Leonardo - The First Scientist by Michael White

$25.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Michael White, an experienced biographer, has written this brilliant portrayal of his childhood hero--Leonardo da Vinci--arguing that the scope of his investigations, experimental method, and desire to push the boundaries of knowledge made him nothing less than "The First Scientist." With this he weaves the history of early scientific endeavour, and Leonardo's colourful personal life, including his deprived childhood, homosexuality, and relationships with contemporaries such as Machiavelli and Borgia. A thought provoking book, it displays the ultimate amalgamation between art and science. ...Show more

Etchings of Charles Meryon by Hugh Stokes

$35.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Series: Bulletin of New Zealand Art History Special Series No. 1 | Reading Level: very good

Lives of the Muses : Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose

$12.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

An exploration of the complex relationship between artists and their muses profiles nine women, including Alice Liddell, who inspired Lewis Carroll; ballerina Suzanne Farrell, for her impact on George Ballanchine; and Yoko Ono and John Lennon.

Hundertwasser KunstHausWien by Friedensreich Hundertwasser

$12.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Hundertwasser's KunstHausWien, a colourful and exotic addition to Austria's museum landscape. 'The architecture of the KunstHausWien is the first bastion against the false order of the straight line, the first bridgehead against the grid system and the chaos of the absurd', wrote Hundertwasser in autumn 1990, as finally a permanent site for his work was found. After four years of conversion work an old furniture factory in Vienna's third district has become the KunstHausWien, a colourful and exotic addition to Austria's museum landscape. It has 4000 sq. metres of exhibition space. Two of the four floors house changing exhibitions of international art, while the other two show a permanent exhibition of Hundertwasser's work. This MuseumGuide reveals the unique architecture of the KunstHausWien and shows a representative choice of Hundertwasser's pictures, graphic work, tapestries, architectural models and stamps. It also contains various famous manifestos by the artist, such as 'The third skin in the third district', 'Window Dictatorship and the Window Right' 'Tree Tenants are the Ambassadors of the Free Forests in the City' 'Everything situated horizontally in the open air belongs to nature', and 'The Uneven Floor'. ...Show more

Die Apokalypse aus dem Altgriechischen ubersetst und kommentiert by Kurt Steinmann; Jurgen Kaube

$45.00 NZD

Category: Religion | Reading Level: near fine

Gauguin by Belinda Thomson

$18.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Series: World of Art Ser. | Reading Level: near fine

Paul Gauguin achieved a high public profile during his lifetime, and was one of the first artists of his generation to achieve international recognition. But his prominence has always had as much to do with the dramatic events of his life - his self-imposed exile on a remote South Sea island, his turbul ent relationships with his peers - as with the appeal of his art. Belinda Thomson gives a comprehensive and accessible account of the life and work of one of the most original artists of the late 19th century. Gauguin's work - painting, sculpture, prints and ceramics - is discussed in the light of his public persona, his relations with his contemporaries, his exhibitions and their critical reception. Belinda Thomson reveals Gauguin's private world, beliefs and aspirations through his extensive cache of journals, letters and other writings. Fully updated throughout, drawing on the insights of thirty years of scholarship since its first edition, Thomson's text remains the best introduction of this controversial and often contradictory artist. ...Show more

And Picasso Painted Guernica. The story of a masterpiece by Alain Serres

$20.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Picasso's artistic genius was clear from childhood. This outstanding book begins with the doves young Pablo painted with his father when he was only seven, then shows us his later passions for harlequins and street people, bulls and minotaurs, new ways of seeing and new ways of rendering life. All of th ese contributed to the massive work Guernica, of 1937, painted as a protest against the bombing of defenceless civilians and against the brutality of war everywhere. It is a biography of both an epoch-making artist and a unique painting that resonated with the outrage of people around the world. ...Show more

David Bomberg by Richard Cork

$150.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: good-very good

To Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era by Mary L. Felstiner

$25.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Adolph Gottlieb A Retrospective by Lawrence Alloway and Mary Davis MacNaughton

$30.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Edward Lear's Birds by Susan Hyman

$25.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Reading Level: good-very good

Velazquez - Painter of Painters & Catalogue Raisonne by José Lopez-Rey

$90.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Series: Jumbo Ser. | Reading Level: near fine