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Painted Histories : Early Maori Figurative Painting
ISBN: 9781869402785 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. This volume explores the flowering of figurative painting in the decoration of Maori meeting houses, especially in the east of the North Island, in the latter half of the 19th century. Not practised in traditional culture, figurative painting evolved as response to missionary criticism of Maori church decoration. Later, several distinctive figurative painting traditions developed, especially in association with Te Kooti and the Ringatu church. Decoration of the meeting house was transformed in many striking and beautiful ways to give visual expression to new tribal histories based on Ringatu...
This volume explores the flowering of figurative painting in the decoration of Maori meeting houses, especially in the east of the North Island, in th...
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219,63 zł |
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The Desire of the Line : Ralph Hotere Figurative Works
ISBN: 9781869403430 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Presenting a less-known side of a well-known artist, this collection of Ralph Hotere's line drawings and paintings of women was done between 1959 and the late 1990s. The collection is divided into two bodies of work: the Woman Series and the Song Cycle. As its name suggests, the Woman Series is composed of line drawings of nude women; and the Song Cycle was originally drawn for a stage performance in 1975 and suggests movement and sound.
Presenting a less-known side of a well-known artist, this collection of Ralph Hotere's line drawings and paintings of women was done between 1959 and ...
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246,61 zł |
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Joanna Margaret Paul : Drawing
ISBN: 9781869403683 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Co-published by the Mahara Gallery, Joanna Margaret Paul: Drawings has been designed to accompany an exhibition of Joanna Paul's drawings touring to around a dozen towns and cities throughout the country from 2006 until 2008. It introduces a remarkable artist whose work is not very widely known, although Paul (1945-2003) has staunch supporters, such as art curators and writers Greg O'Brien and Ian Wedde. Paul's striking talents are vividly displayed in her drawings. Both charming and accessible, these drawings, in a range of media and often in colour, focus on domestic and landscape subjects...
Co-published by the Mahara Gallery, Joanna Margaret Paul: Drawings has been designed to accompany an exhibition of Joanna Paul's drawings touring to a...
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219,63 zł |
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Mrkusich : The Art of Transformation
ISBN: 9781869404376 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. This is the first account of the work of New Zealand's leading abstract painter, Milan Mrkusich. Trained as an architect, and drawing on ideas from alchemy, phenomenology, and modernist thinkers, Mrkusich soaked up the work of international artists to establish his own New Zealand modernism.
This is the first account of the work of New Zealand's leading abstract painter, Milan Mrkusich. Trained as an architect, and drawing on ideas from al...
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354,55 zł |
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Art That Moves: The Work of Len Lye [With DVD]
ISBN: 9781869404222 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. A companion to the author's bestselling biography of Len Lye, this compelling volume shifts the focus from Lye's life to his art practice and innovative aesthetic theories about "the art of motion," which continue to be relevant today. Going beyond a general introduction to Lye and his artistic importance, this in-depth book offers a detailed study of his aesthetics of motion, analyzing how these theories were embodied in his sculptures and films. Thoroughly researched and fully illustrated, this unique set also includes a DVD featuring Lye's films, kinetic sculptures, and interviews with the...
A companion to the author's bestselling biography of Len Lye, this compelling volume shifts the focus from Lye's life to his art practice and innovati...
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192,64 zł |
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Bill Culbert: Making Light Work
ISBN: 9781869404390 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. In this substantial monograph on celebrated artist Bill Culbert's work, Ian Webbe explores the ideas, materials and conditions that have formed his art over the past 50 years.
In this substantial monograph on celebrated artist Bill Culbert's work, Ian Webbe explores the ideas, materials and conditions that have formed his ar...
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273,60 zł |
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Netherlands East Indies at the Tropenmuseum
ISBN: 9789068327519 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. In The Netherlands East Indies at the Tropenmuseum, sections of the well-known ethnographic collections from Indonesia are interpreted as colonial collections. As such, these objects and images express a specific culture of colonialism and colonial society in which ethnography, art, applied art and crafts from Europe and Southeast Asia merge. For more than a century, these objects and images have played a dynamic role in creating coherence in the ethnographic collections as a whole. Through this new interpretation of such objects as colonial collections, the contours of the many... In The Netherlands East Indies at the Tropenmuseum, sections of the well-known ethnographic collections from Indonesia are interpreted as co... |
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217,78 zł |
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Oceania at the Tropenmuseum
ISBN: 9789068327526 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Oceania at the Tropenmuseum is not in the first place a book on art from Oceania, but rather a treatise on the coming into existence and growth of a well-known Oceanic collection, which started at the beginning of the 20th century with the bringing together of the collections of the Colonial Museum in the Dutch provincial town of Haarlem and the ethnographic collection of Artis, the Amsterdam Zoo. The objects were, then and later on, brought together by early explorers, travellers, scientific expeditions, missionaries, Dutch government officials, ethnologists and collectors, most of... Oceania at the Tropenmuseum is not in the first place a book on art from Oceania, but rather a treatise on the coming into existence and gro... |
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217,78 zł |
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Inner Landscapes: 15 New Zealand Artists with Canterbury Connections
ISBN: 9781877257858 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. In this collection of candid interviews, 15 of New Zealand's top contemporary artists--including Barry Cleavin, Neil Dawson, Tony de Lautour, Julia Morison, Eion Stevens, and Philip Trusttum, among others--discuss their creative process and the way they work. Previously unpublished photographs of the artists and their studios, as well as more than 60 images of new work, are featured in this sumptuously illustrated book. Art aficionados and students alike will enjoy this open look into the artistic process.
In this collection of candid interviews, 15 of New Zealand's top contemporary artists--including Barry Cleavin, Neil Dawson, Tony de Lautour, Julia... |
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209,33 zł |
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Once Upon a Time in Papunya
ISBN: 9781742230078 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Astronomical auction prices in the late 1990s first drew many people's attention to the phenomenon of the early Papunya boards, the thousand small painted panels created at the remote Northern Territory Aboriginal settlement of Papunya in 1971-72. Western Desert art expert Vivien Johnson looks at the controversies that surrounded the paintings at the time of their creation - and what they mean now to the artists' descendants; the role of teacher Geoffrey Bardon; the depiction of sacred imagery, and the distant worlds of art auctions and international exhibitions. A gripping narrative work,...
Astronomical auction prices in the late 1990s first drew many people's attention to the phenomenon of the early Papunya boards, the thousand small pai...
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146,81 zł |
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Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea
ISBN: 9780300166101 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. After Dutch expeditions reached New Guinea's Lake Sentani island and Humboldt Bay in the mid-1800s, Western visitors began collecting works by local artists. Ancestors of the Lake is a stunning look at the region's distinctive art, such as its highly stylized wooden sculptures and decoratively and abstractly designed barkcloths. This beautifully illustrated volume brings together many of these important historic pieces for the first time, including the landmark collection of French writer and art dealer Jacques Viot, along with photographs by Paul Wirz. The book also explores how... After Dutch expeditions reached New Guinea's Lake Sentani island and Humboldt Bay in the mid-1800s, Western visitors began collecting works by loca... |
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189,95 zł |
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Art + Soul
ISBN: 9780522857634 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Over the last 30 years, a magical flowering of Aboriginal art has occurred in Australia, captivating viewers around the world with astonishingly powerful artworks, and creating a new art movement. Hetti Perkins takes readers on a personal journey of discovery into a world of ideas and the imagination of leading Aboriginal artists around Australia.
Over the last 30 years, a magical flowering of Aboriginal art has occurred in Australia, captivating viewers around the world with astonishingly power...
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440,16 zł |
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Museums and Maori: Heritage Professionals, Indigenous Collections, Current Practice
ISBN: 9781611320763 / Angielski / Twarda / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking book explores the revolution in New Zealand museums that is influencing the care and exhibition of indigenous objects around the world.
This groundbreaking book explores the revolution in New Zealand museums that is influencing the care and exhibition of indigenous objects around the w...
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641,95 zł |
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Museums and Maori: Heritage Professionals, Indigenous Collections, Current Practice
ISBN: 9781611320770 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking book explores the revolution in New Zealand museums that is influencing the care and exhibition of indigenous objects around the world.
This groundbreaking book explores the revolution in New Zealand museums that is influencing the care and exhibition of indigenous objects around the w...
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190,70 zł |
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Madonna of the Mountains
ISBN: 9781467959421 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When President Jacques Chirac announced his intention to create a new museum to be called the 'The Musee du Quai Branly', a team of art researchers is assembled to map the national inventory of ethnographic artefacts, historical objects and artworks held in national and regional art galleries and museums all over France and in France's colonies. The best exhibits of 'L'Art Primitif', 'Art Sauvage' and 'Art Exotique' from these collections are to be selected for exhibition in the President's new museum in Paris, which is to be one of the largest museums in the world. When Dr Marie Claire...
When President Jacques Chirac announced his intention to create a new museum to be called the 'The Musee du Quai Branly', a team of art researchers is...
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122,23 zł |
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Aboriginal Art
ISBN: 9780500204160 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A superlative introduction to the diversity of Aboriginal art, this concise survey introduces the work of Australia's indigenous artists from all parts of the continent. For some 50,000 years, Aboriginal artists have built on traditions and worked in a variety of contexts, from the sacred and secret realm of ceremony to more public spheres, and in media that include painting, sculpture, engraving, constructions, weaving, photography, printmaking, and textile design. For the revised edition, a new chapter maps the latest developments across each of Australia's geographical regions. Updated...
A superlative introduction to the diversity of Aboriginal art, this concise survey introduces the work of Australia's indigenous artists from all part...
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63,96 zł |
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Sacred Exchanges : Images in Global Context
ISBN: 9780231148801 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. As the international art market globalizes the indigenous image, it changes its identity, status, value, and purpose in local and larger contexts. Focusing on a school of Australian Aboriginal painting that has become popular in the contemporary art world, Robyn Ferrell traces the influence of cultural exchanges on art, the self, and attitudes toward the other. Aboriginal acrylic painting, produced by indigenous women artists of the Australian Desert, bears a superficial resemblance to abstract expressionism and is often read as such by viewers. Yet to see this art only through a Western...
As the international art market globalizes the indigenous image, it changes its identity, status, value, and purpose in local and larger contexts. Foc...
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263,34 zł |
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Art in Oceania
ISBN: 9780500239018 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. The arts of Oceania are astonishing: great statues, daunting tattoos, dynamic carving, dazzling woven and painted fabrics, intricately carved weapons, and a bewildering variety of ornaments, ritual objects, and utilitarian but beautiful things. This landmark book breaks new ground by setting the art of Oceania in its full historical context and capturing an up-to-date understanding of the field. From archaeological findings of prehistoric art to the impact of pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial historical processes, it explores influences such as migration, trade, missionaries,...
The arts of Oceania are astonishing: great statues, daunting tattoos, dynamic carving, dazzling woven and painted fabrics, intricately carved weapons,...
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324,87 zł |
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Australian, British and Irish Artists : Signatures and Monograms From 1800
ISBN: 9780810863842 / Angielski / Twarda / 501 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. John Castagno's Artists' Signatures and Monograms have become the standard reference source for galleries, museums, libraries, and collectors around the world. Whether used to identify, authenticate, or verify signatures and works of both well-known and little-known artists, Castagno's work has no equal. Australian, British and Irish Artists: Signatures and Monograms From 1800, A Directory features some 2,625 artists with 3,850 signature examples. In addition to the standard signature entries, the book features sections for monograms and initials, common surname signatures, alternative...
John Castagno's Artists' Signatures and Monograms have become the standard reference source for galleries, museums, libraries, and collectors around t...
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1617,45 zł |
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On the Study of Indian Art
ISBN: 9780674732377 / Angielski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Serious study of the art of India began only in the nineteenth century. This small volume provides a masterly overview of the scholarship of the past century and a half. Mr. Chandra's purpose is twofold: to help present-day students understand their scholarly heritage, and to encourage them to re-examine their own methods and assumptions.
Serious study of the art of India began only in the nineteenth century. This small volume provides a masterly overview of the scholarship of the past ...
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235,82 zł |