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Answering Hark - McCahon/Caselberg Painter/Poet by Peter Simpson
39.95 NZD
49.99 (20% off)
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: very good
This book records the friendship and artistic collaboration between New Zealand's pre-eminent painter Colin McCahon and the poet John Caselberg. Drawing mainly on the rich archival resources of the Hocken Library in Dunedin, the book fully documents this moving friendship with letters, manuscripts, poem ...Show more
Bloomsbury South: The arts in Christchurch, 1933—1953 by Peter Simpson
69.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art
For two decades in Christchurch, New Zealand, a cast of extraordinary men and women remade the arts. In this book, Simpson tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of this 'Bloomsbury South' and the arts and artists that made it. Simpson brings to life the individual talents and their passions, b ...Show more
Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land?: Vol.2 1960-1987 by Peter Simpson
79.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Series: Colin Mccahon Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
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 words and Māori ...Show more
Colin McCahon - The Titirangi Years 1953-1959 by Peter Simpson
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
This book provides a comprehensive overview of a crucial period in the work of New Zealands greatest painter. This book was suggested by the McCahon House Trust which has overseen the restoration and preservation of the house in French Bay where McCahon and his family lived in the 1950s. With the house ...Show more
Colin McCahon: There is Only One Direction, Vol. I 1919-1959 by Peter Simpson
84.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand’s greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Māori motifs, McCahon’s work came to define a distinctly New Zealand modernist idiom. Collected and exhibited extensively in Australasia an ...Show more
Dear Colin, Dear Ron: The Selected Letters of Colin McCahon and Ron Reilly by Peter Simpson
64.99 NZD
Category: Aotearoa New Zealand Books
This substantial book of letters selected by esteemed Colin McCahon scholar Peter Simpson shines a light on one of the most remarkable relationships in New Zealand art. The painter Colin McCahon and the librarian Ron O'Reilly first met in 1938, in Dunedin, when McCahon was 19 and O'Reilly 24. They rem ...Show more
Fantastica - The World of Leo Bensemann by Peter Simpson
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Fantastica is the first book to survey the life and work of Leo Bensemann (1912-1986), one of the most remarkable New Zealanders of his generation. Accomplished in many fields - drawing, painting, printmaking, music, calligraphy, typography, book design and illustration, editing, printing, publishing - ...Show more
Peter Peryer, Photographer by Peter Peryer and Peter Simpson
59.99 NZD
Category: Coffee Table Books | Reading Level: very good
Peter Peryer is one of New Zealand's leading contemporary photographers. Peryer is also an innovative photographer, constantly refining his photographic practice, notably with his embrace of digital photography from 1998 and increasing interest in colour. Peter Peryer: Photographer includes a section of ...Show more
The Smallest Trolley Racer (Kiwi Bites) by Peter W. Simpson
11.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Kiwi Bites S.
Last year, Tom and Mikaere came last in the annual school trolley race. Not second, or third, or sixth dead last! But this year, they ve got a secret weapon..
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