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A History of Contemporary Jewellery in Australia and New Zealand - Place and Adornment by Damian Skinner; Kevin Murray
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
A History of Contemporary Jewellery in Australia and New Zealand: Place and Adornment is the first comprehensive history of contemporary jewellery in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. It tells the remarkable story of how two countries, far from the jewellery centres of Europe and North America, have m ...Show more
A Man Walks Out of a Bar - Lucien Rizos, New Zealand Photographs, 1979-1982 by Lucien Rizos; Damian Skinner; Ian Wedde
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Pictorial | Reading Level: Very Good
Fumpston Prints 1973-2003 by Rodney Fumpston; Elizabeth Rankin; Damian Skinner
49.95 NZD
Category: Fine Art
This publication documents the work of Rodney Fumpston, bringing together an overview of the 'rich basket of fruits' gathered from the three decades he has spent on the exacting task of producing a unique and vibrant body of prints. It includes the Fumpston - One Decade exhibition held at the Sarjeant G ...Show more
John Drawbridge by Damian Skinner
100.00 NZD
165.00 (39% off)
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: near fine
This book illustrates DrawbridgeÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs brilliance in oil and watercolour painting, large public murals, printmaking and stained glass (including the Beehive, the New Zealand House (London) now in Archives (NZ) and the National Library (NZ) murals. Also featured are JohnÃÂâÃÂà...Show more
Lalique Vases in New Zealand by Damian Skinner (Editor)
69.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art
Acquiring his first Lalique vase in the 1970s, expatriate New Zealander Dr Jack C. Richards has amassed a collection of over 130 vases by the French designer René Lalique. Dating from 1913 to 1938, these vases reveal the sophistication of Lalique¿s work as a designer, his delight in the design possibili ...Show more
Mid-Century Living: The Butterfly House Collection by Christine Fernyhough; Damian Skinner
60.00 NZD
Category: Interior Design
An incurable collector shares her astonishing collection of vintage New Zealand art, objects and design and her classic 1960s seaside bach. For over 30 years, philanthropist and best-selling author of The Road to Castle Hill Christine Fernyhough has built an extraordinary collection of over 4000 everyd ...Show more
The Carver and the Artist: Maori Art in the Twentieth Century by Damian Skinner
89.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books | Reading Level: very good
Maoritanga and Maori modernist art 1900 - 1980This exciting book charts the growth and development of the Maori modernist art. Artists constructed a Maori art that attempted to respond to the modern world. The book includes a rich selection of reproductions. This exciting book by a leading younger art h ...Show more
The Maori Meeting House: Introducing the Whare Whakairo by Damian Skinner
55.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books
This all-new introductory guide to the whare whakairo, or Maori meeting house, covers every aspect of these magnificent taonga (treasures) - their history and evolution, structure and art forms, symbolism and cultural power. Generously illustrated with over a hundred intriguing historical and contempor ...Show more
The Passing World, The Passage of Life : John Hovell And The Art of Kowhaiwhai by Damian Skinner
49.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art
Kowhaiwhai, according to John Hovell, is about process, a shorthand summary of the passage of life, and a space within the whare whakairo (decorated meeting house) for the Maori artist to express his wry and droll view of human nature. This book looks at John Hovell's life and work, his ongoing interest ...Show more
Theo Schoon: A Biography by Skinner Damian
59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Émigré artist Theo Schoon was fascinating, unorthodox, controversial, pioneering and at times reckless. His life intersected with important cultural periods and places, where what it meant to be modern in New Zealand were being debated andarticulated in art, literature, music and theatre.The art he pion ...Show more
conetendown - Studio Pottery in New Zealand, 1945-1980 by Moyra Elliott; Damian Skinner; Damon Moon
49.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: near fine
In the 1960s and 70s not only did potters flourish around the country but it seems that everyone's mum was producing mugs and bowls at night class. This phenomenon was part of a particualr philosophy of pottery - local materials and natural-looking forms, glazes and designs. All those small brown pots a ...Show more
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