Joanna gilmour (9 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. A compelling visual and historical study of nineteenth century Australia's fascination with criminality and spectacle. Drawing on collections from major libraries, police museums, and gaols, Gilmour traces how portraits of convicts, bushrangers, and notorious criminals circulated as entertainment, from penny dreadfuls to waxworks "Chambers of Horrors." Richly illustrated and meticulously researched, this volume offers a vivid portrait of colonial society's uneasy blend of curiosity, morality, and sensationalism. Cloth boards wrapped in dust jacket. Brown page ribbon in place. Clean and unmarked.…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. 330pp. Lavishly illustrated in full colour. Very gentle edge wear to card covers, else fine. Internally bright, clean, crisp, as if new. Guide to Australia's national collection of portraiture held at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. With extensive research and notes regarding the art and its place in Australian culture and society. Large, heavy volume.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Companion is the intimate story of the most public people. Bringing lives, times, and places into clear focus, it demands our consideration and invites our contemplation of the inspirational life.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good +. First Hardback Edition. 240 x 165mm. pp. 181. English text. A volume of portrait drawings from Colonial Australia. Colour and black and white illustrations. Bound in green pictorial cloth boards. Housed in pictorial dust jacket. Book and dust jacket clean. Binding strong. No ownership inscription or underlining.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This book profiles the works of Thomas Brock, Richard Read Snr, Charles Rodius and Thomas Griffiths Wainewright who were exiled to Australia as convicts and who produced some of the most elegant and significant Australian portraits of the period.…

Hardcover (Printed Boards). Condizione: As New. First Edition. In the late 1980s, on the day that they decided to spend the rest of their lives together, Gordon and Marilyn Darling agreed to pursue a project: the creation of a place that would testify, through portraits, to the ingenuity, intelligence, inquisitiveness and perseverance of individuals who had made a lasting difference to Australia. In the early 1990s they expressed their vision with an exhibition of portraits they called Uncommon Australians. Over years, their combination of idealism, practical support and persuasive lobbying for an Australian National Portrait Gallery played a crucial part in bringing the institution into being. Now, the National Portrait GalleryÂ's collection resides in a superb building, its spaces abounding with portraits the Darlings and subsequent benefactors have funded. Uncommon Australians: The Vision of Gordon and Marilyn Darling reveals the National Portrait GalleryÂ's Founding Patrons as uncommon Australians of the kind they set out to celebrate from the very beginning. Exhibition dates 13 December 2015 Â 21 February 2016 140 pages. GIFT QUALITY. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Art; Australia; Art & Design; Inventory No: 273165. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. …

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New octavo 187pp., colour & b/w plates, notes, reading list, "Featuring a sometimes disquieting selection of portraits, Sideshow Alley combines history, biography & the art of portraiture with true crime, scandal and sensation. National Portrait Gallery Curator Joanna Gilmour introduces the relationship between death and portraiture via a focus on the various ways in which artists, photographers and entrepreneurs made use of portraits of Australian convicts and criminals: the canny or unscrupulous publishers trading in salacious prints and penny dreadfuls; the otherwise respectable people who put carte de visite of serial killers into their family albums; the photographic studios doing a brisk trade in portraits of heroes & villains; & the waxworks proprietors who, with their 'Chambers of Horrors', turned violence, misfortune and the macabre into a lucrative art form.".…

1st Ed. VI, 181 PP with 9 folded pages with 9 landscape paintings, 9 full page paintings and 51 portraits (2 of them b/w and 49 coloured). Fp (in colour): Jane Scott, c. 1842. FEP: Plan of Sydney, August 1822. REP: Plan of Hobart Town, 1854. Hard covers, decorated green cloth, dj and ribbon page-marker. Fine (mint condition). 23.8 x 16.…