The Collection - Te Kohinga by Julia Waite
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Travel back through history and across place - one artwork at a time Since opening in 1888, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki has become home to one of the largest public art collections in Aotearoa New Zealand. This collection handbook illustrates more than 220 important and beloved New Zealand and int ...Show more
Heritage Paintings Tauponui a tia New Zealand by Raymond Val
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Val Raymond was best known during the 1960s, 70s and 80s for her portraiture and Central North Island lanscapes. Inventing new watercolour techniques led to her artistic trsnaformation during the 1990s - painting exquisite "abstract expessions"that combine unusually different aspects of New Zealand heri ...Show more
Toi Tū Toi Ora - Contemporary Maori Art by Nigel Borell (ed.)
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
The story of contemporary Maori art from the 1950s to the present day, with more than 200 artworks by 110 Maori artists, this is a powerful, dynamic new book.Maori art is unique among all art movements, and to Aotearoa New Zealand.Drawing on centuries of indigenous knowledge and skill, it reflects a Mao ...Show more
Ray Ching: New Zealand Bird Paintings by Ray Ching
79.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Ray Ching is internationally recognised as one of the world's greatest living wildlife artists. Born in New Zealand, he established himself as an artist in the 1960s, before moving to England where he has spent the majority of his career. He has never lost his interest in his roots, however, or the New ...Show more
Victory over Death - The Art of Colin McCahon by Rex Butler; Laurence Simmons
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Series: Art History Ser.
Perhaps at the origin of all thinking about culture lies the question of the afterlife. The artist makes their work hoping that it will live on after their death. The critic reads or looks at the work wondering whether a future audience will engage with it. Victory over Death: The Art of Colin McCahon t ...Show more
The Lobster's Tale (Korero Series) by Chris Price; Bruce Foster
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Series: Korero 3 | Reading Level: very good
‘What’s the lobster’s tune when he is boiled?’ Exploring the lobster’s biology and its history in language, literature and gastronomy, The Lobster’s Tale navigates the perils of a life driven by overreaching ambition and the appetite for knowledge, conquest and commerce. In conversation with the text, ...Show more
Illustrating the Antipodes: George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845 by Philip Jones
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art
George French Angas (1822–1886) was one of the nineteenth century’s outstanding colonial artists. As a young man in the 1840s he journeyed to Australia and New Zealand, where he excelled at capturing the minute detail of plants and people, objects and landscapes. The bush was his studio — he captured th ...Show more
Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist | Ringatoi Hou o Aotearoa. The companion catalogue to the 2021 Te Papa exhibition by Lizzie Bisley
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
The work of seminal, pioneering New Zealand modernist artist Rita Angus returns in triumph to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in late 2021, in a major show of more than 100 works from throughout her career. This extensive catalogue includes all the works in the show and is anchored by a majo ...Show more
The Sun Is a Star - A Voyage Through the Universe by Dick Frizzell
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: near fine
AN ENCHANTING BOOK ABOUT OUR GALAXY BY MUCH-LOVED PAINTER DICK FRIZZELL 'The universe - and everything in it - is always expanding into tomorrow . . . What a scene, eh? More magic than magic. Magic, mysterious and beautiful. And here we are. On the third rock from the sun, figuring it out.' In this ench ...Show more
Clare Reilly: Eye of the Calm by Clare Reilly
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Clare Reilly: Eye of the Calm is an exploration of New Zealand painter Clare Reilly's life and work. The mixture of autobiographical writing and gorgeous paintings subtly shows how Reilly's art and experiences are entwined. Her themes cover the issues of habitat destruction and renewal, depicting native ...Show more
Creative Conservation: a Celebration of Artists who are Wild About Nature by Chrissy Wickes; Sonia Frimmel
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand has a distinctive landscape and flora and fauna, and there are many artists that celebrate this through their work, whether it is painting, sculpture, ceramics, carving or weaving. This book showcases a group of 35 established and aspiring artists and their work, looking at what inspires the ...Show more
Rita Angus: An Artists Life by Jill Trevelyan
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | 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