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Ai Weiwei - Humanity by Ai Weiwei Ai
$8.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: ISMs Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our time Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-activists and a powerf ...Show more
Ai Weiwei - Weiwei-Isms by Ai Weiwei; Larry Warsh (Editor)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: ISMs Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
This collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life. A master at communicating powerful ideas in astonishingly few words, Ai Weiwei is known for his innovative use of social media to disseminate his views. The short quotatio ...Show more
The Blue Guitar - Etchings by David Hockney who was inspired by Wallace Stevens who was inspired by Pablo Picasso by Wallace Stevens; David Hockney (Illustrator)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: good-very good
An American Artist in the South Seas by John La Farge
$16.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Pacific Basin Books | Reading Level: good-very good
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Juan Davila by Guy Brett and Roger Benjamin
$35.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good
Juan Davila is a painter who believes in using art to facilitate social change. Davila was born in Santiago, Chile, and moved to Australia in the 1970s to escape the violent totalitarian regime of Pinochet. His work addresses international issues, especially with reference to Latin American and Australi ...Show more
Modest Gifts - Poems and Drawings by Norman Mailer
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
An unexpected collection from Norman Mailer--a book of his selected poems and more than one hundred of his drawings, most of them never before published. Modest Gifts is full of what the author calls "casual pleasures"--witty, naughty, and surprisingly tender verse and art. Lust, seduction, betrayal, je ...Show more
A Treasury of American Book Illustration by Henry C Pitz
$20.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: good-very good
Francis Bacon 24 May-1 July 1962 by John Rothenstein
$15.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: good
Elmgreen & Dragset - Biography by Elmgreen & Dragset
$14.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good
Turner (Brief Lives) by Peter Ackroyd
$8.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Brief Lives S. | Reading Level: good
James Mallord William Turner was a Londoner through and through. His father had a barber's shop in Covent Garden, his mother came from a line of London butchers. He was brought up in Maiden Lane (the family moving at some point from the south side of the street to the north side). He was short and pugna ...Show more
The Flowers by Lisa Cooper; Harold David (Photographer)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: near fine
Dr. Lisa Cooper's The Flowers gives us the opportunity to peer into the practices and vistas of someone who works with flowers daily as a leading floral designer and artist. Through anecdote, gentle instruction, and photographic essays, the reader will be taken from Cooper's studio workspace, to the gr ...Show more