials provide knowledge of the human skeletal structure and muscles, skin and hair texture, expressions, movement and postures. In the pro ...Show more