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250 Years Of New Zealand Painting

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..

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A Change in the Weather

THIS BOOK IS FOR HUMANS - BOTH YOUNG AND OLD. DON’T WORRY! IT’S NOT ALL DOOM AND GLOOM! THERE ARE ALSO LOTS OF GOOD NEWS STORIES ABOUT CONSERVATION SUCCESSES AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEROES. IT’S PACK..

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A Load of Bull

A stunning photographic book recording the extraordinary beauty of farm animals - cattle to be precise! Amanda King grew up in Brisbane, Australia, and like so many young Australasians before her..

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About Face: An Artist's Guide to Forensic Facial Approximation

Enter the fascinating world of forensic facial approximation and journey with me through this how-to guide for the artist. Forensic facial approximation is the marriage of scientific observation and..

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About Face: Contemporary Portrait Painting in Australia and New Zealand

From the Australian Book Industry-Award winning author of Australian Abstract. 'Containing a sublime collection of works, Amber Creswell Bell's book is a deeply fascinating insight into Antipodea..

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Aesop's Kiwi Fables

In this collection, newly painted for this book, Ray Ching's drawing and painting skills, familiar to New Zealanders through his widely seen paintings of birds, are imaginatively engaged in an altoget..

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Ans Westra: A Life in Photography

The photographer Ans Westra, who died in 2023, took hundreds of thousands of images over her long career. Together, those images constitute what is arguably a photo album of Aotearoa. Her dedica..

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Art New Zealand #187 - Spring 2023

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Art New Zealand #189 - Autumn 2024

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Art New Zealand #190 - Winter 2024

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Art New Zealand #191 - Spring 2024

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Art of Charles F.Goldie

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Artists in Antarctica

What transformation happens when writers, musicians and artists stand in the vast, cold spaces of Antarctica? This book brings together paintings, photographs, texts and musical scores by Aotearoa New..

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Cheryl Lucas: Shaped by Schist and Scoria

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Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land?: Vol.2 1960-1987

Colin McCahon (1919-1987) was New Zealand's greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Maori motifs, McCahon's work came t..

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Conversatio: In the company of bees

Through Noble's art and newly commissioned essays, the book traverses Noble's deep interest in how humans relate to bees. From images of communities of bees to tintype photographs showing the beau..

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Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania

A major new history of craft that spans three centuries of making and thinking in Aotearoa New Zealand and the wider Moana (Pacific). Paying attention to Pakeha (European New Zealanders), Maori, and i..

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Dark Harvest: The Long Shadow Cast: Contemporary Art Projects Commemorating World War 1 by Stephen Mulqueen and The Otago Sculpture Trust

Dark Harvest discusses the work of the Otago Sculpture Trust over the commemorative period between 2014 2018, and in particular the work of sculptor Stephen Mulqueen. Stephen in his own practice..

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Dear Colin, Dear Ron: The Selected Letters of Colin McCahon and Ron O'Reilly

This substantial book of letters selected by esteemed Colin McCahon scholar Peter Simpson shines a light on one of the most remarkable relationships in New Zealand art. The painter Colin McCahon..

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Don Binney: Flight Path *Winner Ockham 2024 Booksellers NZ Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction*

Painter, printmaker, teacher, writer and ornithologist, Don Binney (1940-2012) was a mercurial presence on the New Zealand cultural scene from the time of his meteoric rise to fame in the early 1960s...

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Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa

On the periphery of Aotearoa New Zealand's publishing scene, there is a rich and varied cottage industry of small press publishers. They work in collaboration, in gaps between paid gigs and with the s..

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Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist

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Everyday Opulence: Homes, Gardens, Interiors Inspired by Aotearoa

Luxurious and inviting, luscious and opulent, the search for paradise is a search for what brings a person happiness and peace. To bring tranquillity and beauty into your own home requires finding wha..

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Finding Frances Hodgkins

When Frances Hodgkins, our most celebrated artist, first left New Zealand in 1901, location became a key factor in her determination to succeed as an artist. In this engaging book, curator Mary Kisler..

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Folly Literary Journal Issue 001

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Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys

New Zealand-born Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) arrived in London in 1901 and, by the 1920s, had become a leading British modernist, exhibiting frequently with avant-garde artists such as Ben Nicholson,..

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Gordon Walters

In this remarkable study by the late Francis Pound, author of the landmark Invention of New Zealand, we are introduced to the making of a New Zealand modernist - tracing the work of Gordon Walters (19..

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He Ringatoi O Nga Tupuna: Isaac Coates and his Maori portraits

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 a..

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Herbst: Architecture in context

Lance and Nicola Herbst established Herbst Architects in 2000 and since then their office has become one of New Zealand's leading architecture practices. Eight New Zealand Architecture Awards and 20 B..

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Hot Lunch Leftovers

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Hotere: Empty of Shadows and Making a Shadow

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Hundertwasser in New Zealand

'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 tra..

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Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toioho ki Apiti

This richly illustrated publication examines the last 25 years of the influential Toioho ki Apiti programme at Massey University, its global indigenous pedagogical reach, and its ongoing impacts on na..

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Landmarks: Grahame Sydney, Brian Tuner and Owen Marshall with Fiona Farrell

A handsome, landmark book celebrating the work of three of our literary and artistic heavyweights. The complementary work of artist Grahame Sydney, fiction writer Owen Marshall and poet Brian T..

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McCahon Country

'My painting tells you where I am at any given time, where I am living and the direction I am pointing in.' Colin McCahon McCahon (1919-1987) is widely recognised as an outstanding figure in t..

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Modern Women Flight of Time

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Mr Rolland: Something of an Artist

Adam Rolland was born in Edinburgh in 1841 but emigrated to Otago with his parents and siblings on the Alpine in 1859. He documented the journey and this interest and skill with drawing and watercolou..

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Nature Boy:  Photography of Olaf Petersen

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 natur..

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Nga Kaihanga Uku: Maori Clay Artists

The rise of an impressive ceramics movement is one of the more striking developments in contemporary Maori art. Clayworking and pottery firing was an ancient Pacific practice, but the knowledge had la..

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Nirun

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Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara: New Zealand at Venice

Interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara's work interrogates and dismantles gender roles, (mis)representation, and colonial legacies in the Pacific. Kihara is the first Pasifika and first Fa'afafine artis..

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Past the Tower, Under the Tree: Twelve Stories of Learning in Community *PANZ Books Design Award 2024 Winner*

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Ray Ching: New Zealand bird paintings

Ray Ching is internationally recognised as one of the world's greatest living wildlife artists. Born in New Zealand, he established himself as an artist in the 1960s, before moving to England where he..

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Resetting the Coordinates: An anthology of performance art of Aotearoa New Zealand

The first anthology/reader of performance art of Aotearoa New Zealand, Resetting the Coordinates offers a lively, 50-year critical survey of Aotearoa New Zealand's globally unique performance art scen..

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Rewi: Ata haere, kia tere

A major tribute to the late architect Rewi Thompson (Ngati Porou, Ngati Raukawa) whose early death robbed Aotearoa New Zealand of one of its greatest thinkers about how our built landscape could best ..

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Robin White Something is happening here *Ockham 2023 Short List*

Robin White: Something is happening Here is the first book to be devoted to Robin Whites art in 40 years. Its assessment of her remarkable 50 years as an artist includes fresh perspectives by 24 write..

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Sheppard & Rout Architects: Vol 1 1982-2021

From its inception, the directors of Sheppard & Rout Architects have been concerned that its architectural and planning projects all reflect their cultural and historical contexts. The events of the..

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Sight Lines: Women and Art in Aotearoa

From ancient whatu kakahu to contemporary installation art, Frances Hodgkins to Merata Mita, Fiona Clark to Mataaho Collective, Sight Lines tells the story of art made by women in Aotearoa. Gathe..

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Te Pae : The Place Where We Meet

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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography

This lively and compelling story of Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery begins before Henry Sarjeant had even dreamed of a 'fine art gallery' for the burgeoning small town of Whanganui. It re..

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