William N. Copley: Women by Paul Kasmin Gallery; Claire Copley (Contribution by); William Copley (Artist)

$25.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

William N. Copley: Women includes beautiful plate photography of works from every phase of the artist's career, revealing Copley's (1919-96) persistent and complex fascination with the female form, masculinity, voyeurism, politics, art history and more. A new text by Claire Copley, one of the artist's t wo daughters, addresses head-on the frank sexuality and complicated gender politics present in much of her father's work, in a unique hybrid of personal memoir, cultural criticism and art history. A reprint of the artist's seminal text, "CPLY's Reply to the Breakup at the Wasteland of Good Taste," plus photos of the artist from the family archives and installation photography of key historical exhibitions at the Alexander Iolas and Iris Clert galleries in Paris, and at the New Museum in New York City, provide further historic and conceptual background. ...Show more

Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life by Richard Meryman

$18.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: good

"A revelation. No one will ever view Andrew Wyeth's apparently tranquil works the same way again after reading this vivid and astonishing portrait of the turbulent, driven man who paints them. Richard Meryman has written a wonderful book." -- Geoffrey C. Ward At its most fundamental level, this stunning and unique biography describes a distinguished painter's enterprise of transmitting emotion onto a flat surface. It explores all the factors that have combined to create Andrew Wyeth -- his childhood in a hothouse of creativity; his hypersensitivity; his formidable wife; his identification with people marginalized and misunderstood -- all which have made him an American icon. In the process, his realist works in watercolor and tempera, including the famous "Christina's World," have gained him a special and secure niche in the history of American art. The book is a portrait of obsession -- how single-mindedness has affected Wyeth's relationships and transformed his world into a realm of secrecy and fervid imagination. Those who read this book will never look at Wyeth's work as they did before. It reveals the artist's dark depths, as well as the ruthless, angry, child/man fantasist who paints the basic brutalities of existence -- death and madness --that vibrate eerily beneath his pictures' calm surfaces. Richard Meryman's narrative is almost novelistic, with its larger-than-life characters and subplots: the tragedy of C.C. Wyeth; Betsy Wyeth's campaign for independence and individuality; the byzantine 15-year-long drama of the Helga paintings; the eccentric and creative Wyeth clan; and the idiosyncratic land and people of Maine and Pennsylvania. Based on 30 years of research, frequent visits and countless conversations with the artist, his family, friends, admirers and critics, Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life is the only book about the man and the artist that gets behind his carefully guarded screen, tells the full story of his life and reveals his complex personality and the motivations for his paintings. ...Show more

¡Orozco! 1883-1949 by José Clemente Orozco

$20.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Catalogue for an exhibition organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico.

Rembrandt: His Life, His Work, His Time by Bob Haak

$55.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

The Treasures of Rembrandt by Michiel Roscam Abbing

$25.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

"The Rembrandt Experience" chronicles the life of Rembrandt and looks at the themes that have dominated his work. Beginning with a look at the Golden Age of Dutch painting, the project moves from Rembrandt's birth and childhood in Leiden to his work in Amsterdam. It includes his personal relationships a nd his rise in fortunes as he became one of the most prominent portrait artists of his generation and created such gems as the Night Watch. It also chronicles his subsequent bankruptcy and the change in his painting style over the years. In addition, the book contains some 30 items of facsimile memorabilia - personal and public documents and other archival material of the time, such as the official announcement of Rembrandt and Saskia's marriage in Amsterdam. ...Show more

The Sun Is God: The Life and Work of Cyril Mann (1911-80) by Russell Taylor John

$30.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Critics have often struggled to categorize Cyril Mann, as he has displayed expressionist and surrealist qualities. This monograph brings together some of the finest examples of his work.

Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years by Presses du Reel

$70.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: near fine

Tracing the output of this influential and accessible artist, this glossy-paged, image-filled monograph documents Kusamas life and work from early pieces to recent installations that were presented as part of a travelling international exhibition, for which this catalogue was created. Alongside the size able body of works presented here, images from her sulphurous performances from the 70s and public installations are also included. The catalogue also contains essays from such contributors as Diedrich Diedrichsen and Lily van der Stokker and an extensive picture biography of the artist, which captures the artist alongside her works since 1959, whether in her studio or at exhibitions, festivals or performances. ...Show more

Hou Hanru by Natalie King (Editor); Victoria Lynn (Editor)

$25.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Patricia Piccinini: Curious Affection by McKay Peter

$30.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Patricia Piccinini has represented Australia at the highest international level, and in 2016 was named the world's most popular artist. Her imaginative and startlingly life-like sculptures, installations, photographs, videos and drawings surprise and enchant audiences with their fantastic rendering of t he near future - a world in which DNA editing is commonplace, machinery is sentient, and life both old and new is flourishing. Spanning GOMA's entire ground floor with retrospective works and substantial new commissions, Patricia Piccinini: Curious Affection is the artist's largest and most ambitious exhibition project to date. This publication will provide readers with an opportunity to view the extraordinarily creative output of one of Australia's most successful contemporary artists in an informative and thought-provoking volume. ...Show more

The Enchanted Stone: The Graphic Worlds of Odilon Redon by Ted Gott

$16.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Sophie Calle by Sophie Calle (artist); Knut Ebeling; Christine Karallus; Elisabeth Strowick; Inka Schube

$60.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Martin Creed: What's the Point of It? by Martin Creed (artist); Ralph Rugoff (foreword by); Joachim Pissarro (text by); Paul Morley (text by)

$50.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Winner of the 2001 Turner Prize, Martin Creed (born 1968) has been recognized around the world for his conceptually driven art that is at once playful, thought-provoking and deeply ambiguous. Crossing all artistic media, and including musical performance and dance, his art transforms common materials an d actions into surprising meditations on existence, choice, perception and the invisible structures that shape everyday experience. Martin Creed: What's the Point of It? is a large-format, fully illustrated publication accompanying the first major survey of Creed's work at the Hayward Gallery in London. Encompassing the full range and scale of Creed's work, this comprehensive monograph spans its most minimal moments to extravagant room-sized installations, neon signs, video projections and performances. Outstanding in scope, design and scholarship, this essential volume features key artworks and a number of newly commissioned essays by music journalist Paul Morley, art historian Joachim Pissarro and Hayward Gallery curator Cliff Lauson, and a text by actor and musician Bill Bailey. ...Show more