blackley roger (90 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. 176 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. *** "The Guide is a lively introduction to the collections of New Zealand's leading art museum, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. Established in 1888, the Gallery has developed its outstanding collections through the generosity of many benefactors and the continuing support of Auckland City. The Guide is an invitation to discover 160 outstanding works of art ranging in date from 1376 to 1999, including several of the Gallery's superb British paintings, highlights of the European painting and sculpture collections and representative examples of old master prints. New Zealand art of all periods and media with a particular emphasis on the last fifty years, is at the heart of The Guide, which includes many works by Maori and Pacific Island artists." "Brief, informative texts by the Gallery's curatorial staff accompany each image and an introductory essay recounts the development of the Gallery and its collections. Paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings and photographs give a fascinating and memorable insight into the development of the visual arts in New Zealand, as represented in the collections of its oldest public, art gallery, The Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki is one of New Zealand's national treasures, and a tribute to the power of private and public philanthropy working for a common good. These great collections are already much loved by New Zealanders - The Guide will help make them known to a wider world." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The perfect guidebook to the Auckland Art Gallery, the oldest public art gallery in New Zealand. Beautifully illustrated, showing paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings, and photographs. Brief informative texts accompany each image. 184 pages.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 156 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Good. Book has minor shelf wear.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Two Centuries of New Zealand Landscape Art is the sort of title that sounds, at first, as though it might be a dutiful march through a great many hills. But this handsome volume turns out to be something far better: a rich, civilised, quietly fascinating tour through the way an entire country has been seen, imagined, framed, romanticised, and occasionally improved upon with paint. Because landscape art is never just about landscape, however earnestly it may pretend otherwise. A mountain is never merely a mountain once an artist has arrived with oils, ambition, and a theory about light. A harbour becomes identity. A valley becomes myth. A line of trees becomes nationhood with better weather. Over two centuries, New Zealand?s land has been painted as sublime, raw, settled, contested, majestic, empty-looking but not empty, and generally capable of making Europe seem faintly overfurnished. This book gathers all that visual argument into one place, which is very convenient for those of us who like our cultural perspective bound between covers. Roger Blackley, with the calm authority of someone who knows both art and the stories that cling to it, offers not just pictures but a whole evolving sensibility. You can sense the shifts in taste, purpose, and politics. Early artists arrive and gaze upon the scenery as though God has been showing off. Later painters begin to see more than spectacle: atmosphere, settlement, memory, ownership, mood, modernity, perhaps even the faint suspicion that landscape is never innocent once people start naming it, painting it, selling it, and hanging it in drawing rooms. It is art history doing what art history does best: revealing that even a peaceful-looking view contains quite a lot of human intention. And what views they must be. New Zealand, after all, is one of those countries that behaves like an overachiever in visual terms. Lakes that look invented. Mountains with the dramatic timing of opera singers. Coastlines determined to be noticed. Skies apparently unwilling to settle for mere background duty. One imagines that the poor artists barely stood a chance. The landscape is doing at least half the work already, leaving them to decide whether to worship it, interpret it, tame it, or produce something tasteful enough for a gallery wall without simply writing ?look at this? underneath. This 1990 Auckland City Art Gallery publication has exactly the right aura for the subject: serious but attractive, scholarly without becoming a punishment, and likely filled with the sort of plates that make you involuntarily slow down and stare a bit. It sounds like the kind of art book that belongs equally well on a coffee table, a studio shelf, or in the possession of someone who says ?tonal qualities? with complete sincerity. In other words, ideal Crappy Old Books material. As a Good condition copy, it promises the sensible virtues one hopes for in an illustrated art book: sound, presentable, and ready to resume its duties as a portable museum for the visually inclined. Perhaps it has already lived a respectable life among gallery-goers, students, homes with large windows, or travellers who returned from New Zealand convinced the place had no business being that scenic. Now it stands ready for its next custodian, who may be an art lover, a collector, an armchair traveller, or simply someone who enjoys books that make landscapes look more meaningful than one?s own commute. There is also a pleasing irony in landscape art books generally. They allow one to admire vast wilderness, light, distance, and elemental grandeur while sitting indoors with a cup of tea, in weather entirely of one?s choosing. No mud, no midges, no carrying easels up slopes, no sudden rain ruining one?s transcendent communion with nature. Just two centuries of carefully curated visual awe, conveniently flattened into pages. So Two Centuries of New Zealand Landscape Art offers rather more than a procession of pretty scenes. It is a record of vision, of culture, of changing ways of looking at land and, through it, at nationhood itself. Thoughtful, handsome, and full of the sort of quiet authority that makes a room feel more educated merely by containing it, this is exactly the kind of volume Crappy Old Books is delighted to send back into circulation. A grand, civilised survey of beauty, identity, and the longstanding human urge to stand in front of a magnificent view and say, in effect, ?this ought to be painted.?

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Tight unmarked book in bright covers with flaps. 49 colour plates with extensive commentary. ; 10.6 X 8.1 X 0.6 inches; 144 pages.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. clean tidy copy.

Paperback. Condizione: New. viii, 200 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 30 cm The book explores Charles F. Goldie's career, his early still life paintings, his time as a student in Paris, his reign as Auckland's leading painter, the fall from critical favour, descent into ill health and distinctive late period paintings of the 1930s.

Soft cover. Revised edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Cover faded, remnant of sticker.

ex-library, softcover octavo (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 128pp, index, bibliography, num col ills. Or pictorial card with integral flaps. Minor bend. Size: Oblong 4to.

oblong quarto softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small twinked out inscription and some minor dulling down to the spine. . This book examines the art of one of New Zealand's most distinguished water colourists of the colonial period. Alfred Sharp played a leading role in Auckland's art culture of the 1870s and 1880s, receiving support exclusively from private collectors.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 200pp., b/w & colour illus., exhibition list, notes, bibliography, index. Faint surface scratches to DJ. Very minor wear to bottom fore corner. Otherwise excellent tight clean copy. GL 04/24.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. illustrated, 144 pages.

paperback. Condizione: Good. . Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A very clean copy. This book examines the art of one of New Zealand's most distinguished water colourists of the colonial period. Alfred Sharp played a leading role in Auckland's art culture of the 1870s and 1880s, receiving support exclusively from private collectors.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minor dulling down to the spine only. . This book examines the art of one of New Zealand's most distinguished water colourists of the colonial period. Alfred Sharp played a leading role in Auckland's art culture of the 1870s and 1880s, receiving support exclusively from private collectors.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Nice clean copy. . This book examines the art of one of New Zealand's most distinguished water colourists of the colonial period. Alfred Sharp played a leading role in Auckland's art culture of the 1870s and 1880s, receiving support exclusively from private collectors.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minor dulling down to the spine only. . This book examines the art of one of New Zealand's most distinguished water colourists of the colonial period. Alfred Sharp played a leading role in Auckland's art culture of the 1870s and 1880s, receiving support exclusively from private collectors.

hardcover. Condizione: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Condizione: Very Good.

0 Very good. ex museum stamp on blank flyleaf.