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McCahon Country by Justin Paton
$75.00 NZD
Category: General
'My painting tells you where I am at any given time, where I am living and the direction I am pointing in.' - Colin McCahon. McCahon (1919-1987) is widely recognised as an outstanding figure in twentieth century art whose ground-breaking work over four decades changed the way we see this country, while ...Show more
Crown Lynn Collector's Handbook by Valerie Monk
$35.00 NZD
Category: Design
Valerie Ringer Monk's meticulously researched Crown Lynn Collector's Handbook will provide seasoned Crown Lynn devotees and new collectors alike with plenty to assist their endeavours - this comprehensive guide to New Zealand's iconic pottery range features the collectible items themselves and also the ...Show more
Auckland Museum - Director's Choice by David Gaimster
$20.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
- Auckland Museum houses the world's leading collection of Maori taonga (treasures) and, reflecting Auckland's place as the world's largest Polynesian city, multiple traditional and contemporary arts from throughout the Pacific region - The Museum's natural history and documentary heritage holdings are ...Show more
Colour Your Own Medieval Alphabet by British Library
$25.00 NZD
Category: Design
A medieval A to Z with letters from the collections of the British Library to colour in Before the invention of the printing press, books were written out by hand, and were priceless objects. The most precious books were illuminated with gold or with bright colours. Initial letters were often highlighte ...Show more
Gottfried Lindauer's New Zealand: The Maori Portraits (Paperback Edition) by Ngahiraka Mason and Zara Stanhope (editors)
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
An exquisite piece of art publishing that showcases Bohemian artist Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand in 75 plates and detailed contextual essays. From the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the Bohemian immigrant artist Gottfried Lindauer travelled to marae and rural towns around New Zealand and – c ...Show more
Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
$42.00 NZD
Category: General
The extraordinarily revealing interviews with Francis Bacon conducted over a period of 25 years by the distinguished art critic David Sylvester amount to a unique statement by Bacon on his art and on art in general. In the book, a classic of its kind, Bacon considers the problems of realism and sheds ne ...Show more
Landscape Paintings of New Zealand: A Journey from North to South by Christopher Johnstone
$85.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
With 135 paintings from early colonial art to the work of contemporary painters, this book is a must-have for every lover of New Zealand and its art. When Landscape Paintings of New Zealand A Journey from North To South was published in 2006 it was hailed by a reviewer thus: 'This is New Zealand art his ...Show more
The Art Book (Revised Ed.)
$70.00 NZD
Category: General
A brand-new revised and updated edition of Phaidon's accessible, acclaimed A-Z guide to the most important artists of all time. Updated for only the third time in its 16-year history, this new edition of the award-winning landmark publication has been refreshed with more than 40 important new artists, i ...Show more
A Century of Colour in Design by HARRISON DAVID
$40.00 NZD
Category: Design
Colour has an enormous impact on our connection with an object. This curated anthology of furniture, fabric, lights and decorative objects shows how colour has defined key designs over the last century. A Century of Colour in Design delivers an incisive, shortform history of the role that colour has pla ...Show more
A History of Pictures : From the Cave to the Computer Screen by David Hockney
$70.00 NZD
Category: General
The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two-thirds of it is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are from about 40,000 years ago. But what a 40,000 years, explored here by David Hockney and Martin Gayford in a ...Show more
Coastal Living A Celebration of Living by the Ocean by Ryland Peters & Small; Henrietta Heald
$50.00 NZD
Category: Design
'Coastal Living' offers abundant inspiration for anyone lucky enough to live by the ocean, as well as those who can only dream of it. 'Coastal Living' offers abundant inspiration for anyone lucky enough to live by the ocean, as well as those who can only dream of it. Divided into four chapters - ...Show more
Colin McCahon: There is Only One Direction: Vol. 1 1919-1959 by Peter Simpson
$80.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
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