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Euan Macleod: The Painter in the Painting by Gregory O'Brien
59.99 NZD
89.99 (33% off)
Category: Fine Art
Writer Gregory O'Brien looks at the works of artist Euan Macleod, and the many strands of Australasian art and history which have shaped them. He explores the ways Macleod has increasingly come to inhabit these tempestuous yet strangely luminous canvases.
John Drawbridge - Wide Open Interior by Gregory O'Brien
39.95 NZD
47.00 (15% off)
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: very good
The first major study of the leading New Zealand painter and printmaker who was best known for his murals in New Zealand Housein London, and the Beehive and the National Library in Wellington. John Drawbridge lived at Island Bay in Wellington from his return to New Zealand in 1963 until his death in 200 ...Show more
Lands & Deeds: Profiles of contemporary New Zealand painters by Gregory O'Brien
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Out of Print edition, published 1996. Second-hand copies may be available. The book focuses on the work of eighteen New Zealand painters all of whom have contributed to the rich pictorial tradition in New Zealand art, by means of interview-based profiles together with imags of their work.
Melvin Day: Artist by Gregory O'Brien
70.00 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: near fine
There were many Melvin Days, but the term Artist encompasses all of them. During a career spanning seven decades, he produced some of the most intellectually astute, yet often visceral, paintings in New Zealand art history. Born in Hamilton in 1923, Day was a radical but also a great believer in traditi ...Show more
My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems by Jenny Bornholdt (ed.); Gregory O'Brien (ed.)
29.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The poems in My Heart Goes Swimming attest to the enduring nature of love and reflect the many ways in which it is written about. This collection is a celebration of love, but also of life, language and place. From delicate narratives to ecstatic lyrics, from Katherine Mansfield to Dinah Hawken, from R. ...Show more
News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore by Gregory O'Brien
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
At once a travel book, an autobiographical novel and free-floating meditation on Europe and the Antipodes, News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore begins with its narrator suspended in the salty, tideless waters of the Mediterranean. Adrift on an ocean of art history, literature and music, of memories and a d ...Show more
Sport 30 Peter Black. Real Fiction by Gregory O'Brien (ed.)
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Colour of Distance: New Zealand Writers in France, French Writers in New Zealand by Jenny Bornholdt; Gregory O'Brien
34.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Since Katherine Mansfield wrote some of her greatest stories on the Riviera, France has occupied a place in the imagination of New Zealand writers and readers. This anthology includes memoirs, stories and poems written in France by some of New ZealandÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs gre ...Show more
Virginia King - Sculptor by Virginia King; Gregory O'Brien; Kendrah Morgan; Paul Judge; Geoff Park; Mark Amery
49.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: very good
Virginia King is a leading New Zealand sculptor whose passion for the land and for all aspects of natural order are reflected in her works. First published December 2005.
Whale Years by O'Brien Gregory
15.00 NZD
27.99 (46% off)
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
'Two poets on a headland, mid-survey / might pause suddenly and say / will this be your whale, or mine?' Between 2011 and 2014, poet and artist Gregory O'Brien found himself following the migratory routes of whales and seabirds across vast tracts of the South Pacific Ocean, resulting in work that O'Brie ...Show more