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Back & Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young & Curious order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Gregory O'Brien
Published by: Auckland University Press
NZ Post Childrens Book Awards Non-fiction Winner 2009

A painting can take you to many places. It can take you around the world, or it can take you around the country, city or neighbourhood you live in. It can also transport you back into the distant past of myths, legends and ancient history - or it can take you way into the future. Since Maori first drew moa and mythical birds on cave walls, artists in Aotearoa New Zealand have provided an imaginative, lively account of the lives locals have been leading, the dreams they've been dreaming and the stories they've been telling. Alongside works painted during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book features art by contemporary painters and printmakers, all of them seasoned travellers across time and space. Angels, rugby players, whales, kiwi and canoes, moa and mountains, the bush and the beaches all play starring roles in this bird's-eye view of New Zealand ... more
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9780473150228
The Artists : 21 Practitioners in New Zealand Contemporary Art c, 2009-2011 order quantity
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Author: Kylie Sanderson, Tamara Darragh & Kim Atherfold
Published by: Beatnik Publishing
The Artists: 21 Practitioners in New Zealand Contemporary Art c. 2009-2011 offers real insight into the richness and diversity of the New Zealand contemporary art scene as a whole by revealing the depth of talent boasted by just one gallery.
Continuing in the tradition of Sanderson Gallery’s 2007-2008 publication, The Artists provides in-depth and up-to-date information on the current practice of 21 full-time New Zealand artists working in a diverse range of disciplines including sculpture, photography and painting. Emerging artists such as Andrew Barns-Graham, Ray Haydon and Josephine Cachemaille are presented alongside established names such as Alan Pearson and Ted Dutch.
The format is simple and elegantly timeless – for each artist, their image, introductory notes on
their work and references for further research preface a plethora of full-colour images from their current portfolios.
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How to Look at a Painting (The Ginger Series 07) order quantity
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Author: Justin Paton
Published by: Awa Press
Never have more paintings been painted, and more words written about art, than today. But what does it all mean? How can you distinguish a good painting from a bad? Inspired art from eye-candy?

In this hugely engaging book, acclaimed art writer Justin Paton takes us on a journey of exploration through the centuries and across the painted world - from the luscious fruit of Italy's Caravaggio to the lonely landscapes of New Zealand's Rita Angus, the dazzling panoramas of America's Lari Pittman and the mysterious 'tombstones' of Japanese artist On Kawara.
Whether you're a keen art collector, a student of art, or just love to visit a gallery occasionally, this brilliant exposition of painting in all its forms will open your eyes to things you've never seen before.

First published December 2005.

The Dominion Post made it their “Book of the Week” describing it as “elegant” and “persuasive”

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9781869404529
Towards a Promised Land : On the Life and Art of Colin McCahon order quantity
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Author: Gordon H Brown
Published by: Auckland University Press
"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. And 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 ... more
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9781869621742
Dick Frizzell - the Painter order quantity
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Author: Dick Frizzell
Published by: Godwit
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. As Dick himself says with a surprised chuckle, "I'm just like the Topp Twins now - I can do no wrong, they all love me!" Dick has a great story. After going to art school he found himself in his 20s married and with a young family to support. He worked in advertising until 1974, when his artistic urges made him leave the ad agency to take up working in the vege markets in the early hours of the day so that he could pursue his art. His paintings combined the pragmatics of an adman's need for a compelling motif with the visceral pleasures of expressive modernist paintings. His ... more
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9781877460388
Red Studio : Forty five prints order quantity
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Author: John Z Robertson
Published by: Longacre Press
Red Studio offers us a selection of 45 colour and black and white prints. Robinson’s personal survey gives us
a succinct, potted history of lino cuts as an art form; it also gives us cameos from the Otago arts scene over
the past 20–30 years, and it charts the artist’s own development. Robinson is a versatile and much-loved New Zealand artist with a loyal following. His work appears in many private collections throughout the country, and he has exhibited in galleries from the deep south of New Zealand to the New Zealand Consulate in New York.

First published October 2009, softcover
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9780958292306
The Art Of War : New Zealand war artists in the field 1939-1945 order quantity
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Author: Jennifer Haworth
Published by: Wily Publications
In the first book of its kind, author Jenny Haworth shows World War II through the eyes of five of New Zealand's commissioned war artists - Peter McIntyre, Austen Deans, Russell Clark, Allan Barns-Graham and John McIndoe. Stationed to the areas where New Zealand soldiers were fighting in the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific and Europe, these five men saw it as their duty to depict the war in line with the government's attempt to reassure those at home.
Beautifully illustrated throughout with large full-colour reproductions of each artist's work, as well as numerous drawings and photos.
224 pages
248 x 248 mm

First published September 2007.
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9781869403287
Welcome to the South Seas : Contemporary New Zealand art for young people order quantity
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Author: Gregory O'Brien
Published by: Auckland University Press
Winner of the New Zealand Post Book Awards Non-Fiction category 2005.
Covering the past 30 years, this is a beautifully presented and diverse selection of New Zealand contemporary art including information about the various artists.“A sparkling off-the-wall publication that is not to be missed.” – Art News“gorgeously colourful . . . O’Brien seems to have struck the perfect tone . . . liberating to read” - Metro
An art book for the younger person. It is a high spirited introduction to comtemporary New Zealand art.

First published 2004.
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9780473152949
The Real Art Roadshow order quantity
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NZ$ 80.00 each
Hardback
Author: Fiona Campbell
Published by: Craig Potton Publishing
The Real Art Roadshow is an eclectic yet cohesive collection of contemporary artworks by a cross-section of New Zealand artists, both reknowned and emerging. It hangs together as a fascinating and insightful snapshot of post-1945 New Zealand visual art; the kind of collection you would expect to see at Auckland City Art Gallery or Te Papa in Wellington.
Actually, it's housed in a truck, or rather two trucks to be precise. Two trucks that transport this amazing collection to secondary schools throughout New Zealand, giving our budding artists the opportunity to be inspired, challenged and "wowed" by the real thing.
In truth, most of these students have never been to an art gallery and, given their geographic isolation, are unlikely to. But with the vision, passion and determination of Fiona Campbell - philanthropist and founder of the Real Art Roadshow - these students aren't going to miss out because of where they live.

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9781877517105
The World of Wearable Art (2009 edition) order quantity
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Author: World of Wearable Art (photography Craig Potton, Martin de Ruyter & Neil Price)
Published by: Craig Potton Publishing
One of the most interesting cultural phenomena in New Zealand over the past 20 years has been the spectacular success of the World of WearableArt, an annual competition and award show that explores the intersection between fashion and art, through a genre popularly known as wearable art. This unique event, which draws an audience in Wellington of around 35,000 people, has encouraged an explosion of creative activity, inspiring a wide range of fashion designers, artists, costume makers and other craft artists from all over the world to participate. The range of garments produced for this event is breathtaking, as the rules of competition mean that anything of quality that is in any way wearable can find a place on the catwalk. What this also means is that the garments are constructed from an extraordinary array of materials - car parts, wood shavings, zips, silk, potato chip packets, seaweed, slices of toast, old telephone posts, paper ... more
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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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Mixed-media pack
Author: Roger Horrocks
Published by: Auckland University Press
'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? In The Art of Motion: The Work of Len Lye Roger Horrocks, the author of the best-selling 2001 biography of Lye, explores these questions. 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 ... more
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9781869711177
Earth to Earth : Sculpture inspired by nature's design order quantity
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Author: Martin Hill
Published by: Hodder Moa
From the earth and returning to earth - it is a cycle of regeneration that has existed for millennia. Award-winning artist and photographer Martin Hill takes his inspiration from the natural beauty of this circle of life. It is his concern about the destructive linear design - take, make, waste - of contemporary society that led him to use his art as a forum to promote ecological sustainability. Whether the top of a snow-dusted mountain, or the sand of a windblown beach, each of Martin's locations is left in the state in which it was found. His stunning natural sculptures achieve permanence only in his acclaimed photography, showcased here in this stunning book. In his own words: 'My inspiration comes for being immersed in and learning from the natural world. I work in nature because we are nature. My material comes from the earth to which they return harmlessly after use. My photographs are made with the same sunlight that powers ... more
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9781869537258
Painting the Frontier : The art of New Zealand's pioneers order quantity
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Author: David Filer
Published by: David Bateman Ltd
Uncovering images of New Zealand through the 'new eyes' of early European explorers and settlers. We are familiar with the commissioned works of official artists documenting their first impressions of their new land, and new co-inhabitants. But less well-known are the personal sketches and paintings created by amateur artists. Much of their work was collected by Alexander Turnbull and this book presents fascinating images of New Zealand art from the time of Cook to the beginning of the twentieth century. Includes over 100 paintings specifically chosen to reflect aspects of people in early New Zealand. The pictures are accompanied by fascinating text from historian David Filer, which provides a very pictorial take on New Zealand's colonial past.

First published September 2009, Auckland
252x190mm / 144pp
Softcover - Cased and Jacketed
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Telling Stories order quantity
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Author: Janice Gill
Published by: Steele Roberts & Associates
Janice Gill’s first solo exhibition (Auckland, 1974) sold out in a week. Since then she has developed a unusual niche for herself as a documentary painter, telling graphic stories of old — and contemporary — New Zealand.
Janice’s work is represented in public and private collections. It often focuses on people on the margins of society. She has been a Labour Party activist for three decades and now lives and paints in Nelson.
This full-colour book displays 152 of Janice's works, with notes on each by the artist, and has an introduction by Brian Easton.

First published 2009.
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9780908848256
Len Lye order quantity
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Paperback
Author: Tyler Cann & Wystan Curnow (eds)
Published by: GOVETT BREWSTER ART GALLERY
184 pages.
Published to coincide with the exhibition currently (September 2009) showing at the Australian Centrer for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne.
 
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