Rita Angus: An Artists Life by Jill Trevelyan
60.00 NZD
Category: Art History | 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
V&A Pattern: Kimono by Anna Jackson
22.99 NZD
Category: Art History | Series: V&a Patterns Ser.
A source of inspiration for designers from Antony Gormley to Alexander McQueen, the Victoria and Albert Museum's rich and extraordinarily diverse collections include some of the greatest names and styles in design history as well as countless brilliant but anonymous works. Now elegantly repackaged, V&a ...Show more
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes
50.00 NZD
Category: Art History
The updated edition of Julian Barnes' best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays 'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached w ...Show more
The World According to Colour by James Fox
55.00 NZD
Category: Art History
The subject of this book is mankind's extraordinary relationship with colour. It is composed of a series of voyages, ranging across the world and throughout history, which reveal the meanings that have been attached to the colours we see around us and the ways these have shaped our culture and imaginati ...Show more
The Whole Picture - The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why We Need to Talk about It by Alice Procter
29.99 NZD
Category: Art History
If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again. Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonise' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall? From the stolen Wakandan art in Black Panther, to Emmanuel Macron's recent commitment to art restitution, and Bey ...Show more
Artistic Places by Susie Hodge; Amy Grimes (Illustrator)
32.99 NZD
Category: Art History | Series: Inspired Traveller's Guides
Take an artistic pilgrimage to some of the worlds most inspirational places for aesthetes and creatives with Artistic Places.
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles
39.99 NZD
Category: Art History
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
Drawing on the Dominant Eye by Betty EDWARDS
45.00 NZD
Category: Art History
The long-awaited follow-up to the beloved bestseller Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - with new insights about creativity and our unique way of seeing the world around us
Hundertwasser for Future by Friedensreich Hundertwasser (Text by); Pierre Restany (Text by); Carolin Würfel (Text by)
39.99 NZD
Category: Art History
A pocket-sized collection of the Austrian visionary Hundertwasser's impassioned, prescient, illustrated manifestos for a green economy and democratic urbanism. The wildly colorful buildings and paintings of the legendary Austrian artist and environmentalist Hundertwasser (1928-2000) are beloved across t ...Show more
ORIGINS OF MODERN ART by Rosalind Ormiston
19.99 NZD
59.99 (66% off)
Category: Art History | Series: Masterworks
The tender roots of Modern Art can be seen in the wild sea paintings of Turner, as early as the mid 19th Century, but it took the Impressionists and the Pre-Raphaelites to break the elite classical mode, until the final blows were dealt in the early 1900s by Kandinsky, Klee and Picasso. Modern Art was a ...Show more
Frida Kahlo - Lives of the Artists series by Hettie Judah
29.99 NZD
Category: Art History | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Fridamania has made Frida Kahlo's image ubiquitous: she has been reborn as a Halloween costume, Barbie doll, children's book character, textile print, phone cover, and the inspiration for everything from cocktails to fashion shoots. But it is more difficult to get a clear vision of this bold and brillia ...Show more