Brett - A Portrait of Brett Whiteley by his Sister by Frannie Hopkirk

$16.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: good

Runaway Girl: The Artist Louie Bourgeois by Jan Greenberg and Sandra jordan

$15.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: good

Written for young teenagers, this is an intimate look at the life and work of sculptor Louise Bourgeois. Family photographs and reproductions of Bourgeois's work are interspersed with exclusive interviews, selections from the artist's journals and clear text.

Lempicka 1898-1980 by Gilles Neret

$12.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Goya by Sarah Symmons

$15.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Series: Art & Ideas S. | Reading Level: very good

This is a study of Francisco Goya (1746-1828), the Spanish painter and graphic artist whose work ranges from elegant and opulent royal portraits to dark depictions of horror and evil. Goya's career was a great triumph in the history of Spanish art. The son of a peasant craftsman from rural Aragon had, b y the age of 40 infiltrated the most exclusive aristocracy in Western Europe, becoming court painter to the Kings of Spain. But behind his glittering portrayals of the royal family and figures of state was another world of beggars, madmen, convicts, giants and cripples: the inhabitants of the artist's private obsessions. His art expressed the full range of human experience and he became known in his lifetime as "the philosopher painter". Goya's mastery of almost every graphic technique, from tapestry cartoons to lithographs, gave him a range of pictorial clarity and expression that was at once profound, diverting and subversive. This book places Goya within the context of his Spanish heritage, traces the immense influence of his work throughout Europe and considers the continued relevance of his art in the 20th century. It draws on the most recent scholarship and on re-discovered works to create a comprehensive portrait of this most complex and enigmatic of artists. ...Show more

Rembrandt: Art Book by Kindersley Dorling

$10.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Series: Artbook Ser. | Reading Level: very good

Titian: Art Book by Kindersley Dorling

$10.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Series: Pocket art books | Reading Level: very good

Each volume is a visual resource with over 300 full-color illustrations, telling the story of a single artist with a look at the artist's life, the context in which he worked, and an analysis of his masterpieces.

Monet by Carla Rachman

$16.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Series: Art and Ideas Ser. | Reading Level: very good

Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the quintessential Impressionist, whose ability to catch the fleeting effect of light and air on canvas have made his paintings admired the world over. But while a Monet picture of waterlilies, poppyfileds or poplar trees is easily identifiable, how and why his art developed from the early figure paintings to the late pictures of the water garden at Giverny is generally less well known. In this account of Monet's life and art, Carla Rachman analyzes the works themselves against the changing artistic and political background of the period to reveal the complicated evolution of an artist who had a formative influence on the history of modern art. ...Show more

Rodin by Bernard Champigneulle

$14.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good

Rodin's sculpture was in defiance of academic conventions but in later life he became a famous and widely respected figure. This work reappraises his achievement, analyzes his significance as an innovator, and gives an account of his personality and life.

Tom Roberts by National Gallery of Australia

$45.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: near fine

This publication accompanies the exhibition Tom Roberts at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and discusses Tom Roberts's life and work and provides details on individual iconic works by Roberts from around Australia. The essays explore among other things Roberts relations with other artists, i n particular McCubbin and Streeton who had very different places in his life and art. They also look at the seminal influence of Whistler, Manet and Velasquez on his work - as well as artists such as Bastien Lepage and Courbet. They also look at his preference for pink tones in his early work and pastel blue and green in his later work. Importantly, this publication includes Roberts's highly popular national narratives such as Shearing the rams 1888-90, A break away! 1891, The golden fleece 1894 and Bailed up 1895. It includes eight of Roberts's panel portraits, 'Familiar faces and figures' from the late 1890s. And shows Roberts's mastery of the art of pastel portraiture with a group of his pastels from this period. ...Show more

Dames, Dolls and Gun Molls: The Art of Robert A. Maguire by Jim Silke

$16.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

In the course of his long and illustrious career, renowned illustrator/painter Robert A. Maguire created gorgeous cover images for more than a thousand books and worked for virtually every mainstream publisher in the U.S. Best known for his incomparably sexy 'femme fatale' images for pulp paperbacks in the 1950s and 1960s, Maguire built a long and legendary career showcasing character portraits that were iconic and beautiful, painting subjects that felt simultaneously real and sensually compelling. Now, art historian and living pin-up legend Jim Silke casts his curatorial eye toward Maguire's long and fascinating career in his first art collection/artist biography, Dames, Dolls, and Gun Molls. With a keen eye for criticism and his trademark style and wit, Silke explores the legacy of an artist whose work is known by millions the world over. ...Show more

The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman

$20.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: near fine

Maira Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in this inimitable combination of image and text An irresistible invitation to experience life through a beloved artist's psyche, "The Principles of Uncertainty" is a compilation of Maira Kalman's "New York Times" columns. Part personal narrative, part d ocumentary, part travelogue, part chapbook, and all Kalman, these brilliant, whimsical paintings, ideas, and images-which initially appear random-ultimately form an intricately interconnected worldview, an idiosyncratic inner monologue. ...Show more

J. M. W. Turner by M. Bockemuhl

$12.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Series: Basic Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good