The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd by Finlay Macdonald
45.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography
The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd is both a tale of remarkable success and a window into a brilliant creative mind.Finlay Macdonald's beautifully told, visually gorgeous biography of Dame Lynley Dodd and her creation, the rascally dog Hairy Maclary. 'A visual delight' NZ Listener's 100 Best Books of 2013' ...Show more
Turner: Masters of Art by Gabriele Crepaldi
30.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Perhaps the best-loved English romantic painter, Turner became known as the painter of light.A" The use of brilliant watercolour characterizes his numerous landscapes. Travelling throughout Europe, Turner captured the vitality of urban and pastoral scenes. As he developed his technique, his paintings to ...Show more
Degas: Masters of Art by ALEXANDER ADAMS
30.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Get a glimpse into the life and work of painter, sculptor, and printmaker Edgar Degas, who is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism. Best known for his depictions of young dancers on the stage and in the studio, Degas was an accomplished draughtsman and portraitist of superb emotional dep ...Show more
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
65.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography
A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, fema ...Show more
McCahon Country by Justin Paton
75.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography | Reading Level: near fine
'My painting tells you where I am at any given time, where I am living and the direction I am pointing in.' - Colin McCahon. McCahon (1919-1987) is widely recognised as an outstanding figure in twentieth century art whose ground-breaking work over four decades changed the way we see this country, while ...Show more
Rita Angus: An Artists Life by Jill Trevelyan
60.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography | Reading Level: near fine
Jill Trevelyan won the Non Fiction Award at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2009 for this magnificent biography of one of New Zealands leading 20th century artists. Now back in print, this revised edition brings the book up to date with new assessments of Angus and in the context of the big Royal ...Show more
The Story of Art without Men by Katy Hessel
65.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography
The story of art for our times - one with women at its heart, brought together for the first time by the creator of @thegreatwomenartists How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Discover the ...Show more
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
45.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book — against a background of today’s 'sculpture wars' — Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and fam ...Show more
Artists' Letters - Leonardo Da Vinci to David Hockney by Michael Bird
45.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography
A treasure trove of noteworthy letters, arranged thematically to provide an insight into the lives and work of great artists.
Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art World by Richard Dorment
40.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography
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.
The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde and Sargent in Tite Street by Devon Cox
33.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography
A beautifully illustrated art history and cultural biography of one of the most influential artistic quarters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries London's Tite Street.
Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal
26.00 NZD
Category: History
A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo -- the owner of a Parisian palace filled with beautiful objects, turned into a memorial for his lost son -- by the bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes'Consistently illuminating... considered, compassionate and appreciative... Thi ...Show more