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9781409508960
Drawing Cartoons (Usborne Art Ideas) order quantity
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Author: Anna Milbourne
Published by: Usborne Publishing Ltd
In Stock: 2
Suitable for budding cartoonists of all ages, this drawing book provides simple step-by-step instructions that show how to produce colourful cartoons ranging from simple animals and people, to superheroes and comic strips. It includes hints and tips for making cartoons look humorous or dynamic.
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9783822833162
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: H. R. Giger
Published by: Taschen
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HR Giger first received acclaim in the 1960s with his airbrushed fantasy landscapes. However, he scored his breakthrough in applied art, and particularly in his high-profile movie work on Ridley Scott's "Alien". In 1980, he received an Oscar for "Best Achievement for Visual Effects" for his designs of the film's title creature and its otherworldly environment. His other celebrated film projects include "Poltergeist II", "Alien 3" and "Species", for which he designed a deadly but beautiful half-extraterrestrial female creature and a fantastic nightmare train. Giger's album covers for Debbie Harry and Emerson, Lake and Palmer were voted as being among the top hundred in music history by music journalists, while furniture designed by Giger graces a bar in Chur, Switzerland. This book was designed by the artist himself, and features detailed commentaries in which Giger describes his work from the early 1960s to the late 1990s; the ... more
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9780141326146
Puffin By Design: 70 Years of Imagination 1940 - 2010 order quantity
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Author: Phil Baines
Published by: Allen Lane
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Late in 1939 a chance meeting between Penguin founder, Allen Lane, and natural history publisher, Noel Carrington, changed the future of children's publishing with the formation of a series called 'Puffin Picture Books'. The first four titles appeared in 1940 and the series quickly established a reputation for presenting children's non-fiction in a unique blend of editing and design. 'Puffin Story Books' soon followed with the publication of Worzel Gummidge in 1941 and, like the original launch of Penguin itself, these story books appeared in the three horizontal stripe design. Looking back at seventy years of Puffin paperbacks, Phil Baines charts the development of Puffin and the role of illustrators and designers in creating and defining the identity of the Puffin list from the very first picture book through to modern day. Rich with stunning cover and inside illustrations, and filled with detail of individual titles, Phil ... more
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9781844137879
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NZ$ 47.00 each
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Author: Banksy
Published by: Century (Random House)
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Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it’s squatting in the Tate or New York’s Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills and umbrellas. If you look hard enough, you’ll find your own. His statements, incitements, ironies and epigrams are by turns intelligent and cheeky comments on everything from the monarchy and capitalism to the war in Iraq and farm animals. His identity remains unknown, but his work is prolific. And now for the first time, he’s putting together the best of his work – old and new in a fully illustrated colour volume.
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9781844848300
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NZ$ 60.00 each
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Author: Victoria Charles
Published by: Baseline Inc
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Featuring 1,000 internationally recognized paintings, this collection spans the history of art from the 13th century to the present, from the early stirrings of the Renaissance movement in Italy to the boundary-pushing experiments of the Abstract Expressionists in post-World War II America.
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9781844842155
1000 Sculptures of Genius order quantity
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Author: Joseph Manca
Published by: Parkstone Press
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"1000 Sculptures of Genius" offers a large panorama of artistic creation between the High Antiquity and the twentieth century. Along with numerous references, comments on masterworks and biographies, this work enables the reader to rediscover the Western world heritage and is the perfect guide for students and statuary art lovers.
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9780714843841
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Julian Bell
Published by: Phaidon Press Ltd
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‘The mirror, above all – the mirror is our teacher,’ wrote Leonardo da Vinci. Portraits are an endless source of fascination, responding as they do to the basic human impulse to look at faces and try to see into the character behind them. Self-portraits have the added fascination that comes from looking into the mirror and trying to study one’s own face.

This book presents an uninterrupted sequence of 500 self-portraits, in chronological order from ancient Egypt to the late twentieth century. The challenge of creating their own likeness has proved irresistible to artists, and included here are powerful and evocative works by many of the world’s greatest painters and sculptors, including Dürer, Rembrandt, Picasso and Andy Warhol. Each image is both a work of art and a study in psychology and self-perception – an idea taken up by the book’s mirrored jacket, where the reader’s own face becomes the 501st self-portrait.

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9780143010357
501 Great Artists: A Comprehensive Guide to the Giants of the Art World order quantity
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Author: Stephen Farthing
Published by: Quintessence Publishing Co Ltd
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A concise yet comprehensive reference guide for art lovers and art students, this illustrated volume profiles major artists from classical antiquity to the modern era. All 501 artists featured in this book receive at least a one-page entry that summarizes their life, their work, and their influence. The most influential artists are discussed in entries of up to four pages. Entries are illustrated with portraits of the artists and reproductions of some of their best-known works. Included here are painters, sculptors, photographers, and performance and video artists.
Among them are Renaissance artists Raphael and Michelangelo, northern European artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt van Rijn, English landscape painters Turner and Constable, French impressionists such as Degas and Renoir, Japanese artists Sesshu and Hishikawa Moronobu, American abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, twentieth-century ... more
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9783836513852
Abstract Expressionism: Big Art order quantity
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Author: Barbara Hess (rd.)
Published by: Taschen
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Abstract expressionism refers to the non-representational use of form and color as a means of expression that emerged in America in the 1940s. These artists had striven to express pure emotion directly on canvas, via color and texture.

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The language of paint, Abstract Expressionism refers to the non-representational use of form and color as a means of expression that emerged in America in the 1940s, largely thanks to the innovative work of Arshile Gorky. Interestingly, abstract expressionism is considered to be the first art movement originating in America to have a worldwide influence. Two very different sub-categories of the movement developed: 'action painting' (exemplified notably by Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock) and 'color field painting', made most famous by Mark Rothko. Abstract expressionists strove to express pure emotion directly on canvas, via color ... more

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9781845116637
Art and Death order quantity
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NZ$ 58.00 each
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Author: Chris Townsend
Published by: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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This highly sensitive and beautifully written book looks closely at the way contemporary Western artists negotiate death, both as personal experience and in the wider community. Townsend discusses but moves beyond the 'spectacle of death' in work by artists such as Damien Hirst to see how mortality - in particular the experience of other people's death - brings us face to face with profound ethical and even political issues. He looks at personal responses to death in the work of artists as varied as Francis Bacon, Tracey Emin and Derek Jarman, whose film 'Blue' is discussed here in depth. Exploring the last body of work by the the Kentucky-based photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and Jewish American installation artist Shimon Attie's powerful memorial work for the community of Aberfan, Townsend considers death in light of the injunction to 'love they neighbour'.
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9781845112356
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Author: Kerstin Mey
Published by: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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Explicit material is more widely available in the internet age than ever before, yet the concept of 'obscenity' remains as difficult to pin down as it is to approach without bias: notions of what is 'obscene' shift with societies' shifting mores, and our responses to explicit or disturbing material can be highly subjective. In this intelligent and sensitive book, Kerstin Mey grapples with the work of twentieth-century artists practising at the edges of acceptability, from Hans Bellmer through to Nobuyoshi Araki, from Robert Mapplethorpe to Annie Sprinkle, and from Hermann Nitsch to Paul McCarthy. Mey refuses sweeping statements and 'knee-jerk' responses, arguing with dexterity that some works, regardless of their 'high art' context, remain deeply problematic, whilst others are both groundbreaking and liberating.
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9781845116651
Art and Sex order quantity
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NZ$ 58.00 each
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Author: Gray Watson
Published by: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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In this 'no-holds barred' volume Gray Watson surveys the vast array of images of sex and sexuality in contemporary art. He finds sex in some surprising places and draws some fascinating conclusions. His initial consideration of contemporary art's focus on the body leads to an exploration of the important contributions made by the feminist and queer movements. He uncovers sex in the city, sex in nature, and the intimate relationship between sex and the sacred. Looking into representations of 'taboo' sexualities including sado-masochism, voyeurism and exhibitionism, Watson argues that such images offer clues to an understanding of much more than just sex. The art discussed ranges from the playful to the dark, from the shockingly overt to the poetically allusive, and includes work by artists such as Marina Abramovi, Nobuyoshi Araki, Louise Bourgeois, Gilbert & George, Jeff Koons, and Carolee Schneemann.
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9783833152818
Art & Architecture: Egypt order quantity
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Published by: Ullmann Publishing
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Designed to provide a detailed exploration into the exceptional array of art and architecture in Egypt, this captivating volume will surely enthral anyone interested in the country's art and history. This brand new edition is in lightweight softcover which combined with the compact format makes it an excellent travel companion, as well as a fascinating background read. Despite its portable format this is an extremely comprehensive guide covering all major places of interest, with numerous essays on history and culture. Over 600 full-colour illustrations including detailed town plans help bring this fascinating country to life at the turn of a page.
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9783283011000
Art of Modern Rock (Mini #1) order quantity
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Author: n/a
Published by: edition habit press
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9783283011086
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Published by: edition habit press
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781604860603
Banksy : Locations & Tours - A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs in London, England order quantity
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Author: Banksy & Martin Bull
Published by: PM Press
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When it comes to art, London is best known for its galleries, not its graffiti. However, not if photographer Martin Bull has anything to say about it. While newspapers and magazines the world over send their critics to review the latest Damien Hirst show at the Tate Modern, Bull, in turn, is out taking photos of the latest street installations by guerilla art icon Banksy. In three guided tours, Martin Bull documents sixty-five London sites where one can see some of the most important works by the legendary political artist. Boasting over 100 color photos, Banksy: Locations and Tours also includes graffiti by many of Banksy's peers, including Eine, Faile, El Chivo, Arofish, Cept, Space Invader, Blek Le Rat, D*face, and Shepherd Fairey. This edition has updated locations and 25 additional photos.
Trade paperback (US) Unsewn / adhesive bound h125mm x w169mm x s13mm 227g illustrations

First published 2009.
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9781858945194
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NZ$ 50.00 each
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Author: Marc Mayer
Published by: Merrell Publishers Ltd
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Born in Brooklyn in 1960, Jean-Michel Basquiat was only twenty-seven when he died, his meteoric and often controversial career having lasted for just eight years. Despite his early death, Basquiat's large and powerful oeuvre has ensured his continuing reputation as one of modern art's most distinctive and eloquent voices. Borrowing from graffiti and street imagery, cartoons, mythology and religious symbolism, Basquiat's drawings and paintings explore issues of race and identity, providing social commentary that is shrewdly observed and biting. This book examines and celebrates the achievements of one of the most original artists of the late twentieth century.
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9781906388317
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NZ$ 55.00 each
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Author: Martin Dawber
Published by: Conway Maritime
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Following on from the hugely successful Big Book of Fashion Illustration, the Big Book of Contemporary Illustration covers the broadest range of illustration today from digital drawing, pixelated pictures, Photoshop fantasies to the traditional techniques of sketching and painting from over 160 international artists. With close to 1000 illustrations, the categories covered range from the technical, architectural through nature, people to fantasy, fashion and pop culture. This is an essential sourcebook for any creative professional or student and all those who appreciate the world's best illustration.
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9783934020719
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NZ$ 350.00 each
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Author: n/a
Published by: Edition Reuss,Germany
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This work features text in English & German. This amazing book is a photographic journey across the globe - from Borneo to Belgium, Argentina to Athens, New York to New Zealand and beyond - in search of avant-garde tattoo art that pays homage to the ancient roots of tattooing in their contemporary interpretations. No other publication has curated the work of so many esteemed international tattooists working in black ink and gathered them into one comprehensive volume. The journey begins with a look at the history of tattooing before featuring black tattoo portfolios divided into the following chapters: Neotribal, Dotwork, Art Brut, Traditional Revival and Thai/Buddhist.
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9780007232130
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Author: Simon Jennings
Published by: HarperCollins Publishers
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New in paperback, Collins Artist's Colour Manual has established itself as the artist's definitive guide to the fascinating world of colour.
Practical, informative and inspiring, it will appeal to designers, art students and educators alike. Treated in a lively, visual and creative way, this book brings the subject of colour alive and shows how greater colour awareness can bring life, meaning and confidence to your painting and creative pursuits. It looks at all the crucial aspects of colour in four absorbing sections:
What is Colour? Information on paints and pigments and a concise buyer's guide to materials;
Colour by Colour - a tour around the paintbox and the various colour groups, learn what colours are and how to use them to greatest effect;
Creative Directions - inspiring and creative ideas for colour usage, with first-hand tips and techniques from practising artists;
and Index of Colour - a reference to and ... more
 
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