Text for each plate identifies and contextualizes the artist. Also included is a detailed and engaging introductory essay explaining the selection in the book and tracing the history of landscape painting in New Zealand.
When Landscape Paintings of New Zealand A Journey from North To South was published in 2006 it was hailed by a reviewer thus: 'This is New Zealand art history made accessible, yet still full of scholarship and insight.
Australian Artist Leonard Long: With a Letter from Professor Charles E. Marshall, and the Artist Writes His Story as a...
... to Mr Bailey, the carrier, who told him one day that he was as happy as a lamb with two mothers. When Bailey's young wife fell pregnant, Palmer described her as having a belly as large 'as if she had got the dome of St Paul's ...
James Morrison: The Edge of Allegory
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This book tells Olana's remarkable story.Includes 74 photographs, with 31 paintings, sketches, and house interior shots in full color. ” — Antiques and The Arts Weekly "To say that Olana is the single most important artistic residence ...
New Zealand's Romantic Landscape: Paintings by John Gully
From rolling meadows to moody skies, how does the beauty, complexity, and dimensions of the world translate to artistic expression?
Previous ISBN: 978-1-550054-898-3New in PaperbackThe first major multi-authored book on Thomson -- critical, complex, and a triumph of publishingBook DescriptionTo those who have the notion that everything has been said about the iconic ...
Chinese Landscape Painting
"In The Uncommon Life of Common Objects, Akiko Busch devotes a chapter each to twelve objects, looking at the reasons these items took the forms they did and discussing how everyday things acquire their significance through daily human ...