Freud At Work by Sebastian Smee
82.00 NZD
Category: Coffee Table Books | Reading Level: very good
Lucian Freud is not only the most celebrated artist working in England, but one of the most private. He has frequently stated his reluctance to be photographed and he has almost never agreed to be interviewed.Following the publication of the last ten years of his work by Jonathan Cape in the autumn of 2 ...Show more
Life
99.99 NZD
110.00 (9% off)
Category: Coffee Table Books
Lennart Nilsson is the world's leading scientific photographer. His background was that of a photojournalist. His great emphasis is on the sense of a story. His work is also that of an artist, which makes him unique. This story, illustrated in Life, is the ultimate story - a visual account of human deve ...Show more
Don McCullin in Africa by Don McCullin
110.00 NZD
134.95 (18% off)
Category: Coffee Table Books | Reading Level: good
'No one has surpassed - in breadth, in directness, in intimacy, in unforgettability - the gut-wrenching work produced by Don McCullin.' Susan Sontag Don McCullin's reputation stands as one of the greatest war photographers of our times. In recent years he has photographed the landscape surrounding ...Show more
Planet Earth by The German Space Centre
99.95 NZD
Category: Coffee Table Books
This collection of satellite imagery, gathered by the German Space Centre in collaboration with space centres from Mexico to India and with its partners at NASA, has been processed through computers and can reveal more than is normally visable such as geological strata and the eye of a hurricane.
Full Moon by Michael Light
17.95 NZD
45.00 (60% off)
Category: Coffee Table Books | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1999 on the 30th anniversary of the first landing on the moon, this heavily illustrated volume depicts a composite journey to the moon and back to Earth using the original photographs that were taken at the time. This small-format version preserves the quality of the original.
India by McCullin, Don
89.95 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: very good
Don McCullin first discovered India with Eric Newby in 1966 and he has been back there again and again in the thirty years since. To him, the subcontinent that is now home to almost a billion people is also the most visually exciting place in the world. Martin Amis has described McCullin as 'a ghostly f ...Show more
The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure & Human Evolution by Denis Dutton
59.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art
The Dinka have a connoisseur's appreciation of the patterns and colours of the markings on their cattle. The Japanese tea ceremony is regarded as a performance art. Some cultures produce carving but no drawing; others specialize in poetry. Yet despite the rich variety of artistic expression to be found ...Show more
The Lives of the Artists
24.99 NZD
27.99 (10% off)
Category: Fine Art | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the pe ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to Western Art by Hugh Brigstocke
70.00 NZD
195.00 (64% off)
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: very good
Focusing on Western art, this work concentrates on painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts, leaving architecture to be covered separately. It includes artists and their works, and also pays attention to topics of interest focused on patronage, taste, theory and criticism. There are over 2600 entries, ...Show more
The New Encyclopedia of Mammals by David W. Macdonald
175.00 NZD
Category: Coffee Table Books
The last decades of the 20th century saw a flowering of knowledge about the behaviour, ecology, and evolution of mammals. This volume should be authoritative enough be used as a serious reference work by professionals, while retaining an accessibility for the general reader
American Photography by Miles Orvell
49.95 NZD
Category: Photography | Series: Oxford History of Art S.
This lively new survey offers fresh insights into 150 years of American photography, placing it in its cultural context for the first time. Orvell examinines this fascinating subject through portraiture and landscape photography, eamily albums and memory, and analyses the particularly 'American' way in ...Show more