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New Zealand Tattoo: In the Home of the Tattooist's Art
  

New Zealand Tattoo: In the Home of the Tattooist's Art (Paperback)

By Hoult, Chris; Forbes, Steve

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We have tattooing in the blood in New Zealand, and styles worn with pride here in Aotearoa are appreciated worldwide by admirers of beautiful design. And in the early 2010s, tattooing is going through a renaissance. Chris Hoult immersed himself in the Kiwi tattoo scene from 201 ...

ISBN 9781877514470
Published 16 October 2012 by Oratia Media
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Patterns of the Past: Tattoo Revival in the Cook Islands
  

Patterns of the Past: Tattoo Revival in the Cook Islands (Paperback)

By Mangos, Therese; Utanga, John; Photographs by Griffin, Kirsty

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Patterns of the Past traces the history and practice of tattooing (taItatau) through the ancient oral traditions of the Cook Island people, as well as from reports of early Western visitors and rich archival material. The book looks at the current practices of contemporary Cook I ...

ISBN 9780473193775
Published 9 December 2011 by Huia Publishers
Interest Age Young Adults
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Kastom: Art of Vanuatu

Kastom: Art of Vanuatu (Paperback)

By Howarth, Crispin; Huffman, Kirk

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Kastom: Arts of Vanuatu showcases a unique collection of the National Gallery of Australia. During the early 1970s an impressive array of traditional arts through a program of field collecting on the Islands of Ambrym and Malakula.

ISBN 9780642334336
Published 1 February 2013 by National Library of Australia
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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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Fatu Feu'u on Life & Art
  

Fatu Feu'u on Life & Art (Paperback)

By Jennings, Shona; Photographs by Tamua, Evotia

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Fatu Feu'u is an internationally recognised Samoan-New Zealand artist. He has been pivotal in shaping the interest in contemporary Pacific art globally and nurturing a generation of Pacific artists locally, leading to his reputation as the Father of contemporary Pacific art. I ...

ISBN 9781877484131
Published 28 September 2012 by Little Island Press Ltd
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7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Paperback)

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The APT7 exhibition provides access to art & ideas from some of the most dynamic regions in the world, presenting works by more than 100 artists. This catalogue reflects on the artistic, social & economic changes that have taken place across Asia & the Pacific in the two decades ...

ISBN 9781921503375
Published 1 December 2012 by Macmillan Publishers New Zeala
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Wrapping in Images: Tattooing in Polynesia

Wrapping in Images: Tattooing in Polynesia (Paperback, New edition)

By Gell, Alfred

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Wrapping in Images is a comparative analysis of tattooing in Polynesia in its original setting. It shows how tattooing played a key role in the social construction of the person in the main Polynesian societies, and provides a new perspective on Polynesian comparative sociology.

ISBN 9780198280903
Published 28 March 1996 by Oxford University Press
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Series Oxford Studies in Social & Cultural Anthropology: Cultural Forms
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Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands
 

Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands (Paperback, New title)

By Kjellgren, Eric; Ivory, Carol

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Renowned as the final refuge of Paul Gauguin, the Marquesas Islands northeast of Tahiti are home to the Enata, a Polynesian people who developed one of the most extraordinary traditions of sculpture and decorative art in the Pacific. This book features works, including many previ ...

ISBN 9780300107128
Published 3 June 2005 by Inbooks
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Series Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Gauguin's Paradise Remembered: The Noa Noa Prints
 

Gauguin's Paradise Remembered: The Noa Noa Prints (Hardback)

By Wright, Alastair; Brown, Calvin

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In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) traveled to Tahiti in an effort to live simply and to draw inspiration from what he saw as the island's exotic native culture. This book addresses both the artist's representation of Tahiti in the woodcut medium and the impact these works had on ...

ISBN 9780300149296
Published 1 December 2010 by Inbooks
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Series Princeton University Art Museum
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Kermadec: Nine Artists Explore the South Pacific
 

Kermadec: Nine Artists Explore the South Pacific (Hardback)

Edited by O'Brien, Gregory; Golder, Bronwen

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Partnering with the Royal New Zealand Navy and New Zealand Department of Conservation, Pew provided an opportunity for nine artists to experience the vast Kermadec region. This catalogue records this voyage of artists and the works they produced.

ISBN 9780473200176
Published 1 January 2011
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