Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toioho ki Apiti by Cassandra Barnett, Kura Te Waru-Rewiri
$70.00 NZD
Category: Art, Photography and Design
This richly illustrated publication examines the last 25 years of the influential Toioho ki Apiti programme at Massey University, its global indigenous pedagogical reach, and its ongoing impacts on national and international contemporary art and cultural sectors. Toioho ki Apiti's transformative and kau ...Show more
Kid A Mnesia: A Book of Radiohead Artwork by Yorke Thom Donwood Stanley
$69.99 NZD
Category: General
A celebration of the process and artwork created for the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac. Whilst these records were being conceived, rehearsed, recorded and produced, Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood made hundreds of images. These ranged from obsessive, insomniac scrawls in biro to six-foot-square pai ...Show more
Plant - Exploring the Botanical World by Rosie Pickles (ed.)
$95.00 NZD
Category: Art, Photography and Design | Reading Level: very good
The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers, featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever Following in the footsteps of the international bestseller Map: Exploring the World, this fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity of plant ...Show more
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
$45.00 NZD
Category: General
A newly designed and repackaged paperback of the multi-million-copy bestseller: discover your innate creativity with The Artist's Way. Since its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find ...Show more
Through Shaded Glass - Women and Photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860 -1960 by Lissa Mitchell
$75.00 NZD
Category: photography
The contribution of women to the first century of photography has been overlooked across the world, including in New Zealand. With few exceptions, photographic histories have tended to focus on the male maker. This important book tilts the balance, unearthing a large and hitherto unknown number of women ...Show more
Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art World by Richard Dorment
$39.99 NZD
Category: General
By the long-time art critic of The Daily Telegraph, Warhol After Warhol tells the David-and-Goliath story of collector Joe Simon and his struggles with the [Andy] Warhol Authentication Board, a tale of power, corruption and lies, a Bad Blood for the art world.
101 Works of Art by Sarah Pepperle; Christchurch Art Gallery Staff (Contribution by)
$80.00 NZD
Category: General
In this large, beautifully presented book, Christchurch Art Gallery showcases 101 treasures from its collection – paintings, drawings, sculpture, film and photographs that stand out in a line-up of New Zealand's most significant collected works. Enjoy thoughtful, conversational texts by Lara Strongman, ...Show more
50 Art Ideas You Really Need to Know by Susie Hodge
$28.00 NZD
Category: Art, Photography and Design | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Ser.
In a series of 50 accessible essays, Susie Hodge introduces and explains the central concepts that underpin Western art and design. From Romanesque to Realism, Pop Art to Pluralism, 50 Art Ideas is a complete introduction to the most important art concepts in history.
A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa by Catherine Hammond, Shaun Higgins
$65.00 NZD
Category: Art, Photography and Design
In 1848, two decades after a French inventor mixed daylight with a cocktail of chemicals to fix the view outside his window onto a metal plate, photography arrived in Aotearoa. How did these 'portraits in a machine' reveal Maori and Pakeha to themselves and to each other? Were the first photographs 'a g ...Show more
A History of Pictures : From the Cave to the Computer Screen by David Hockney
$70.00 NZD
Category: General
The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two-thirds of it is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are from about 40,000 years ago. But what a 40,000 years, explored here by David Hockney and Martin Gayford in a ...Show more
A Room of Her Own: Inside the Homes and Lives of Creative Women by Robyn Lea
$79.99 NZD
Category: Design
A Room of Her Own features the dazzling homes of twenty extraordinary women around the globe. Across sitting rooms and studios, salon-style hangs and table settings, this is a book of daring inspiration. In this new Renaissance period - a time of artistic, cultural and intellectual rebirth - these wome ...Show more
Aesop's Kiwi Fables by Aesop; Ray Ching
$50.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In this collection, newly painted for this book, Ray Ching's drawing and painting skills, familiar to New Zealanders through his widely seen paintings of birds, are imaginatively engaged in an altogether new expression of Aesop's Fables. The stories have left their origins in Greece and ancient Europe a ...Show more