Arts Year Book 6: Sixth Annual Review of the Arts in New Zealand by Eric Lee-Johnson (editor)

$65.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Year Book of the Arts in New Zealand No. 3: 1947 by Howard Wadman (editor)

$65.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Making Music in New Zealand by Gareth Shute

$20.00 NZD

Category: Music

MAKING MUSIC IN NEW ZEALAND examines the reality of being a local musician. It collects together comments by popular musicians from various fields of music - from rock to electronica to hip hop - along with quotes from other major players in the industry. It covers: getting started; songwriting; practis ing and playing live; touring; promotion; recording; the industry; and surviving as a musician. The text is complemented by a stunning range of black-and-white photographs. The result is a book that gives an engaging insight into the life of a local musician, which will appeal to those who are seeking a career in music and those who are simply interested in finding out more about music in New Zealand and the musicians that create it. First published 2005. ...Show more

The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists: Painters, Printmakers, Sculptors by Kate McGahey

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

The aim of this book is to offer reliable and accessible information about New Zealand painters, printmakers and sculptors from the 19th Century to the present. It gives a brief overview of each artist, their background and areas of work as well as (where possible) locations where their work can be seen . ...Show more

Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson by Alastair Owen

$10.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

'I've sometimes thought in the dead of night, "Look at your life, Bruce, rip out the writing, and with all these boiling frustrations and opinions what would you be?" I'd be in trouble, wouldn't I? Or I'd be in jail. Hard-talking, boisterous, frank and forthright, Bruce Robinson reveals to Alistair Owen the truth about his work and life in a series of exclusive interviews. Talking candidly about his entire career; his acting, writing and directing, and the many tussles he has faced with Hollywood moguls, this is Bruce Robinson as you've never seen or heard him before. ...Show more

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music by Percy A. Scholes

$12.00 NZD

Category: Music | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference | Reading Level: good

Derived from the full Oxford Dictionary of Music and including over 10,000 entries on musical terms, works, composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras, this is the most authoritative dictionary of music available in paperback. Fully up-to-date and clearly written, it is a rich mine of in formation for lovers of music of all periods and styles. 14,000 entries on musical terms, works, composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras Comprehensive work-lists for major composers Generous coverage of living composers and perfomers Important ballets and operas Musical instruments and their history ...Show more

Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis

$10.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: good

As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge. So much has been written about him, but until now, we've only had Kiedis's songs as clues to his experience from the inside. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis proves himself to be as compelling a memoiri st as he is a lyricist, giving us a searingly honest account of the life from which his music has evolved. Now in Scar Tissue, Anthony Kiedis defies the rock star clichs. In his telling, we can see everything he has done has been part of a passionate journey. Kiedis is a man "in love with everything" -- the darkness, the death, the disease. Even his descent into drug addition was a part of that journey, another element that he has transformed into art. ...Show more

Rape of Europa by Nicholas Lynn

$14.00 NZD

Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: good

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award   The real story behind the major motion picture The Monuments Men. The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it.   From the Nazi purges of "Degenerate Art" and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilous journey of the Mona Lisa from Paris and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated Italy, The Rape of Europa is a sweeping narrative of greed, philistinism, and heroism that combines superlative scholarship with a compelling drama. ...Show more

1000 Tattoos - The Most Creative New Designs from the World's Leading and up-And-Coming Tattoo Artists by Frédéric Claquin; Chris Coppola

$15.00 NZD

Category: Art | Reading Level: very good

The world's best, most innovative, creative tattoo art.   New works from over forty of the most ground breaking and up-and-coming tattoo designers are featured in this highly curated collection. Aimed at profiling the next generation of skin art, the selected artists are at the forefront of where tattoo art is going and display a wide degree of diversity in terms of geographic origin, culture, race, and gender.Among the artists and designers included are are Scott Campbell, Sasha Unisex, Tea Leigh, Johnny Gloom, Tati Compton (a.k.a. Tati Fox), Georgia Grey, Lauren Winzer, Peter Aurisch, Jon Boy, Susanne K nig, Dr. Woo, Super Timor, and many others. Most of the tattoo artists included count of tens of millions of followers on social media straddling the spectrum of tattoo fans.Tattoos are a mark of personal creativity and individuality, and Claquin strikes a careful balance between artistic vision, creative process, and the practical demands of needle and ink. Given the wide range and sheer number of illustrations, this is a must have for anyone wanting to stay on top of the latest trends in tattoo design. ...Show more

Talking Music by Sarah Shieff

$20.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: very good

These interviews with New Zealand composers provide a picture of the contemporary music scene.

Point and Line to Plane by Wassily Kandinsky; Hilla Rebay (Preface by)

$10.00 NZD

Category: History & Theory | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good

"I had the impression that here painting itself comes to the foreground; I wondered if it would not be possible to go further in this direction." Thus did the young Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) react to his first viewing of Monet's Haystack, included in an 1895 Moscow exhibit of French Impressionists. It was his first perception of the dematerialization of an object and presaged the later development of his influential theories of non-objective art. During study and travel in Europe, the young artist breathed the heady atmosphere of artistic experimentation. Fauvism, Cubism, Symbolism, and other movements played an important role in the development of his own revolutionary approach to painting. Decrying literal representation, Kandinsky emphasized instead the importance of form, color, rhythm, and the artist's inner need in expressing reality. In Point and Line to Plane, one of the most influential books in 20th-century art, Kandinsky presents a detailed exposition of the inner dynamics of non-objective painting. Relying on his own unique terminology, he develops the idea of point as the "proto-element" of painting, the role of point in nature, music, and other art, and the combination of point and line that results in a unique visual language. He then turns to an absorbing discussion of line -- the influence of force on line, lyric and dramatic qualities, and the translation of various phenomena into forms of linear expression. With profound artistic insight, Kandinsky points out the organic relationship of the elements of painting, touching on the role of texture, the element of time, and the relationship of all these elements to the basic material plane called upon to receive the content of a work of art. Originally published in 1926, this essay represents the mature flowering of ideas first expressed in Kandinsky's earlier seminal book, Concerning the Spiritual in Art. As an influential member of the Bauhaus school and a leading theoretician of abstract expressionism, Kandinsky helped formulate the modern artistic temperament. This book amply demonstrates the importance of his contribution and its profound effect on 20th-century art. ...Show more

Jane Austen's Sewing Box by Jennifer Forest

$15.00 NZD

Category: Craft | Reading Level: very good

Based on the novels of Jane Austen, this beautifully presented book is for craft enthusiasts and lovers of history and literature alike. A celebration of the Regency period, each of the 18 sewing, needlecraft, knitting, paper and decorative projects is accompanied by an extract from the relevant notes. ...Show more