Fatu Feu'u On Life & Art by Shona Jennings
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Fatu Feu’u is an internationally recognised Samoan-New Zealand artist. He has been pivotal in shaping the interest in contemporary Pacific art globally and nurturing a generation of Pacific artists locally, leading to his reputation as the Father of contemporary Pacific art. In this book, Fatu shares h ...Show more
Ralph Hotere by Stephen Stratford
95.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
Featuring reproduction of 250 paintings, and 9 photos of Ralph Hotere by Marti Friedlander.
A Place For The Heart: The Life and Work of Dave Comer, Photographer and Film Location Scout by Peta Carey
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
Dave Comer was a highly respected and reknown photographer and film location scout, popularly known as `The man who found Middle Earth' for his central role in finding what are now the world famous locations for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films. He lived much of his life in and around Fiordlan ...Show more
150 Treasures by Oliver Stead (ed.)
89.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: good-very good
For all its 150 years Auckland Museum has been a storehouse of New Zealand's and the Pacific's treasures. Its collections also cover applied arts from around the world, the weird and the wonderful of natural history, stunning ethnographic pieces, art and much more. In this book, a selection of 150 piece ...Show more
Ten x Ten : 100 Favourite Artworks at Te Papa by Athol McCredie
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Series: Ten X Ten Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Published to coincide with the imminent opening of the beautiful new art galleries at Te Papa, this book takes an intimate yet expert look at the national art collection. Ten art curators each pick ten art works and tell us why they love/admire/revere/are moved by them. It's an entirely fresh way to app ...Show more
Vernacular: The Everyday Landscape of New Zealand by Philip Smith; David Straight
29.99 NZD
69.99 (57% off)
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: good-very good
Fascinating, idiosyncratic, often beautiful, Vernacular is a unique book created by landscape architect Philip Smith and photographer David Straight.
New Zealand Painting: A Concise History by Dunn Michael
99.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand Painting: A Concise History is a completely revised and updated edition of Michael Dunn's essential overview of New Zealand painting, A Concise History of New Zealand Painting. It is presented here in a new format as a companion volume to New Zealand Sculpture: A History (AUP, 2002). To his ...Show more
Marti Friedlander by Leonard Bell; Marti Friedlander
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
From journeys through various countries to New Zealand's transformation in the last half century, this is a riveting and comprehensive look at the work of photographer Marti Friedlander. Showing how this distinguished artist has not only recorded the places, events, and personalities of recent history, ...Show more
Grahame Sydney: Paintings, 1974-2014 (Standard Edition) by Vincent O'Sullivan; Grahame Sydney (Artist)
99.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Grahame Sydney: Paintings 1974-2014 is a major retrospective survey of paintings from Sydney's 40-year career as an artist. His paintings of the Central Otago landscape and the wider South Island are known and loved by large numbers of New Zealanders at home and abroad, and have become touchstones that ...Show more
Gottfried Lindauer's New Zealand - The Maori Portraits by Ngahiraka Mason; Zara Stanhope
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: fine
From the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the Bohemian immigrant artist Gottfried Lindauer travelled to marae and rural towns around New Zealand and - commissioned by Maori and Pakeha - captured in paint the images of key Maori figures. For Maori then and now, the faces of t?puna are full of mana a ...Show more
His Own Steam - The Work of Barry Brickell by David Craig; Gregory O’Brien
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
The work of potter, artist, craftsperson, railway enthusiast and iconoclast Barry Brickell. Potter extraordinaire, conservationist, railway enthusiast and iconoclast Barry Brickell is one of New Zealand’s most important ceramicists. His exuberant and elemental, warts-and-all pots and sculptures pulse wi ...Show more
Fred Graham: Creator of Forms Te Tohunga Auaha by Fred Graham & Maria de Jong
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
This comprehensive survey of the art of Fred Graham details the artist’s life from his childhood in the Waikato to his career as a sculptor. Fred Graham is a leading figure in New Zealand’s art world. He began as an art teacher, and since 1984, he has been a full-time sculptor, producing a wealth of wor ...Show more