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It's All About The Image
  

It's All About The Image (Paperback)

By Frizzell, Dick

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Take a trip through New Zealand art via Dick Frizzell's point of view. He shines a light on some of the works he's always loved - a number of which have seemed to miss muster in the usual round-ups. It's an eclectic bunch of paintings and begins with images he was drawn to (beca ...

ISBN 9781869797072
Published 7 October 2011 by Random House
Interest Age Young Adults
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Angels and Aristocrats: Early European Art in New Zealand Public Collections
 

Angels and Aristocrats: Early European Art in New Zealand Public Collections (Hardback)

By Kisler, Mary

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It is entirely possible to immerse oneself in the glories of European art without having to travel to the Louvre, the Uffizzi, the Tate or the Frick. That's because New Zealand's public art galleries are richly studded with works collected by benefactors over the last 150 years a ...

ISBN 9781869621353
Published 15 October 2010 by Random House
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The Dress Circle: New Zealand Fashion Design Since 1940
  

The Dress Circle: New Zealand Fashion Design Since 1940 (Hardback)

By Lloyd-Jenkins, Douglas; Regnault, Claire; Hammonds, Lucy

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Contrary to popular opinion, New Zealand Fashion didn't begin in the late 1990s when four designers were sent to the London catwalks and created a stir with their stylish dark garments. Its history is in fact a long and rich one, and no one tells it better than the team of Dougla ...

ISBN 9781869621810
Published 29 October 2010 by Random House
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The Art of Peter Siddell
  

The Art of Peter Siddell (Hardback)

By Siddell, Peter

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Sir Peter Siddell's intricately detailed paintings of New Zealand urban scenes and landscapes that are not quite a replication of actuality are much loved and enduringly popular. Both technical tours de force and rich with acute observation, they feature in all our national art c ...

ISBN 9781869621872
Published 18 February 2011 by Random House
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New Zealand by Design: A History of New Zealand Product Design
  

New Zealand by Design: A History of New Zealand Product Design (Paperback)

By Smythe, Michael

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There's inspiration, dedication, perspiration and not a little number eight wire and genius about the huge range of products that have been made and designed here, and enthusiastic and expert author Michael Smythe shares with the reader the 'essence of Kiwi' that's in all of them ...

ISBN 9781869795740
Published 15 July 2011 by Random House
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Museums and Maori: Heritage Professionals, Indigenous Collections, Current Practice
  

Museums and Maori: Heritage Professionals, Indigenous Collections, Current Practice (Paperback)

By McCarthy, Conal

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For centuries, M ori treasures, or taonga, have been some of the most prized, popular and precious objects held in museums around the world. From Te Maori to Te Papa and beyond, initiatives in Aotearoa New Zealand over the last 30 years have continued to provide new models for m ...

ISBN 9781877385704
Published 1 April 2011 by Te Papa Press
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Pacific Art in Detail
  

Pacific Art in Detail (Hardback)

By Newell, Jennifer

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Across the great breadth of the Pacific, artists have always employed a wide variety of materials and techniques to create objects for specific purposes, from the domestic to the sacred, from the elegantly simple to the sumptuously ornate, and from the historic to the contemporar ...

ISBN 9781877385759
Published 6 May 2011 by Te Papa Press
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CSA: The Radical, the Reactionary and the Canterbury Society of Arts 1880-1996
  

CSA: The Radical, the Reactionary and the Canterbury Society of Arts 1880-1996 (Hardback)

By Feeney, Warren

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The Canterbury Society of Arts dominated the cultural life of Canterbury for nearly a century, and played a vital role in the development of New Zealand art. Where art societies are often assumed to be conservative and reactionary institutions that failed to nurture the work of y ...

ISBN 9781877257940
Published 1 November 2011
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New Zealand Film: An Illustrated History
  

New Zealand Film: An Illustrated History (Mixed media product/Mixed Media, Contains Hardback and DVD)

Edited by Pivac, Diane; With Stark, Frank; McDonald, Lawrence

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This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of New Zealand film and film making from the very beginning. It features essays about significant developments from magic lantern shows to digital video, and key figures from Rudall Hayward to Peter Jackson. From the icon ...

ISBN 9781877385667
Published 1 July 2011 by Te Papa Press
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New Zealand Art: From Cook to Contemporary
 

New Zealand Art: From Cook to Contemporary (Paperback)

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New Zealand Art is a reduced version of the major survey of our national museum's art collection Art at Te Papa, 2009.

ISBN 9781877385681
Published 1 October 2010 by Te Papa Press
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