Generation Ink Williamsburg Brooklyn by Nathan Paul
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art
A short stroll up Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, reveals a veritable walking art gallery with flesh as medium. Hipsters sit on the stoops of brownstones or on the benches outside cafes and restaurants showing off their ink. Others whizz by on their fixed gear bicycles flashing heavily detaile ...Show more
Cheryl Lucas: Shaped by Schist and Scoria by Felicity Milburn
$30.00 NZD
Category: Art
Canterbury-based artist Cheryl Lucas pushes the physical and conceptual possibilities of the ceramic artform, describing it as “the perfect medium to convey even the most unpalatable truths”. The surfaces of her works may be seductive, but they tackle rough and relevant ground, often focusing on the int ...Show more
Don Binney - Flight Path by Gregory O'Brien
$89.99 NZD
Category: Art
Painter, printmaker, teacher, writer and ornithologist Don Binney (1940 - 2012) was a mercurial presence on the New Zealand cultural scene from the time of his meteoric rise to fame in the early 1960s. His unmistakable, stylised depictions of birds have come to define an era in the development of the na ...Show more
Groomed by Paul Nathan
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art
With Couture Dogs of New York, photographer Paul Nathan captured the city s best-dressed dogs. Now these memorable images have been edited into a glamorous wall calendar.
Artists' Letters - Leonardo Da Vinci to David Hockney by Michael Bird
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art
A treasure trove of noteworthy letters, arranged thematically to provide an insight into the lives and work of great artists.
Gordon Walters by Francis Pound; Leonard Bell (Foreword by)
$89.99 NZD
Category: Art
The first substantial monograph on the art of one of this country's most influential artists, Gordon Walters. In this remarkable study by the late Francis Pound, author of the landmark Invention of New Zealand, we are introduced to the making of a New Zealand modernist - tracing the work of Gordon Walte ...Show more
Life Meets Art by Sam Lubell
$110.00 NZD
Category: Art
"... a gorgeous compilation of interiors from the homes of famous artists past and present as a way of exhibiting each creator's 'power and legacy' - Publishers Weekly. An inspiring collection of the extraordinary private spaces of 250 of the world's most creative people, past and present Life Meets Ar ...Show more
Ngā Kaihanga Uku: Māori Clay Artists by Baye Riddell
$70.00 NZD
Category: Art
This book is the first comprehensive overview of Māori claywork - its origins, its loss and its revival. Richly illustrated, it introduces readers to the practices of the five founders of Ngā Kaihanga Uku (the national clayworkers' collective) and surveys the work of the next generation.
Pounamu Treasures - Ngā Taonga Pounamu by Russell Beck; Maika Mason
$35.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
Pounamu, or jade, is one of New Zealand's most treasured natural resources, celebrated for its rich beauty and significance to the Māori people. Pounamu Treasures - Ngā Taonga Pounamu is a simple and stylish collection of object photographs that honours the stone in its many forms. Respected pounamu spe ...Show more
Rome: A Sketchbook by Matthew Rice
$48.00 NZD
Category: Art
Matthew Rice is a long-time observer and illustrator of cities, buildings and all those who inhabit them, with an uncanny ability to express the energy of a place through a few lines of ink and splashes of paint. In the first book in this new sketchbook series, he explored the glittering canals of Venic ...Show more
Splat! The Most Exciting Artists of All Time by Mary Richards
$21.99 NZD
Category: Art
Splat! is the history of art at its most exciting and outrageous. Organized by artist and covering key events and major movements such as the Renaissance and impressionism to surrealism and contemporary art, it is a valuable resource for young art lovers. Each artist is introduced with bulleted facts i ...Show more