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9781869711788
Six of the Best - Murray Ball
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NZ$ 80.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Murray Ball
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To complete the remarkable Murray Ball celebratory trilogy comes a final volume to accompany the stunningly successful Footrot Flats: The Dog Strips and Footrot Flats: The Long Weekender. In this equally lavish book will be featured the best of the rest of Murray's work. If you loved Footrot and you love Murray Ball, you must own this book. FEATURES: Stanley Caveman - intellectual and classic no-hoper. It is due to having ancestors like this that we are in the mess we are today. The Prophet I have always believed that I would have been a very effective prophet. This goes to show how wrong I was - again. Bruce the Barbarian Gave him an Australian name as revenge for their beating us at cricket. If the All Blacks ever lose a series to Australia, I'll call him 'Harriet'. The Doctor Revenge for every injection I have ever received - and I am still behind! Nature Calls In heart-felt thanks to all the animals who have not bitten, kicked, ...
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9780670072538
White Silence : Grahame Sydney's Antarctica
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NZ$ 115.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Grahame Sydney
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This outstanding collection of photographs from one of New Zealand's most pre-eminent artists, Grahame Sydney, pays homage to the Antarctic landscape. At the invitation of Antarctica New Zealand, Sydney travelled to Antarctica in November-December 2003, and again in October 2006. His photographs reveal an extraordinary terrain that is solemn, sparse and poised with a magnificent stillness. Exploring a continent that appears at first glance to be devoid of colour, warmth or comfort, each image celebrates the rare flashes of astonishing beauty that can be found in the bleakest, most inhospitable region of Earth.
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9781869537319
Cone Ten Down : Studio Pottery in New Zealand, 1945-1980
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NZ$ 52.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Moyra Elliot & Damian Skinner
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Finalist in the General Non-Fiction category.
In the 1960s and 70s not only did potters flourish around the country but it seems that everyone's mum was producing mugs and bowls at night class. This phenomenon was part of a particualr philosophy of pottery - local materials and natural-looking forms, glazes and designs. All those small brown pots are now highly collectible and sought-after in op shops, second hand stores and, increasingly, at auction. Why did this style of pottery reach such heights in New Zealand? Who were the crafts people and what is the value of their work today? With over 100 photos especially taken for the book and photographs of leading potter's marks, this will be an invaluable book to the collector. Many 'characters' from that era featured in the book are still active in arts today, including Hamish Keith, Len Castle, Barry Brickell; and author Damian Skinner is particularly high-profile, with a ...
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9781869621742
Dick Frizzell - the Painter
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NZ$ 75.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Dick Frizzell
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Dick Frizzell's images populate our world - you find them on T-shirts, on TV ads, in shop windows, on wine bottles, on cushions and T-towels and in art shows. People appropriate (or borrow) his images in much the same way that he too appropriated many of the images he has painted over the years. He's reached iconic status in NZ - we love him, he's one of our own. This book contains all of his major paintings, the story of his life in his own thoughtful and highly articulate words, and an essay by Hamish Keith on Dick's work and its place in the New Zealand art world.
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9781869537258
Painting the Frontier : The art of New Zealand's pioneers
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Paperback
Author:
David Filer
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Uncovering images of New Zealand through the 'new eyes' of early European explorers and settlers. We are familiar with the commissioned works of official artists documenting their first impressions of their new land, and new co-inhabitants. But less well-known are the personal sketches and paintings created by amateur artists. Much of their work was collected by Alexander Turnbull and this book presents fascinating images of New Zealand art from the time of Cook to the beginning of the twentieth century. Includes over 100 paintings specifically chosen to reflect aspects of people in early New Zealand. The pictures are accompanied by fascinating text from historian David Filer, which provides a very pictorial take on New Zealand's colonial past.
First published September 2009, Auckland
252x190mm / 144pp
Softcover - Cased and Jacketed
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9781877448720
Telling Stories
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Janice Gill
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Janice Gill’s first solo exhibition (Auckland, 1974) sold out in a week. Since then she has developed a unusual niche for herself as a documentary painter, telling graphic stories of old — and contemporary — New Zealand.
Janice’s work is represented in public and private collections. It often focuses on people on the margins of society. She has been a Labour Party activist for three decades and now lives and paints in Nelson.
This full-colour book displays 152 of Janice's works, with notes on each by the artist, and has an introduction by Brian Easton.
First published 2009.
ISBN / ISSN:
9780908874415
Te Puawai o Ngai Tahu : Twelve Contemporary Ngai Tahu Artists
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Author:
Anna Rogers
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9781869404147
The Invention of New Zealand : Art and national identity, 1930-1970
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NZ$ 75.00 each
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Author:
Francis Pound
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Finalist in the General Non-Fiction category.
The Invention of New Zealand
is an important study of nationalism in twentieth-century New Zealand art. From the 1930s onwards, artists, writers and critics such as Toss Woollaston, Allen Curnow, Colin McCahon, Rita Angus, A R D Fairburn, Doris Lusk and Monte Holcroft deployed art, literature and theory in the construction of a national identity, the search for the essence of New Zealand and the invention of a specifically New Zealand high culture. Francis Pound ponders, decodes, memorialises and celebrates this project from its starting moment when painters and poets became newly self-conscious about New Zealand art. He argues that in the early 1970s the framework was largely dismantled and the discourse abandoned by a new generation of artists and critics, such as Richard Killeen, Ian Scott and Petar Vuletic. Over ten fascinating chapters, Pound covers the Nationalists' major ...
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9781877385384
Art At Te Papa
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NZ$ 134.00 each
Paperback
Author:
William McAloon (ed.)
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Finalist in the Illustrated Non-Fiction category.
Art at Te Papa
reveals and illuminates New Zealand's vast national art collection. Reproductions of more than 400 individual artworks, personally selected by curators, are accompanied by brief essays giving expert and engaging commentary on each work. This book spans the entire collection, from the cream of its early European prints holdings to its most exciting contemporary acquisitions. Here are international artworks by Rembrandt van Rijn, Albrechet Durer, Marcel Duchamp, Barbara Hepworth, Natalie Gontchorova and Robert Mapplethorpe, alongside masterpieces from some of New Zealand's most significant and best-loved artists - Charles Goldie, Rita Angus, Ralph Hotere, Colin McCahon, Frances Hodgkins, Bill Hammond, Shane Cotton and Yvonne Todd - as well as little-known artworks that will surprise and inform readers. From the iconic to the unknown, from printmaking to ...
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9781869404222
Art That Moves : The Work of Len Lye (with DVD of films and sculptures)
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NZ$ 62.00 each
Mixed-media pack
Author:
Roger Horrocks
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'Kinetic art is the first new category of art since prehistory', ex-pat New Zealand artist Len Lye boldly claimed in an essay in 1964. What did he mean by this? And how does his own work in sculpture and film bear it out? Roger Horrocks, the author of the best-selling 2001 biography of Lye, explores these questionsn in this new book. He describes the forerunners of this 'art that moves', then discusses in detail Lye's life and career as a kinetic artist, how he developed and envisioned his 'tangible motion sculptures' and how many of these are being realised only now, after his death. Lye himself wrote extensively about kinetic art; one chapter focuses on his theories about 'the art of motion', and relates these back to his practice as an artist. Horrocks concludes by discussing how Lye's ideas can be applied to other works and how they are relevant today.
The Art of Motion
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9781869404048
Back & Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young & Curious
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Gregory O'Brien
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NZ Post Childrens Book Awards Non-fiction Winner 2009
A painting can take you to many places. It can take you around the world, or it can take you around the country, city or neighbourhood you live in. It can also transport you back into the distant past of myths, legends and ancient history - or it can take you way into the future. Since Maori first drew moa and mythical birds on cave walls, artists in Aotearoa New Zealand have provided an imaginative, lively account of the lives locals have been leading, the dreams they've been dreaming and the stories they've been telling. Alongside works painted during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book features art by contemporary painters and printmakers, all of them seasoned travellers across time and space. Angels, rugby players, whales, kiwi and canoes, moa and mountains, the bush and the beaches all play starring roles in this bird's-eye view of New Zealand ...
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9781869404390
Bill Culbert : Making Light Work
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NZ$ 103.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Ian Wedde & Bill Culbert
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Bill Culbert is one of New Zealand's most celebrated artists. This is the first substantial book on Culbert, and Wedde explores the ideas, materials, and conditions that have formed Culbert's art over the past 50 years. Bill Culbert grew up in Port Chalmers and Wellington, but since 1961 has lived largely in France and England (although he returns regularly to New Zealand to exhibit work during the oyster and whitebait seasons). Light has preoccupied Culbert since his days as a student at London's Royal College of Art in the late 1950s. He has used it in domestic-scaled works, in dazzling large-scale museum installations and in public spaces such as the Champs Elysees in Paris and the Millennium Dome in London. Ian Wedde suggests in Bill Culbert that energy and travel, congeniality and conviviality are also key to understanding of Culbert's immensely attractive but conceptually rigorous work, from his wall-mounted light sculptures made ...
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9781877375132
Bill Hammond: Jingle Jangle Morning - Winner Montana Illustrative Award 2008
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NZ$ 82.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Bill Hammond (designer Aaron Beehre; essays by Jennifer Hay, Ron Brownson, Chris Knox & Laurence Abergart)
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A spectacular publication tracing the career of one of New Zealand’s most sought-after contemporary painters. Taking its title from a line in Bob Dylan’s ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’, Jingle Jangle Morning reveals the development of Bill Hammond’s practice – from his frenetic, music-inspired work of the 1980s, through the rock surrealism of the 1990s, to the evolution of his signature bird paintings.
First published July 2007.
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9781869621490
Certain Words Drawn : John Reynolds continued (Signed, Numbered, Limited Edition)
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NZ$ 70.00 each
Hardback
Author:
John Reynolds
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John Reynolds is one of New Zealand's most significant and most admired contemporary artists. An Arts Laureate, his Cloud was last year a centrepiece of the Sydney Bienale, at which he was New Zealand's representative, a rare honour for a New Zealand painter. Certain Words Drawn brings together examples of his recent work and practice in a stunning book designed by Arch McDonnell of InHouse Design. Magnificently packaged, this book is a limited edition of 1500 copies only, each numbered and signed by the artist. Edited by University of Auckland professor Laurence Simmons, the book is generously laden with images and contains essays by interalia Frank Stark, Andrew Clifford, Tessa Laird, Nicholas Stevens, Dianne Bardsley, Ian Wedde Shirley and Roger Horrocks, and Leigh Davis.
First published Auckland, NZ, June 2008.
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9780908990450
Colin McCahon : the Man and the Teacher
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Agnes Wood
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The life of this iconic New Zealand artist and the influence he had on those he worked with and those he taught.
First published July 1997
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9781869534332
Contemporary New Zealand Art Volume 2
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Elizabeth Caughey & John Gow
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Offers a comprehensive view of New Zealand art at the end of the 20th century. The book explores the work of 20 established and emerging artists working in a variety of media, from painting and photography to sculpture, installation and multimedia. A selection of each artist's work is included. Gretchen Albrecht, Tony Lane and Robin White are among the artists featured.
First published 1999.
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9781869534875
Contemporary New Zealand Art Volume 3
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Elizabeth Caughey
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The third book in a series that offers readers a comprehensive view of New Zealand artists working at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries. This volume features over 100 artworks reproduced in full colour representing twenty artists, both established and emerging.
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9781869535759
Contemporary New Zealand Art Volume 4
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Elizabeth Caughey & John Gow
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Contemporary New Zealand Art 4
is the final book in a series that offers readers a comprehensive view of New Zealand artists working at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries. This volume features over 100 artworks reproduced in full colour representing twenty artists, both established and emerging, working in a variety of media - painting, photography, sculpture, installation and multimedia.
Contemporary New Zealand Art 4
as with previous volumes shows a selection of each artist's work - the art they produced early in their careers and the art they are producing now - providing visual references to the development of the work of individuals as well as the evolution of contemporary New Zealand art over the last few decades. There is a brief biography of each artist and interpretation of the works shown along with a list of exhibitions in which the artist has participated. It is an important book for ...
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9781869621230
Cover Up: The Art of the Book Cover in New Zealand
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Hamish Thompson
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Some of New Zealand's most eminent artists have also featured in some of our most significant books, and it's an impressive roll call indeed: Len Lye, Dick Frizzell, Gordon Walters, Hotere, Para Matchitt, Milan Mrkusich, Colin McCahon, Murray Grimsdale, John Drawbridge, Pat Hanly as well as many others. Hamish Thompson's introductory essay to this comprehensive and handsomely designed book gives an overview of the history of book design in 20th century New Zealand and details the changing styles of cover art. The body of the book focuses on the work of individual artists, with a two-page spread per artist, plus biographical notes and full colour illustrations. A full index and bibliography is included. Sitting at the intersection of art and graphic design, this book slots right into our highly design-aware era and will appeal to the general public as well as to design students, publishers, historians and art lovers.
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9780061456350
Crafting of Narnia : The Art, Creatures and Weapons from Weta Workshop
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Weta Workshop, Paul Tobin & Daniel Falconer
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Before you can film a fantasy movie, you must create an authentic world. What kind of weather is found within, what would the buildings be made of, what creatures populate its land, and what is the history behind its people? For every stunning frame of film, there have been countless hours of work to create such majesty. And what a task to bring to the screen one of the world's most beloved children's series, C. S. Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia," This book, written and designed by the artists of the Academy-Award winning special effects house Weta Workshop, chronicles the stunning concept drawings, designs, and props that helped director Andrew Adamson shape the world of Narnia in cinematic glory. With detailed photography, hundreds of never before seen drawings and sculptures, and commentary from the artists and craftspeople of the workshop, discover the intricate work and exhaustive research and detail that went into each ...
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