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Velazquez: Life & Works in 500 Images by Susie Hodge
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art & Entertainment
This is a comprehensive reference book on the life and works of Diego Velazquez, the most important painter in the Spanish Habsburg court of King Philip IV. It offers a fascinating study of this individualistic artist's education, family life and influences, and all his outstanding works. It explores Ve ...Show more
One Year Drawn: Through The Eyes of an Architect by Pete Bossley
$59.95 AUD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: near fine
A Year spent travelling as a young architect tuaght Pete Bossley how to 'read' a building and instilled in him a life-long love of drawing. In One Year Drawn he shares this voyage of discovery - and the places and people he encounters along the way. Now one of New Zealand's most respected architects, Pe ...Show more
Ko Aotearoa Tātou / We Are New Zealand - An Anthology by Michelle Elvy (Edited by), Paula Morris (Edited by), James Norcliffe (Edited by)
$43.95 AUD
Category: Art & Entertainment | Reading Level: near fine
In the aftermath of the Christchurch terrorist attacks of 15 March 2019, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared: 'We are all New Zealanders.' These words resonated, an instant meme that asserted our national diversity and inclusiveness and, at the same time, issued a rebuke to hatred and divisiveness. K ...Show more
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
Whatu Kakahu - Maori Cloaks by Awhina Tamarapa
$82.95 AUD
Category: Art
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 edited by Karl Chitham, Kolokesa U Māhina-Tuai, Damian Skinner
$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
Sing The Story of Choral Music in Aotearoa 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 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 - 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
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