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Bloomsbury South: The arts in Christchurch, 1933—1953 by Peter Simpson
$70.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
For two decades in Christchurch, New Zealand, a cast of extraordinary men and women remade the arts. In this book, Simpson tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of this 'Bloomsbury South' and the arts and artists that made it. Simpson brings to life the individual talents and their passions, b ...Show more
Charles Brasch Journals 1945-1957 by Charles Brasch; Peter Simpson (ed.)
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Series: Charles Brasch Journals | Reading Level: very good
This volume of Charles Brasch's journals covers the years from late 1945 to the end of 1957, when the poet and editor was aged 36 to 48. It begins with his return to New Zealand after World War II to establish a literary quarterly to be published by the Caxton Press. The journals cover the first decade ...Show more
Charles Brasch: Journals, 1958-1973: Selected with an Introduction by Peter Simpson by Charles Brasch and Peter Simpson
$59.95 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Series: Charles Brasch Journals | Reading Level: very good
This third and final volume of Charles Brasch's compelling private journals covers the years from when he was 48 to his death at 64. By the 1960s, Brasch, though very private by temperament, was a reluctant public figure, especially as editor of Landfall - indisputably New Zealand's leading cultural qua ...Show more
Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land?: Vol.2 1960-1987 by Peter Simpson
$80.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Colin Mccahon Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The second of an extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by our most important artist, Colin McCahon. Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand’s greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Māori ...Show more
Colin McCahon - The Titirangi Years 1953-1959 by Peter Simpson
$60.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: very good
This book provides a comprehensive overview of a crucial period in the work of New Zealands greatest painter. This book was suggested by the McCahon House Trust which has overseen the restoration and preservation of the house in French Bay where McCahon and his family lived in the 1950s. With the house ...Show more
Colin McCahon: There is Only One Direction, Vol. I 1919-1959 by Peter Simpson
$85.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand’s greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Māori motifs, McCahon’s work came to define a distinctly New Zealand modernist idiom. Collected and exhibited extensively in Australasia an ...Show more
Dear Colin, Dear Ron: The Selected Letters of Colin McCahon and Ron Reilly by Peter Simpson
$65.00 NZD
Category: General
This substantial book of letters selected by esteemed Colin McCahon scholar Peter Simpson shines a light on one of the most remarkable relationships in New Zealand art. The painter Colin McCahon and the librarian Ron O'Reilly first met in 1938, in Dunedin, when McCahon was 19 and O'Reilly 24. They rem ...Show more
Fantastica - The World of Leo Bensemann by Peter Simpson
$75.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Fantastica is the first book to survey the life and work of Leo Bensemann (1912-1986), one of the most remarkable New Zealanders of his generation. Accomplished in many fields - drawing, painting, printmaking, music, calligraphy, typography, book design and illustration, editing, printing, publishing - ...Show more
Peter Peryer, Photographer by Peter Peryer and Peter Simpson
$60.00 NZD
Category: photography | Reading Level: very good
Peter Peryer is one of New Zealand's leading contemporary photographers. Peryer is also an innovative photographer, constantly refining his photographic practice, notably with his embrace of digital photography from 1998 and increasing interest in colour. Peter Peryer: Photographer includes a section of ...Show more
The Smallest Trolley Racer (Kiwi Bites) by Peter W. Simpson
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: Kiwi Bites S.
Last year, Tom and Mikaere came last in the annual school trolley race. Not second, or third, or sixth dead last! But this year, they ve got a secret weapon..
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