Paula Modersohn-Becker - Her Life and Work by Gillian Perry

$14.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: good-very good

Inventing Edward Lear by Sara Lodge

$30.00 NZD

Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: near fine

Edward Lear--the father of nonsense--wrote some of the best-loved poems in English. He was also admired as a naturalist, landscape painter, travel writer, and composer. Awkward but funny, absurdly sympathetic, Lear invented himself as a Victorian character. Sara Lodge offers a moving account of one of t he era's most influential creative figures. ...Show more

Pissarro by Christopher Lloyd

$14.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Series: Phaidon Colour Library | Reading Level: very good

This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source informatio n for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology. ...Show more

Ronald Searle - A Biography by Russell Davies

$25.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Published to accompany a retrospective exhibition of Searle's work at the Chris Beetles Gallery in London, this publication includes many of Searle's greatest illustrations - the St. Trinian's Girls' School gang and Molesworth as well as many illustrations produced for 'Punch' and 'Lilliput'.

James McNeill Whistler by Maria Constantino

$20.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Michelangelo 1475-1564 by Yvonne Paris

$25.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Michelangelo is part of a series of four and presents the entire spectrum of Michelangelo's work and illuminates all its facets as well as focusing on his life in the turbulent political and religious periods of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Each title also includes an illustrated fold-out 'tim eline', which details both the key moments in each of the subjects' lifetime, as well as the most important historical and cultural events of the era. ...Show more

Yan Pei-Ming by Yan Mei-Ping; Francesco Bonami (Editor); Hou Hanru (Contribution by)

$65.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

The first monograph on important Franco-Chinese contemporary artist Yan Pei-Ming, whose work blends Eastern and Western cultural influences. Yan Pei-Ming is one of the most important figures in contemporary art. His large-scale, monochrome paintings--portraits of politically charged figures such as Mao, Pope John Paul II, Barack Obama, and Vladimir Putin, as well as cultural icons Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Bruce Lee, and Picasso--are the result of a powerful combination of conceptual rigor and the passionate, dynamic gestures with which he "attacks" the canvas. Having grown up in Shanghai during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and resettled in Dijon, France, Yan Pei-Ming's work stands for an entire generation that has experienced and survived the dramatic changes that global geopolitics have undergone since the end of the Cold War. Yan Pei-Ming's art is in the collections of a number of prestigious institutions--including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Honolulu Museum of Art, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, National Gallery of Australia, and the Shanghai Art Museum. This significant volume is the first comprehensive book on Yan Pei-Ming's practice and is prepared by the internationally renowned curator Francesco Bonami. ...Show more

Antony Gormley by John Hutchinson

$35.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Series: Contemporary Artists Series | Reading Level: very good

Recipient of the 1994 Turner Prize, Antony Gormley is an internationally acclaimed artist who has revitalized the human figure in sculpture. His public sculpture projects, such as the "Angel of the North", have continued to grow in scale and ambition, as well as popularity. This book is published to coi ncide with a major solo exhibition of his work at SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico in November 2000, and on tour in the US in 2002. Fully revised and expanded, this edition has 52 extra pages documenting new work from 1995-2000, including a new update essay, new artist's writings and an expanded chronology. ...Show more

Jorinde & Joringel - A Grimm brothers fairy tale with pictures by Rilla by Rilla

$10.00 NZD

Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: near fine

Miochelangelo Merisi detto il Caravaggio by Mia Cinotti G A Dell'Acqua

$35.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Michaelangelo and Raphael in the Vatican - All the Sistine Chapel, the Stanzas and the Loggias

$20.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Ravilious in Pictures - Sussex and the Downs by James Russell

$20.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good