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Juicy Writing : Inspiration and Techniques for Young Writers
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Brigid Lowry
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Being a writer is good because you get paid to write stuff up, you can stay home and work in your pajamas and you get to travel because it's research. Being a writer is bad when you're sitting all by yourself staring at a blank page. Brigid Lowry knows the highs and lows of being a writer, but she still thinks it's a joy. In this book she takes you on a journey to discover yourself and what you really want to say AND how to make it juicy and original. So, what do you need to begin? Where can you find ideas? How can you make your writing better? What can you do if you get stuck? Let Brigid inspire you to doodle, daydream and discover your creativity - then write hard and fast into the wild land of your imagination.
First published 2008.
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Make!
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Cath Kidston
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Here is a unique opportunity for all Cath Kidston fans to make their own projects and gifts using Cath's own motifs. Inspired by vintage prints found in car boot and jumble sales, and reinvented in cool modern colours, Cath Kidston's instantly recognizable designs are so popular that they feature on everything from mugs to tents. Whether your favourite is Stanley the dog, the sailing boat, cowboys or a floral, you will find them here as, for the first time, Cath is giving away pattern templates of her favourite designs. This brilliant little book contains 48 fantastic projects to create using 16 of Cath Kidston's signature motifs. Cath shows how to embellish a variety of bags, clothes, gifts and introduce her personal touch throughout the home. Inspirational photographs, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and all the techniques you need to make the projects make this an irresistible package.
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The Artist's Way : A Spiritual Path to higher Creativity (revised edition)
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Julia Cameron
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This work provides a 12-week course that guides the reader through the process of recovering their creative self. It aims to dispel the "I'm not talented enough" conditioning that tends to hamper the creativity of many people.
First published 1993.
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The Invention of New Zealand : Art and national identity, 1930-1970
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Francis Pound
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Finalist in the General Non-Fiction category.
The Invention of New Zealand
is an important study of nationalism in twentieth-century New Zealand art. From the 1930s onwards, artists, writers and critics such as Toss Woollaston, Allen Curnow, Colin McCahon, Rita Angus, A R D Fairburn, Doris Lusk and Monte Holcroft deployed art, literature and theory in the construction of a national identity, the search for the essence of New Zealand and the invention of a specifically New Zealand high culture. Francis Pound ponders, decodes, memorialises and celebrates this project from its starting moment when painters and poets became newly self-conscious about New Zealand art. He argues that in the early 1970s the framework was largely dismantled and the discourse abandoned by a new generation of artists and critics, such as Richard Killeen, Ian Scott and Petar Vuletic. Over ten fascinating chapters, Pound covers the Nationalists' major ...
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Virginia King: Sculptor
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Virginia King
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Wall and Piece
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Banksy
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Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it’s squatting in the Tate or New York’s Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills and umbrellas. If you look hard enough, you’ll find your own. His statements, incitements, ironies and epigrams are by turns intelligent and cheeky comments on everything from the monarchy and capitalism to the war in Iraq and farm animals. His identity remains unknown, but his work is prolific. And now for the first time, he’s putting together the best of his work – old and new in a fully illustrated colour volume.
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What Good Are the Arts?
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John Carey
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From one of Britain's most eminent reviewers and academics, a delightfully sceptical and devastatingly intelligent assessment of the true value of the arts
Do the arts make us better people? Are they a sign of civilization? Why should 'high' art be thought higher than 'low'? Are judgements about art anything more than personal opinions? What are works of art anyway - do they belong to some special, sacred category? Can the brain-scientists who are investigating the arts tell us anything useful about them? In the first part of his new book John Carey returns startling answers to these and related questions. In the second part he makes out a self-confessedly personal and subjective case for the superiority of literature to all other arts.
First published 2005.
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1001 Movies
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misc
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This book tells you everything you need to know about the must-see movies, from the ones you shouldn't have missed first time around, to the ones you can see again and again. Expert critics in each genre of film, from romance to horror and sci-fi, will tell you exactly why these films deserve inclusion in this definitive illustrated list, about their conception and development, and even about the most famous pleces of memorabilia associated with them. Packed with vital statistics, and a few facts that may surprise you, this is a collector's must for the bookshelf as well as being an entertaining read for all those that love the wonderful world of film.
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20th Century Furniture (Pocket)
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Fiona Baker
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256 pages,hardcover
Twentieth-Century Furniture is an authoritative, passionate and beautifully illustrated guide to the multifarious talents of international furniture designers and manufacturers of the past 100 years, and revels in the intrinsic beauty of skilfully crafted pieces. The explosion in styles, initiated by technical progress and fashions in architecture, design and interiors, is catalogued in this chronological overview of the century's masterpieces, from the handmade vernacular styles of the Arts and Crafts Movement and Art Deco, through the early Modernists to the colourful and chaotic world of Pop Art, and finally to today's innovative and experimental designs. With over 230 classics of modern design, Twentieth-Century Furniture features the work of the world's most influential and talented designers, including Philippe Starck, Henry van der Velde, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Carlo Mollino, Charles and ...
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20th Century Photography (Pocket)
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Reuel Golden
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Twentieth Century Photography
is an indispensable and comprehensive guide to over 70 of the world's best-known photographers, from the pioneers of the early part of the century to the experimental artists who will take us into the future. Arranged in alphabetical order by photographer, each entry contains a selection of sumptuous reproductions of some of the photographer’s most interesting and representative works. In addition there is an incisive appreciation of each of these most well-known or ground-breaking artists, including the technical background to their pictures, and a key facts panel detailing biographical details and the development of each photographer’s career.
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Across the Desert
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Judith Ryan
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This publication accompanies an exhibition of the same name from October 2008 to February 2009. The writers have contributed an article each on the development of batik in the various Aboriginal communities in central Australia. In addition, there is an article on batik within the Australian fashion world as a comparison to Aboriginal batik.
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A Face to the World
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Laura Cumming
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Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on some of the most extraordinary portraits in art history. Self-portraits catch your eye. They seem to do it deliberately. Walk into any art gallery and they draw attention to themselves. Come across them in the world's museums and you get a strange shock of recognition, rather like glimpsing your own reflection. For in picturing themselves artists reveal something far deeper than their own physical looks: the truth about how they hope to be viewed by the world, and how they wish to see themselves. In this beautifully written and lavishly illustrated book, Laura Cumming, art critic of the Observer, investigates the drama of the self-portrait, from Durer, Rembrandt and Velazquez to Munch, Picasso, Warhol and the present day. She considers how and why self-portraits look as they do and what they reveal about ...
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Annie Leibovitz at Work
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Annie Leibovitz
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The celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz, author of the New York Times bestselling book
A Photographer's Life
, provides the stories, and technical description, of how some of her most famous images came to be.
Starting in 1974, with her coverage of Nixon's resignation, and culminating with her controversial portraits of Queen Elizabeth II early in 2007, Leibovitz explains what professional photographers do and how they do it. The photographer in this instance is the most highly paid and prolific person in the business. Approximately 90 images are discussed in detail -- the circumstances under which they were taken, with specific technical information (what camera, what settings, what lighting, where the images appeared). The Rolling Stones' tour in 1975, the famous nude session with John Lennon and Yoko Ono hours before Lennon was killed, the American Express and Gap campaigns, Whoopi Goldberg in a bathtub of milk, Demi ...
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A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005
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Annie Leibovitz
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"I don’ t have two lives," Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990— 2005. "This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it."
Portraits of well-known figures– Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan, Joan Didion, R2-D2, Patti Smith, Nelson Mandela, Jack Nicholson, William Burroughs, George W. Bush with members of his Cabinet– appear alongside pictures of Leibovitz’ s family and friends, reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the early Nineties, and landscapes made even more indelible through Leibovitz’s discerning eye.
The images form a narrative rich in contrasts and continuities: Her long relationship with Susan Sontag. She chronicles the celebrations and heartbreaks of her large and robust family. She has children of her own. All the while she is working, and the public work resonates with the themes of ...
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A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005 [BT]
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Annie Leibovitz
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A visual narrative offers more than three hundred images that document the photographer's relationship with her late companion Susan Sontag, the birth of her daughters, the death of her father, and famous actors and politicians.
"I don't have two lives," Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990 to 2005. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it."
Portraits of well-known figures-Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan, Joan Didion, R2-D2, Patti Smith, Nelson Mandela, Jack Nicholson, and William Burroughs-appear alongside pictures of Leibovitz's family and friends, reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the early Nineties, and landscapes.
The pictures form a narrative of a life rich in contrasts and continuities. The photographer has a long relationship that ends with illness and death. She ...
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Art At Te Papa
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William McAloon (ed.)
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Finalist in the Illustrated Non-Fiction category.
Art at Te Papa
reveals and illuminates New Zealand's vast national art collection. Reproductions of more than 400 individual artworks, personally selected by curators, are accompanied by brief essays giving expert and engaging commentary on each work. This book spans the entire collection, from the cream of its early European prints holdings to its most exciting contemporary acquisitions. Here are international artworks by Rembrandt van Rijn, Albrechet Durer, Marcel Duchamp, Barbara Hepworth, Natalie Gontchorova and Robert Mapplethorpe, alongside masterpieces from some of New Zealand's most significant and best-loved artists - Charles Goldie, Rita Angus, Ralph Hotere, Colin McCahon, Frances Hodgkins, Bill Hammond, Shane Cotton and Yvonne Todd - as well as little-known artworks that will surprise and inform readers. From the iconic to the unknown, from printmaking to ...
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Art & Fear : Observations on the perils (and rewards) of artmaking (B/T)
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David Bayles & Ted Orland
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Art & Fear
explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. The book's co-authors, David Bayles and Ted Orland, are themselves both working artists, grappling daily with the problems of making art in the real world. Their insights and observations, drawn from personal experience, provide an incisive view into the world of art as it is expeienced by artmakers themselves.
This is not your typical self-help book. This is a book written by artists, for artists -- it's about what it feels like when artists sit down at their easel or keyboard, in their studio or performance space, trying to do the work they need to do. First published in 1994,
Art & Fear
quickly became an underground classic. Word-of-mouth response alone -- now enhanced by internet posting -- has placed it among the best-selling books on artmaking ...
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Art Nouveau
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Ed
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This series aims to combine a compact, commercial approach with the breadth and clarity of larger format books. Covering art which both creates the foundation of modern culture and modern art itself, the books include International Arts and Crafts, Turner, Whistler, Monet, and the Art Deco movement.
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Art of Tivaevae: Traditional Cook Islands Quilting
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Lynnsay Rongokea
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The art of tivaevae making is unique to the Cook Islands. Since quilt-making was introduced by Christian missionaries more than a century ago, the women of these South Pacific islands have embraced it enthusiastically and with extraordinary skill so that it has become a valued and integral part of local life and culture.
The Art of Tivaevae tells the stories behind these stunningly beautiful quilts.
Twenty-three women, each represented by a black-and-white portrait, talk about their work - the ideas behind the design, the cutting and sewing techniques, how they acquired and pass on their skills, and the future of tivaevae. Forty-five tivaevae are shown in full and in close detail in photographs by John Daley, that highlight the striking originality of design and colour combinations, and the intricate stitching.
This beautiful book provides a memorable record of a unique art and a talented group of women.
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At Home with Art
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Tiddy Rowan
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Galleries, fairs, auctions, the internet, the artists themselves - the opportunities to see and buy art have never been greater, whether for investment or for the pure pleasure of living with art in our homes. In an age when beautiful interiors fill almost every magazine, supplement and TV programme we are also acutely aware of the visual possibilities of the spaces we inhabit. With this increased pride of place comes a need for guidance in what art is all about, why we choose the art we do, how to develop your unique art personality, where to place your art, how to display it, and where to source it. The first part of this handbook analyses what art actually is and explains what your art says about you. You then learn how to be your own art consultant and develop your unique art ID: how to reappraise your existing pieces, decide what art to buy, what art you like, what genre, period and price range, and above all, how to mount, frame ...
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