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
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
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
Thinking the Plant: The Watercolour Drawings of Rebecca John by Rebecca John
$74.95 AUD
Category: Art
Rebecca John was born into a family of painters, the most famous among them being her grandfather, Augustus John, and her great-aunt, Gwen John. And the last thing she wanted was to become a painter herself. So how did this happen? In Thinking the Plant she traces the path that led to her beautiful bota ...Show more
Langlands & Bell: Degrees of Truth by Nikki Ben & Bell Langlands
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art
This full-colour book presents an array of work by Langlands Bell ranging from their Traces of Living (first made in 1986) to a major new work conceived for Soane's iconic Library-Dining Room that explores the temporal and cultural relations emanating from the idea of the 18th-century Grand Tour. In a ...Show more
Observations of a Rural Nurse by Sara Mcintyre
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art | Reading Level: near fine
Sara McIntyre, the daughter of the artist Peter McIntyre, was nine years old when her family first came to Kākahi, in the King Country, in 1960. The family has been linked to Kākahi ever since. On the family car trips of her childhood, McIntyre got used to her fathers frequent stops for subject matter f ...Show more