The Art Thief: A true story of love, crime and a dangerous obsession by Michael Finkel
38.00 NZD
Category: Art & Fashion
The true story of the world’s most prolific art thief, who accumulated a collection worth over $1.4 billion. A spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, from the bestselling author of The Stranger in the Wood. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the ...Show more
Drawing Horses (Learn to Draw Step by Step) by Walter Foster
19.00 NZD
Category: Art & Fashion | Series: Learn to Draw Step by Step
Learn to create detailed, realistic horses in graphite pencil from basic shapes.Drawing: Horses shows you how to render a variety of beautiful horses in graphite pencil, with tips on choosing materials, building with basic shapes, and shading to develop form and realism. With a wealth of detailed step-b ...Show more
Art and Myth in Ancient Greece by Thomas H. Carpenter
40.00 NZD
Category: Art & Fashion | Series: World of Art Ser.
The ancient Greeks recorded their mythology on vase paintings, engraved gems, and bronze and stone sculptures, offering depictions that often predate any references to the myths in literature or recount alternative, unfamiliar versions of these tales. In some cases, visual art provides our only evidence ...Show more
Rembrandt in America: Collecting and Connoisseurship by Dennis P. Weller
115.00 NZD
Category: Art & Fashion | Reading Level: near fine
Published on the occasion of a major exhibition bringing together the best Rembrandt paintings from American collections. The great seventeenth-century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn is one of the most important painters in the history of European art. This richly illustrated volume gathers some fifty ...Show more
Scene In Between - Fashion and Independent Music in the UK 1983-89 by Dave Conway (Text by); Sam Knee
40.00 NZD
Category: Art & Fashion
The scene surrounding independent guitar-based music of 1980s Britain has been largely overlooked until now. This critically acclaimed book excavates the looks and sounds of the era, featuring hundreds of unpublished photographs of bands including My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus and Mary Chain, the Smith ...Show more
The Narrative of Trajan's Column by Italo Calvino
14.00 NZD
Category: Art & Fashion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished' Italo Calvino was one of the most joyful and imaginative writers of the twentieth century. Here he muses on what the things we leave behind - whether waxworks or ancient graffiti, enigmatic maps or a crumbling Roman column - tell us about the gr ...Show more
The Beginner's Guide to Urban Sketching - Everything You Need to Know to Capture Your Favorite Places in Ink and Watercolor by Taria Dawson
50.00 NZD
Category: Art & Fashion
Oh, The Places You'll Sketch! Capture the world as it lives and breathes in the pages of your sketchbook. Taria Dawson, creator of the popular blog Urban Sketching World, makes it easy to draw on location. Using the art form's loose, colorful and spontaneous method, you'll learn to create sentimental i ...Show more
Fry's Ties by FRY STEPHEN
38.00 NZD
Category: Art & Fashion
Every single one of Stephen Fry's ties - whether floral, fluorescent, football themed; striped or spotty, outrageous or simply debonair - tells an intimate tale about a moment in Stephen's life; each one is a window into shared cultural, historical, economic and social moments in time. Fry's Ties is a ...Show more
Dressing the Part: Television's Most Stylish Shows by Hal Rubenstein
75.00 NZD
Category: Art & Fashion
From longtime fashion director, consultant, media personality, and author, Hal Rubenstein, comes a lush, full color, illustrated guide to the most influential fashion on television from the 1950s to today, revealing the surprising ways our favorite shows have significantly reflected and often shaped the ...Show more
The Secret Life of Tartan - How a Cloth Shaped a Nation by Vixy Rae
40.00 NZD
Category: Art & Fashion
Tartan is so much more than just a cloth. From its clan origins in the Scottish Highlands to the catwalks of Milan, London, and New York, from its regimental history to its anti-establishment status, tartan has not only shaped a nation but has become an international style icon. The Secret Life of Tarta ...Show more
Frida Kahlo by Teresa Grenzmann
25.00 NZD
Category: Art & Fashion
Life and work of the artist and style icon Frida Kahlo in a compact overview.Frida Kahlo has become an icon of art with her powerfully expressive work. Her pictures not only reflect a view of herself, her fears, the biography of her illness, her passions and her joie de vivre; they also take up subjects ...Show more
Islamic Art and Architecture by Robert Hillenbrand
40.00 NZD
Category: Art & Fashion | Series: World of Art Ser.
Including over a thousand years of history and stretching from the Atlantic to the borders of India and China, Islamic Art and Architecture is an unparalleled narrative of the arts of Islamic civilization. From the death of the Prophet Muhammad to 1900, Islamic art expert Robert Hillenbrand traces the e ...Show more