Taiawhio II: Contemporary Maori Artists18 New Conversations by Huhana Smith et al.
$30.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: very good
Taiawhio: Conversations with Contemporary Maori artists, now in its third reprint, has proven invaluable to art lovers, students, teachers and those with a passion for New Zealand art. This new volume profiles a fresh range of contemporary Maori artists. Each profile contains pages of information and qu ...Show more
The Art of Grahame Sydney by Grahame Sydney; Michael Findlay; Brian Turner; Belinda Jones; Reg Graham
$100.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. A large format superior quality art book featuring the best of 25 years of Grahame Sydney's work. New Zealand's foremost realist artist, he is best known for his vast luminous landscapes, but this book also comprises a fine selection of his figure painting, striking portraits, and lithograp ...Show more
The Art of Neil Gaiman -The Visual Story of One of the World's Most Vital Creative Forces by Hayley Campbell
$65.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
Novelist, comics writer, scriptwriter, poet, occasional artist - a master of several genres and inadvertent leader of many cults - there are few creative avenues Neil Gaiman hasn't ventured down. From unforgettable books like The Ocean at the End of the Lane and American Gods to ground-breaking comics a ...Show more
The Art of Robyn Kahukiwa by Robyn Kahukiwa; Hinemoa Hilliard; Edward Lucie-Smith; Jonathan Mane-Wheoki
$75.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: very good
Since the early 1970s Robyn Kahukiwa has been painting and exhibiting art that celebrates socio-cultural issues - some which are controversial - that are central to the Maori experience in Aotearoa New Zealand today but equally relevant to all indigenous peoples of the world; ranging over issues such as ...Show more
The Art of War - New Zealand Artists in the Field 1939-1945 by Jenny Haworth
$30.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: Very Good
In the first book of its kind, author Jenny Haworth shows World War II through the eyes of five of New Zealand's commissioned war artists - Peter McIntyre, Austen Deans, Russell Clark, Allan Barns-Graham and John McIndoe. Stationed to the areas where New Zealand soldiers were fighting in the Mediterrane ...Show more
The Critic's Part: Art Writings 1971-2012 by Wystan Curnow
$80.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
Wystan Curnow is New Zealand’s longest-serving and, arguably, most important art critic. This edited collection brings together a selection of his art writings from 1971 to 2013 to provide the first comprehensive overview of his practice. Selectively drawing on his considerable ouput, the publication fe ...Show more
The Devil in the Kitchen: The Autobiography by Marco Pierre White, James Steen
$30.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: good
The long-awaited autobiography of the archetypal kitchen bad boy - Marco Pierre White
The Devil's Playground (paperback) by Nan Goldin
$100.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
"The Devil's Playground" presents a major collection of photographs by Nan Goldin (b.1953). Since the 1980s, Goldin has consistently created photographs that are intimate and compelling: they tell personal stories of relationships, friendships and identity, while chronicling different eras and exposing ...Show more
The Diary of Frida Kahlo - An intimate self-portrait by Frida Kahlo; Sarah M. Lowe; Carlos Fuentes
$33.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life. These passionate, often surprising, intimate records, kept under lock and key for some 40 years in Mexico, reveal many new dimensions in the complex personal life of this remarkable M ...Show more
The Graphic Work: M.C. Escher
$30.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
Presenting the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature M.C. Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden (Netherlands). He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from F.W. van der Haagen, who also taught him the block printing, thus fostering Escher's innate graphic talen ...Show more
The Impressionists at Leisure by Pamela Todd
$49.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
The Impressionists are without doubt the best-loved of all artists, and recent years have seen a fresh wave of interest not only in their art but also in their private lives. This book follows these fascinating characters around their daily lives in Paris or to their frequent escapes to the countryside ...Show more
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy
$40.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
From the prize winning author of "William Morris" comes a new biography of Edward Burne-Jones, the greatest British artist of the second half of the nineteenth century. The angels on our Christmas cards, the stained glass in our churches, the great paintings in our galleries - Edward Burne-Jones' work i ...Show more