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The New Photography by Athol McCredie (Editor)
$76.95 AUD
Category: Art
In this handsome book, leading photography curator Athol McCredie tells the story of the beginnings of contemporary photography also known as art photography in New Zealand. Through interviews with the photographers Gary Baigent, Richard Collins, John Daley, John Fields, Max Oettli, John B Turner, Len W ...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
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.
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
Wednsday to Come by Renee
$32.95 AUD
Category: Art & Entertainment
Renee's three seminal New Zealand plays Wednesday to Come, Pass it On and Jeannie Once are published together for the first time. In Wednesday To Come Renee takes four women of four generations in a single family and looks at how they cope with the Great Depression of the 1930s. In Pass It On, Jeannie a ...Show more
Te Ahi Ka: The Fires of Occupation by Martin Toft
$71.95 AUD
Category: Art
In 1996 Toft spent six months in the middle and upper reaches of the Whanganui River in an area known as the King Country. Here he met Maori who were in the process of reversing the colonisation of their people and returning to their ancestral land, Mangapapapa which is on the steep banks of the river i ...Show more
Shake Your Hips by FOX RANDY
$43.95 AUD
Category: Music
The electrifying sounds of groovin' jump blues, Southern-fried rock 'n' roll, fervent black gospel, and the simmering sounds of the Louisiana swamp came bursting out of Nashville, Tennessee in the early 1950s courtesy of Excello Records and its sister Nashboro label. Operating out of Ernie's Record Mart ...Show more
World Domination - The Sub Pop Records Story by Gillian G. Gaar
$43.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: RPM Ser.
Founded in the late 1980s by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman, Seattle-based Sub Pop Records released early recordings by then-upstart regional bands such as Green River, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Tad, Nirvana, Flaming Lips, Afghan Whigs, and Screaming Trees. When the world went grunge crazy in the 1990s, ...Show more
Joni on Joni - Interviews and Encounters with Joni Mitchell by Susan Whitall (Editor)
$59.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Musicians in Their Own Words Ser.
Few artists are as intriguing as Joni Mitchell. She was a solidly middle-class, buttoned-up bohemian; an anti-feminist who loved men but scorned free love; a female warrior taking on the male music establishment. She was both the party girl with torn stockings and the sensitive poet. She often said she ...Show more
Dylan on Dylan - Interviews and Encounters by Jeff Burger (Editor)
$59.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Musicians in Their Own Words Ser.
In a 1969 conversation with Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner, Bob Dylan proclaimed, "I don't give interviews." But in truth, he has spoken at length with print publications large and small and with broadcast media around the world, given numerous press conferences, and even answered listeners' questions ...Show more
Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout - A Hillbilly Poet's Journey from Appalachia to Yale to Writing Hit Songs for Elvis, Johnny Cash, and More by Billy Edd Wheeler; Janis Ian (Foreword by); Doug Orr (Introduction by)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Music
Award winning songwriter, musician, author, playwright, poet, visual artist, and Appalachian Renaissance man Billy Edd Wheeler is best known for penning "Jackson," which was popularized by Johnny Cash and June Carter with their Grammy-winning recording from 1967. In addition to his own albums and single ...Show more