The Back of the Painting: Secrets & Stories From Art Conservation by Linda Waters & Sarah Hillary & Jenny Sherman
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Behind the scenes with the experts on famous paintings. The seal of the Prince of Yugoslavia, the icon that protected persecuted Russians, Monet's repurposed canvas, the excised first wife, the stolen Tissot ... all these stories can be found on the backs of paintings in New Zealand art museums. This ...Show more
Drawn to the Wild - Paintings of New Zealand Birds by Nicolas Dillon
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: near fine
Nicolas Dillon is one of New Zealand's leading wildlife painters, who has built a reputation over the last 30 years for his masterful portraits of our wildlife, in particular birds. His evocative, moody paintings are deeply considered observations of nature and the environment. At the heart of his pract ...Show more
Paul Dibble - X - A Decade of Sculpture 2010-2020 by Paul Dibble; Fran Dibble
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
Paul Dibble has traversed many subjects in his sculptural work - often returning to them years later, like godwits coming home to roost. Between 2010 and 2020, human figures and native New Zealand flora and fauna have been among Dibble's oft-revisited subjects, his work refining these figures to their s ...Show more
Taking Flight - My Life and Other Creations by Susan Flight
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Susan Flight teaches and makes things in her studio on the slopes of Mt Karioi, near Raglan, New Zealand. This book is a journal of the people, events, and objects that Susan has loved, taught, experienced and made in a lifetime of joyful creative exploration. Here, you'll find her story and some of the ...Show more
Karl Maughan by Valentine Hannah & Stead Gabriella
79.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art
A walk through the intricate painted gardens of Karl Maughan, one of New Zealand's most-loved contemporary artists. For more than three decades, Karl Maughan has created intricately painted gardenscapes, developing his own visual language to explore the forms of nature and the nature of form. Born in 19 ...Show more
Landmarks by Owen Marshall; Grahame Sydney; Brian Turner
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: near fine
A handsome, landmark book celebrating the work of three of our literary and artistic heavyweights. The complementary work of artist Grahame Sydney, fiction writer Owen Marshall and poet Brian Turner was first brought together in the hugely successful Timeless Land in 1995. Its pages showed their shared, ...Show more
Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists by Leonard Bell
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
For fifty years, Marti Friedlander (1928-2016) was one of New Zealand's most important photographers, her work singled out for praise and recognition here and around the world. Friedlander's powerful pictures chronicled the country's social and cultural life from the 1960s into the twenty-first century. ...Show more
Colin McCahon: Signed Limited Edition Slipcase by Peter Simpson
175.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
With each volume signed by author Peter Simpson and combined in a slipcase edition limited to 100 copies, this set is an extraordinary work chronicling forty-five years of painting by our most important artist, Colin McCahon. Colin McCahon (1919¿1987) was New Zealand¿s greatest twentieth-century artist. ...Show more
Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land?: Vol.2 1960-1987 by Peter Simpson
79.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Series: Colin Mccahon Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The second of an extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by our most important artist, Colin McCahon. Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand’s greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Māori ...Show more
Mitchell & Mitchell: A Father & Son Arts Legacy by Peter Alsop; Anna Reed; Richard Wolfe
79.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: near fine
Leonard C. Mitchell and Leonard V. Mitchell ¿ father and son ¿ are two forgotten artistic heroes. Now, critically studied for the first time, their highlight reel runs long. No other family can likely claim such a diverse contribution to New Zealand art. This beautifully designed and illustrated title b ...Show more
New Zealand Art at Te Papa by Mark Stocker
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Te Papa holds New Zealands national art collection, whose origins date back to 1865 and the establishment of the then Colonial Museum (later the Dominion and then the National Museum). Built up over the years by a succession of directors and curators, the collections 40,000 works track New Zealand histo ...Show more
Wanted - The Search for the Modernist Murals of E. Mervyn Taylor by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith (ed.)
79.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
Mervyn Taylor - wood engraver, painter, illustrator, sculptor and designer - was one of the most celebrated New Zealand artists of the 1930s to 1960s. He was highly connected to modernism and nationalism as it was expressed in New Zealand art and literature of the period. In the 1960s he created twelve ...Show more