The Museum of Scandals: Art That Shocked the World by Elea Baucheron
$55.00 NZD
Category: General
For centuries artists have been pushing the limits of society's norms, whether in the form of a new technique, subject matter, or message. In the fifteenth century a fresco by Masaccio shocked audiences by playing with perspective to depict Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden. Five hundred years later, D ...Show more
The Music of Painting: Music, Modernism and the Visual Arts from the Romantics to John Cage by Peter Vergo
$60.00 NZD
Category: General
The Music of Painting explores the connections between music and the visual arts in the period covering the emergence and flowering of Modernism, c.1849-1950. Peter Vergo in this volume examines the changes in the analogies between the two disciplines, using in his analysis critical and philosophical so ...Show more
The New Curator by Natasha Hoare
$70.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: Elephant Books
This book presents a snapshot of the most interesting curatorial practices in the art world today. There is an emphasis on the 'now': the introduction sketches in the development of curatorial practices since the 1980s but the shows under scrutiny in the following 25 case studies have all taken place in ...Show more
The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia by Adrienne L. Kaeppler
$55.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: Oxford History of Art S.
The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface. Comprising thousands of islands and hundreds of cultural groups, Polynesia and Micronesia cover a large part of this vast ocean, from the dramatic mountains of Hawaii to the small, flat coral islands of Kiribati. Including both traditional and c ...Show more
The Painted Garden in New Zealand Art by Christopher Johnstone
$85.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
From James Busby on, European settlers made gardens from the moment they set foot on New Zealand soil, and of course Maori had extensive cultivations of kumara around their kainga. Many settler gardens were matters of survival - kitchen gardens on which families were reliant - but as individual circumst ...Show more
The Painter's Handbook by Mark David Gottsegen
$55.00 NZD
Category: General
The original 1993 edition of "The Painter's Handbook" was not just another guide to artist's materials; it established itself as an amazingly thorough professional resource, with complete details on the vast array of materials available to the artist, including canvases and papers, sizes and grounds, pi ...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
The Penguin Leunig by Michael Leunig
$30.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: General Adult
The 40th anniversary edition of the first collection of cartoons by Michael Leunig. Originally published in 1974, The Penguin Leunig was the very first collection of cartoons from the inimitable Leunig. Since then he has published 25 books and been declared a Living Treasure by the National Trust of Aus ...Show more
The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture : Travel Edition by Phaidon Press
$39.90 NZD
Category: General
The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, Travel Edition presents all of the best works of architecture completed in the last five years in an ultra-convenient mini format, perfect for the holiday or business traveller. Each of the 1,052 projects from the comprehensive edition included a ...Show more
The Picture Book: Contemporary Illustration by Roanne Bell
$33.00 NZD
Category: General
A mini edition of the bible of contemporary illustration, this is a comprehensive survey of exciting work from across the globe that will appeal to experts and newcomers alike. Each artists work is accompanied by a selfportrait and a short, illuminating profile exploring their inspirations and their app ...Show more
The Picture Book: Contemporary Illustration by Angus Hyland (ed.)
$78.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
This is a bible of contemporary illustration. This is a comprehensive survey of new and exciting work from across the globe that will appeal to experts and newcomers alike. Each artist's work is accompanied by a self-portrait and a short, illuminating profile exploring their inspirations and their appro ...Show more
The Pirate Tattoo Book by Adam Black
$13.00 NZD
Category: General
Includes information on real life pirates and the history of these adventures of the high seas. This title includes a sheet of twenty-four temporary colour tattoos in multiple designs, so that would-be pirate captains can recognise their scurvy crew.