Fashion Rebels: Style Icons Who Changed the World Through Fashion by Carlyn Cerniglia Beccia
18.00 NZD
Category: Art & Artists
Get to know the women who ve wielded the power of fashion and brought about change with this illustrated biography that features twenty-five of history s most influential fashion icons. Throughout time, daring women have made fashion choices that have altered the course of history. From Marie Antoinette ...Show more
Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House by Magdalena Holzhey
23.00 NZD
Category: Art & Artists
This fascinating look into the world of the artist Frida Kahlo introduces children to the themes that infused Kahlo's vibrant paintings, while demonstrating how her life influenced her art. Parrots, trees, deer, family members, friends, flowers, the sun and the moon--Frida Kahlo's use of symbolism and c ...Show more
100 Great Children's Picture Books by Martin Salisbury
65.00 NZD
Category: Art & Artists
Each book is a creation of genius and inventiveness, and their design and illustration represent such diverse trends as the Russian Constructivists, Italian Futurists and Postwar Neo-romantics. They are also mirrors of their times reflecting social concerns from a child's and family's perspectives throu ...Show more
Masterpiece Mix by Roxie Munro
18.00 NZD
Category: Art & Artists
Using works from the National Gallery of Art (Washington DC, USA) by Vincent Van Gogh, Marie Cassatt, Edward Hopper, and others, Roxie Munro has created an innovative introduction to art. As an artist contemplates her next painting, she introduces genres and subjects, showcasing reproductions of great ...Show more
Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature by Annemarie Bilclough
65.00 NZD
Category: Art & Artists | Series: Drawn to Nature
This beautiful book explores the beloved writer's achievements as a storyteller, artist, and naturalist.Beatrix Potter's universe of characters--Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddleduck--have delighted audiences for over a century. A creative pioneer and determined entrepreneur, she combined sci ...Show more
How Art Works by DK
48.00 NZD
Category: Art & Artists | Series: How Things Work
What goes into creating art? How can we learn to "read" paintings? What are the key elements of composition? An art book like no other, How Art Works uses practical graphics to demonstrate the techniques, styles, materials, and concepts that lie behind great art. It shows you how to interpret paintings, ...Show more
Picasso's Trousers by Nicholas Allan
17.00 NZD
Category: Art & Artists
Whenever Picasso does something different, people say, "No! No! No! Picasso!" But Picasso doesn't listen. Instead, he says..."Yes!" He paints all-blue pictures, all-pink pictures, plus pictures from the front and side all at the same time! He makes art out of bike bits and he can draw pictures in less t ...Show more
Frida Kahlo (V&A Introduces) by .
18.00 NZD
Category: Art & Artists
This vibrant mini-hardback explores the life and dress of Frida Kahlo and is filled with Mexican-influenced patterns, photographs of key people and illustrations of her wardrobe. Kahlo has inspired many with her fashion, art and life, and this beautiful book considers what made her so unique.
Georges Seurat (In the Picture With...) by Iain Zaczek
24.00 NZD
Category: Art & Artists | Series: In the Picture with
This title looks at the life and works of Georges Seurat, including an examination of paintings such as Bathers at Asnieres, Circus Sideshow, Young Woman Powdering Herself, Le Chahut, A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte, The Circus and The 'Maria', Honfleur. It looks at the techniques and colour palet ...Show more
GO: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design by Chip Kidd
35.00 NZD
Category: Design & Architecture
'Congratulations, you have decided to open this book, even though you have no idea what it's about, and the cover is weird and seemingly at cross-purposes and possibly even pretentious. But you opened it anyway. And you know what? That was a design decision. Yes indeed, whether you realised it or not, m ...Show more
Who's in the Picture?: Take a Closer Look at over 20 Famous Paintings by Susie Brooks
23.00 NZD
Category: Art & Artists
Who's in the jungle, prowling through a storm? Who's at the seaside on a busy beach? Who's in the stables, stamping and neighing?With beautifully pitched text wrtitten by Susie Brooks supported bu friendly cartoon-style illustrations, Who's In The Picture? invites young children to explore and interact ...Show more
Who's in the Picture? by Susie Brooks
22.00 NZD
Category: Art & Artists
This simple, engaging introduction to art combines superb reproductions of an imaginative selection of artworks by artists ranging from Rousseau and Seurat to Mondrian and Van Gogh. With beautifully pitched text supported by friendly cartoon-style illustrations, Who's in the Picture? invites young child ...Show more