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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 2012
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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 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 Island tatt ...

ISBN 9780473193775
Published 9 December 2011 by Huia Publishers
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Oceania: Imagining the Pacific
 

Oceania: Imagining the Pacific (Paperback)

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Oceania is a collaborative exhibition project between the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and City Gallery Wellington during the Real New Zealand Festival 2011. Oceania "explores the richness of Maori, Pacific and Pakeha cultures-and points of connection and influence be ...

ISBN 978095827049X
Barcode 9780958270496
Published 22 October 2011 by City Gallery Wellington
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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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New Guinea Highlands: Art from the Jolika Collection
 

New Guinea Highlands: Art from the Jolika Collection (Hardback)

Edited by Friede, John; Hays, Terence E.; Hellmich, Christina

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The first major publication on the art of the New Guinea Highlands, this extraordinary volume is destined to become the definitive resource on this little-known region.

ISBN 9783791350554
Published 1 November 2011 by Prestel
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Tatau: Samoan Tattooing
  

Tatau: Samoan Tattooing (Paperback)

Edited by Mallon, Sean; Thomas, Nicholas; Photographs by Adams, Mark

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Mark Adams' renowned images document a great Polynesian art tradition. Samoan tattooing has flourished among Samoan migrants in New Zealand, stimulated major New Zealand artists, and inspired tattoo artists and communities worldwide.

ISBN 9781877385551
Published 1 April 2010 by Te Papa Press
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Tuhituhi: William Hodges, Cook's Painter in the South Pacific
 

Tuhituhi: William Hodges, Cook's Painter in the South Pacific (Paperback)

By Simmons, Laurence

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Tuhituhi follows the geographical and chronological progress of Cook's voyage on the Resolution, for which William Hodges was hired as official artist, a 'landskip painter'. In the Pacific, painters like Hodges found themselves staring again and again in disbelief at landscapes a ...

ISBN 9781877578175
Published 1 February 2012 by Otago University Press
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Library of Dreams: Treasures from the National Library of Australia

Library of Dreams: Treasures from the National Library of Australia (Hardback)

Other primary creator National Library of Australia, The

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Library of Dreams interprets and celebrates a diverse selection of treasures from the rich and varied collections of the National Library of Australia.

ISBN 9780642277022
Published 1 May 2011
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Hunting the Collectors: Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives
 

Hunting the Collectors: Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives (Hardback, 2nd Revised edition)

Edited by Cochrane, Susan; Quanchi, Max

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This volume investigates Pacific collections held in Australian museums, art galleries and archives, and the diverse group of 19th and 20th century collectors responsible for their acquisition. The nineteen essays reveal varied personal and institutional motivations that eventual ...

ISBN 9781443826600
Published 1 February 2011
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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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