Te Maori. Te hokinga mai. The return home by David R. Simmons and Merimeri Penfold

$20.00 NZD

Category: Maori & Pacific | Reading Level: very good

Select Views of Glasgow and its Environs engraved by Joseph Swan from drawings by Mr. J Fleming and Mr. J. Knox with historical & descriptive illustrations and an introductory sketch of the progress of the city by J. M. Leighton by Joseph Swan and J. M. Leighton

$240.00 NZD

Category: rare & collectable | Reading Level: good-very good

Eric Lee-Johnson with a biographical introduction by E. H. McCormick

$30.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Frances Hodgkins 1869-1947 by Avenal McKinnon

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine

Exhibition for New Zealand 1990 in Britain

Helen Stewart 1900-1983 A Centennial Tribute by Adrienne Jarvis

$10.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Smoke & Mirrors by Karen Inderbitzen-Waller and Delphine Avril Planqueel

$45.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Smoke & Mirrors traces a journey of closely examined nostalgia and a fascination with difficult beauty. Cutting a delicate path between the real and the imagined, interior and exterior, the light and the dark, the new and the faded, the work expresses a delicate, but potent girlishness spared from s entimentality by an ever-present grit. ...Show more

In Another Dimension - Auckland Bookplates 1920-1960 by Ian G. Thwaites; John Denny; Puriri Press Staff (Contribution by)

$250.00 NZD

Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: fine

Queer Objects by Chris Brickell; Judith Collard

$35.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine

Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and accessories we wear, and the analogue and digital technologies we use to communicate with one another. But what makes an object queer? The sixty-three chapters in Queer Objects consider this question in relation to lesbian, gay and transgender communities across time, cultures and space. In this unique international collaboration, well-known and newer writers traverse world history to write about items ranging from ancient Egyptian tomb paintings and Roman artefacts to political placards, snapshots, sex toys and the smartphone. Fabulous, captivating, transgressive. ...Show more

Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity by Alexander Alberro

$15.00 NZD

Category: Art | Reading Level: very good

An examination of the origins and legacy of the conceptual art movement.Conceptual art was one of the most influential art movements of the second half of the twentieth century. In this book Alexander Alberro traces its origins to the mid-1960s, when its principles were first articulated by the artists Dan Graham, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner, and others. One of Alberro's central arguments is that the conceptual art movement was founded not just by the artists but also by the dealer Seth Siegelaub. Siegelaub promoted the artists, curated groundbreaking shows, organized symposia and publications, and in many ways set the stage for another kind of entrepreneur: the freelance curator. Alberro examines both Siegelaub's role in launching the careers of artists who were making "something from nothing" and his tactful business practices, particularly in marketing and advertising.Alberro draws on close readings of artworks produced by key conceptual artists in the mid- to late 1960s. He places the movement in the social context of the rebellion against existing cultural institutions, as well as the increased commercialization and globalization of the art world. The book ends with a discussion of one of Siegelaub's most material and least ephemeral contributions, the Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement, which he wrote between 1969 and 1971. Designed to limit the inordinate control of collectors, galleries, and museums by increasing the artist's rights, the Agreement unwittingly codified the overlap between capitalism and the arts. ...Show more

Civilisation by Kenneth Clark

$35.00 NZD

Category: History | Reading Level: very good

Braque by Raymond Cogniat

$20.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: good

Stations of the Cross: An Exhibition based on the passion of Christ by Alex Sutherland

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good