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Gottfried Lindauer's New ZealandThe Maori Portraits
From the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the Bohemian immigrant artist Gottfried Lindauer travelled to marae and rural towns around New Zealand and – commissioned by Maori and Pakeha – captured in paint the images of key Maori figures. For Maori then and now, the faces of tupuna are full of mana and life. Now this definitive book on Lindauer's portraits of the ancestors collects that …
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- 9781775588900
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Artefacts of EncounterCook's voyages, colonial collecting and museum histories
A stunning exploration of Pacific art, colonial history, and museum collections. This book delves into the significance of Pacific artifacts and works of art collected during Captain James Cook's voyages and beyond. Discover the rich cultural heritage of Oceania and the impact of colonial collecting on indigenous societies. Explore the institutions, cosmologies, and social relationships exem…
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- 9781988592664
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- 1 online resource (349 pages)
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HauagaThe Art of John Pule
John Pule is one of the most significant artists living and working in New Zealand today. From the mid-1990s his powerful, enigmatic and personal paintings attracted great interest, and his work came to be widely shown. Famously inspired by hiapo, the innovative barkcloths of nineteenth-century Niue, Pule has been fascinated by the Polynesian past and present, but his work ranges far more widel…
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- 9781988592626
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Claude Monet
For Claude Monet the designation 'impressionist' always remained a source of pride. In spite of all the things critics have written about his work, Monet continued to be a true impressionist to the end of his very long life. He was so by deep conviction, and for his Impressionism he may have sacrificed many other opportunities that his enormous talent held out to him. Monet did not paint classi…
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Te Papa to BerlinThe making of two museums
Ken Gorbey is a remarkable man who for 15 years was involved with developing and realising the revolutionary cultural concept that became Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand. Then in 1999 he was headhunted by W. Michael Blumenthal to salvage the Jewish Museum Berlin, which was failing and fast becoming a national embarrassment. Led by Gorbey, a young, inexperienced staff, facing impossible …
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Making a ChaputsThe Teachings and Responsibilities of a Canoe Maker
A rich visual testament to the practical and cultural power of the dugout canoe, balanced in its description of meaning and method. Tla-o-qui-aht master canoe maker Joe Martin, in collaboration with former museum curator Alan Hoover, describes the meaning and method behind one of the most vivid and memorable symbols of the Northwest Coast: the dugout canoe. Both artform and technological marvel…
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Nature Morte
Cézanne vécut grâce à une tasse de thé, ou plutôt c'est dans une tasse de thé qu'il réalisa qu'il y avait quelque chose de vivant. Il sut élever la représentation d'une nature morte à un tel niveau qu'elle n'en était plus inanimée. Vassily Kandinsky disait à propos de l'artiste français : « Il peignait ces choses comme des êtres humains parce qu'il était doté de la capacité …
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Creative Authenticity16 Principles to Clarify and Deepen Your Artistic Vision
All Great Art is Authentic Connecting to your own authentic core will fill you and your work with strength and relevance. To those engaged in making art, an authentic voice is the most crucial yet most difficult ability to come by. Why does so much conspire to hide what is ultimately the closest, simplest thing of all? Creative Authenticity outlines 16 principles that will help you peel bac…
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Michael Healy, 1873-1941An Túr Gloine's Stained Glass Pioneer
This book tells the story of the reclusive artist, raised in a Dublin tenement, who ahead of Harry Clarke, Wilhelmina Geddes and Evie Hone, established the bar for artistic and technical excellence in this exacting craft, and who worked at the world-renowned An Tú r Gloine (Tower of Glass) studio for almost four decades. Lavishly illustrated, it charts Healy' s stained glass career and feature…
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Total Refusal / Refus Global
Inspired by the distinguished painter Paul-Émile Borduas, this collective manifesto serves as an invaluable introduction to the major figures of the Canadian avant-garde scene in the 1970s. Generously illustrated with photographs from the period, this classic text details the social and political implications of the radical art scene that led up to Quebec's Quiet Revolution. It is a must rea…
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