Birds: The Art of Ornithology by Jonathan Elphick
$40.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
Jonathan Elphick tells the remarkable story of the development of bird art through the centuries. The book features early, skilfully executed but often fanciful images of birds, scientific illustrations produced during the ages of exploration, and modern approaches capturing the essence of these freest ...Show more
Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toioho ki Apiti by Cassandra Barnett, Kura Te Waru-Rewiri
$70.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
This richly illustrated publication examines the last 25 years of the influential Toioho ki Apiti programme at Massey University, its global indigenous pedagogical reach, and its ongoing impacts on national and international contemporary art and cultural sectors. Toioho ki Apiti's transformative and kau ...Show more
Artists in Antarctica by Patrick Shepherd (editor)
$80.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
What transformation happens when writers, musicians and artists stand in the vast, cold spaces of Antarctica? This book brings together paintings, photographs, texts and musical scores by Aotearoa New Zealand artists who have been to the ice. It explores the impact of this experience on their art and ar ...Show more
Domain by Hipkins Gavin
$70.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
Early in his career, New Zealand artist Gavin Hipkins was described by fellow artist Giovanni Intra as a ‘tourist of photography’. This epithet has been used repeatedly by commentators on Hipkins’ work to describe two intertwined aspects of his practice. As art historian Peter Brunt puts it, Hipkins is ...Show more
Comic Sans - The Biography of a Typeface (the ABC of Fonts) by Simon Garfield
$40.00 NZD
Category: Art & design | Series: The\ABC of Fonts Ser.
Comic Sans is one of the most used and most reviled typefaces of the digital age. How was it made? How could it spawn a movement to ban it and yet still be so widely promoted by educators? What does its accidental creator make of its contentious and singular history?This quirky and unique book considers ...Show more
Baskerville - The Biography of a Typeface (the ABC of Fonts) by Simon Garfield
$40.00 NZD
Category: Art & design | Series: The\ABC of Fonts Ser.
The classic elegant English typeface, still widely used as a book text more than 250 years since its creation. Baskerville is a transitional design, poised between the first metal types and modern styles, notable for its combination of fat and thin strokes. When it was first used there was genuine conce ...Show more
Albertus - The Biography of a Typeface (the ABC of Fonts) by Simon Garfield
$40.00 NZD
Category: Art & design | Series: The\ABC of Fonts Ser.
One of the most beautiful handcrafted typefaces in the world, Albertus is also one of the most enduring. The face of thousands of book jackets, and the chosen look for David Bowie, Coldplay, Star Wars and London street signs, Albertus is as as warmly enticing on film posters as it is on memorial plaques ...Show more
Judy Chicago - Herstory by Massimiliano Gioni (Editor); Gary Carrion-Murayari (Editor); Margot Norton (Editor)
$110.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
The most comprehensive survey to date of the legendary feminist artist Judy ChicagoOne of the most important contemporary American artists, Judy Chicago is known for multimedia works that embrace an explicitly feminist methodology. Accompanying a major retrospective at the New Museum, this book showcase ...Show more
sis: Pacific Art 1980–2023 by Lana Lopesi
$60.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
sis: Pacific Art 1980-2023 honours and celebrates the work and stories of women artists from across the Pacific, as told through the QAGOMA Collection. At a time when many art museums are dedicated to redressing their under-representation of women artists, sis: Pacific Art 1980-2023 speaks to the decade ...Show more
Pacific Arts Aotearoa - The powerful and dynamic story of Pacific arts in Aotearoa, as told by the artists themselves by Lana Lopesi (editor)
$65.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
The powerful and dynamic legacy of Pacific arts in Aotearoa, as told by the artists themselves. This comprehensive account spans six decades of multidisciplinary Pacific creative genius, remembering the diverse, fresh and energetic contributions of Pacific artists to New Zealand, Oceania and the world. ...Show more
Ngā Kaihanga Uku: Māori Clay Artists by Baye Riddell
$70.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
This book is the first comprehensive overview of Māori claywork - its origins, its loss and its revival. Richly illustrated, it introduces readers to the practices of the five founders of Ngā Kaihanga Uku (the national clayworkers' collective) and surveys the work of the next generation.
Don Binney - Flight Path by Gregory O'Brien
$90.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
Painter, printmaker, teacher, writer and ornithologist Don Binney (1940 - 2012) was a mercurial presence on the New Zealand cultural scene from the time of his meteoric rise to fame in the early 1960s. His unmistakable, stylised depictions of birds have come to define an era in the development of the na ...Show more