Georgia O'Keeffe (HB) by Tanya Barson
$100.00 NZD
Category: General
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was one of the foundational figuresof American modernism. A seminal woman artist, she rose toprominence in the early twentieth century at the heart of theNew York avant-garde circle that centred around Alfred Stieglitz,who would become O'Keeffe's husband. Many contemporaryte ...Show more
Gottfried Lindauer's New Zealand: The Maori Portraits by Ngahiraka Mason
$69.99 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
Graphic Design for Everyone: Create Your Own Blog, Logo, Website and Much More by DK
$48.00 NZD
Category: General
Trying to give your blog extra visual impact? Need a new look for a personal, business, or community project? With this beginner's guide to graphic design, you'll be able to do this and much more! There have never been more opportunities to promote yourself online or in print, but to succeed you need to ...Show more
Great Women Painters by Alison M Gingeras
$120.00 NZD
Category: General
A sumptuous survey of over 300 women painters and their work spanning almost five centuries Great Women Painters is a groundbreaking book that reveals a richer and more varied telling of the story of painting. Featuring more than 300 artists from around the world, it includes both well-known women paint ...Show more
Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights by Hans Belting
$33.00 NZD
Category: General
Few paintings inspire the kind of intense study and speculation as Garden of Earthly Delights, the world famous triptych by Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch. The painting has been interpreted as a heretical masterpiece, an opulent illustration of the Creation and a premonition of the end of the wor ...Show more
Hundertwasser - Complete Graphic Work 1951-1976 by Wieland Schmied
$50.00 NZD
Category: General
Explore the graphic work of Hundertwasser with this lavishly produced introduction to the artist. Friedensreich Hundertwasser was a painter. He created original graphic works--lithographs, silkscreens, mixed media, etchings, and aquatint as well as Japanese woodcuts. This bibliophilic gem is a Hundert ...Show more
In the Gardens of Impressionism by Clare A.P. Willsdon
$55.00 NZD
Category: General
For the first time, this book explores to the full, with dazzling visual accompaniment, the fascinating story of the Impressionist love affair with the new thinking about gardens, their flowers and design, in 19th-century France. It discusses the artists both as painters and as gardeners, and, using sou ...Show more
Inhale Exhale by Vincent Ward
$135.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: New
This large-format art book features the transformative and moving works of contemporary artist and filmmaker Vincent Ward. Filmmaker and artist Vincent Ward has a reputation for creating powerful, haunting and deeply affecting images. His films are widely acclaimed for their painterly aesthetic, the ori ...Show more
Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
$45.00 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
Kahlo (Biographic) by Sophie Collins
$23.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: Biographic
Many people know that Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a Mexican artist, a feminist icon who lived in the famous Blue House and whose work includes The Two Fridas. What, perhaps, they don't know is that 55 of her 143 artworks are self-portraits; that her painting Roots holds the record for a Latin American a ...Show more
M.C. Escher. The Graphic Work by TASCHEN
$40.00 NZD
Category: General
Twisted mind: The graphic pattern genius of M. C. Escher. From impossible staircases to tesselated birds, Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898 1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by intricate principles, his work is at the same time ...Show more
McCahon Country by Justin Paton
$75.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
'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