Vermeer - The Rijksmuseum's major exhibition catalogue by Gregor J. M. Weber (Editor); Pieter Roelofs (Editor)
$110.00 NZD
Category: General
Published to accompany the once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, this is the first major study on Vermeer's life and work for many years. Vermeer's intensely quiet and enigmatic paintings invite the viewer into a private world, often prompting more questions than answers. Who is ...Show more
Video/Art: the First Fifty Years - The First Fifty Years by Barbara London
$58.00 NZD
Category: General
The curator who founded MoMA's video program recounts the artists and events that defined the medium's first 50 years Since the introduction of portable consumer electronics nearly a half century ago, artists throughout the world have adapted their latest technologies to art-making. In this book, curato ...Show more
Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting by Barry Schwabsky (Introduction by); Phaidon Editors
$75.00 NZD
Category: General
The indispensable guide to the most exciting painters of recent years, chosen by leading arts professionals - now in paperback Despite its long history, painting continues to evolve and excite, with new generations taking it in unexpected directions. A central pillar of artistic practice, painting also ...Show more
Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life by KEMPTON, BETH
$19.99 NZD
Category: General | Series: Japanese Concept
'A truly transformative read' Sunday Times STYLE 'More than ever, we need books like this' Jessica Seaton, Co-Founder of Toast and author of Gather, Cook, Feast A whole new way of looking at the world - and your life - inspired by centuries-old Japanese wisdom. Wabi sabi ("wah-bi sah-bi") is a captiv ...Show more
Walks of Art by Frances Barry
$20.00 NZD
Category: General
London is one of the world's great cities for the visual arts. Walks of Art in London has been put together for everyone curious about London and about the place of modern and contemporary art in it. It takes you on a walking tour of public works of art created by famous and by less well-known artists. ...Show more
Wanted - The Search for the Modernist Murals of E. Mervyn Taylor by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith (ed.)
$79.98 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Mervyn Taylor - wood engraver, painter, illustrator, sculptor and designer - was one of the most celebrated New Zealand artists of the 1930s to 1960s. He was highly connected to modernism and nationalism as it was expressed in New Zealand art and literature of the period. In the 1960s he created twelve ...Show more
Warhol by Klaus Honnef
$20.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: Basic Art Album S.
Andy Warhol is recognized today as the most important exponent of the Pop Art movement. He overturned the traditional understanding of art and placed in its stead a concept that retracts the individuality of the artist. Warhol was a critical observer of American society, exposing his compatriots' consum ...Show more
Warhol A to Z - The Life of an Icon by Steve Wide
$35.00 NZD
Category: General
It is impossible to overstate the impact that Andy Warhol had on the way we make and consume art - in all its forms. This illustrated A to Z celebrates the many faces and facets of the legend that was Warhol - from his early days as an adman in New York to the hedonistic 70s and 80s, and from the Factor ...Show more
Ways of Drawing - Studio Space, Open Space, Inner Space by Julian Bell; Royal Drawing School Staff; Anon
$65.00 NZD
Category: General
Ways of Drawing brings together a sophisticated, exciting range of reflections on markmaking by practising artists, teachers and writers. From explorations of how it feels to draw and personal accounts of artistic development, to short, imaginative propositions for looking, understanding and experiencin ...Show more
Why Do We Need Art? What Do We Gain by Being Creative? and Other Big Questions by Michael Rosen; Annemarie Young
$30.96 NZD
Category: General | Series: And Other Big Questions
A highly topical look at the role of art and the importance of creativity in our lives and the wider world. Art, in its widest sense, encompasses many different forms, from painting and poetry to dance, pottery and quilting and much else besides. Creativity is an essential part of what makes us human a ...Show more
Yayoi Kusama : Infinity Mirrors by Mika Yoshitake
$110.00 NZD
Category: General
World-renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has worked in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, performance art, and installation. Kusama's iconic Infinity Mirror Rooms, which originated with Phalli's Field in 1965, situate viewers in kaleidoscopic spaces filled with multicolored lights or ...Show more