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ISBN / ISSN:
01101102
Art New Zealand order quantity
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NZ$ 9.75 each
Author: anon
Published by: Heinemann Educational Books
In Stock: 4
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9781877385483
Art at Te Papa (Limited Edition Slipcase) order quantity
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NZ$ 300.00 each
Hardback
Author: William McAloon (ed)
Published by: Te Papa Press
In Stock: 2
A major new book showcasing the best of New Zealand's national art collection, from the iconic to the little-known. The evolution of the national art collection is closely linked with the story of Aotearoa New Zealand itself - its places, its people and their passions, and its developing sense of identity. Art at Te Papa, a major new book from Te Papa Press, spans the Museum's collection - from superb early European prints to exciting contemporary acquisitions. Te Papa's curators have selected more than 400 artworks, each one beautifully reproduced, and accompanied by an engaging mini essay. Works by international artists - from Rembrandt to Mapplethorpe - feature alongside iconic New Zealand art by Charles Goldie, Rita Angus, Bill Hammond, and many more. Lesser-known artworks will also surprise and delight. Art at Te Papa is a treasure to inform, inspire, and delight all New Zealanders and lovers of art. As well as the ... more
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9781869621490
Certain Words Drawn : John Reynolds continued (Signed, Numbered, Limited Edition) order quantity
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NZ$ 70.00 each
Hardback
Author: John Reynolds
Published by: Godwit
In Stock: 2
John Reynolds is one of New Zealand's most significant and most admired contemporary artists. An Arts Laureate, his Cloud was last year a centrepiece of the Sydney Bienale, at which he was New Zealand's representative, a rare honour for a New Zealand painter. Certain Words Drawn brings together examples of his recent work and practice in a stunning book designed by Arch McDonnell of InHouse Design. Magnificently packaged, this book is a limited edition of 1500 copies only, each numbered and signed by the artist. Edited by University of Auckland professor Laurence Simmons, the book is generously laden with images and contains essays by interalia Frank Stark, Andrew Clifford, Tessa Laird, Nicholas Stevens, Dianne Bardsley, Ian Wedde Shirley and Roger Horrocks, and Leigh Davis.

First published Auckland, NZ, June 2008.
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9781869537319
Cone Ten Down : Studio Pottery in New Zealand, 1945-1980 order quantity
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NZ$ 51.00 each
Paperback
Author: Moyra Elliot & Damian Skinner
Published by: David Bateman Ltd
In Stock: 2
Finalist in the General Non-Fiction category.

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 are now highly collectible and sought-after in op shops, second hand stores and, increasingly, at auction. Why did this style of pottery reach such heights in New Zealand? Who were the crafts people and what is the value of their work today? With over 100 photos especially taken for the book and photographs of leading potter's marks, this will be an invaluable book to the collector. Many 'characters' from that era featured in the book are still active in arts today, including Hamish Keith, Len Castle, Barry Brickell; and author Damian Skinner is particularly high-profile, with a ... more
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9781869621742
Dick Frizzell - the Painter order quantity
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NZ$ 75.00 each
Hardback
Author: Dick Frizzell
Published by: Godwit
In Stock: 2
Dick Frizzell's images populate our world - you find them on T-shirts, on TV ads, in shop windows, on wine bottles, on cushions and T-towels and in art shows. People appropriate (or borrow) his images in much the same way that he too appropriated many of the images he has painted over the years. He's reached iconic status in NZ - we love him, he's one of our own. This book contains all of his major paintings, the story of his life in his own thoughtful and highly articulate words, and an essay by Hamish Keith on Dick's work and its place in the New Zealand art world.
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9781869404178
Peter Peryer, Photographer order quantity
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NZ$ 60.00 each
Paperback
Author: Peter Peryer with Peter Simpson
Published by: Auckland University Press
In Stock: 2
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 eighty photographs, the largest body of Peryer's work yet assembled, personally selected by the photographer. A wide-ranging introduction to Peryer's work, by Peter Simpson, and an illustrated autobiographical essay by Peryer himself are also included. Interested in doubles, pattern and repetition, problems of scale, the surreal and the grotesque, Peryer's work most often focuses on the 'thingness' of his subjects and objects. Here are whitebait, shells, two goats, a Meccano bus, a 'sand shark', planes and a windsock, as well as a Moeraki boulder, the trig on Rangitoto and the Alexandra clock. Rich in lovingly examined bits ... more
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9781869404529
Towards a Promised Land : On the Life and Art of Colin McCahon order quantity
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NZ$ 80.00 each
Hardback
Author: Gordon H Brown
Published by: Auckland University Press
In Stock: 2
"Once the painter was making signs and symbols for people to live by," Colin McCahon wrote, "now he makes things to hang on walls at exhibitions." Filling his paintings with kauri and cliffs, the candle and the T, McCahon sought to develop signs and symbols for our modern world. In this book, leading McCahon scholar Gordon H. Brown presents viewers with new insight into the meanings of Colin McCahon's paintings. Tracing McCahon's life and work, from his student days at King Edward Technical College in Dunedin, through learning from Toss Woollaston, and on to his adult life working at the Auckland Art Gallery and at the Elam art school, Brown analyses key aspects of the paintings: the role of the bible, the idea of the promised land, the use of words and numbers. Brown gives us fresh insight into McCahon the man, leading us into McCahon's various studios, his involvement with the theatre, and his life at home. A trusted friend of Colin ... more
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9781869621209
40 Legends of New Zealand Design order quantity
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NZ$ 31.00 each
Paperback
Author: Douglas Lloyd Jenkins
Published by: Godwit
In Stock: 1
This gorgeous book takes a look at the work of forty of New Zealand's leading designers and craftspeople of the twentieth century.

Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, well known as a writer, lecturer and critic on design, has been writing columns for the magazine Home & Entertaining for the last 15 years, and this book gathers together some of his best columns, plus several new profiles. The format is a series of short, authoritative, highly accessible biographical profiles, detailing the careers of top New Zealand designers and craftspeople, from textile and wallpaper designers, to furniture, jewellery and industrial designers. The profiles are accompanied by the information necessary to identify the work of these creative people, and illustrated with a combination of new and original photographs.
The designers 40 Legends of New Zealand covers include:
Reuben Watts, who worked in jewellery in the 1920s and ... more
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780864735560
Aberhart : Laurence Aberhart Photographs - Finalist Montana Illustrative Award 2008 order quantity
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NZ$ 125.00 each
Hardback
Author: Laurence Aberhart (Photos) & Gregory O'Brien (Essays) & Justin Paton (Essays)
Published by: Victoria University Press
In Stock: 1
Laurence Aberhart has been at the forefront of New Zealand photography since the late 1970s, and is recognised as a major international figure. Like the paintings of Colin McCahon — an artist with whom Aberhart is frequently paired — his photographs are a sustained meditation on time, place and cultural history. They are also virtuoso pieces of photographic craft.

This book is a landmark in New Zealand art publishing. In a definitive overview of Laurence Aberhart’s work to date, 240 full-page reproductions of iconic photographs of churches, marae, cemeteries, Masonic Lodges and other subjects are accompanied by illuminating essays by leading New Zealand art writers Gregory O'Brien and Justin Paton. O’Brien pursues the motif of the horizon through Aberhart’s work, considering the many journeys that his career encompasses and the shelters and structures seen along the way, while Paton focuses on the human presences that quietly ... more
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9781877385384
Art At Te Papa order quantity
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NZ$ 130.00 each
Paperback
Author: William McAloon (ed.)
Published by: Te Papa Press
In Stock: 1
Finalist in the Illustrated Non-Fiction category.

Art at Te Papa reveals and illuminates New Zealand's vast national art collection. Reproductions of more than 400 individual artworks, personally selected by curators, are accompanied by brief essays giving expert and engaging commentary on each work. This book spans the entire collection, from the cream of its early European prints holdings to its most exciting contemporary acquisitions. Here are international artworks by Rembrandt van Rijn, Albrechet Durer, Marcel Duchamp, Barbara Hepworth, Natalie Gontchorova and Robert Mapplethorpe, alongside masterpieces from some of New Zealand's most significant and best-loved artists - Charles Goldie, Rita Angus, Ralph Hotere, Colin McCahon, Frances Hodgkins, Bill Hammond, Shane Cotton and Yvonne Todd - as well as little-known artworks that will surprise and inform readers. From the iconic to the unknown, from printmaking to ... more
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9781877385216
Art Icons from Te Papa order quantity
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NZ$ 20.00 each
Paperback
Author: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa
Published by: Te Papa Press
In Stock: 1
Reissue
These five stylish books introduce fascinating objects from Te Papa’s collections – from the most valuable and unique items to the quirkiest. Small and easy to mail and carry, the books make an ideal gift or souvenir.Each book is full of pictures and information, including a general introduction on the objects and a brief history of this bold and innovative museum.

First published November 2006.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869536374
Art Icons of New Zealand : Lines in the Sand order quantity
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Hardback
Author: Oliver Stead
Published by: David Bateman Ltd
In Stock: 1
Covering forty 'iconic images' that have become embedded in the New Zealand psyche - this is a "fascinating" exploration of art, culture and identity in New Zealand. David Stead is the son of C.K Stead.
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9781869404222
Art That Moves : The Work of Len Lye (with DVD of films and sculptures) order quantity
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NZ$ 60.00 each
Mixed-media pack
Author: Roger Horrocks
Published by: Auckland University Press
In Stock: 1
'Kinetic art is the first new category of art since prehistory', ex-pat New Zealand artist Len Lye boldly claimed in an essay in 1964. What did he mean by this? And how does his own work in sculpture and film bear it out? Roger Horrocks, the author of the best-selling 2001 biography of Lye, explores these questionsn in this new book. He describes the forerunners of this 'art that moves', then discusses in detail Lye's life and career as a kinetic artist, how he developed and envisioned his 'tangible motion sculptures' and how many of these are being realised only now, after his death. Lye himself wrote extensively about kinetic art; one chapter focuses on his theories about 'the art of motion', and relates these back to his practice as an artist. Horrocks concludes by discussing how Lye's ideas can be applied to other works and how they are relevant today. The Art of Motion includes a DVD containing a short documentary by ... more
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9781869621575
Between Tides : Jewellery by Alan Preston order quantity
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Hardback
Author: Damian Skinner
Published by: Godwit
In Stock: 1
Alan Preston was one of the founders of the pioneering jewellery collective Fingers, creating jewellery that adapted Pacific materials and motifs, capturing and leading the zeitgeist. Magnificently crafted and backed by an intellectually articulated vision, his pieces have always been coveted and collected. In Between The Tides leading art writer Damian Skinner examines Preston's achievement, in a richly rewarding essay that explains precisely why his body of work is more than simple adornment. Beautifully designed, and with an extensive suite of photographs of Preston's work over the years, this book is a must for every admirer of Preston's work and any one who wants to understand the exciting cultural and artistic journey one of our leading artists has been on.
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9781869621322
Big Picture : the History of New Zealand Art from 1642 order quantity
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Paperback
Author: Hamish Keith
Published by: Godwit
In Stock: 1
1642? Yes, we have an art history that dates back that far, to the engravings made during Tasman's voyage that depict the first contact between European and Maori. In this tautly, provocatively and passionately argued history, leading art commentator Hamish Keith takes readers on a fascinating and illuminating exploration of our culture, of how artists and their works have provided the language that describes a fascinating and sometimes exhilarating account of peoples creating a new culture out of the old cultures they brought here with them, and then using that new culture to adapt and respond to new waves of people arriving with new old things. With over 300 illustrations, this remarkable survey of New Zealand's art and culture is indispensable to our understanding of who we are.

We have a number of titles on New Zealand art in stock. Check out our Art and Architecture section on this site, or please phone us on 0064 3 364 2043, ... more
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869404390
Bill Culbert : Making Light Work order quantity
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NZ$ 100.00 each
Hardback
Author: Ian Wedde & Bill Culbert
Published by: Auckland University Press
In Stock: 1
Bill Culbert is one of New Zealand's most celebrated artists. This is the first substantial book on Culbert, and Wedde explores the ideas, materials, and conditions that have formed Culbert's art over the past 50 years. Bill Culbert grew up in Port Chalmers and Wellington, but since 1961 has lived largely in France and England (although he returns regularly to New Zealand to exhibit work during the oyster and whitebait seasons). Light has preoccupied Culbert since his days as a student at London's Royal College of Art in the late 1950s. He has used it in domestic-scaled works, in dazzling large-scale museum installations and in public spaces such as the Champs Elysees in Paris and the Millennium Dome in London. Ian Wedde suggests in Bill Culbert that energy and travel, congeniality and conviviality are also key to understanding of Culbert's immensely attractive but conceptually rigorous work, from his wall-mounted light sculptures made ... more
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877375132
Bill Hammond: Jingle Jangle Morning - Winner Montana Illustrative Award 2008 order quantity
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NZ$ 80.00 each
Hardback
Author: Bill Hammond (designer Aaron Beehre; essays by Jennifer Hay, Ron Brownson, Chris Knox & Laurence Abergart)
Published by: Christchurch Art Gallery
In Stock: 1
A spectacular publication tracing the career of one of New Zealand’s most sought-after contemporary painters. Taking its title from a line in Bob Dylan’s ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’, Jingle Jangle Morning reveals the development of Bill Hammond’s practice – from his frenetic, music-inspired work of the 1980s, through the rock surrealism of the 1990s, to the evolution of his signature bird paintings.

First published July 2007.
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9781869404260
Carved Histories : Rotorua Ngati Tarawhai Woodcarving (revised edition 2008) order quantity
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NZ$ 60.00 each
Paperback
Author: Roger Neich
Published by: Auckland University Press
In Stock: 1
A companion volume to Painted Histories.

Covering the Ngati Tarawhai carvers' distinctive style from pre-European times to the present day, this account presents a vivid analysis of Maori woodcarving. As the most prolific school of their kind in New Zealand, the Ngati Tarawhai have played a critical role in the development and survival of this particular art form. Spanning from the end of the New Zealand wars to the beginning of "tourist art," this chronicle explores their creations, outlining the relationships between the carvers and their Maori patrons.
Biographies of Ngati Tarawhai artists and a list of all known carvings are also included.

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9781869532185
Contemporary New Zealand Art Volume 1 order quantity
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Paperback
Author: Elizabeth Caughey & John Gow
Published by: David Bateman Ltd
In Stock: 1
This is the first of a series of books that provides a comprehensive view of New Zealand artists working at the end of the 20th century. The volume features over 100 artworks, representing 20 artists working in a variety of media - painting, photography, sculpture, installation and multimedia. Along with a selection of each artist's work, there is a brief biography and an interpretation of the pieces shown.

First published 1997.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869534332
Contemporary New Zealand Art Volume 2 order quantity
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Paperback
Author: Elizabeth Caughey & John Gow
Published by: David Bateman Ltd
In Stock: 1
Offers a comprehensive view of New Zealand art at the end of the 20th century. The book explores the work of 20 established and emerging artists working in a variety of media, from painting and photography to sculpture, installation and multimedia. A selection of each artist's work is included. Gretchen Albrecht, Tony Lane and Robin White are among the artists featured.
First published 1999.
 
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