Muse: Uncovering the hidden figures behind art history's masterpieces by Ruth Millington
$37.00 NZD
Category: Art & Design
Uncovering the hidden figures behind art history's masterpieces. Meet the unexpected, overlooked and forgotten models of art history. Who was Picasso's 'Weeping Woman'? Why was Grace Jones covered in graffiti? How did Francis Bacon meet the burglar who became his muse? The perception of the muse is that ...Show more
Watercolor Wanderlust: The Ultimate Guide to Painting Beautiful Landscapes by Hannah M. Pickerill
$49.99 NZD
Category: Art & Design
Paint Your Way Around the World in 24 Beginner-Friendly Landscapes Indulge your wanderlust and create breathtaking watercolor landscapes with ease under Hannah Pickerill’s expert instruction. Learn all the techniques needed to capture your favorite landscapes on Earth (and beyond) with clear instruction ...Show more
Miller's 20th Century Design: The Definitive Illustrated Sourcebook by Judith Miller
$36.99 NZD
Category: Art & Design
20th Century Design is the perfect handbook for the new and established collector, now available in a smaller format. It explains who the key designers of the century were and features over one thousand design icons: furniture, glass, ceramics, metalware, textiles and more, with wonderful photography, h ...Show more
The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W.Turner by Eric Shanes
$39.99 NZD
$79.99 (50% off)
Category: Art & Design | Series: Temporis Series
J.M.W. Turner was arguably the greatest landscape and marine painter ever. His output was prodigious: some five hundred and fifty oil paintings, over two thousand highly detailed and finely finished watercolours, and almost twenty thousand sketches, studies and rough watercolours. He excelled in every b ...Show more
A Year Unfolding: A Printmaker's View by Angela Harding
$65.00 NZD
Category: Art & Design
<font size="+1">A beautifully illustrated guide to nature through the seasons by much-loved printmaker Angela Harding.</font><font size="+1">The cover of this stunning book has an exclusive triptych printed on the reverse - a perfect collector's item</font>This stunning work, the ...Show more
David Gentleman's Britain by David Gentleman
$89.99 NZD
Category: Travel
From the remote Stone Age mounds and standing stones of the Orkneys to the well-trodden turf at Land's End and from the fens of East Anglia to the wild mountains of Wales "David Gentleman's Britain" reveals the landscape and architecture of the British Isles. His techniques, watercolour and pen and wash ...Show more
Redouté. The Book of Flowers by H. Walter Lack
$140.00 NZD
Category: Art & Design
Floral MasterpiecesThe finest floral treasures of Pierre-Joseph Redout French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redout (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper engravings, with careful botanical descript ...Show more
Codices Illustres. The World's Most Beautiful Manuscripts by Ingo F. Walther
$79.99 NZD
Category: Art & Design
Famous Manuscripts. This is the fascinating world of medieval miniature painting and illumination. From The Book of Kells to Boccaccio's Decameron and from the Vienna Genesis to Dante's Divine Comedy - see the breathtaking originals of 167 of the greatest classics of all time. This lavishly produced boo ...Show more
Maori Art: History, Architecture, Landscape & Theory by Dr Rangihiroa Panoho
$89.99 NZD
Category: Art & Design | Reading Level: very good
Up until now books on Maori art have described the work as either traditional (carving, weaving, painting) or contemporary, work produced post-1950s. This book presents a unique focus on Maori art by exploring the connection between the traditional and contemporary, and the place of Maori art within an ...Show more
His Own Steam - The Work of Barry Brickell by David Craig; Gregory O’Brien
$19.99 NZD
$65.00 (69% off)
Category: Overstocks | Reading Level: very good
The work of potter, artist, craftsperson, railway enthusiast and iconoclast Barry Brickell. Potter extraordinaire, conservationist, railway enthusiast and iconoclast Barry Brickell is one of New Zealand’s most important ceramicists. His exuberant and elemental, warts-and-all pots and sculptures pulse wi ...Show more
Botticelli by Aemile Gebhart
$99.99 NZD
Category: Art & Design | Series: Temporiss
The Medici court painter Botticelli is one of the unequivocal artists of the Italian Renaissance alongside Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. Favoring feminine portraits, Botticelli stands apart through the finesse of his lines and the unbridled sensuality of his paintings. Between religious a ...Show more
Cliff Whiting: He Toi Nuku He Toi Rangi by Ian Christensen
$75.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
An artist has an obligation to the art of his or her people. It's the people's art. It doesn't belong to you. It must identify Maori to Maori if it is going to remain relevant about our tribal beliefs, values and mana in today's and tomorrow's world." Throughout a career spanning more than 50 years, thi ...Show more