Melvin Day: Artist by Gregory O'Brien
$76.95 AUD
Category: Art & Entertainment | Reading Level: near fine
There were many Melvin Days, but the term Artist encompasses all of them. During a career spanning seven decades, he produced some of the most intellectually astute, yet often visceral, paintings in New Zealand art history. Born in Hamilton in 1923, Day was a radical but also a great believer in traditi ...Show more
Te Hei Tiki - An Enduring Treasure in a Cultural Continuum by Dougal Austin
$71.95 AUD
Category: Art | Reading Level: near fine
Of all Maori personal adornments, the human figure pendants known as hei tiki are the most highly prized and culturally iconic. This book showcases photographs of a large selection of hei tiki, most from the taonga Māori collection at Te Papa. The collection of over 270 hei tiki is the largest in New Ze ...Show more
Whatu Kākahu - Māori Cloaks by Awhina Tamarapa
$82.95 AUD
Category: Art | Reading Level: near fine
The revised edition of this award-winning book opens the storeroom doors of the Te Papa Tongarewa Maori collections once again, illuminating the magnificent kakahu and the art and tradition of weaving itself. More than 50 rare and precious kakahu are specially featured, with glossy colour detail illustr ...Show more
Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania by Kololesa Mahina Tuai
$93.95 AUD
Category: Art & Entertainment | Reading Level: near fine
A major new history of craft that spans three centuries of making and thinking in Aotearoa New Zealand and the wider Moana (Pacific). It tells the previously untold story of craft in Aotearoa New Zealand, and proposes a new idea of craft - one that acknowledges Pakeha, Maori and wider Moana histories of ...Show more
Mastering the Art of Landscapes: A step-by-step course with 30 drawing and painting projects and 800 photographs by Sarah Hoggett
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
Learn how to illustrate a variety of landscapes, from coastal vistas and rolling hills to skylines and summer meadows, in this updated new edition. One of the most popular subjects for artists, landscapes are a constant source of inspiration, making us want to convey their beauty, atmosphere and meaning ...Show more
Sing New Zealand by Guy Jansen
$65.95 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealanders love to sing together. Thousands of us sing in hundreds of choirsthroughout the country, making it our most popular and participated in performing art. Most of us have sung in school choirs, or participated in national competitions such as the Big Sing, and increasingly people are joining ...Show more
Restoration Stories: Patina and Paint in Old London Houses by Philippa Stockley
$99.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
A paean to the passage of time in old London domestic interiors. What is it about old pine panelling layered with flaking paint that enchants the eye and tugs at the heart? The soft shine of wooden boards, worn and gappy. Sunlight shafting through an open door out to an unevenly flagged yard where a cla ...Show more
Thomas Hennell: The Land & The Mind by Jessica Kilburn
$179.95 AUD
Category: Art & Entertainment
When John Rothenstein, Director of the Tate Gallery, published the third volume of his Modern English Painters in 1984, he subtitled it Hennell to Hockney. While--now as then--David Hockney needs no introduction, Thomas Hennell (1903-1945) has somehow slipped off the radar and undoubtedly deserves to be ...Show more
Let Me Be Frank: Comics, 2010-2019 by Sarah Laing
$38.95 AUD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
Let Me Be Frank brings Sarah Laing's popular autobiographical comic series together for the first time. Sarah Laing began blogging her comics in 2009 as a way to shed light on her fiction writing and to record life before it evaporated. The comics soon had a large audience, eager for the next installmen ...Show more
Woodstock '69 - 50th Anniversary by Peter Murray
$49.95 AUD
Category: Music
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was held in the United States in 1969 and attracted an audience of more than 400,000. Scheduled for August 15-17 on a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains of southern New York State, northwest of New York City, it ran over to Monday, August 18. Billed as ";An Aquarian ...Show more
New Zealand Art at Te Papa by Mark Stocker
$82.95 AUD
Category: Art & Entertainment
Te Papa holds New Zealands national art collection, whose origins date back to 1865 and the establishment of the then Colonial Museum (later the Dominion and then the National Museum). Built up over the years by a succession of directors and curators, the collections 40,000 works track New Zealand histo ...Show more
Necessity for Consolation, The by Robert Norman & Hoskins Meehan
$43.95 AUD
Category: Art & Entertainment
John Psathas has said that, of all New Zealand composers, John Cousins has 'thrown the spear furthest', meaning he is one of our most original artists, going beyond the edge. Provocative and penetrating and fundamentally true, Cousins remains absorbed and energised in and by creative work. On the conver ...Show more