Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
$65.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, fema ...Show more
Byways - Photographs by Roger A Deakins by Roger Deakins
$100.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
This is the first monograph by the legendary Oscar-winning cinematographer Sir Roger Deakins, best known for his collaborations with directors such as the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes and Denis Villeneuve. It includes previously unpublished black-and-white photographs spanning five decades, from 1971 to th ...Show more
To Be Determined: Photography and the Future by Duncan Wooldridge
$33.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
To Be Determined: Photography and the Future is a book with a radical proposal: the photograph is as much an object of the future as it is of the past. Exploring a familiar medium with new eyes, the book proposes that photographs’ technologies, processes, experiences and products, are in fact geared tow ...Show more
Art is Magic by Jeremy Deller
$55.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
'His work is hilarious and touching' - David Byrne'Making good political art is almost impossible. Deller makes it fun. What sets him apart is his utopian optimism and belief in people.' - Jonathan Jones, The GuardianArt is Magic is artist Jeremy Deller's attempt to tie up the key works of his career al ...Show more
Artists at Home - Inside the Creative Spaces of 32 Female Artists in Australia by Karina Dias Pires
$65.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
Painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, photography, installation, printmaking, film ... no matter what the medium, these formidable artists are united by their strength, passion and honesty. This richly layered compilation invites the reader into the creative spaces of 32 female artists, offering an in ...Show more
Double Vision: Art Histories and Colonial Histories in the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas (Editor); Diane Losche (Editor)
$100.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
Taking as its departure point Bernard Smith's classic study, European Vision and the South Pacific (1960), Double Vision explores the ambivalences of European perceptions of the Pacific and juxtaposes them with the indigenous visual cultures that challenge Western assumptions about art and representatio ...Show more
Inner Landscapes: 15 New Zealand Artists with Canterbury Connections by Sally Blundell
$20.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
In this book, speaking eloquently for themselves, are more than 60 images of work by 15 top New Zealand artists with links to the Canterbury University School of Fine Arts. They include painters, sculptors, a printmaker and digital artists. Most of these images have not been previously published. The ar ...Show more
An Alternative History of Photography by PHILLIP PRODGER
$95.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
As inclusive, dynamic and exciting as the medium itself, this utterly original look at the history of photography integrates the landmark discoveries of recent decades to chart new pathways that encompass overlooked artists, traditions, and techniques. The real history of photography is a vast collectio ...Show more
Earth & Fire: Modern potters, their tools, techniques and practice by Kylie Johnson, Tiffany Johnson
$80.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
From clay to kiln and all the techniques between, this is an introduction to the craft and techniques of working with ceramics by ceramicists. This book profiles established ceramicists who are making waves in the art world, to midcareer potters who work diligently at their craft daily and make a livin ...Show more
Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun by Jennifer L. Shaw
$50.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
Offering some of Cahun's writings never before translated into English alongside a wide array of her artworks and those of her contemporaries, this book is a must-have for any fan of this iconic artist, now in paperback. In the turmoil of the 1920s and '30s, Claude Cahun challenged gender stereotypes w ...Show more
Chromorama: How Colour Changed Our Way of Seeing by Riccardo Falcinelli
$55.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
The Italian colour bible- a gorgeously illustrated exploration of colour and the modern gaze, from an award-winning designerHave you ever wondered why so many pencils are yellow? Why black is the colour of mourning? Or why carrots are orange?In Chromorama, acclaimed graphic designer Riccardo Falcinelli ...Show more
Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now by Doryun Chong (Editor); Mika Yoshitake (Editor)
$100.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
A major career survey of Yayoi Kusama, one of the most widely admired and popular artists of our time, published in collaboration with M+, Hong Kong, to accompany M+'s first Special Exhibition, Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now, from 12 November 2022 to 14 May 2023. Yayoi Kusama is that rare thing: an artist wh ...Show more