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Landmarks by Owen Marshall; Grahame Sydney; Brian Turner
$75.00 NZD
Category: Art
A handsome, landmark book celebrating the work of three of our literary and artistic heavyweights. The complementary work of artist Grahame Sydney, fiction writer Owen Marshall and poet Brian Turner was first brought together in the hugely successful Timeless Land in 1995. Its pages showed their shared, ...Show more
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles
$40.00 NZD
Category: Art
This is the paperback edition of the highly successful Chromatopia. Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic colour; or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? Throughout history, artists' pigments have been made from deadly metals, poisonous minerals, urine, cow dun ...Show more
A Dog's Guide to Art by Joy Fitzsimmons
$25.00 NZD
Category: Art
A light-hearted look at art through canine eyes. Join dachshunds Ned and Henry for an energetic romp through the world of art, encountering famous paintings and sculptures from a four-legged perspective. Watch them lead their gang of hounds - including schnauzers, jack russells, greyhounds, border terr ...Show more
Karl Maughan by Hannah Valentine (Editor); Gabriella Stead (Editor)
$80.00 NZD
Category: Art
A walk through the intricate painted gardens of Karl Maughan, one of New Zealand's most-loved contemporary artists. For more than three decades, Karl Maughan has created intricately painted gardenscapes, developing his own visual language to explore the forms of nature and the nature of form. Born in 1 ...Show more
Me, According to the History of Art by Dick Frizzell
$65.00 NZD
Category: Art
A FAST-PACED ROMP THROUGH THE HISTORY OF WESTERN PAINTING WITH ONE OF NEW ZEALAND'S BEST-KNOWN PAINTERS. Throughout his long career, New Zealand painter Dick Frizzell has often goneway out on a limb to see where it would take him. From his early Pop art influenced approach to his experiments with landsc ...Show more
New Zealand on Canvas by Denis Robinson
$24.00 NZD
Category: Art
New Zealand’s remarkable scenery is presented through the work of 30 of the country’s leading contemporary painters working in oils and acrylics. There are beach, bush and mountain scenes, urban city streets and buildings set in the countryside. The artworks reveal the distinct and diverse styles of N ...Show more
A Year in the Art World by Matthew Israel
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art
The world of contemporary art has become more globalized and transparent in the last few decades, yet it is still perceived as closed-off and obscure. In A Year in the Art World, Matthew Israel takes the reader on a cross-continental journey through a year in the field of art, lifting the veil on a cult ...Show more
The Art Book (Revised Ed.)
$70.00 NZD
Category: Art
A brand-new revised and updated edition of Phaidon's accessible, acclaimed A-Z guide to the most important artists of all time. Updated for only the third time in its 16-year history, this new edition of the award-winning landmark publication has been refreshed with more than 40 important new artists, i ...Show more
200 Words to Help You Talk about Art by Ben Street
$22.00 NZD
Category: Art | Series: 200 Words Ser.
If you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about, this new series is for you. Each book features definitions of two hundred words frequently used to describe and discuss a smart subject. Art can be intimidating to the uninitiated, but wi ...Show more
New Zealand A Painted Journey by Graham Young
$15.00 NZD
Category: Art
Journey through the painted landscape of New Zealand seen through the eyes of artist Graham Young as he endeavors to capture the character and motifs of the various regions with his colourful paintings coupled with his own thoughts of his travels. These paintings represent snapshots of the laid back kiw ...Show more
Camera Lucida - Vintage Design Edition by Roland Barthes
$24.00 NZD
Category: Art
Examining themes of presence and absence, these reflections on photography begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs - their content, their pull on the viewer, their intimacy. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mi ...Show more