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ISBN / ISSN:

0793573731203

Andrew Drummond

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NZ$ 90.00 each

Published by: Christchurch Art Gallery

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780199580736

The Art Instinct : Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

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NZ$ 35.00 each

Paperback

Author: Denis Dutton

Published by: Oxford University Press

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The Dinka have a connoisseur's appreciation of the patterns and colours of the markings on their cattle. The Japanese tea ceremony is regarded as a performance art. Some cultures produce carving but no drawing; others specialize in poetry. Yet despite the rich variety of artistic expression to be found across many cultures, we all share a deep sense of aesthetic pleasure. The need to create art of some form is found in every human society. In The Art Instinct, Denis Dutton explores the idea that this need has an evolutionary basis: how the feelings that we all share when we see a wonderful landscape or a beautiful sunset evolved as a useful adaptation in our hunter-gather ancestors, and have been passed on to us today, manifest in our artistic natures. Why do people indulge in displaying their artistic skills? How can we understand artistic genius? Why do we value art, and what is it for? These questions have long been asked by ... more

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780714856834

Creamier : Contemporary art in culture: 10 international curators select 100 emerging artists

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NZ$ 65.00 each

Hardback

Author: Zolghadr Tirdad et al

Published by: Phaidon Press Ltd

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"Creamier" is an up-to-the-minute global survey of recent developments in contemporary art, with an emphasis on emerging artists. Each of the ten selected curators is known for his or her integrity and expertise in staging presentations of new art on an international level. Each curator selects ten important new artists who have either emerged internationally over the last five years or who are still relatively unknown. There are no limitations on age, geography or medium. The result is a roster of the most significant and promising new artists working today - the true cream of the crop. Each curator also selects a key creative work for the sources section, such as an art work, text, film or album that has been significantly influential to art being produced at this moment, contextualizing the contemporary work featured in the rest of the book.

First published May 2010

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780007275526

Botanical Painting with Coloured Pencils

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NZ$ 47.00 each

Hardback

Author: Ann Swan

Published by: Harper Collins

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This beautifully illustrated book is the first practical step-by-step guide to using coloured pencils in botanical painting and is written by Ann Swan, one of the top exponents of the genre. Water-soluble and oil-based coloured pencils are becoming increasingly popular for botanical painting as they are easier to use than traditional watercolour and are more forgiving, yet they produce the same stunning effects. They are especially suitable for the accuracy needed to paint in the botanical style of illustration. In this book Ann Swan gives helpful advice on all aspects of working with coloured pencils, including the techniques you will have to master - underpainting, layering and burnishing. She also demontrates how to mix and build up colour, and how to add those finishing touches that will complete your painting successfully. Several full step-by-step demonstrations are included to show how these techniques are put into practice. ... more

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ISBN / ISSN:

9783822834169

Hundertwasser (Taschen 25th)

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NZ$ 45.00 each

Hardback

Author: Harry Rand

Published by: Taschen

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Viennese-native Friedrich Stowasser (1928-2000) called himself Hundertwasser Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt. True to the colorful variety of his names, he pursued many activities as a painter, architect and ecologist, and as "one who awakens identities." This presentation of Hundertwasser's work in all of its different facets is guided by the artist's own view of himself and his purpose. And, because his work is virtually inseparable from his personal life and political activity, a vivid portrait of the artist takes shape before the reader's eyes. Excerpts from conversations between the author and the artist lend a sense of immediacy and authenticity to the narration.

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780715337592

Artist's Complete Problem Solver

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NZ$ 45.00 each

Paperback

Author: Trudy Friend

Published by: David & Charles

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This is a complete and innovative practical guide that offers artists simple solutions to common drawing and painting problems. Solutions presented through clearly annotated pictures and easy-to-follow technique demonstrations ensure that problems can be quickly corrected. Solutions provided for a wide range of the most popular subject areas: landscape, flower and animal paintings. The techniques are shown throughout in all the key media: watercolour, graphite and coloured pencil, charcoal, acrylic and gouache.

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ISBN / ISSN:

9781869621414

The Painted Garden in New Zealand Art

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NZ$ 75.00 each

Hardback

Author: Christopher Johnstone

Published by: Godwit

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From James Busby on, European settlers made gardens from the moment they set foot on New Zealand soil, and of course Maori had extensive cultivations of kumara around their kainga. Many settler gardens were matters of survival - kitchen gardens on which families were reliant - but as individual circumstances allowed and prosperity spread, many gardens became increasingly ambitious and extensive. It is hardly surprising that artists were drawn to depicting them, as they have from the 1820s right through to the present day. This collection of 100 delightful works,tells the story of our gardening history as it intersected with our cultural and artistic development. It is a treasure trove of magnificent images, many of gardens now lost to the passage of time.

First published November 2008.

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ISBN / ISSN:

9781409507857

Drawing, Doodling and Colouring Book

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NZ$ 30.00 each

Paperback

Author: Fiona Watt

Published by: Usborne Publishing Ltd

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This is an excellent book for doodling, drawing and painting. Simple pictures invite the child to finish the scene, pattern, person or object to make each page a work of art, while giving as wide a scope for creativity and innovation as possible. The activities include: dressing the characters for a fancy dress ball, sowing the gardens with flowers, trees and plants and filling the dinner plate with a mouth-watering meal. Special craft paper, designed to be drawn on, makes the book a valued keepsake once it has been completed.

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780714847122

Picturing and Poeting

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NZ$ 80.00 each

Hardback

Author: Alan Fletcher

Published by: Phaidon Press Ltd

In Stock: 2

"The title of this book is a remark allegedly made by Kurt Schwitters to an acquaintance when asked what he was going to do that day. Frankly, considering his poor command of English, it seems unlikely. Anyway, the intention was clear. He was off to make things." - Alan Fletcher. Following on the success of "The Art of Looking Sideways", "Picturing and Poeting" presents an eye-catching and mind-teasing collection of visual games, doodles, graphic objects, sketches and quotations, that demonstrates how images can often convey meaning more clearly than text. It is a fascinating and entertaining exploration of the potential that words have to become pictures, and that drawings have to convey meanings, as well as an intriguing collection of ephemera. Assembled from the notebooks and travel diaries of Alan Fletcher, over a lifetime of noticing the detail and wit in everything and applying his own unique style, this book will appeal to ... more

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780714847863

Raphael

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NZ$ 80.00 each

Hardback

Author: Bette Talvacchia

Published by: Phaidon Press Ltd

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This beautiful monograph explores the life and work of one of the most important artists in the history of the West, Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio, 1483-1520). Its scope covers Raphael's origins, his early influences, his important Urbino period and subsequently the extraordinary series of frescoes and portraits of his last phase in Rome. Over two hundred of Raphael's finest paintings and drawings are illustrated, accompanied by an accessible yet highly informative text by the distinguished Renaissance scholar Bette Talvacchia. The author also explores Raphael's artistic relationships with such Renaissance masters as Leonardo and Michelangelo, culminating in a brilliant account of his masterpieces done in Rome under the patronage of Popes Julius II and Leo X.

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