Ochre And Rust - Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers by Philip Jones

$30.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: near fine

Takes Aboriginal and colonial artefacts from their museum shelves, and traces their stories, revealing charge and nuanced moments of encounter in Australia's frontier history. Special Price A$24.00 valid 01/09/08-13/10/08 ALIA Conference 08

The Koto - A Traditional Instrument in Contemporary Japan by Henry Johnson

$95.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

Keith Tyson - Studio Wall Drawings 1997-2007 by Simon Grant; Keith Tyson; Beatrix Ruf; Haunch of Venison (Gallery) Staff (Contribution by)

$150.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

Keith Tyson (b 1969, England) has an interest in the way the world works, our place in it as individual human beings and the interconnectedness of every aspect of the universe. He works in almost all mediums, and his artworks have taken the form of performance pieces to multifaceted sculptural installat ions. His practice often begins with Studio Wall Drawings, however, which can be sketches of thought processes, workings for larger pieces or beautifully crafted renderings which capture the date and time when a certain idea formed on paper. Haunch of Venison is delighted to present a ten year survey exhibition of Tyson's Studio Wall Drawings; an ongoing series of complex works on paper which record the artist's thought process and working practice. ...Show more

John Flaxman - The Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy by John Flaxman; Francesca Salvadori (ed.)

$80.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: near fine

Dante's Divine Comedy, one of the masterworks of European literature, has inspired artists from Botticelli to William Blake, and from Gustave Dore to Robert Rauschenberg and Tom Phillips. The great English Neoclassical sculptor, John Flaxman, is no exception. Flaxman's drawings for the Divine Comedy are published for the first time in this handsome volume. Famous for his designs for Wedgwood, Flaxman illustrated all 99 cantos of Dante's poem. The book includes the complete series of drawings, together with the preparatory studies accompanied by rhymes composed by Flaxman himself. A critical commentary on each drawing completes this magnificent book, an important addition to Dante studies and Flaxman scholarship. ...Show more

The Kelmscott Chaucer - The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer; Edward Burne-Jones (illustrator); William Morris (designer); William Peterson (afterword)

$600.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: near fine

Winemakers of New Zealand by Dick Scott

$55.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

Maori - A Photographic and Social History by Michael King

$85.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

Renowned historian Michael King (1945-2004) presents a comprehensive and searching documentary of Maori culture and society, and Maori-Pakeha contact, conflict and co-operation. From the earliest daguerreotype around 1852 to the strong protest images of the 1990s, King records and analyses changes and u pheaval in the commentary that is always intelligent and objective. This book leaves the reader with not only a better understanding of the past but a challenge for the future. ...Show more

William Blake's Designs for Edward Young's Night Thoughts. A Complete Edition by John E. Grant, Edward J. Rose and Michael J. Tolley (eds)

$300.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

William Blake's largest pictorial work. the book comprises a page-by-page illustration of all nine Nights of the famous Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality by Edward Young (1683-1765).

Frances Hodgkins - Paintings and Drawings by Elizabeth Eastmond

$45.00 NZD

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A beautifully produced book of 40 colour and numerous b/w reproductions of Hodgkins' work from public and private collections all over the world. (Internationally, Hodgkins is still the best-known New Zealand artist.) Colour reproductions have detailed full page captions. The book is prefaced by three l ong essays on each of the main periods of the artist's work, comprising the first major study of her since McCormick's 'Portrait of Frances Hodgkins' 1981. The three authors are university art history teachers. The book includes chronology, list of exhibitions, bibliography and name index and was published with help from the QEII Arts Council. ...Show more

Letters to the Poet from His Brother by Maceo Montoya

$120.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

Miró - Paintings IV 1959-1968 by Jacques Dupin (Editor); Joan Punyet Miró (Editor); Ariane Lelong-Mainaud (Editor)

$250.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: near fine

Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Mir (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Mir created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with the earthly and mundane. The research for this six-volume ca talogue raisonn of Mir 's paintings, spanning the years 1908 to 1981, was begun in 1957. The artist himself and later the Mir Estate were largely involved in its preparation--Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud and Joan Punyet Mir . The catalogue includes all the artist's oils, acrylics and works in various media--on canvas, cardboard, wood, masonite, copper and other hard supports. In the six volumes--all published only in English--all paintings are reproduced in color, whenever possible, accompanied by their title, date, technique and dimensions, with indication of signature and inscriptions on the back, as well as their collection, provenance, important exhibitions and major publications in which they are reproduced. ...Show more

Philip of Spain by Henry Kamen

$20.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

Philip II of Spain--ruler of the most extensive empire the world had ever known--has been viewed in a harsh and negative light since his death in 1598. Identified with repression, bigotry, and fanaticism by his enemies, he has been judged more by the political events of his reign than by his person. Thi s book, published four hundred years after Philip's death, is the first full-scale biography of the king. Placing him within the social, cultural, religious, and regional context of his times, it presents a startling new picture of his character and reign. Drawing on Philip's unpublished correspondence and on many other archival sources, Henry Kamen reveals much about Philip the youth, the man, the husband, the father, the frequently troubled Christian, and the king. Kamen finds that Philip was a cosmopolitan prince whose extensive experience of northern Europe broadened his cultural imagination and tastes, whose staunchly conservative ideas were far from being illiberal and fanatical, whose religious attitudes led him to accept a practical coexistence with Protestants and Jews, and whose support for Las Casas and other defenders of the Indians in America helped determine government policy. Shedding completely new light on most aspects of Philip's private life and, in consequence, on his public actions, the book is the definitive portrayal of Philip II. ...Show more