Howarth crispin (19 risultati)

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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2011. Softcover, 128 pp. Illustrated exhibition catalog. With two forewords; by Sir David Attenborough and by Ron Radford, director of the National Gallery. Very good with rubbing of wraps and nicked corners.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Through the finest traditional Solomon Islands art in Australia's museums and galleries, Varilaku explores kastom beliefs in ancestral ghosts, the world of spirit beings, ocean-bound raiding expeditions, and the Indigenous aesthetics of the self--the use of adornments to express identity and status from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century.The earliest accounts by travelers to the region note the particular finesse, care, and attention given by Solomon Islanders to their arts. Pitch-black surfaces, gleaming inlaid sections of shell, and distended faces are only some of the distinct features of the works in Varilaku. Figurative sculpture varies from one island to the next: abstraction in the northern islands, clustered shell inlay in the southern islands, and sublime naturalism in the western islands.…

128 pages profusely illustrated in color, 8 1/2" x 10 1/2", softcover, (some cover wear).

Softcover, 128 pages; new condition; still sealed in shrinkwrap; clean and crisp. Foreign shipping may be extra.

paperback. Condizione: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Oversized. PAPERBACK.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Through the finest traditional Solomon Islands art in Australia's museums and galleries, Varilaku explores kastom beliefs in ancestral ghosts, the world of spirit beings, ocean-bound raiding expeditions, and the Indigenous aesthetics of the self--the use of adornments to express identity and status from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century.The earliest accounts by travelers to the region note the particular finesse, care, and attention given by Solomon Islanders to their arts. Pitch-black surfaces, gleaming inlaid sections of shell, and distended faces are only some of the distinct features of the works in Varilaku. Figurative sculpture varies from one island to the next: abstraction in the northern islands, clustered shell inlay in the southern islands, and sublime naturalism in the western islands.…

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Catalogue for the exhibition of Pacific Arts, 10 October 2008 - 11 January 2009 National Gallery of Australia; text by Crispin Howarth; colour illustrations throughout; covers a little curled at edges, o.w. Very Good. . 28pp. 4to. Very Good. profusely illustrated (illustratore).…

paperback in very good condition; 60 pages, colour and b/w photos.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Through the finest traditional Solomon Islands art in Australia's museums and galleries, Varilaku explores kastom beliefs in ancestral ghosts, the world of spirit beings, ocean-bound raiding expeditions, and the Indigenous aesthetics of the self--the use of adornments to express identity and status from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century.The earliest accounts by travelers to the region note the particular finesse, care, and attention given by Solomon Islanders to their arts. Pitch-black surfaces, gleaming inlaid sections of shell, and distended faces are only some of the distinct features of the works in Varilaku. Figurative sculpture varies from one island to the next: abstraction in the northern islands, clustered shell inlay in the southern islands, and sublime naturalism in the western islands.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Through the finest traditional Solomon Islands art in Australia's museums and galleries, Varilaku explores kastom beliefs in ancestral ghosts, the world of spirit beings, ocean-bound raiding expeditions, and the Indigenous aesthetics of the self--the use of adornments to express identity and status from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century.The earliest accounts by travelers to the region note the particular finesse, care, and attention given by Solomon Islanders to their arts. Pitch-black surfaces, gleaming inlaid sections of shell, and distended faces are only some of the distinct features of the works in Varilaku. Figurative sculpture varies from one island to the next: abstraction in the northern islands, clustered shell inlay in the southern islands, and sublime naturalism in the western islands.…

1st Ed. Forewords by Sir David Attenborough and by Ron Radford. 128 PP with 1 location map and map of the Solomon Archipelago in colour, and over 60 b/w or colour illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). 27 x 21.5. Exhibition held in Canberra at the NGA: 26th February to 29th May 2011.…

Paperback. Condizione: New.

174 pp.; 54 colour plates, 11 in b/w., map, bibliography. Text: French, English and Dutch. Captions in English and French. Bruxelles, 2014. Pbk. KEYWORDS: 019 New Guinea/Melanesia.