Old New Zealand Houses 1800-1940 by Jeremy Salmond

$35.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good

They appear everywhere in the New Zealand landscape, a wonderfully distinctive collection of older houses of all shapes and sizes, ranked along city or small-town streets or dotted across farming hillsides and by country roads. This book is both a history and a celebration of New Zealand

The Sound of One Hand: Max Gimblett's Calligraphy Practice by Eric Shiner and Tom Huhn

$60.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: new

This is the first publication to focus entirely on the sumi ink paintings of American-New Zealand artist Max Gimblett (born 1935). Known for his work with the quatrefoil shape, Gimlett paints on canvas, wood panel and exquisite papers.

Michael Fowler's University of Auckland by Michael Fowler (Illustrator)

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Whole House Reuse - Deconstruction by Juliet Arnott; Kate McIntyre; Matthew Galloway; Guy William Frederick

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

New Suburban: Reinventing the Family Home - Australia & New Zealand by Stuart Harrison

$40.00 NZD

Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good

Remember what was good about the suburbs? Simple family homes with ample outdoor space to garden, play, entertain or relax...This ideal is no longer confined to outer urban areas. New, adaptable and innovative homes with space to live and play are being created in the suburbs and inner-city. Stuart Harr ison, along with some of our best architects, challenges the notion that we must choose between amenity and outdoor space, between small city apartments and huge houses miles from anywhere. New Suburban showcases thirty houses that offer brilliant alternatives through intelligent and original architecture: new houses plus imaginative makeovers in both city and suburb. All value light, openness and the outdoors, while providing ample space for families in energy-efficient, flexible and beautiful dwellings. In A Place in the Sun and Forty-six Square Metres of Land Doesn't Normally Become a House, Stuart Harrison championed sustainable and efficient houses. Now he rediscovers what's best in suburbia and re-envisions housing that is exciting, adaptable, attractive and sustainable for communities of the future. ...Show more

Necessary Distraction - A Painting Show by Natasha Conland; Zara Stanhope; Allan Smith; Claire McIntosh; Abby Cunnane; Auckland Art Gallery Staff (Contribution by)

$25.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks

Forty Modern New Zealand Paintings by Francis Pound

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good to very good

Bill Hammond: 23 Big Pictures by Bill Hammond; Chris Kraus

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Hammond is 'hot' - a work of his recently fetched the highest-ever auction price for a living New Zealand artist. This publication festures essays by Justin Paton, Priscilla Pitts, Gwynneth Porter and Los Angeles-based critic Chris Kraus. 48 pages, full colour and black and white illustrations.

Julian Dashper by Francis Pound; Jim Barr; Mary Barr; Sue Crockford Gallery Staff (Contribution by)

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Arts Year Book 6: Sixth Annual Review of the Arts in New Zealand by Eric Lee-Johnson (ed.)

$65.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Year Book of the Arts in New Zealand No. 3: 1947 by Howard Wadman (ed.)

$65.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

The Weight of the Captain's Wrist: Peter Ireland History Paintings by Peter Ireland

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine

The first monograph of the New Zealand painter Peter Ireland this book surveys his practice, on the theme of Captain Cooks voyages to the Pacific. Irelands exquisite, detailed and enigmatic history painting is beautifully reproduced in this 100pp., spot varnished, offset reproduction, to reflect the oil on paper originals. Coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the first sustained European contact with Aotearoa New Zealand, this book features 69 works from, mostly, Irelands ongoing James Cook series and the associated Waitangi Wallpaper series, supported by a number of related works from his Curator, Panorama and continuing Sampler series. These series represent about one-third of his total art practice. Together, the images constitute a continuing conversation between historical characters and the events in which they figured, interweaving our national history with European painting traditions. As writer Gerald Barnett states in his essay (p.11) There is another dimension to Irelands practice that intersects with but is not conditioned by the national frame. He is a religious painter and his use of symbolism draws on Catholic concepts of signification as well as Renaissance painting traditions and exemplars. It is not that motifs in his art point beyond themselves to transcendent meaning, or that representations usher the viewer into contemplative understanding.Ireland does not have some doctrinal cargo to unload on the viewer, but he does attach his work to the language, history and examples of religious painting in the European tradition, and he does bring this into alignment with a colonial history. This is accomplished in a way that leaves the viewer uncomfortably situated between different orders of meaning and understanding. Peter Ireland has been painting full-time since late 1976. He has exhibited regularly and widely in both solo and group shows, he is also known as a writer and curator of photography. ...Show more