Through Shaded Glass - Women and Photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860 -1960 by Lissa Mitchell
75.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non-fiction
The contribution of women to the first century of photography has been overlooked across the world, including in New Zealand. With few exceptions, photographic histories have tended to focus on the male maker. This important book tilts the balance, unearthing a large and hitherto unknown number of women ...Show more
The History of Western Art by Janetta Rebold Benton
30.00 NZD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
A concise, reader-friendly illustrated survey of western art and architecture from prehistory to the present day.Acknowledging how architecture, painting, sculpture and the decorative arts reflect the culture and society of their time, this latest addition to the Art Essentials series invites the reader ...Show more
Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia
35.00 NZD
Category: Art and Photography
For six years Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region: the rainforest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live there--this irreplaceable treasure of humanity in which the immense power of nature is felt like nowhere els ...Show more
New Tattoo Artists: Illustrators and Designers Meet Tattoo by MARIONA CABASSA CORTES
70.00 NZD
Category: Art and Photography
Artists from disciplines commonly seen as far removed from tattooing embrace it with a different look and approach. Artists from graphic design, photography, illustration, painting and sculpture have found in tattooing a new tool to express themselves and give way to their distinctive language. And they ...Show more
The Collection - Te Kohinga by Julia Waite
45.00 NZD
Category: Art and Photography
Travel back through history and across place - one artwork at a time Since opening in 1888, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki has become home to one of the largest public art collections in Aotearoa New Zealand. This collection handbook illustrates more than 220 important and beloved New Zealand and int ...Show more
Great Women Painters by Alison M Gingeras
120.00 NZD
Category: Art and Photography
A sumptuous survey of over 300 women painters and their work spanning almost five centuries Great Women Painters is a groundbreaking book that reveals a richer and more varied telling of the story of painting. Featuring more than 300 artists from around the world, it includes both well-known women paint ...Show more
Hundertwasser in New Zealand - The Art of Creating Paradise by Andreas J Hirsch
70.00 NZD
Category: Art and Photography | Reading Level: near fine
'New Zealand is for me a kind of promised land.' Austrian-born artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser arrived in New Zealand in 1973, seeking refuge from a world out of kilter with nature. After travelling and exhibiting, he settled at Kaurinui, the land he bought and restored in the Bay of Islands. Wishing ...Show more
The Art of Darkness: A Treasury of the Morbid, Melancholic and Macabre by S. Elizabeth
45.00 NZD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Art in the Margins Ser.
The Art of Darkness is a visually rich sourcebook featuring eclectic artworks from throughout history which have been inspired and informed by the morbid, melancholic and macabre. Throughout history, artists have been obsessed with darkness - creating works that haunt and horrify, mesmerise and delight ...Show more
Robin White: Something Is Happening Here by Sarah Farrar; Nina Tonga; Jill Trevelyan
70.00 NZD
Category: Art and Photography
Robin White: Something is happening here is the first book to be devoted to Robin White's art in 40 years. Its assessment of her remarkable 50 years as an artist includes fresh perspectives by 24 writers and interviewees from Australia, the Pacific, and Aotearoa New Zealand and celebrates her status as ...Show more
Jackson Pollock Splashed Paint and Wasn't Sorry by Fausto Gilberti
28.00 NZD
Category: Art and Photography
A clever, charmingly quirky portrayal of painter Jackson Pollock - and the first in a series of picture-book biographies of contemporary artists Jackson Pollock was unlike any other painter. Instead of sitting in front of an easel with brushes, he poured paint over canvases rolled-out across the floor, ...Show more
Modern Art - Art Essentials by Amy Dempsey
30.00 NZD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Art Essentials Ser.
The first in a new series of essential introductions to art, Modern Art guides the reader through individual movements from Impressionism to Conceptual Art, situated within five broader chronological eras. Starting with Impressionism in 1860, art historian Amy Dempsey explains the essentials of Modernis ...Show more