Me, According to the History of Art by Dick Frizzell
65.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography | Reading Level: very good
Throughout his long career, New Zealand painter Dick Frizzell has often gone way out on a limb to see where it would take him. From his early Pop art influenced approach to his experiments with landscape and the contested area of appropriation, he's always been brave. Now, he takes on the history of art ...Show more
A Dog a Day by MUIR, SALLY
30.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography
A lovingly curated collection of 365 charming portraits of our favorite four-legged companions, with anecdotes celebrating dogs' endearing and irresistible quirks, based on Sally Muir's popular "Dog a Day" Facebook page.Sally Muir's debuted her "Dog a Day" project on Facebook in 2013: "My name is Sally ...Show more
Great Women Painters by Alison M Gingeras
120.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography
A sumptuous survey of over 300 women painters and their work spanning almost five centuries Great Women Painters is a groundbreaking book that reveals a richer and more varied telling of the story of painting. Featuring more than 300 artists from around the world, it includes both well-known women paint ...Show more
Dear Colin, Dear Ron: The Selected Letters of Colin McCahon and Ron Reilly by Peter Simpson
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
This substantial book of letters selected by esteemed Colin McCahon scholar Peter Simpson shines a light on one of the most remarkable relationships in New Zealand art. The painter Colin McCahon and the librarian Ron O'Reilly first met in 1938, in Dunedin, when McCahon was 19 and O'Reilly 24. They rem ...Show more
The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
60.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography
'Anyone looking for the most readable survey of the history of art from the [sic] cave paintings to the 20th century should buy the new, beautifully produced pocket edition of The Story of Art, still one of the great classics of art criticism.' - Independent A cornerstone of art history - in a compact ...Show more
Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal
26.00 NZD
Category: History
A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo -- the owner of a Parisian palace filled with beautiful objects, turned into a memorial for his lost son -- by the bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes'Consistently illuminating... considered, compassionate and appreciative... Thi ...Show more
Constable: A Portrait by James Hamilton
30.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography
ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure' Sunday Times'A biography as rich with colourful characters as any novel' TelegraphJohn Constable, the revolutionary nineteenth-century painter of the landscapes and skies of southern England, is Br ...Show more
Raphael by Paul Joannides
40.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography | Series: World of Art Ser.
An authoritative introductionto Raphael, one of the mostinfluential painters in thehistory of art, written by thepreeminent authority on thesubject and informed by thelatest research. For centuries, Raphael has been recognized as the supreme High Renaissance painter, with many considering him more versa ...Show more
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
Square Haunting - Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade
28.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography | Reading Level: very good
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE * LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * "A beautiful and deeply moving book."--Sally Rooney, author of Normal People An engrossing group portrait of five women writers, including Virginia Woolf, who moved to London's Mecklenburgh Square in search of new freedom in t ...Show more
The Art of Tapestry by Helen Wyld
95.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography | Series: National Trust Ser.
Extensively illustrated, this is the first accessible publication on the history of tapestry in over two decades. Woven with dazzling images from history, mythology and the natural world, and breath-taking in their craftsmanship, tapestries were among the most valuable and high-status works of art avail ...Show more
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele, David Perry
38.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography
"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come....The Bright Ages is a rare thing--a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading."--Slate "Incandescent and ultimat ...Show more