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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
Fingers - Contemporary NZ Jewellery by Damian Skinner; Finn McCahon-Jones
$60.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: Near Fine
On 22 November 1974, five jewellers opened Aotearoa¿s first contemporary jewellery gallery in a narrow shop at 6 Lorne Street, in the centre of Auckland. Fingers jewellery cooperative was an answer to the challenge of how to make a living from their craft, while keeping true to the alternative spirit of ...Show more
John Drawbridge by Damian Skinner
$115.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: near fine
This book illustrates DrawbridgeÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs brilliance in oil and watercolour painting, large public murals, printmaking and stained glass (including the Beehive, the New Zealand House (London) now in Archives (NZ) and the National Library (NZ) murals. Also featured are JohnÃÂâÃÂà...Show more
Mid-Century Living: The Butterfly House Collection by Christine Fernyhough; Damian Skinner
$60.00 NZD
Category: architecture
An incurable collector shares her astonishing collection of vintage New Zealand art, objects and design and her classic 1960s seaside bach. For over 30 years, philanthropist and best-selling author of The Road to Castle Hill Christine Fernyhough has built an extraordinary collection of over 4000 everyd ...Show more
The Carver and the Artist: Maori Art in the Twentieth Century by Damian Skinner
$90.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Maoritanga and Maori modernist art 1900 - 1980This exciting book charts the growth and development of the Maori modernist art. Artists constructed a Maori art that attempted to respond to the modern world. The book includes a rich selection of reproductions. This exciting book by a leading younger art h ...Show more
The Maori Meeting House: Introducing the Whare Whakairo by Damian Skinner
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
This all-new introductory guide to the whare whakairo, or Maori meeting house, covers every aspect of these magnificent taonga (treasures) - their history and evolution, structure and art forms, symbolism and cultural power. Generously illustrated with over a hundred intriguing historical and contempor ...Show more
The Passing World, The Passage of Life : John Hovell And The Art of Kowhaiwhai by Damian Skinner
$50.00 NZD
Category: General
Kowhaiwhai, according to John Hovell, is about process, a shorthand summary of the passage of life, and a space within the whare whakairo (decorated meeting house) for the Maori artist to express his wry and droll view of human nature. This book looks at John Hovell's life and work, his ongoing interest ...Show more
Theo Schoon: A Biography by Skinner Damian
$60.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Émigré artist Theo Schoon was fascinating, unorthodox, controversial, pioneering and at times reckless. His life intersected with important cultural periods and places, where what it meant to be modern in New Zealand were being debated andarticulated in art, literature, music and theatre.The art he pion ...Show more
conetendown - Studio Pottery in New Zealand, 1945-1980 by Moyra Elliott; Damian Skinner; Damon Moon
$50.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
In the 1960s and 70s not only did potters flourish around the country but it seems that everyone's mum was producing mugs and bowls at night class. This phenomenon was part of a particualr philosophy of pottery - local materials and natural-looking forms, glazes and designs. All those small brown pots a ...Show more
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