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* Landmark book about the New Zealand life of the exceptional artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser * Follows the opening of the Hundertwasser Art Centre, Whangarei * Reproduces many of the artist's works along with extensive photos, drawings and ephemera
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Major survey of the 50-year career of one of New Zealand's best-loved artists
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Finlay Macdonald's beautifully told, visually gorgeous biography of Dame Lynley Dodd and her creation, the rascally dog Hairy Maclary. 'A visual delight' NZ Listener's 100 Best Books of 2013 'Lynley Dodd is a national treasure, and this excellent book shows us why.' Weekend Press... Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy has been read and loved by millions since its 1983 publication. Its protagonist's shaggy face and mischievous eyes are now iconic. But what of his creator? 'People don't believe me when I tell them that Hairy Maclary fell out of a book - literally - but he did. It was just a scrap of paper I'd tucked between the pages of my ideas book, as you do. And I picked it up and thought, well, yes, I could do this. So I did.' In The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd, Finlay Macdonald tells the tale of how a small girl raised in Kaingaroa Forest became the illustrator and virtuoso wordsmith behind so many picture books that are living classics. But this is not just a story about a storyteller, it is a book that explores Lynley Dodd's working world. What is the secret behind her stories' linguistic dexterity? How does her paintbrush capture the sometimes comic, sometimes tragic expressions of her animal characters with such precision? As well as many favourite and familiar book illustrations, this volume contains never-before-seen sketches and cartoons, character roughs and picture-book drafts. The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd is both a tale of remarkable success and a window into a brilliant creative mind. This new paperback edition has been updated to include Lynley's latest story, Scarface Claw, Hold Tight! and the sellout exhibitions of her artwork over the last decade.
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- A biography of the life, and times, of Leonardo
- Magnificent full-colour illustrations throughout
- Author of the internationally acclaimed Much Ado About Shakespeare
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A remarkable collection of poetry and paintings by acclaimed Wellington poet Gregory O'Brien.
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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 14 New Zealand buildings - from churches ...to school halls. Drawing on interviews with James Hackshaw before his death and on the McCahon archive, this book brings into the light a body of work and a collaboration that has been little known or examined, even by old McCahon hands. Richly illustrated with Hackshaw's plans, McCahon's drawings, letters and journal entries, and contemporary images of the surviving buildings and artworks, and with expert essays by Peter Simpson, Julia Gatley and Peter Shaw.
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Poet Lynley Edmeades and painter Saskia Leek and luscious collaboration, the fourth in the landmark korero series edited by Lloyd Jones, explores ideas of the quotidian and its everyday miracles. Their close, intense domestic observations merge with the philosophical, in a quest ...for deeper meaning.
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Internationally renowned artist Yuki Kihara - the first Fa'afafine and Pacific artist to represent Aotearoa New Zealand at the Venice Biennale - reframes history through a contemporary queer, Indigenous lens. Interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara is known for work that interrogate...s and dismantles colonial legacies in the Pacific from a queer Samoan perspective. Kihara is the first Pasifika and Fa'afafine artist to represent Aotearoa New Zealand at the prestigious Venice Biennale, with a groundbreaking exhibition of new work that addresses some of the most pressing issues of our time. In this companion publication to the exhibition, contributors from around the world explore the interwoven strands running through Kihara's powerful body of work: race, gender, place, decolonisation, environment, agency, community. The book includes a 'visual chapter' from the artist herself, offering a glimpse into her creative process. Archival imagery and behind-the-scenes photographs further contextualise Paradise Camp and Kihara's other artworks, which puncture, expose, queer and question dominant narratives, turning so-called history on its head.
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Meet the unexpected, overlooked and forgotten models of art history. Who was Picasso's 'Weeping Woman'? Why was Grace Jones covered in graffiti? How did Francis Bacon meet the burglar who became his muse? The perception of the muse is that of a passive, powerless model, at the me...rcy of an influential and older artist. But is this trope a romanticised myth? Far from posing silently, muses have brought emotional support, intellectual energy, career-changing creativity and practical help to artists. Muse tells the true stories of the incredible muses who have inspired art history's masterpieces. From Leonardo da Vinci's studio to the covers of Vogue, art historian, critic and writer Ruth Millington uncovers the remarkable role of muses in some of art history's most well-known and significant works. Delving into the real-life relationships that models have held with the artists who immortalised them, it will expose the influential and active part they have played and deconstruct reductive stereotypes, reframing the muse as a momentous and empowered agent of art history.
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-Features the life stories and creative work of 34 NZ women creatives, including:
Philippa Bentley, Tess Costil, Hannah Jensen, Kiri Nathan, Emily Adams, Claudia Pond Eyley,
Indigo Rowe, Bernadette Casey, Flox, Louise James, Sofia Minson, Fiona Mackay, Anita May
Blanchett, Deb...ra Fallowfield, Fiona Hugues, Tina Hutchison-Thomas, Janette Cervin, Gypsy
West, Vanessa Riddell, Julie Paama-Pengelly, Renee Dale, Louise Pilkington, Manja
Wachsmuth, Holly Roach, Rebecca Asquith, Kate Hursthouse, Vicky Savage, Neke Moa, Jacqui
Victor, Bets Gee, Julie Collis, Liz Smith, Susi Meares, Relda Frogley and Joanne Gray.
- A close-up view of each artist and their work outlining their life, work, and challenges to pursue
a creative life.
- Combines intimate photography with in-depth storytelling to provide inspiration to others
wishing to follow their dreams.
- Support from The Rt. Hon Helen Clarke who has provided the Forward to the book.
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