Who Killed Classical Music? - Maestros, Managers and Corporate Politics by Norman Lebrecht
$27.50 NZD
Category: Music & Showbusiness
Raku by Ian Byers
$18.50 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
The Complete Potter is an established series examining the fundamentals of a specific pottery skill, with reference to a basic technique, equipment and materials. This volume addresses raku, a fast method of sawdust firing that produces pots with brightly-coloured glazes.
How to Repair & Restore Furniture by William Cook
$25.00 NZD
Category: Arts & Crafts
his is an essential guide to basic and advanced restoration techniques for antique furniture as well as a directory of tools, materials and equipment. The straightforward step-by-step instructions include fixing loose joints, repairing broken chair legs and reviving surfaces. There are seven in-depth pr ...Show more
Painting The Land Story by Taylor Lukkr (ed)
$32.50 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
For many indigenous Australians the act of painting is a kind of personal religious communion between artist and the ancestral creation beings that made the country. This sense of ancestral precedent is most strongly felt in this collection of illustrated essays which focus on western and eastern Arnhem ...Show more
Free Spirit in a Troubled World - A Photoreporter for Life, 1936-1959 by John Phillips
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
John Phillips worked as a photoreporter for Life from the 1930s to the 1950s, helping to shape the magazine. In this book he shares his experiences. He reported from London in the days of Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson, joined Cecil Beaton's glamorous party circuit in Paris, and was in Salzburg and Vienna ...Show more
Thoughts From Abroad by Simon Acland
$15.00 NZD
Category: Music & Showbusiness
Simon Acland was born in South Canterbury, New Zealand. He has a background in journalism and is a retired Anglican parish priest. He divides his time between New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and countries in-between. His "Thoughts from Abroad" are brodacast on Radio New Zealand and his one-man shows ha ...Show more
100 New Zealand Paintings by Warwick Brown
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art & Artists | Reading Level: near fine
Secondhand. Here is a collection of superb images that reflect the remarkable vibrancy and originality of contemporary New Zealand painting. From Albrecht to Zusters, each artist is represented by one work. Most of these have not been widely reproduced before, and an attempt has been made to cover a div ...Show more
Answering Hark - McCahon/Caselberg Painter/Poet by Peter Simpson
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ Art & Artists | Reading Level: very good
This book records the friendship and artistic collaboration between New Zealand's pre-eminent painter Colin McCahon and the poet John Caselberg. Drawing mainly on the rich archival resources of the Hocken Library in Dunedin, the book fully documents this moving friendship with letters, manuscripts, poem ...Show more
Art in the Streets by Jeffrey Deitch; Roger Gastman (Contribution by); Fab 5 Freddy (Contribution by); Greg Tate (Contribution by); Carlo McCormick (Contribution by)
$85.00 NZD
$170.00 (50% off)
Category: Art, Design & Photography
The most comprehensive book to survey the colorful history of graffiti and street art movements internationally. Forty years ago, graffiti in New York evolved from elementary mark-making into an important art form. By the end of the 1980s, it had been documented in books and films that were seen around ...Show more