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a tourist in paradise lost - The Art of Michael Illingworth by Kevin Ireland, Aaron Lister and Damian Skinner
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Peter Stitchbury: The Alumni by Emma Bugden
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
Peter Stitchbury's paintings engage in pointed dialogue with the world of popular culture. Drawing directly from the commercial imagery of advertising and celebrity he delivers exaggerated renditions which question our attachment to such images. In the Alumni his painted characters represent the extrem ...Show more
The Third Mind - American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989 by Alexandra Munroe (Editor, Text by); Bert Winther-Tamaki (Text by); Kristine Stiles (Text by); D. Scott Atkinson (Text by); Vivien Greene (Text by); Harry Harootunian (Text by); Richard King (Text by); Ikuyo Nakagawa (Text by); David Patterson (Text by); J. Thomas Rimer (Text by); Kathleen Pyne (Text by)
$85.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989 illuminates the dynamic and complex impact of Asian art, literary texts and philosophical concepts on American artistic practices from the late nineteenth century through the present. Released to accompany a major survey at the Solomon R. Gugg ...Show more
Isamu Noguchi - Essays and Conversations by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona (Editor); Bruce Altshuler (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: near fine
Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) is renowned for his monumental abstract sculptures and for his parks, gardens, plazas, fountains, theatrical designs and whimsical light fixtures. This collection of his writings and interviews with him, reveal his ideas and his relationship with Japanese culture.
Taboo - The Art of Tiki by Martin Mcintosh (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Maori & Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Len Lye - A Personal Mythology: Paintings, Steel-Motion Compositions, Films by Andrew Bogle; Gerhard Brauer; Roger Horrocks
$60.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Vitamin Green
$35.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
Vitamin Green provides an up-to-the-minute look at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability. This new attention to the life of the things we make is changing the way design is practiced on every level and will be at the center of discussions about architecture, landscape ar ...Show more
Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art by James Hall, Kenneth Clark (intro.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: good
This dictionary relates in a succinct, readable way the themes, sacred and secular, on which the repertoire of European art is based. Cross-references enable the reader to identify the subject of a picture simply from some characteristic object or figure in it. Here in a single volume are combined relig ...Show more
The Dreamer: An Autobiography by Cliff Richard
$16.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
Published to coincide with his 80th birthday, a tour and another new album, national treasure Sir Cliff Richard has emerged stronger than ever after devastating false accusations threatened to ruin his life. As he celebrates 60 years in music, he tells his incredible story in his first, full autobiograp ...Show more
(Un)fashion by Tibor + Maira Kalman
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fashion | Reading Level: very good
A fascinating collection of photographs illustrating dress and fashion around the world, including sections on optics, masks, work, play, footwear and headgear.
Smiling in Slow Motion - Journals, 1991-1994 by Derek Jarman
$16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: good
Derek Jarman'sSmiling in Slow Motionconcludes the journey started inModern Nature; these previously unpublished journals stretch from May 1991 until two weeks before his death in February 1994. Part diary, part observation, part memoir, Jarman writes with his familiar honesty, wry humour and acuity. Fri ...Show more