Frida Kahlo and San Francisco by Gannit Ankori; Circe Henestrosa; Hillary C. Olcott
45.00 NZD
Category: Artists
This book marks the triumphant return of Frida Kahlo to San Francisco, the city where her artistic life began to unfold. Kahlo's sojourns to the United States were brief, but formative. It was in the California city--the first she visited in the US--that she ventured into a new world beyond the scope of ...Show more
Life in the Studio: Inspiration and Lessons on Creativity by Frances Palmer
79.99 NZD
Category: Artists
"Guaranteed to, as its title insists, inspire. . . . Demands to be viewed again and again and again."--Booklist, starred reviewTo step into potter Frances Palmer's world is to be surrounded by the trappings of a life that has been intentionally--and painstakingly--built to maximize creativity. A light-f ...Show more
Only What's Necessary 70th Anniversary Edition - Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts by Chip Kidd; Geoff Spear (By (photographer)); Jeff Kinney (Introduction by); Jean Schulz (Preface by); Paige Braddock (Contribution by); Karen Johnson (Contribution by)
49.99 NZD
Category: Artists
The Eisner Award-nominated tribute to Charles M. Schulz--newly repackaged for the 70th anniversary of Peanuts Charles M. Schulz believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only what's necessary. For 50 years, he wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single mo ...Show more
Yayoi Kusama by Frances Morris
55.00 NZD
Category: Artists
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) is arguably Japan's most famous living artist. Her originality, innovation and powerful desire to communicate have propelled her through a career that has spanned six decades. During this time, Kusama has explored painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, coll ...Show more
Billy Apple: Life/Work by Christina Barton
75.00 NZD
Category: Artists
A major study of New Zealand’s most internationally significant living artist. Billy Apple (born Barrie Bates in Auckland, 1935) is New Zealand’s most internationally significant living artist and a pioneer of pop and conceptual art. At the Royal College of Art in London from 1959–62, Apple studied with ...Show more
Rone: Street Art and Beyond by WYSE, MO
65.00 NZD
Category: Artists
Known for his multi-storey murals gracing buildings all over the world, Melbourne-based artist Rone uses his work to explore the friction and connection between beauty and decay, youth and ruin.Rone was a seminal figure in the explosive Melbourne street art scene of the early 2000s. With his beginnings ...Show more
The Art Book by Phaidon Editors
30.00 NZD
60.00 (50% off)
Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good
The Second Edition of The Art Book is a substantially expanded and updated version of the hugely successful original. Introducing 100 new artists selected from all periods and from across the globe, the new edition includes for the first time leading figures from the fields of photography and performanc ...Show more
Melvin Day: Artist by Gregory O'Brien
70.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: near fine
There were many Melvin Days, but the term Artist encompasses all of them. During a career spanning seven decades, he produced some of the most intellectually astute, yet often visceral, paintings in New Zealand art history. Born in Hamilton in 1923, Day was a radical but also a great believer in traditi ...Show more
McCahon Country by Justin Paton
75.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: near fine
'My painting tells you where I am at any given time, where I am living and the direction I am pointing in.' - Colin McCahon. McCahon (1919-1987) is widely recognised as an outstanding figure in twentieth century art whose ground-breaking work over four decades changed the way we see this country, while ...Show more
Colin McCahon: There is Only One Direction, Vol. I 1919-1959 by Peter Simpson
75.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: near fine
Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand’s greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Māori motifs, McCahon’s work came to define a distinctly New Zealand modernist idiom. Collected and exhibited extensively in Australasia an ...Show more
Portraits Destroyed - Power, Ego and History's Vandals by Julie Cotter
55.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: near fine
Churchill entered Westminster Hall at noon, to the sound of drums beating out a victory roll - his signature gesture. At 80, he was still prime minister, and angered by discussion of retirement. But that irritation would pale in comparison to the anger he was about to feel on this day, 10 November 1954, ...Show more
Artist's Way 25th Edition by Julia Cameron
35.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Artist's Way Ser.
For the millions of people who have uncovered their creative selves through the Artist's Way program-a workbook and companion to the international bestseller. Alife-changing twelve-week program, The Artist's Way has touched the lives of millions of people around the world. Now, for the first time, f ...Show more