Frida Kahlo. 40th Ed. by Luis-Martín Lozano
$55.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
Among the women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty extraordinary self-portraits, has been admired by generations; along with hundreds of photographs taken by notable artists ...Show more
Radical Women - Jessica Dismorr and Her Contemporaries by Alicia Foster
$105.00 NZD
Category: Art & design | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Radical Women tells an original story of British modernism from the perspective of Jessica Dismorr's career, along with the women artists--some famous, some lesser known--she worked and exhibited with. The work of Jessica Dismorr (1885-1939) has been described as encapsulating 'the stylistic development ...Show more
The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars by Frances Spalding
$80.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
The twenty-first century has seen a surge of interest in English art from the interwar years, and the value of work by artists such as Stanley Spencer and Eric Ravilious has soared in value. New critical attention focuses on other artists, often women, who were previously overlooked, such as Winifred Kn ...Show more
Toshio Shibata: Japan by PHILLIP PRODGER
$135.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
Spanning the career of one of Japan's most revered photographers, this monograph-- the only English-language volume of its kind--features exquisitely detailed full- page images that capture the relationship between human-made structures and the natural world. Toshio Shibata's large-format contemporary l ...Show more
The Graphic Design Bible by Theo Inglis
$65.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
Discover the history and theory of graphic design from the past 150 years, and how that comes to bear on contemporary design. Designer, writer and lecturer Theo Inglis takes readers through the core building blocks of graphic design such as composition, colour, medium and typography, and explores how ea ...Show more
Ceramics: An Atlas of Forms by Glenn Barkley
$90.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
What can we learn about the Roman empire from an amphora made in 200 BC? How can a simple, unadorned cup made in 1945 tell us so much about history? And what will an artwork comprising a vast collection of clay spheres tell our descendants about the act of making? Once fired, clay has the strength to ...Show more
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
Gretchen Albrecht - Between Gesture and Geometry (rev. ed.) by Luke Smythe
$85.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
Gretchen Albrecht CNZM is one of New Zealand's most influential painters. Overthe course of her long career, her work has continued to surprise and delight,and her paintings feature in many important collections both in New Zealand andoverseas. This comprehensive survey of her much-admired work reveals ...Show more
The Art of Fantasy - A Visual Sourcebook of All That Is Unreal by S. Elizabeth
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art & design | Series: Art in the Margins Ser.
This beautiful, fully illustrated book presents a compendium of artworks throughout history which have been inspired by myth, fantasy and the unreal. Artists have explored imaginary worlds and fantastical creatures for centuries, expressing the unreal and impossible, the mystical and mythical, via the ...Show more
The Art of Darkness: A Treasury of the Morbid, Melancholic and Macabre by S. Elizabeth
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art & design | Series: Art in the Margins Ser.
The Art of Darkness is a visually rich sourcebook featuring eclectic artworks from throughout history which have been inspired and informed by the morbid, melancholic and macabre. Throughout history, artists have been obsessed with darkness - creating works that haunt and horrify, mesmerise and delight ...Show more
Jan Van Der Ploeg: Selected Works 2009-2016 by Jan Van Der Ploeg
$65.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
Zero Waste Patterns: 20 Projects to Sew Your Own Wardrobe by Birgitta Helmersson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
Zero waste pattern cutting is a bit like a puzzle. You use a pre-determined length of fabric end to end by strategically planning your pattern pieces so that everything is used and then draw them onto the fabric. By using this unique "paperless" method you can eliminate both textile and paper waste from ...Show more