Wabi-Sabi Home by Mark Bailey; Sally Bailey
$50.00 NZD
Category: Design
Wabi-Sabi Home is a look that's rough around the edges and sees the beauty in imperfection but is at the same time creative, modern, and brave. Wabi-sabi is the Japanese ancient philosophy of finding beauty in the imperfect and embracing the humble. It is not a decorating style but a concept that ce ...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
Walter Gropius: An Illustrated Biography by Magnus Englund
$250.00 NZD
Category: architecture
A stunning visual biography of the life of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, and one of the world's most influential architects This illustrated biography tells the story of Gropius's life, beginning with his shattering experiences in World War One, his turbulent marriage to the notorious Alma Mah ...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
$30.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Series: Masterpieces Collection S.
A monograph on 20th century 'Pop' artist, Warhol.
Warhol by Klaus Honnef
$30.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
A critical observer of American society: Campbell and Brillo 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 ob ...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
Watch Book: More than Time II by GISBERT L. BRUNNER
$180.00 NZD
Category: Art, Photography and Design | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Volume II of The Watch Book follows on the successful and comprehensive earlier volume with a magnificently illustrated book about the additional functions and refinements of wristwatches. For centuries, so-called "complications" - any feature of a mechanical timepiece beyond the display of hours, minut ...Show more
Way Out is in - Calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh
$25.00 NZD
Category: Design
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is a prolific author, poet, teacher, scholar and peace activist. Yet he is also a master calligrapher, distilling ancient Buddhist teachings into simple phrases that resonate with our modern times, capturing and expressing his lifetime of meditative insight, peace and compassi ...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
What's So Great About the Eiffel Tower? 70 Questions That Will Change the Way You Think About Architecture by Jonathan Glancey
$30.00 NZD
Category: architecture | Reading Level: good
Why do we find the idea of a multi-colored Parthenon so shocking today? Why was the Eiffel Tower such a target for hatred when it was first built? Is the Sagrada Familia a work of genius or kitsch? Why has Le Corbusier, one of the greatest of all architects, been treated as a villain? This book examin ...Show more