Two Centuries of New Zealand Landscape Art by Roger Blackley

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

The Long Dream of Waking: New Perspectives on Len Lye by Edited by Paul Brobbel, Wystan Curnow and Roger Horrocks

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Recognised internationally as one of the twentieth century’s great modernist innovators, New Zealand artist Len Lye is most famous for his avant-garde experimental films and for his astonishing and playful kinetic sculptures. Always fascinated by the interplay of movement and light, this extraordinary a rtist also expressed himself in photography, drawing, painting and poetry. During his lifetime he was better known in the art capitals of North America and Europe than in the country of his birth, but that has changed since the establishment of the foundation dedicated to his works at New Plymouth’s Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and particularly following the opening, in 2015, of the impressive and much-admired Len Lye Centre. In this timely collection of essays, writers from New Zealand and overseas consider Lye’s assured place in modern art from a variety of fascinating and thoughtprovoking angles. He thought of his creations as emerging from ‘the long dream of waking’. And thanks to this richly illustrated collection of essays, we too can be drawn into his long dream and come to see his remarkable achievements through fresh eyes. Paul Brobbel is the Len Lye Curator at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, and former Assistant Collection Manager (Photography) at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand. Wystan Curnow is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Auckland. He is an art critic, poet, curator and editor. He coedited Figures of Motion: Len Lye’s Selected Writings (with Roger Horrocks, 1984) and Len Lye (with Tyler Cann, 2009). Roger Horrocks is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Auckland. He worked as Len Lye’s assistant during the last year of his life, and became his biographer (Len Lye: A Biography, 2001). His other works on Lye include Art that Moves (2009).  ...Show more

Landfall 239 by Emma Neale (Editor)

$15.00 NZD

Category: Periodicals | Series: Landfall Ser. | Reading Level: near fine

Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's best writers. There are reviews of the latest books , art, film, drama and dance. Landfall is a high-quality production, with artist portfolios in full colour. FEATURED ARTISTS: Vita Cochran, Star Gossage, Robert West. AWARDS & COMPETITIONS: Results from the 2020 Charles Brasch Young Writers' Essay Competition. WRITERS: John Adams, Johanna Aitchison, John Allison, Shaun Bamber, Tony Beyer, Iain Britton, Medb Charleton, Ruth Corkill, Doc Drumheller, Mark Edgecombe, Lynley Edmeades, David Eggleton, Johanna Emeney, Rhys Feeney, Michael Giacon, Carolyn Gillum, Patricia Grace, Eliana Gray & Jordan Hamel, Isabel Haarhaus, Bernadette Hall, Sarah Harpur, Jenna Heller, Stephanie Johnson, Erik Kennedy, Brent Kininmont, Megan Kitching, Claire Lacey, Leonard Lambert, Malinna Liang, Emer Lyons, Carolyn McCurdie, Cilla McQueen, Owen Marshall, Talia Marshall, Zoë Meager, James Norcliffe, Keith Nunes, Kotuku Tithuia Nuttall, Vincent O'Sullivan, Leanne Radojkovich, essa may ranapiri, Gillian Roach, Pip Robertson, Jo-Ella Sarich, Tim Saunders, Sarah Scott, Sarah Shirley, Elizabeth Smither, Charlotte Steel, Nicola Thorstensen, Rushi Vyas, Susan Wardell ...Show more

Cone Ten Down: Studio Pottery in New Zealand, 1945-1980 by Moyra Elliott

$35.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

In the 1960s and 70s not only did potters flourish around the country but it seems that everyone's mum was producing mugs and bowls at night class. This phenomenon was part of a particualr philosophy of pottery - local materials and natural-looking forms, glazes and designs. All those small brown pots a re now highly collectible and sought-after in op shops, second hand stores and, increasingly, at auction. Why did this style of pottery reach such heights in New Zealand? Who were the crafts people and what is the value of their work today? With over 100 photos especially taken for the book and photographs of leading potter's marks, this will be an invaluable book to the collector. Many 'characters' from that era featured in the book are still active in arts today, including Hamish Keith, Len Castle, Barry Brickell; and author Damian Skinner is particularly high-profile, with a number of major art publications out in the last couple of years. ...Show more

Frank Carpay by Douglas Llloyd Jenkins

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

This book is a celebration of the life and work of Frank Carpay, a talented New Zealander who received little or no recognition in his lifetime. After his death Frank's wife Carla preserved many examples of his work, deciding that the Hawke's Bay Museum should be the permanent home of their archives. Hi s ceramics now reach record prices in auction rooms around the country, and his textiles are now admired for their originality. ...Show more

Briar Gardner Pioneer Potter by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins et al.

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Noel McKenna: Sheltered Life by Noel McKenna; Gregory O'Brien; Anne Loxley;; Lizzie Bisley

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine

An artist with a growing reputation on both sides of the Tasman, Sydney-based Noel McKenna has, since the early 1980s, been preoccupied with various kinds of shelter; house, caravan, dog kennel, the members' stand at the racecourse...This publication - and the City Gallery Wellington exhibition project it accompanies - tracks McKenna's ongoing fascination with ideas of 'home' and 'the interior life'. Noel McKenna - Sheltered Life features twenty-three colour plates and over thirty black and white illustrations, complemented with essays by City Gallery Wellington curator Gregory O'Brien and Australian writer and curator Anne Loxley. ...Show more

Sanitate - Published on the Occasion of Sanitate, a Big Wall Installation at Dunedin Public Art Gallery by Christopher Braddock; Natasha Conland; Dunedin Public Art Gallery Staff (Contribution by)

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Milan Mrkusich - A Decade Further on, 1974-1983 by T L Rodney Wilson and Peter Leech

$30.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Transformers - A Moving Experience by Andrew Bogle; John McIver (Photographer); Jennifer French (Photographer)

$10.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Joanna Margaret Paul Drawings by Jill Trevelyan & Sarah Treadwell

$30.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Published with the Mahara Gallery, Kapiti Coast, this book is designed to accompany an exhibition of the drawings of Joanna Paul that will tour throughout the country. It introduces a remarkable artist whose work at her death in 2003 was not widely known but whose striking talents are vividly displayed in her drawings. Both charming and accessible, these drawings, in a range of media and often in colour, focus on domestic and landscape subjects and give an impression of intimacy and familiarity. Essays by art historians Jill Trevelyan, the exhibition curator, and Sarah Treadwell place the drawings in context and highlight the artist's distinctive skills. Paperback with flaps, 140 pages, first published May 2006. ...Show more

As Good As Gold - Billy Apple, Art Transactions, 1981-1991 by Wystan Curnow and Gregory Burke

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good