Position Doubtful - Mapping landscapes and memories by Kim Mahood

$12.00 NZD

Category: Australia | Reading Level: good

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS FOR NON-FICTION Imagine the document you have before you is not a book but a map. It is well-used, creased, and folded, so that when you open it, no matter how carefully, something tears and a line that is neither latitude nor longitude opens in the hidden geography of the place you are about to enter. Since the publication of her prize-winning memoir, Craft for a Dry Lake, in 2000, writer and artist Kim Mahood has been returning to the Tanami desert country in far north-western Australia where, as a child, she lived with her family on a remote cattle station. The land is timeless, but much has changed: the station has been handed back to its traditional owners; the mining companies have arrived; and Aboriginal art has flourished. Comedy and tragedy, familiarity and uncertainty are Mahood's constant companions as she immerses herself in the life of a small community and in groundbreaking mapping projects. What emerges in Position Doubtful is a revelation of the significance of the land to its people -- and of the burden of history. Mahood is an artist of astonishing versatility. She works with words, with paint, with installations, and with performance art. Her writing about her own work and collaborations, and about the work of the desert artists, is profoundly enlightening, making palpable the link between artist and country. This is a beautiful and intense exploration of friendships, landscape, and homecoming. Written with great energy and humour, Position Doubtful offers a unique portrait of the complexities of black and white relations in contemporary Australia. PRAISE FOR KIM MAHOOD '[Mahood] is a talented writer whose mastery of the language is absolute. The combination of an artist's eye, a mapmaker's precision, and a wordsmith's playfulness makes for a work of captivating beauty ... a significant and timely work.' The Weekend Australian 'An extraordinary excavation of the relationship, past and present, between settlers and indigenous Australians, deeply grounded in this alluring tract of desert, but with relevance for us all.' The Monthly ...Show more

Lost Christchurch by John Wilson

$16.00 NZD

Category: Architecture | Reading Level: good

80 Years behind the Lens

$40.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine

Praga Caput Regni - Prague by Jaroslav Guth; Marta Guthova; Jaroslav Seifert

$20.00 NZD

Category: Photography | Reading Level: good-very good

Gustave Moreau by Jean Selz

$14.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: good-very good

Threadlines Pakistan by Feliccia Yacopino

$18.00 NZD

Category: Antiques | Reading Level: very good

Midwest Number Eight 1995 by John McCormack (ed.); Robert Leonard (ed.)

$8.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art Volume 22, Issue 1, 2022 by Anne Dunlop (ed.); Cordelia Warr (ed.)

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine

Architektur von Gerkan, Marg und Partner - Volume 1,1966-1978/Volume 2, 1978-1983/Voume 3, 1983+1988 by Meinhard von Gerkan

$25.00 NZD

Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good

One Hundred Miracles - A Memoir of Music and Survival by Zuzana Ruzicková; Wendy Holden

$18.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ružicková, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. Zuzana Ružicková grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian Bach and the piano. But her peaceful, melodic childhood was torn apart when, in 1939, the Nazis invaded. Uprooted from her home, transported from Auschwitz to Hamburg to Bergen-Belsen, bereaved, starved, and afflicted with crippling injuries to her musician's hands, the teenage Zuzana faced a series of devastating losses. Yet with every truck and train ride, a small slip of paper printed with her favourite piece of Bach's music became her talisman. Armed with this 'proof that beauty still existed', Zuzana's fierce bravery and passion ensured her survival of the greatest human atrocities of all time, and would continue to sustain her through the brutalities of post-war Communist rule. Harnessing her talent and dedication, and fortified by the love of her husband, the Czech composer Viktor Kalabis, Zuzana went on to become one of the twentieth century's most renowned musicians and the first harpsichordist to record the entirety of Bach's keyboard works. Zuzana's story, told here in her own words before her death in 2017, is a profound and powerful testimony of the horrors of the Holocaust, and a testament in itself to the importance of amplifying the voices of its survivors today. It is also a joyful celebration of art and resistance that defined the life of the 'first lady of the harpsichord'– a woman who spent her life being ceaselessly reborn through her music. Like the music of her beloved Bach, Zuzana's life is the story of the tragic transmuted through art into the state of the sublime. ...Show more

A Book of Scripts by Alfred Fairbank

$8.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: good

J S Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D by J S Bach; Gordon Jacob (ed.)

$10.00 NZD

Category: Music | Series: Penguin Scores 29 | Reading Level: good-very good