A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney by Martin Gayford
$45.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
David Hockney is possibly the world's most popular living painter, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. Here are the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. How does drawing make one ...Show more
A Bigger Message - Conversations with David Hockney by Martin Gayford
$50.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
In this remarkable book, a record of a decade of private conversations with art critic Martin Gayford, David Hockney reveals via reflection, anecdote, passion and humour the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. Thes ...Show more
A History of Contemporary Jewellery in Australia and New Zealand - Place and Adornment by Damian Skinner; Kevin Murray
$70.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
A History of Contemporary Jewellery in Australia and New Zealand: Place and Adornment is the first comprehensive history of contemporary jewellery in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. It tells the remarkable story of how two countries, far from the jewellery centres of Europe and North America, have m ...Show more
A Life of Picasso : Volume 3: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932 by John Richardson with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully
$65.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
Drawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, John Richardson has produced the long-awaited third volume of the definitive biography, full of original, groundbreaking new insights into Picasso's life and work. His lively and incisive analysis of the work meshes seamle ...Show more
An Illustrated Life: Drawing inspiration from the private sketchbooks of artists, illustrators and designers by Danny Gregory
$45.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
Find Insight and Inspiration for Your Creative Life An artist's journal is packed with sketches and captions; some rough, some polished. The margins sometimes spill over with hurriedly scrawled shopping lists and phone numbers. The cover may be travel-worn and the pages warped from watercolors. Open the ...Show more
Ando by Philip Jodidio
$110.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
Philippe Starck describes him as a "mystic in a country which is no longer mystic." Philip Drew calls his buildings "land art" that "struggle to emerge from the earth." He is the only architect to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Ky ...Show more
Andy Goldsworthy Ephemeral Works: 2004-2014 by Andy Goldsworthy
$99.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
For forty years, Andy Goldsworthy has worked with an extraordinary range of natural materials, often at their source. On an almost daily basis, he makes works of art using the materials and conditions that he encounters wherever he is, be it the land around his Scottish home, the mountain regions of Fra ...Show more
Andy Warhol Phaidon Focus by Joseph D. Ketner
$30.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Series: Phaidon Focus
Secondhand. Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) captured the popular culture of his age through his iconic drawings, paintings, films and prints.He made as great an impact on the world of art as any of his contemporaries, ushering in a fundamental transformation in our visual culture to the mediated image. Yet p ...Show more
Andy Warhol Portraits by Tony Shafrazi
$60.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
This book grew out of an exhibition that was organized by the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, in 2005. With the show, Shafrazi paid homage to a seminal display of Warhol's portraits that took place at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1979-80. Titled "Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 1970s, ...Show more
Antonio Gaudi: Master Architect by J.B. Nonell
$26.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Series: Tiny Folio S.
Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926) is one of the best-known architects of the 20th century. Even today, some 75 years after Gaudi's death, his playful, exuberant buildings continue to influence architects, sculptors, and designers. Perhaps most identified with the dynamic, sculptural facades found on his structu ...Show more
Art Thieves, Fakers and Fraudsters - The New Zealand Story by Penelope Jackson
$40.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: good-very good
Art crime is soaring. Every year as much as $10 billion worth of artworks are stolen. Many more are vandalised, damaged or destroyed. Added to this is a flourishing world of fakes and forgeries, often sold for millions of dollars and hanging in the world's most prestigious galleries. If you think this i ...Show more