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JUNE 2019 SCHOOL PRICES NOW AVAILABLE ON GORDON HARRIS SCHOOLS DIRECT WEBSTORE! For access please contact one of our Account Managers Glenn Toms ([email protected]) Andrew Glennie ([email protected]) Handmade Art Gretchen Albrecht In an age where almost everything is mass-produced and technology Gretchen Albrecht is one of New has become the filter through Zealand's most influential painters. which we experience much of life, Over the course of her long career, there is a growing appreciation of her work has continued to surprise the handmade. Handmade Art and delight and her paintings explores the art and artists who feature in many important exemplify the movement through collections both in New Zealand the skill of their craftsmanship and and overseas. their creative vision. $89.99 $80.00 Body : Vitamin T : Threads and The Photography Book Textiles in Contemporary Art This Book explores what our Celebrating tapestry, embroidery, imaging of the human form, and stitching, textiles, knitting, and the ways in which those images knotting as used by visual artists have been used and shared, might worldwide, Vitamin T is the latest reflect of our relationship to the in the celebrated series in which body. Supporting the broad range leading curators, critics, and art of photography is a foreword by a professionals nominate living cultural critic, and an essay by the artists for inclusion. psychologist David Sander. $105.00 $120.00 Hockney/ Van Gogh Olaf Hajek The Joy of Nature This book pays particular attention Olaf Hajek (b. Rendsburg, 1965; to Van Gogh and Hockney beautiful lives and works in Berlin) is one of landscapes alongside their depiction the world's most successful of nature, with a special focus on illustrators. His work has appeared technique, perspective and colour, in newspapers including the New and the way Van Gogh and Hockney York Times and London's The use these `formal' elements to Guardian. create their particular view on the world surrounding them. $55.00 $139.99 Oliver Jeffers Tiffany Bozic Unnatural Selections This dynamic visual biography is One of the most talented artists of Jeffers' personal chronicle of an hers or any other generation, artist who blends his love of Tiffany Bozic combines a deep creating stories with his love of art love of nature and the diversity of and his infectious charm, and is a life with a self-taught technical must-have for art lovers and prowess that is unmatched. bibliophiles both young and old. $119.00 $99.99 1 MONOGRAPHS Art Of Feminism Polixeni Papapetrou The Art of Feminism charts the birth of the feminist aesthetic and A new series of monographs on its development over two centuries Australian female artists, selected that have seen profound and fast with series editor Natalie King, paced change in women's lives . curator and Enterprise Professor Includes over 350 remarkable at the Victorian College of the Arts. artworks, ranging from political These books are compact yet posters and graphics to stunning perfectly formed. and provocative pieces of painting and digital art. $65.00 $35.00 The Bigger Picture : Women Del Kathryn Barton Who Changed the Art World Del Kathryn Barton is an Australian artist, who won the 2008 and 2013 This informative book invites Archibald Prize. Barton is an young readers to discover the acclaimed artist working across creative practices of female artists painting, drawing, film, textile and who, over their careers, broke sculpture. This is a new series of boundaries and exceeded monographs on Australian female expectations. artists, selected with series editor Natalie King, Enterprise Professor at the Victorian College of the Arts and curator. $35.00 $35.00 Madam and Eve Women Big Important Art Book Portraying Women Now With Women How do women paint or A Big Important Art Book (Now photograph each other? How do with Women) offers an exciting they represent each other in alternative to this male-dominated performance or sculpture? As art world, showcasing the work of mothers or heroines? With dozens of contemporary women tenderness, aggression or artists alongside creative prompts respect? Madam & Eve explores that will bring out the artist in the female gaze as it focuses on anyone! other women. $85.00 $59.99 50 Women Artists 50 Contemporary Women You Should Know Artists 1960`s - Now This beautifully produced, richly This one-of-a-kind compendium detailed, and comprehensive features a selection of women artists who have made survey of fifty influential women groundbreaking contributions to artists from the Renaissance to the contemporary art. Profiling an Post-Modern era details their vast international cross-section of contributions to the art world. artists, 50 Contemporary Women Artists presents fresh perspectives on feminism and notions of cultural power. $45.00 $99.99 Brilliant Women Amazing Still Just Kidding : Artists and Designers A Collection of Art, Comics, Stunningly illustrated and and Musings by Cassandra Calin absorbing stories. 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It’s exceptional reading know and love, as well as for the next generation of previously unseen comics. go-getters, trailblazers, doers and dreamers. $34.99 $79.99 2 MONOGRAPHS Suggestivism Resonance Blind Faith The catalogue to the exhibition at Spoke Arts San Francisco and New At a time when society seems to York City galleries, Suggestivism have given up believing in facts, Resonance takes the viewer on a relying on a sense of "blind faith" journey through alternate worlds. instead, the body and mind binary Rendered in a variety of media, each has gained considerable artist has a distinct approach and importance in contemporary art. style while maintaining commonality through painstaking details and phantasmagoric scenes. $90.00 $125.00 The Word is Art Hundertwasser Presenting a brief history of word- and book-based art, and A non-conformist hero, the artist, examining major areas where the architect, and activist left a blazing word has dominated artistic trail of imagination and ideas in practice, this book takes us on a buildings, paintings, manifestos, fascinating and richly illustrated initiatives, and more. global tour of diverse contemporary art forms. $85.00 $32.99 Albert Oehlen Gustav Klimt New Strategies in Painting The paintings of Albert Oehlen live In this neat, dependable by audacious strategies, by monograph, we gather all of questioning the image and the Klimt's major works alongside rules of abstraction, and by an authoritative art historical openness and beauty often commentary and privileged reached through the unlikeliest of archival material from Klimt's own means. archive to trace the evolution of his astonishing oeuvre. $139.99 $39.99 Neo Rauch Dromos What Are You Looking At? Painting 1993 - 2017 150 Years Modern Art Neo Rauch Dromos Painting The perfect gift for the art lover in 1993-2017 is a survey of Rauch's your life. Will Gompertz teaches multifaceted work. It begins with art history with a sense of humor his first solo show in 1993 at the Every year, millions of museum renowned Galerie Eigen + Art in and gallery visitors ponder the Leipzig. modern art on display and secretly ask themselves, "Is this art?" $85.00 $49.99 Mitchell and Mitchell Pop Trash: The Amazing A father and Son Legacy Art of Jason Mercier Leonard C. Mitchell and Leonard Artist Jason Mecier creates V. Mitchell - father and son - are insanely detailed portraits of two forgotten artistic heroes. Now, celebrities using trash, candy, and critically studied for the first time, other items, crafting sculptural their highlight reel runs long. 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Through a This book surveys his practice, on chronology rich with people, the theme of Captain Cook’s encounters and events it describes voyages to the Pacific. how Samoan tattooing has been shaped by local and external forces of change over many centuries. $40.00 $75.00 Garden of Memories : Parihaka Art of Extending Quilt Making Traditions Passive Resistance From Around the Pacific Rim A bestseller in New Zealand since Garden of Memories, curated by 2000, when an exhibition at City Giles Peterson, brings together Gallery in Wellington broke new heirloom and contemporary Pacific ground in the study of Maori art quilts from Peterson’s collection and history, this is a new and uses these precious objects paperback edition of the exhibition as the starting point for exploring catalogue. contemporary craft and object-making $40.00 $49.95 NZ Art at Te Papa 30,000 Years of Art In this generous book, Te Papa's Mini Edition curators and a wide range of other expert art writers showcase the Brought completely up to date for strengths of the New Zealand art this revised edition and now collection by discussing around 270 available in a compact format, this works. From very early colonial new edition of Phaidon's book work through to recent acquisitions, presents art differently from all and including photography, their other compendia by revealing the essays offer insights into the art, huge diversity or in many cases, the artists and the context and the similarity of artistic issues that drove them. achievements around the globe. $75.00 $44.99 Maori Weaving Seeing Slowly This text provides detailed When it comes to viewing art, photographs showing the steps in living in the information age is not selecting, preparing and weaving necessarily a benefit.