Art That Moves - The Work of Len Lye (with DVD of films and sculptures) by Roger Horrocks
$80.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: very good
'Kinetic art is the first new category of art since prehistory', ex-pat New Zealand artist Len Lye boldly claimed in an essay in 1964. What did he mean by this? And how does his own work in sculpture and film bear it out? Roger Horrocks, the author of the best-selling 2001 biography of Lye, explores the ...Show more
Artists at Home (HB) by Susie Hodge
$65.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
Take a look inside the homes of some of your favourite artists and explore how each one reflected their spirit and creativity. From William Morris and Pablo Picasso to Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo, Artists at Home showcases the quiet retreats, creative hubs, lifelong homes, and holiday escapes of ...Show more
Diego Rivera. the Complete Murals by Luis-Martín Lozano
$195.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
A veritable folk hero in Latin America and Mexico's most important artist-along with his wife, painter Frida Kahlo-Diego Rivera (1886-1957) led a passionate life devoted to art and communism. After spending the 1910s in Europe, where he surrounded himself with other artists and embraced the Cubist movem ...Show more
Goldie by Roger Blackley
$70.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: very good
Charles F. Goldie (1870-1947) is one of New Zealand's best known artists, with mystique surrounding his work. His fame has been fed by newspaper reports documenting record-shattering prices, thefts, vandalism and forgeries. The book explores Goldie's career, his early still life paintings, his time as a ...Show more
Michael Smither Painter by Trish Gribben
$185.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: very good
Experience the world as Michael Smither has painted it for more than four decades. This book pays homage to Michael Smither as painter and print-maker. The sequence in which the paintings appear is based largely, by loosely, on the studios in which they were created, thus showing the work as it appeared ...Show more
Moko: Maori Tattooing in the 20th Century by Michael King
$40.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
Moko is written by Michael King, one of New Zealand's most celebrated historians, and photographed by Marti Friedlander, one of the country's most eminent photographers. One of New Zealand's iconic books, originally published in 1972, it was a milestone in New Zealand publishing. Maori subject matter w ...Show more
The Wayward Leunig: Cartoons That Wandered off by LEUNIG, MICHAEL
$65.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: General Adult
The cartoons in The Wayward Leunig: Cartoons That Wandered Off have been selected from five decades of work, and are wide-ranging, potent, hilarious, insightful, relevant, original and beautiful. A companion to Essential Leunig, this collection is a must-have for Leunig fans.
40 Architects Around 40 by Jessica Cargill Thompson
$30.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Series: Klotz S.
Who are the Norman Fosters, Richard Meiers, and Tadao Andos of tomorrow? Discover the next generation of designers who are already starting to shape the future of architecture for the new millennium, redefining the relationships between culture, environment, structure, and space. Taking their inspiratio ...Show more
50 Distinguished Contemporary Artists in Glass by Lisa Hoftijzer
$30.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
The 50 best international glass artists are represented in this stunning, colorful tome that acts as a personal gallery for perusal and admiration. The different possibilities of glass as a material are widely shownâ demonstrating the varieties of work that can be done in glass, depending upon inte ...Show more
50 Women Artists You Should Know by Christiane Weidemann
$35.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
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