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Melvin Day Artist by Gregory O'Brien and Mark Hutchins-Pond
$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
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 Maori collection at Te Papa. The collection of over 270 hei tiki is the largest in New Ze ...Show more
Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania by edited by Karl Chitham, Kolokesa U MÄhina-Tuai, Damian Skinner
$93.95 AUD
Category: Art & Entertainment
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
John Singer Sargent by SUSIE HODGE
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art
An American who spent most of his life in Europe, a portraitist who painted landscapes, a family man who never married, and an accomplished pianist who often entertained his sitters, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was one of the most influential portrait painters of his time, but he is also an enigma. ...Show more
Sing The Story of Choral Music in Aotearoa by Guy Jansen
$65.95 AUD
Category: Music
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 Charlie Hopkinson (By (photographer)); 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
Let Me Be Frank by Sarah Laing
$38.95 AUD
Category: Art
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
Materiality - Brick and Block in Contemporary Australian Architecture by Ron Ringer
$94.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
There is a long and ancient historical legacy whereby human beings set out to create buildings that embody form, function, utility, beauty and, dare one say, meaning. Buildings tell us a great deal about how we see ourselves, our aspirations, or how we simply need to stop and gaze in wonder at human cre ...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
The Necessity for Consolation: John Cousins speaks by Robert Hoskins; Norman Meehan (editors)
$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
The Material City - Density and Design in Contemporary Australian Architecture by Ron Ringer (Editor)
$94.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
This book explores the work of 50 of Australia's leading architects whose work reflects the ongoing urban densification of our cityscapes. The emphasis is on medium to high rise buildings. Practitioners and academics in the field of architecture also make a contribution in the form of short, illustrated ...Show more