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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
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
Bill Culbert: Making Light Work by Ian Wedde
$109.95 AUD
Category: Art & Entertainment | Reading Level: Near Fine
Bill Culbert is one of New Zealand's most celebrated artists. In Bill Culbert: Making Light Work, the first substantial book on Culbert, Ian Wedde explores the ideas, materials, and conditions that have formed Culbert's art over the past 50 years.
Lion King Collectibles by Lisa Courtney
$39.95 AUD
Category: Antiques
The Lion King roared into cinemas in 1994, where it instantly captured the hearts of millions across the world. With memorable characters, breathtaking animation, an award-winning soundtrack and a powerful storyline, the movie was a huge success, even surpassing Disney's expectations. The movie spawned ...Show more
Seeking Chicago - The Stories Behind the Architecture of the Windy City - One Building at a Time by Tom Miller
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
Chicago started life with a split personality. By the end of the Civil War wealthy Chicagoans and their wives were struggling to prove that their city was as affluent and civilized as its East Coast counterparts, New York, Philadelphia and Boston. Mansions rose, an art museum was founded, and music hall ...Show more
Gretchen Albrecht - Between Gesture and Geometry by Luke Smythe
$87.95 AUD
Category: Art & Entertainment
Gretchen Albrecht CNZM is one of New Zealands most influential painters. Over the course of her long career, her work has continued to surprise and delight, and her paintings feature in many important collections both in New Zealand and overseas. This comprehensive survey of her much-admired work reveal ...Show more
John Scott - Works by David Straight
$76.95 AUD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: near fine
This handsome book is a rich and loving tribute to the work and culturalsignificance of one of New Zealand's most influential but least well-documented architects, John Scott (1924-1992). Over 25 projects, from Scott's famous FutunaChapel to the Werry House and the Maori Battalion Hall to the Martin Hou ...Show more