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Botanical Illustration: The first ten lessons by Valerie Price
$43.00 NZD
Category: Art
This practical introduction to botanical illustration is formed of ten graded lessons, where each teaches you new skills to build upon the last. From mushrooms to orchids to hawthorn berries and leaves; once you've completed these lessons in drawing and painting botanical subjects, you will have all the ...Show more
Reg Mombassa: Landscapes by Reg Mombassa
$80.00 NZD
Category: Art
Reg Mombassa: Landscapes is a stunning retrospective of one of Australia's most beloved and celebrated artists. Reg Mombassa's work has been a part of the fabric of Australia's pop culture for nearly 40 years with his irreverent take on life down under, but it is his unique landscapes that have earned ...Show more
The Art of Neil Gaiman -The Visual Story of One of the World's Most Vital Creative Forces by Hayley Campbell
$65.00 NZD
Category: Art
Novelist, comics writer, scriptwriter, poet, occasional artist - a master of several genres and inadvertent leader of many cults - there are few creative avenues Neil Gaiman hasn't ventured down. From unforgettable books like The Ocean at the End of the Lane and American Gods to ground-breaking comics a ...Show more
Turner Watercolours (reissue) by David Blayney Brown
$55.00 NZD
Category: Art
Turner's lifetime (1775-1851) was also the classic age of English watercolour, and his mastery and perfection of the medium coincided with its establishment as an independent art form. This volume examines the unique body of watercolours Turner produced.Few can doubt that J.M.W. Turner was the greatest ...Show more
Rothko by Jacob Baal-Teshuva
$27.00 NZD
Category: Art
One of the most esteemed abstract expressionists and greatest painters of the 20th century Mark Rothko belongs to the generation of American artists who completely revolutionized the essence of abstract painting. His stylistic evolution, from a figurative visual repertoire to an abstract style rooted in ...Show more
Salvador Dali at Home by Jackie De Burca
$55.00 NZD
Category: Art
Salvador Dal at Home explores the influence of Catalan culture and tradition, Dal 's home life and the places he lived, on his life and work. Dal was born in Figueres and was deeply connected to the area. Fully illustrated with over 150 illustrations of his famous work, as well as lesser known pieces, a ...Show more
Moments in Time: Ralph Miller - Artist: 1918-1956 by Brian Miller; Ralph Miller
$50.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: Near Fine
Ralph Miller was a highly talented Dunedin artist who died in 1956 at the young age of 37, but left over 1000 sketches and artwork that has been kept in the family for decades; some artwork is in galleries. A wide selection of Ralph Miller's sketches and paintings are reproduced and presented within the ...Show more
Leonardo Pop-Ups by Courtney Watson McCarthy
$55.00 NZD
Category: Art
Experience the most famous Renaissance artist and inventor in a brand-new way. Courtney Watson McCarthy has crafted many brilliant pop-up books, featuring artists like Antoni Gaudi´ and Salvador Dali´, and Leonardo Pop-Ups is the most dynamic yet. McCarthy showcases a variety of pop-ups showing off Da V ...Show more
McCahon Country by Justin Paton
$75.00 NZD
Category: Art
'My painting tells you where I am at any given time, where I am living and the direction I am pointing in.' - Colin McCahon. McCahon (1919-1987) is widely recognised as an outstanding figure in twentieth century art whose ground-breaking work over four decades changed the way we see this country, while ...Show more
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles
$40.00 NZD
Category: Art
This is the paperback edition of the highly successful Chromatopia. Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic colour; or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? Throughout history, artists' pigments have been made from deadly metals, poisonous minerals, urine, cow dun ...Show more
The Art of Perspective by Yves LeBlanc
$40.00 NZD
Category: Art
Perspective is the art of understanding and reproducing the space surrounding us - an attempt to 'flatten' what is seen on a sheet of paper. It links graphic combinations to explain space just as language links words to explain thought. This book introduces artists, graphic designers and architects to t ...Show more
Gottfried Lindauer's New Zealand by LINDAUER GOTTLFRIED
$75.00 NZD
Category: Art
From the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the Bohemian immigrant artist Gottfried Lindauer travelled to marae and rural towns around New Zealand and - commissioned by Maori and Pakeha - captured in paint the images of key Maori figures. For Maori then and now, the faces of t?puna are full of mana a ...Show more
