Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: near fine
Galleries of Maoriland introduces us to the many ways in which European colonists to New Zealand (called Pakeha by the indigenous Maori) discovered, created, propagated and romanticised the Maori world at the turn of the century summed up in a popular nickname describing New Zealand; Maoriland. It could ...Show more
Category: Fine Art | Series: Cult Figures Ser.
Cult Artists handpicks 50 notable figures from the modern world of art and explores the creative genius that earned them the cult label, while celebrating the works that made their names.What makes a cult artist? Whether pioneering in their craft, fiercely and undeniably unique, or critic ...Show more
Category: Fine Art
Artist Jason Mecier creates insanely detailed portraits of celebrities using trash, candy, and other items, crafting sculptural celebrations as beautiful as they are outrageous. Here is Amy Sedaris assembled from her own trash, David Bowie made out of cosmetics and feathers, Snoop Dogg sculpted out of w ...Show more
Category: Fine Art
One of the most talented artists of hers or any other generation, Tiffany Bozic combines a deep love of nature and the diversity of life with a self-taught technical prowess that is unmatched. While she paints almost exclusively on wood, building up thin washes of paint layer by layer, her work almost a ...Show more
Category: Fine Art
Now in his mid-career, the acclaimed artist-photographer Hassan Hajjaj jas had many lives that inform the work he creates today. This timely publication explores how his upbringing in Morroco and London, his experiences in fashion and interior design and his adventures in the music industry influence th ...Show more
Category: Fine Art | Series: Photography Library Ser.
A first hand account of '60s and '70s counterculture seen through the eyes of pioneering photographer Charles Gatewood and legendary scribe William S. Burroughs. Chronicling the grotesque, surreal, and liberated American underground, Gatewood and Burroughs created a lasting, disturbing, and engaging por ...Show more
Category: Fine Art | Series: Colin Mccahon Ser.
The second of an extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by our most important artist, Colin McCahon. Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand’s greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of wor ...Show more
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: near fine
A Year spent travelling as a young architect tuaght Pete Bossley how to 'read' a building and instilled in him a life-long love of drawing. In One Year Drawn he shares this voyage of discovery - and the places and people he encounters along the way. Now one of New Zealand's most respected architects, Pe ...Show more
Category: Fine Art
'My painting tells you where I am at any given time, where I am living and the direction I am pointing in.' Colin McCahon McCahon (1919-1987) is widely recognised as an outstanding figure in twentieth century art whose ground-breaking work over four decades changed the way we see this country, while eng ...Show more
Category: Fine Art
An exquisite, full colour country almanac by artist Catherine Hyde, following the phases of the moon and a hare's journey throughout the twelve months of the year in a lyrical tribute to the natural world. Waking from the winter solstice a hare begins her journey. Through the landscape and its changing ...Show more
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: very good
100 years after the birth of New Zealands leading artist, Peter Simpson has produced the first major book on McCahon in years.
Category: Fine Art
We Are Artists celebrates the life and work of 15 female artists from around the globe and the distinctive mark they made on the art world and beyond. Presented as a collection of engaging biographical narratives, We Are Artists reveals how each artist's unique approach and perspective provided the art ...Show more
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