The Critic's Part: Art Writings 1971-2012 by Wystan Curnow
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art & Artists
Wystan Curnow is New Zealand’s longest-serving and, arguably, most important art critic. This edited collection brings together a selection of his art writings from 1971 to 2013 to provide the first comprehensive overview of his practice. Selectively drawing on his considerable ouput, the publication fe ...Show more
LAST SATURDAY by Lloyd Jones and Bruce Foster
$37.50 NZD
Category: NZ Art & Artists
Secondhand. Of all the days of the week, Saturday is the one we remember best. In this book, Bruce Foster (photographer) and writer Lloyd Jones give us an entertaining and insightful look at ourselves.
Bridging the Gap Early Bridges in New Zealand 1830-1939 by Geoffrey Thornton
$75.00 NZD
Category: Architecture & Design
Hardback with dust jacket. 311 pages. SECONDHAND
My Kind of Painting by Douglas Badcock
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art & Artists
Artist's third book contains reproductions of landscape paintings in oil from throughout New Zealand, with sketches, commentaries and an introduction.
New Zealand's Industrial Heritage by Geoffrey G. Thornton
$75.00 NZD
Category: Architecture & Design
Hardback with dust jacket. 194 pages. SECONDHAND
The Maori in European Art: A survey of the representation of the Maori by European artists from the time of Captain Cook to the present day by Leonard Bell
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art & Artists
Secondhand. A study of how Maori people and culture were depicted by European artists both in Europe itself and also in New Zealand, over two hundred years.
Two Hundred Years of New Zealand Painting by Gil Docking
$85.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art & Artists
Secondhand. This publication on New Zealand artists and their work was first published in 1971. Their work includes neo-Expressionism, Abstractionism, New Realism, Post Modernism, Maori, and Polynesian painting.
Art Deco Napier - Styles of the Thirties by Peter Shaw; Peter Hallett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hawke's Bay | Reading Level: very good
Art Deco Napier - Styles of the Thirties is the story of how Napier, New Zealand, became a world centre for Art Deco architecture after the city was ravaged by an earthquake in 1931.
Talkback Toast: A Reminiscence of Radio Pacific by Lee-Robinson, Robin
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art & Artists
Robin Lee-Robinson was formerly Mrs Barry Crump, the wife whose marriage to 'the good keen bloke' of Kiwi legend lasted longest. She shared many of Barry's adventures and was also his producer of the fondly-remembered 'Bush Telegraph' radio show. Robin shares somes personal anecdotes of the Radio Pacifi ...Show more
Esplin: Tom and Edith's Creative Journeys by Donald Offwood
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art & Artists
Price Reduced. Was $60.00 Tom Esplin's artistic career started at the early age of 10, when he was awarded first prize for a sketch of his father. At age 18, he won a scholarship from the Edinburgh College of Arts, where his art master commented that Esplin was one of the best pupils he had had presente ...Show more