Urgent Moments - Art and Social Change: the Letting Space Projects 2010-2020 by Mark Amery (Editor); Amber Clausner (Editor); Sophie Jerram (Editor)
$65.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
The story of a remarkable art activation. After first occupying vacant spaces in post-stock-market-crash Auckland in the mid-1990s, public art curators Letting Space re-emerged in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. Confronted by the thin net of social welfare, the waste of the capitalist syst ...Show more
Gordon Walters by Francis Pound; Leonard Bell (Foreword by)
$90.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
The first substantial monograph on the art of one of this country's most influential artists, Gordon Walters. In this remarkable study by the late Francis Pound, author of the landmark Invention of New Zealand, we are introduced to the making of a New Zealand modernist - tracing the work of Gordon Walte ...Show more
The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
$60.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
'Anyone looking for the most readable survey of the history of art from the [sic] cave paintings to the 20th century should buy the new, beautifully produced pocket edition of The Story of Art, still one of the great classics of art criticism.' - Independent A cornerstone of art history - in a compact ...Show more
The Story of Art without Men by Katy Hessel
$65.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
The story of art for our times - one with women at its heart, brought together for the first time by the creator of @thegreatwomenartists How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Discover the ...Show more
Nagology: An Exercise in Mattering by Various
$35.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
5ever books were invited by NAG (Marcus McShane) to do a 7-hour micro-residency during The Performance Arcade 2021. The residency became a collaborative pop-up book factory: as long as the public circled in, energy inevitably transformed matter towards a book object state. Contributions took man ...Show more
Drawing on the Dominant Eye: Decoding the Way We Perceive, Create and Learn by Betty Edwards
$37.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
The world's best-known art teacher uses drawing to open your eyes to new perceptions and creativity.
Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara
$90.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
Interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara's work interrogates and dismantles gender roles, (mis)representation, and colonial legacies in the Pacific. Kihara is the first Pasifika and first Fa'afafine artist to be presented by New Zealand at the prestigious 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di V ...Show more
The Mirror Steamed Over - Love and Pop in London 1962 by Anthony Byrt
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
In the early sixties at the Royal College of Art in London, three extraordinary personalities collided to reshape contemporary art and literature. Barrie Bates (who would become Billy Apple in November 1962) was an ambitious young graphic designer from New Zealand, who transformed himself into one of po ...Show more
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
$35.00 NZD
Category: Art & design | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"This is an essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. The text ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of plea ...Show more
Queer Art - From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between by Gemma Rolls-Bentley
$60.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
Celebrate the LGBTQ+ community with this vivid and dynamic collection of artworks that charts queer voices from around the world. The twentieth century saw key shifts for the LGBTQ+ community across the western world: from the Stonewall uprising to the first pride parades and homosexuality law reforms. ...Show more
Living the Artist's Way: An Intuitive Path to Creativity by Julia Cameron
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
The essential Artist's Way programme on guiding ourselves back to creativity 'Without The Artist's Way, there would be no Eat, Pray, Love' - ELIZABETH GILBERT WATKINS TOP 100 MOST SPIRITUALLY INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2023 How can we tap into the wisdom inside ourselves? LIVING THE ARTIST'S WAY is a Six-Wee ...Show more
Ans Westra: A Life in Photography by Paul Moon
$50.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
The photographer Ans Westra, who died in 2023, took hundreds of thousands of images over her long career. Together, those images constitute what is arguably a photo album of Aotearoa. Her dedication and determination sometimes came at a cost but she was focused and driven, overcoming a difficult childho ...Show more