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Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles
$40.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography
This is the paperback edition of the highly successful Chromatopia. Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic colour; or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? Throughout history, artists' pigments have been made from deadly metals, poisonous minerals, urine, cow dun ...Show more
New Zealand Tattoo: In the Home of the Tattooist's Art by Chris Hoult & Steve Forbes
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art
We have tattooing in the blood in New Zealand, and styles worn with pride here in Aotearoa are appreciated worldwide by admirers of beautiful design. And in the early 2010s, tattooing is going through a renaissance. Chris Hoult immersed himself in the Kiwi tattoo scene from 2011 and 2012, and brought wr ...Show more
The Manga Artist's Handbook : Drawing Basic Characters by Junka Morozumi; Tomomi Mizuna
$25.00 NZD
Category: Art - Techniques
This book provides a revolutionary new 3-step tracing technique that beginning artists can use to quickly learn to draw manga characters just like a pro! Every page presents a classic manga pose, from walking and running to jumping for joy, in three different steps: 1. A simple outline of the body 2. ...Show more
Frances Hodgkins European Journeys by Catherine Hammond & Mary Kisler
$75.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography | Reading Level: near fine
A vivid and revealing book published alongside a landmark exhibition focused on one of New Zealand’s most internationally recognised artists, Frances Hodgkins. Marking the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth New Zealand-born Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947) arrived in London in 1901 and, by the 1920s, h ...Show more
Banksy: Wall and Piece by Banksy
$50.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns a ...Show more
Mitchell & Mitchell: A Father & Son Arts Legacy by Peter Alsop; Anna Reed; Richard Wolfe
$80.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography | Reading Level: near fine
Leonard C. Mitchell and Leonard V. Mitchell ¿ father and son ¿ are two forgotten artistic heroes. Now, critically studied for the first time, their highlight reel runs long. No other family can likely claim such a diverse contribution to New Zealand art. This beautifully designed and illustrated title b ...Show more
Arboretum by David Byrne
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art
For over thirty years, besides making music, David Byrne has focused his unique genius upon forms as diverse as the archaeology of music as we know it, architectural photography and the uses of PowerPoint. Now he presents his most personal work to date, a collection of drawings exploring the form of the ...Show more
Rosie Sanders' Roses: A Celebration of Botanical Art by Rosie Sanders
$70.00 NZD
Category: Art
This stunning follow-up to the hugely popular Rosie Sanders' Flowers showcases the beauty of the beloved rose. Award-winning artist Rosie Sanders turns her attention to the ever-popular rose, presenting more than 50 of her most beautiful paintings for the very first time. For every painting here, Sander ...Show more
Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright by Paul Hendrickson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography
Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biog ...Show more
Aberhart Starts Here by Lara Strongman; Laurence Aberhart
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art
One of Aotearoa New Zealand's most perceptive artists, Laurence Aberhart is a photographer who makes images of the vanishing past in an accelerating world. It was Christchurch where he developed his eye for the scenes that later brought his work to international attention. These early photographs of ord ...Show more
The Illustrated Provence Letters Of Vincent Van Gogh by Martin Bailey
$35.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography
Vincent van Gogh's letters are an exceptionally vivid and moving testimony to the artist's struggle to survive and work. They have always been widely read but this book's combination of letters and illustrations gives an intimate insight into the painter's daily domestic life in Arles and Saint-Remy, hi ...Show more
Leonardo Da Vinci and Giacomo Caproti Called Salai: The Enigma of a Painting by Maurizio Zecchini
$69.99 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography
Salai is the name that Leonardo da Vinci liked to use, as is documented in his writings from 1494 onward, for the boy whom he had taken into his home four years earlier, when he was just ten years old, and who lived with him for almost a quarter of a century: first as a shop boy and then as his assistan ...Show more