Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania by Kololesa Mahina Tuai
$85.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture | Reading Level: near fine
A major new history of craft that spans three centuries of making and thinking in Aotearoa New Zealand and the wider Moana (Pacific). It tells the previously untold story of craft in Aotearoa New Zealand, and proposes a new idea of craft - one that acknowledges Pakeha, Maori and wider Moana histories of ...Show more
Gallipoli: the Scale of our War by Puawai Cairns; Michael Keith; Christopher Pugsley; Richard Taylor
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture
The long-running Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War is one of Te Papas most popular exhibitions, attracting over three million visitors since it opened in 2015. There is still strong visitor interest in the story of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in which almost 3000 New Zealanders lost their lives. Jus ...Show more
Making Space - A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture by Elizabeth Cox (Editor)
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture | Reading Level: near fine
Overlooked, underpaid, and often undermined, New Zealand women architects have faced decades of struggle to maintain a position in a male-dominated profession yet their work has been both important and of significance. This groundbreaking new book tells the story of their contribution to the creativity, ...Show more
Te Toi Whakairo: The Art Of Maori Carving by Hirini Moko Mead
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture
Te Toi Whakairo is an essential guide to Maori wood carving by distinguished carver and academic Sir Sidney (Hirini) Moko Mead. The book presents all the elements of carving in different regions of New Zealand, with practical advice on techniques and styles, and is abundantly illustrated with photos, di ...Show more
Jumping Sundays - The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand by Nick Bollinger
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture | Reading Level: near fine
Award-winning writer Nick Bollinger’s deep history of the transformation of New Zealand life wrought by the counterculture in the 1960s and ’70s.On a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1969, thousands of people defied Auckland city bylaws and came to party in Albert Park. A rock band played on the rotund ...Show more
Hundertwasser in New Zealand - The Art of Creating Paradise by Andreas J Hirsch
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture | Reading Level: near fine
'New Zealand is for me a kind of promised land.' Austrian-born artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser arrived in New Zealand in 1973, seeking refuge from a world out of kilter with nature. After travelling and exhibiting, he settled at Kaurinui, the land he bought and restored in the Bay of Islands. Wishing ...Show more
A Book of Seeing by Roger Horrocks
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture
Everyone with sight knows the pleasure of colours, the fascination of faces and bodies, the subtle forms of nature, and the curious patterns of art. This book is for everyone who would like to delve deeper into their experience of seeing. "Richly textured and profoundly engrossing."- Murray Edmond. "Fre ...Show more
Heritage Paintings Tauponui a tia New Zealand by Raymond Val
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture
Val Raymond was best known during the 1960s, 70s and 80s for her portraiture and Central North Island lanscapes. Inventing new watercolour techniques led to her artistic trsnaformation during the 1990s - painting exquisite "abstract expessions"that combine unusually different aspects of New Zealand heri ...Show more
Nature Boy - The Photography of Olaf Petersen by Catherine Hammond (Editor); Shaun Higgins (Editor); Andrew Clifford (Contribution by); Sandra Coney (Contribution by); Sarah Hillary (Contribution by); Kirstie Ross (Contribution by)
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture | Reading Level: near fine
A gull chick running across Muriwai Beach. Cabbage trees at Lake Wainamu. Tyre tracks, tugs of war and tramping trips. Olaf Petersen produced an unrivalled photographic account of the people and natural world of Auckland's wild west coast. Nature Boy introduces readers to this remarkable photographer an ...Show more
Wellington Architecture - A Walking Guide by John Walsh
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture
The third in the series of popular and handy guides to our urban architecture by the well-known team of writer John Walsh and photographer Patrick Reynolds. It tells the stories of more than 120 significant central-city buildings, and also of the architects who designed them. The buildings are grouped i ...Show more