{"title":"Anita Kunz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnita Kunz\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a captivating blend of visual storytelling and cultural insight through her work. Her books, including titles like \u003cem\u003eAnother History of Art\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStriking a Pose\u003c\/em\u003e, explore the intersections of art, identity, and society with striking illustrations and thoughtful narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in \u003cem\u003eGraphic Novels\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e will find Kunz’s work both visually engaging and intellectually stimulating, inviting reflection on the power of imagery and the stories behind the scenes of artistic expression.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"striking-a-pose-by-anita-kunz-9781683968832","title":"Striking a Pose","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by her own art students' struggles and triumphs with nude life drawing, Anita Kunz turns her brushes to nearly 150 speculative portraits of famous figures, stripped of their vanities and as unpretentiously posed as life models. Alone or grouped, male marvels and monsters and musicians stand, lean, and sit for the imaginary eye of the acclaimed painter and illustrator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawn with a casual wit, Kunz's caricatures combine with naturalism to undercut the mystique of her subjects. The well-known faces become less significant than the unknown bodies, as though the celebrities and creators are descending from their pedestals in order to pose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLess directly comic or polemical than her previous \u003cem\u003eAnother History Of Art\u003c\/em\u003e (Fantagraphics, 2021), \u003cem\u003eStriking a Pose\u003c\/em\u003e nevertheless includes a feminist flip on the role of the nude model. Kunz upends historical gender prejudices within the fine art world while also finding a welcoming humour in the bathos of the naked body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46833503076588,"sku":"9781683968832","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15391593482787.jpg?v=1758463988"},{"product_id":"another-history-of-art-by-anita-kunz-9781683964469","title":"Another History of Art","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHave you ever awakened from a sleepy delirium one morning and imagined that you lived in a different and glorious world where all the recognised masterpieces in the Western pantheon of art history were painted by women? If not, no problem: the renowned and award-winning painter and illustrator Anita Kunz has imagined it for you in her hilariously inventive and masterfully executed \u003cem\u003eAnother History of Art\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKunz depicts the most iconic paintings in the history of art— as if they had been painted by women. Conceived with delicious wit, boundless humour, and an eye for the telling aesthetic detail, Kunz's recreations are not only stunning paintings in their own right but a sly, revisionist social commentary on the male-dominated history of Western civilisation. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat would the same paintings everyone is so familiar with look like, drawn by Renée Françoise Magritte, Fiona Bacon, Davina Hockney, Leona Da Vinci, Gertrude Klimt, Henrietta Matisse, Francesca Goya, Paola Picasso, Fernanda Victoria Eugenia Delacroix, Wilhelmina Ottilia Dix, and over 50 other artists (let us not forget Vincenza Van Gogh)? \u003cem\u003eAnother History\u003c\/em\u003e is your chance to find out. Included, on each page opposite the painting, is a single paragraph biography of each woman artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnother History of Art\u003c\/em\u003e is a brilliantly satirical, and, yes, feminist, counterfactual history of art conceived, written, and painted by one of our most accomplished contemporary artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460194091244,"sku":"9781683964469","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/85720a11b76dc110392b7859a2fbcc6e.jpg?v=1775016500"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/anita-kunz.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}