The Renaissance Complete by Margaret Aston
$65.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: 60th Anniversary Edition
No period has been more discussed, dissected and argued over than the Renaissance, and every age has reconstructed it in its own image. Today's emphasis is on its complexity the way ideas, politics, religion, society, art and science depended upon and affected one another. "The Renaissance Complete" doe ...Show more
The Scribble Book by Hervé Tullet
$26.00 NZD
Category: General
A humorous, enchanting book that draws out children’s inner artists Feed scribbles to a hungry monster. Scribble water to put out a fire. Scribble flames bursting from a volcano. Scribble spaghetti for lunch! The Scribble Book does away with the traditional rules of preschool coloring books, encouragin ...Show more
The Secret Language of Churches & Cathedrals: Decoding the Sacred Symbolism of Christianity's Holy Buildings by Richard Stemp
$70.00 NZD
Category: General
Who is depicted in that stained glass window? What is the significance of those geometric figures? Why are there fierce-looking beasts carved amidst all that beauty? Is there a deeper purpose behind the play of light and space in the nave? Why is there a pelican on the lectern and ornate foliage on the ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair
$30.00 NZD
Category: General
'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very hard painting the hallway magnolia after this inspiring primer.'Simon GarfieldThe Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of ...Show more
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes
$84.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: 60th Anniversary Edition
This legendary book has been universally hailed as the best, the most readable and the most provocative account of modern art ever written. Through each of the thematic chapters Hughes keeps his story grounded in the history of the 20th century, demonstrating how modernism sought to describe the experie ...Show more
The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis by Matt Groening
$52.00 NZD
Category: General
At last! It's the meeting of two mind-boggling comedy creations from Matt Groening! They said it couldn't be done. But we don't listen to naysayers, refuseniks, and non-believers. So here it is, folks! The epic story that you've been waiting for ...a story so big, so ambitious, so sweeping that it can o ...Show more
The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican by Benjamin Blech & Roy Doliner
$30.00 NZD
Category: General
On the 500th anniversary of when Michelangelo started his masterpiece, we discover that the Sistine Chapel ceiling is full of hidden, never-before-revealed messages rooted in an underground movement of freethinking protest that Michelangelo created right
The Still-Life Sketchbook by PRESS, ILEX
$25.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: The Ilex Sketchbook
Master proportion, tone, texture and form with this inspirational sketchbook. Line, shape, space, composition and depth are most simply understood through the study and practice of still-life drawing. The artist can enjoy the freedom of arranging objects exactly as desired, testing perception and pushin ...Show more
The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich
$40.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Exquisite cloth-bound edition of the classic art-history text - the perfect gift for every art connoisseur and student For more than 60 years Ernst Gombrich's The Story of Arthas been a global bestseller - with more than 8 million copies sold - the perfect introduction to art history, from the earliest ...Show more
The Story of Colour: A Voyage Through the Hidden Messages of the Spectrum by Gavin Evans
$35.00 NZD
Category: General
Why is green the colour of envy? Why is black `evil'? Why is white pure? Why do we `feel blue' or `see red'? Why do colours have different meanings for different cultures? This book offers a lively, anecdotal treatment of the cultural mysteries of colour, and focuses on the way we respond to colours, th ...Show more