Robin White: Something Is Happening Here by Sarah Farrar; Nina Tonga; Jill Trevelyan
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture
Robin White: Something is happening here is the first book to be devoted to Robin White's art in 40 years. Its assessment of her remarkable 50 years as an artist includes fresh perspectives by 24 writers and interviewees from Australia, the Pacific, and Aotearoa New Zealand and celebrates her status as ...Show more
The Gosden Years - A New Zealand Film Festival Legacy by Bill Gosden
$30.00 NZD
$50.00 (40% off)
Category: NZ Arts & Culture | Reading Level: very good
Bill Gosden was at the forefront of Aotearoa film culture from 1980 to 2019. The Gosden Years is a record of his enormous legacy as director of the New Zealand International Film Festival—the country’s leading annual cinema event and a constant wellspring of film discovery and appreciation. Conceived by ...Show more
Quirky New Zealand by Eleanor Black
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture
The quirkiest landmarks, features and installations from all over New Zealand. Each 'quirky' has a back story. Includes the Rainbow Staircase in Thames, Rose Bowl in Dannevirke, the musket bullet embedded in the bar at the Horeke Hotel and many more.
250 Years Of New Zealand Painting by Gill Docking; Michael Dunn; Edward Hanfling
$100.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture | Reading Level: near fine
This landmark book on New Zealand artists and their work was first written by Gil Docking, published in 1971, extended to 1990 by art historian Michael Dunn, and again to 2020 by art historian, writer and lecturer Edward Hanfling. New design, with additional text by Edward Hanfling, including an introd ...Show more
The Architect and the Artists - Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble - The Collaborative Projects 1965-1979 by Bridget Hackshaw
$50.00 NZD
$65.00 (23% off)
Category: NZ Arts & Culture | Reading Level: very good
A beautiful and important book about the remarkable collaboration between the modernist architect James Hackshaw (a member, for a time, of the famous Group Architects), the painter Colin McCahon and the then young sculptor Paul Dibble on 12 New Zealand buildings - from churches to school halls. Drawing ...Show more
Conversatio: In the Company of Bees by Anne Noble
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture
RENOWNED PHOTOGRAPHER FOCUSES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BEES Conversātiō looks at the astounding practice of leading photographer Anne Noble, set against the issues of ecosystem collapse and climate change and examining what an artist can do in response. Its creative focus is on that most important insect, ...Show more
It Takes a Village - A Guide to Matakana and Its Surrounding Districts by Lauraine Jacobs
$28.00 NZD
$45.00 (37% off)
Category: NZ Arts & Culture | Reading Level: very good
It Takes a Village lets readers in on the secrets only locals know and is an expertcompanion to all the area has to offer, from food and wine to art and outdooractivities, and where to stay, written by one of New Zealand's best-known foodwriters.
Our Vibrant Country Seasons Of New Zealand by Bob McCree
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture
Lush spring farmland, bright summer beaches, red and gold autumn colours and crisp winter days - every spectacular season of the New Zealand landscape is captured in this stunning collection by award-winning photographer, Bob McCree.
He Ringatoi o nga Tupuna : Isaac Coates and his Maori portraits by Hilary and John Mitchell
$80.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture
Isaac Coates was an Englishman who lived in Wellington and Nelson between 1841 and 1845. During that time he painted watercolour portraits of 58 Maori from Nelson, Marlborough, Wellington, Waikanae and Kapiti. Some of these portraits have been well-known for nearly 180 years, although their creator was ...Show more
Favourite Maori Legends by A.W. Reed; Ross Calman
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture
Maori myths and legends have an important role in transmitting and regenerating traditional knowledge. Yet as Ross Calman points out in his introduction to this new edition, they are also simply great yarns - reflective of a time when telling and listening to stories was a key leisure activity in Maori ...Show more
Maori Art: History, Architecture, Landscape & Theory by Dr Rangihiroa Panoho
$100.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture | Reading Level: very good
Up until now books on Maori art have described the work as either traditional (carving, weaving, painting) or contemporary, work produced post-1950s. This book presents a unique focus on Maori art by exploring the connection between the traditional and contemporary, and the place of Maori art within an ...Show more
Fun with Flax: 50 Projects for Beginners by Mick Pendergrast
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Arts & Culture | Reading Level: near fine
These 50 interesting and entertaining projects are designed to teach beginners the basic skills of the Maori craft of plaiting. Fun with Flax shows how to make items ranging from a simple windmill, a dart and a whistle to more complex puzzles, balls, birds, fish and even a caterpillar. Each project is d ...Show more