Beauty in Letters by J. Wilson
$75.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
An illustrated look at illuminated documents and the stories they contain. Illuminated addresses--in the form of books, scrolls, certificates, and the like--were at their most popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Typically written in fine calligraphy and embellished with skill ...Show more
Beginnings by Geddes Anne
$30.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
2011 USA Best Book Awards to Anne Geddes! Beginnings Hardcover book 1st Place Photography: General Beginnings E-Book 1st Place E-Book: Non-Fiction Award-winning photographer Anne Geddes founded a new tradition in visual storytelling and captivated an international audience. Now, after spending 12 mont ...Show more
Behind The Scenes In New Zealand; Capturing The Kiwi Spirit by Baker, Ian
$19.50 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
Billy Apple: Life/Work by Christina Barton
$75.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
A major study of New Zealand’s most internationally significant living artist. Billy Apple (born Barrie Bates in Auckland, 1935) is New Zealand’s most internationally significant living artist and a pioneer of pop and conceptual art. At the Royal College of Art in London from 1959–62, Apple studied with ...Show more
Birds of the World: The Art of Elizabeth Gould by ANNA ANDREA & DATTA HART
$160.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
Artist and illustrator Elizabeth Gould is finally given the recognition she deserves in this gorgeous volume that includes hundreds of her stunning and scientifically precise illustrations of birds from nearly every continent. For all of her short life, Elizabeth Gould's artistic career was apprecia ...Show more
Brian Brake - Lens on the World by Athol McCredie
$75.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography | Reading Level: very good
Brian Brake (1927-1988) was New Zealand's most well-known and internationally successful photographer, known worldwide for photo essays like Monsoon (1961) and locally for the book New Zealand, Gift of the Sea (1963). Twenty years after his death, however, Brake's vast body of work remains unseen - or c ...Show more
Brockie A Memoir in Words Cartoons and Sketches by Bob Brockie
$30.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
Description: A memoir with a difference. Through much of Bob Brockie's long and colourful life - 80 plus years to date - he has kept a notebook and sketch pad beside him. In this charming book, Dr Robert Brockie remembers - with some help from his diaries - all the highlights. The people (particularly ...Show more
CSA : The Radical, the Reactionary and the Canterbury Society of Arts 1880-1996 by Warren Feeney
$50.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
The Canterbury Society of Arts domin-ated the cultural life of Canterbury for nearly a century, and played a vital role in the development of New Zealand art. Whereas art societies are often assumed to be conservative and reactionary institutions that failed to nurture the work of younger or more radica ...Show more
Café Cool: Feel-Good Inspiring Designs by ROBERT SCHNEIDER
$115.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Café Cool: Feel-Good Inspiring Designs is the much-anticipated third book in the series by Robert Schneider, and features 39 cafés and coffee shops and roasteries in 26 cities around the world, richly illustrated with full-colour images. The curated selection shares a focus on modern contemporary design ...Show more
Camile Silvy - Photographer of Modern Life, 1834-1910 by Mark Haworth-Booth
$65.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
This compelling account of Camille Silvy's life and photography is published to mark the centenary of his death and the first retrospective of his work in Paris and London. With hitherto unseen material, Mark Haworth-Booth presents Silvy as an extraordinarily modern photographer of great talent and orig ...Show more
Camouflage by Tim Newark
$97.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
Camouflage has become a global cult in today's fashion and design world. This book tells its fascinating story - an interplay between modern military developments on the one hand, and the worlds of art, design and popular culture on the other. A dazzling revelation of camouflage's power in nature, war a ...Show more