Marianne North - A very intrepid painter by Michelle Payne
$10.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: good
Marianne North, an unmarried middle-aged Victorian lady of comfortable means, set off in 1871 on her first expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants of the world. Marianne produced more than 800 paintings which are housed in a special gallery at Kew. This publication provid ...Show more
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901 - The Theatre of Life by Matthias Arnold
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Basic Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Parmi ceux à qui l'on doit notre représentation fantasmée de Paris le peintre et graphiste Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) n'est pas des moindres. À travers ses gravures, affiches, peintures et dessins, l'artiste a immortalisé la vie nocturne parisienne à la Belle Époque et a fait figurer le quart ...Show more
Andy Warhol - Films and Paintings: The Factory Years by Peter Gidal
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Quality Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: good
In 1961 a fashionable commercial artist named Andy Warhol created an artistic furor in New York with his deadpan versions of the Campbell’s Soup can. Since then he has become the most talked about but least understood artist of the late 20th century. Warhol made acceptable the use of industrial techniqu ...Show more
Paul Klee (1879-1940) - A Collection of 61 Paintings and Drawings from the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf: Auckland City Art Gallery, 1 August-18 September 1983, National Art Gallery, Wellington, 7 October-20 November 1983 by Paul Klee; Werner Schmalenbach; Auckland City Art Gallery Staff (Contribution by)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good
Nature's Engraver - A Life of Thomas Bewick by Jenny Uglow
$25.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good
A beautifully illustrated biography of Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), the man whose art helped shape the way we view the natural world At the end of the eighteenth century, Britain, and much of the Western world, fell in love with nature. Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds marked the moment, the firs ...Show more
First Noel - A Christmas Carousel by Jan Pienkowski
$15.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: near fine
This magical Christmas carousel tells the story of the Nativity through five exquisite cut-out silhouettes with words from the King James Bible.
Henri Rousseau 1844-1910 by Cornelia Stabenow
$12.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series | Reading Level: very good
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) emerged from humble circumstances - reflected in his nickname, "the customs official". This book covers Rousseau's development into an artist whose work depicts a mixture of primitive idyll and flight from civilization, holding a secure place in the history of art.
Fond of printing - Gordon Craig as Typographer & Illustrator by Colin Franklin; Edward craig; Gordon Craig
$80.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Series: Typophile Chapbook 54 | Reading Level: very good
Candide illustrated by Rockwell Kent by Voltaire
$55.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Stanley Spencer: A Biography by Ken Pople
$20.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: good-very good
Walter Sickert - A Life by Matthew Sturgis
$14.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good
The first major life of the outstanding British painter - and Jack the Ripper suspect - Walter Sickert (1860-1942), by the highly acclaimed biographer of Aubrey Beardsley. Walter Richard Sickert is perhaps the outstanding figure of British art during the last hundred years. Many contemporary painters, ...Show more