Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists by Leonard Bell
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
For fifty years, Marti Friedlander (1928-2016) was one of New Zealand's most important photographers, her work singled out for praise and recognition here and around the world. Friedlander's powerful pictures chronicled the country's social and cultural life from the 1960s into the twenty-first century. ...Show more
Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toioho ki Apiti by Cassandra Barnett, Kura Te Waru-Rewiri
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
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
Ngā Kaihanga Uku: Māori Clay Artists by Baye Riddell
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art
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.
250 Years Of New Zealand Painting by Gill Docking; Michael Dunn; Edward Hanfling
$99.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: near fine
This landmark book on New Zealand artists and their work was first written by Gil Docking, published in 1971, extended to 1990 by art historian Michael Dunn, and again to 2020 by art historian, writer and lecturer Edward Hanfling. New design, with additional text by Edward Hanfling, including an introd ...Show more
Maori Moving Image by Melanie Oliver and Bridget Reweti (editors)
$34.90 NZD
Category: Maori
A beautifully designed new book that champions recent film, animation and video art made by Maori artists. Whether it be 16mm film, hand-drawn animation, 4K video or footage recorded on a phone, moving image artworks create a unique space for Maori artists to connect the forms, patterns and concepts of ...Show more
Heritage Paintings Tauponui a tia New Zealand by Raymond Val
$69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art
Val Raymond was best known during the 1960s, 70s and 80s for her portraiture and Central North Island lanscapes. Inventing new watercolour techniques led to her artistic trsnaformation during the 1990s - painting exquisite "abstract expessions"that combine unusually different aspects of New Zealand heri ...Show more
Me, According to the History of Art by Dick Frizzell
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
Throughout his long career, New Zealand painter Dick Frizzell has often gone way out on a limb to see where it would take him. From his early Pop art influenced approach to his experiments with landscape and the contested area of appropriation, he's always been brave. Now, he takes on the history of art ...Show more
New Zealand on Canvas by Denis Robinson
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art
New Zealand’s remarkable scenery is presented through the work of 30 of the country’s leading contemporary painters working in oils and acrylics. There are beach, bush and mountain scenes, urban city streets and buildings set in the countryside. The artworks reveal the distinct and diverse styles of N ...Show more
New Zealand: A Painted Country by Denis Robinson
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art
The intertwined themes of natural beauty and artistic representation of that beauty led Robinson to invite more than thirty New Zealand artists of this generation to contribute works inspired by their chosen region along with a short written piece expressing their thoughts on the region. In Robinson¿s w ...Show more
New Zealand A Painted Journey by Graham Young
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
Journey through the painted landscape of New Zealand seen through the eyes of artist Graham Young as he endeavors to capture the character and motifs of the various regions with his colourful paintings coupled with his own thoughts of his travels. These paintings represent snapshots of the laid back kiw ...Show more
Jock's Country by David Henshaw
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art
A long-time resident of Tamahere in Waikato, David communicated with farmers for more than 40 years through his cartoons - his main character, Jock, is recognised as a national identity. His cartoons appeared in the New Zealand Farmer for 34 years and on the Jock calendar for the past 17 years. The cart ...Show more
Wanted - The Search for the Modernist Murals of E. Mervyn Taylor by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith (ed.)
$79.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
Mervyn Taylor - wood engraver, painter, illustrator, sculptor and designer - was one of the most celebrated New Zealand artists of the 1930s to 1960s. He was highly connected to modernism and nationalism as it was expressed in New Zealand art and literature of the period. In the 1960s he created twelve ...Show more