Picturebook Makers by Sam McCullen
55.00 NZD
Category: Artists
What exists in the space between the words and the pictures? How do the stories unfold? What happens between the first sketch and finished picturebook? Twelve of the world's finest contemporary picturebook makers generously share their experiences, challenges, doubts, sketches, illustrations, and inval ...Show more
Bacon in Moscow by James Birch; Michael Hodges
39.99 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good
The hilarious account of one man's quest to mount a Francis Bacon exhibition in the Soviet Union. This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount the ground-breaking retrospective of Francis Bacon's work at the newly refurbished Ce ...Show more
Bright Stars: Great Artists Who Died Too Young by Kate Bryan
32.99 NZD
Category: Artists
In Bright Stars, Kate Bryan examines the short lives and long legacies of artists who died before their time. In this personal, persuasive and evocative book, Kate introduces some of the most inspiring people in art and examines the myriad ways that death can affect the course of art history. 'Bryan's w ...Show more
Banksy: The Man behind the Wall: Revised and Illustrated Edition by Will Ellsworth-Jones
45.00 NZD
Category: Artists
A fully updated and illustrated edition of the bestselling story of the worlds most famous graffiti artist For someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is remarkably famous. From his beginnings as a Bristol g ...Show more
Frida Kahlo: The Revolutionary Painter! (Show Me History!) by James Buckley Jr.
26.99 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Show Me History!
This kid-friendly biography of esteemed Mexican painter Frida Kahlo uses a graphic novel format to tell the true story of the woman who led an artistic revolution. After an accident at age 18 dashed her dream of attending medical school and becoming a doctor, Frida Kahlo turned to painting as a form of ...Show more
Get Well by Michael Leunig
30.00 NZD
Category: Artists
Get Well is a collection of Michael Leunig's work over the past four years - a time when, quite remarkably, all has not been well with the world. More than ever Leunig shines a light on questions about sanity and madness, innocence and corruption, friendliness and unfriendliness, joy and despair, and th ...Show more
Banksy: Completed by Carol Diehl
55.00 NZD
Category: Artists
There's more to Banksy than the painting on the wall- the first in-depth investigation into the mysteries of the world's most famous living artist. Banksy is the world's most famous living artist, yet no one knows who he is. For more than twenty years, his wryly political and darkly humorous spray paint ...Show more
Louis Wain's Cats by CHRIS BEETLES, ILLUSTRATED BY LOUIS
65.00 NZD
Category: Artists
The definitive biography of the iconic English artist, packed with weird and wonderful artwork. 'Louis Wain invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world'. Broadcast in 1925 by H.G. Wells, these words characteristically foretold the future of the Wain cat which has, once more, become the centu ...Show more
Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Frida Kahlo; Hayden Herrera (Introduction by)
37.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
Frida Kahlo is now an icon. In the decades since her death, Kahlo has been celebrated as a proto-feminist, a misunderstood genius, and a leftist hero, but during her lifetime most knew her as ... Diego Rivera's wife. Featuring conversations with American scholar and Marxist, Bertram D. Wolfe, and art cr ...Show more
Truth Bomb: Inspiration from the mouths and minds of female artists by Abigail Crompton
55.00 NZD
Category: Artists
If anyone can teach us how to pursue the life and work of an artist, it is the artists in Truth Bomb. This compilation of pioneering and established women artists from around the world will motivate and empower you, challenge you to find solace in the shared human experiences of birth, death, love, ange ...Show more
Watercolour Techniques for Artists and Illustrators by DK
48.00 NZD
Category: Artists
The only instructional book on watercolour you will ever need.Trying your hand at watercolour painting? Or looking to advance your range of artistic skills?Watercolour Techniques for Artists and Illustrators is for you.Beginning with the basics - such as honing your observational skills, choosing a subj ...Show more
Frida Kahlo - Lives of the Artists series by Hettie Judah
29.99 NZD
Category: Artists | 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