The Madman's Gallery: The Strangest Paintings, Sculptures and Other Curiosities From the History of Art by Edward Brooke-Hitching
55.00 NZD
Category: Art History
Enter The Madman's Gallery - the perfect gift book for any art lover. Discover an eccentric exploration through the curious history of art, to find the strangest paintings, sculptures, drawings and other artistic oddities ever made.From the author of the bestseller The Madman's Library (SundayTimes Lite ...Show more
The Collection - Te Kohinga by Julia Waite
45.00 NZD
Category: Art History
Travel back through history and across place - one artwork at a time Since opening in 1888, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki has become home to one of the largest public art collections in Aotearoa New Zealand. This collection handbook illustrates more than 220 important and beloved New Zealand and int ...Show more
Lost Masterpieces by DK
35.00 NZD
Category: Art History
A compelling illustrated account of history's most important lost works of artDiscover the extraordinary stories behind the world's missing works of art.New, small-format impulse-buy books make the perfect self-purchase or gift. Travel back in time to discover works of art that have vanished from the re ...Show more
The Story of Art without Men by Katy Hessel
65.00 NZD
Category: Art History
The story of art for our times - one with women at its heart, brought together for the first time by the creator of @thegreatwomenartists How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Discover the ...Show more
The Mirror and the Palette - Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits by Jennifer Higgie
29.99 NZD
Category: Art History | Reading Level: very good
Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws ...Show more
The Art of Darkness: A Treasury of the Morbid, Melancholic and Macabre by S. Elizabeth
45.00 NZD
Category: Art History | Series: Art in the Margins Ser.
The Art of Darkness is a visually rich sourcebook featuring eclectic artworks from throughout history which have been inspired and informed by the morbid, melancholic and macabre. Throughout history, artists have been obsessed with darkness - creating works that haunt and horrify, mesmerise and delight ...Show more
Cultural Treasures of the World: From the Relics of Ancient Empires to Modern-Day Icons by DK
70.00 NZD
Category: Art History
A stunning collection of the world's most celebrated and culturally significant objectsTake a guided tour through history and discover the most precious, iconic, and celebrated objects ever created.Revered, admired, and protected - every country and culture has certain artefacts that are prized above al ...Show more
Hundertwasser in New Zealand - The Art of Creating Paradise by Andreas J Hirsch
70.00 NZD
Category: Art History | Reading Level: near fine
'New Zealand is for me a kind of promised land.' Austrian-born artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser arrived in New Zealand in 1973, seeking refuge from a world out of kilter with nature. After travelling and exhibiting, he settled at Kaurinui, the land he bought and restored in the Bay of Islands. Wishing ...Show more
Muse: Uncovering the hidden figures behind art history's masterpieces by Ruth Millington
37.00 NZD
Category: Art History
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
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
27.99 NZD
Category: Art History
From Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an "expansive" global history that highlights "how textiles truly changed the world" (Wall Street Journal) The story of humanity is the story of textiles--as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, ...Show more
The National Trust Miscellany - The National Trust's Greatest Secrets and Surprises by Ian Allen
19.99 NZD
Category: Art History
Staggering statistics, strange facts and all kinds of surprising stuff from the National Trust. Haunted houses, baffling objects, bizarre buildings and wonderfully eccentric characters.Britain's National Trust looks after hundreds of historic houses and thousands of square miles of coast and countryside ...Show more
All of the Marvels: An Amazing Voyage into Marvel's Universe and 27,000 Superhero Comics by Douglas Wolk
45.00 NZD
Category: Art History
Marvel comics are the nearest thing modernity has produced to a holy epic, a blockbusting, record-shattering pop-cultural cosmology that echoes our deepest hopes and fears. NYT comics critic Douglas Wolk has read them all. This is what they add up to.