Between the Lives: Partners in Art by Deborah Shepard
$50.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: near fine
Between the Lives: Partners in Art is a fascinating book about artists who are also intimate partners. It takes nine well-known New Zealand couples and explores many aspects of their lives but particularly how the partnership affects the art they produce. Written by perceptive and knowledgeable writers ...Show more
Beyond the Page by Quentin Blake
$50.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved illustrators in the world, creating brilliant and iconic characters for, amongst others, Russell Hoban, Joan Aiken, Michael Rosen, and most famously Roald Dahl. He has won numerous awards over the years, including the whitbread Award, the Kate green ...Show more
Bjork Archives by Klaus Biesenbach
$100.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
Bjork is a contemporary icon whose contributions to music, video, film, fashion and art have influenced a generation worldwide. Here, now, is the ultimate celebration of this multimillion-selling superstar. Designed by top design studio M/M (Paris) as a slipcased world of wonders, this publication which ...Show more
Blek le Rat; Getting Through The Walls by Sybille Prou
$45.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Series: Street Graphics / Street Art
This book is a unique view inside the life and work of one of the most private, but also one of the most loved, most applauded and most influential figures in street art. From small and simple stencils to complex multimedia events, the distinctive and groundbreaking art of Blek le Rat is showcased here ...Show more
Blood Mystic by George Gittoes
$50.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
George Gittoes defies categorisation as his life defies belief. One thing is certain: Gittoes is the greatest Australian hero working today and his epic story must be told Equal parts artist and warrior, George is world-famous for waging war on war with art, circus, photography and film. "Soldiers die f ...Show more
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
Brice Marden Phaidon Focus by Eileen Costello
$30.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Series: Phaidon Focus
The perfect introduction to the life and work of Brice Marden
Capturing Mountains: The Life and Paintings of Austen Deans by Nathalie Brown
$50.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: very good
Seeing something in Nature that intensifies my joy in being alive, I want to try to reproduce it in such a form that when I see it again I re-live my joy at that divine moment. By so painting I hope to share my own delight with other people. – Austen Deans, 1967 At twelve Austen Deans knew he wanted to ...Show more
Cezanne by Ulrike Becks-Malorny
$20.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Series: Basic Art Album S.
He was the founding father of modern art, the grand master who pointed painting forward on its way from Impressionism to the 20th century: Paul Cezanne (1839-1906). In Paris, but above all in Provence, he quested tirelessly for "a harmony parallel to nature" - discovering it in still lifes of apples, in ...Show more
Cezanne - A Life by Alex Danchev
$70.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Reading Level: very good
This is a remarkable new biography of a cultural icon. Today we view Cezanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839-1906), many did not understand him or his work. With brilliant insight, drawing or a vast range of primary sources, Alex Danchev tells the story of an artist who was never a ...Show more
Chagall: Love and Exile by Jackie Wullschlager
$36.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
'When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is'. Picasso said this in the 1950s, when he and Chagall were eminent neighbors living in splendor on the Cote d'Azur. But behind Chagall's role as a pioneer of modern art lay struggle, heartbreak, bitterness, lo ...Show more