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Current - Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand by Justin Paton et al.
Category: Art and Design
The first truly comprehensive look at contemporary art in Australia and New Zealand in this century. It explores the particular regional uniqueness which comes from a mix between Indigenous, Western and Asian cultures. Featuring 80 artists, the book shows ANZ art to be diverse in culture, medium and the ...Show more
Dreamhome: stories of art and shelter by Justin Paton
Category: Architecture
This unique and engagingly written book reveals how some of today's most exciting artists are reimagining the idea of home for our unsettled times. In his evocative style, Justin Paton investigates a place we all have a stake in--from houses of memory to upturned houses, from haunted houses to light ho ...Show more
How to Look at a Painting by Justin Paton
Category: Art and Design
This book needs no introduction. Out of stock for several months, it now returns by popular demand – with an eye-catching new cover by Awa Press Young Designer of the Year Keely O'Shannessy and expanded illustration section – and still at the same RRP! Justin Paton's brilliant TV series has had repeate ...Show more
How to Look at a Painting by Justin Paton
Category: Art and Design | Series: The Ginger Series
In this hugely engaging book, acclaimed art writer Justin Paton takes us on a journey of exploration through the centuries and across the painted world - from the luscious fruit of Italy's Caravaggio to the lonely landscapes of New Zealand's Rita Angus, the dazzling panoramas of America's Lari Pittman a ...Show more
How to Look at a Painting by Justin Paton
Category: Art
A special new edition of Justin Paton's popular title. There have never been more paintings painted, and more words written about art, than today. But what does it all mean? How can you distinguish a 'good' painting from a 'bad'? A great artist from a lousy one? Eye candy from deep profundity? How can y ...Show more
Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? by Justin Paton
Category: Art
Day and night, love and hate, calm and chaos, conscious and unconscious. Explore Louise Bourgeois's world of tensions and extremes in this striking new book dedicated to one of the most influential artists of the past century. This publication accompanies a major exhibition of Bourgeois's art presented ...Show more
Matisse: Life & spirit: Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris by Aurélie Verdier (Editor, Contribution by); Roger Benjamin (Contribution by); Alastair Wright (Contribution by); Patrice Deparpe (Contribution by); Justin Paton (Contribution by)
Category: Art and Design
Spanning six decades of the artist's work, Matisse: life & spirit presentsan extraordinary immersion in the range and depth of the art of Henri Matisse, one of the world's most beloved, innovative and influential artists. The works reach from his early adventures in colour as a Fauvist through to t ...Show more
McCahon Country by Justin Paton
Category: Fiction
'My painting tells you where I am at any given time, where I am living and the direction I am pointing in.' - Colin McCahon. McCahon (1919-1987) is widely recognised as an outstanding figure in twentieth century art whose ground-breaking work over four decades changed the way we see this country, while ...Show more
Ricky Swallow: Field Recordings by Justin Paton
Category: Art and Design | Series: New Art S.
Part of a series of monographs on emerging or developing mid-career artists this book looks at the work of Ricky Swallow who like a manic depressive machinist makes models expressing his fascination with popular culture. Many of his models can be both threatening and wildly funny at the same time.
Ron Mueck by Ron Mueck; Justin Paton (Text by); Robert Rosenblum (Text by); Peter Sloterdijk (Text by); Robert Storr (Text by)
Category: Art
On the occasion of the exhibition of artist Ron Mueck in June 2023, the Fondation Cartier publishes an expanded edition of the comprehensive reference book first published in 2013, covering Mueck's thirty-year career and presenting all his sculptures through numerous photographs and unpublished document ...Show more
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