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Painted Histories: Early Maori Figurative Painting by NEICH, ROGER; Cliff Whiting, Foreword - 1993

by NEICH, ROGER; Cliff Whiting, Foreword

Painted Histories: Early Maori Figurative Painting by NEICH, ROGER; Cliff Whiting, Foreword - 1993

Painted Histories: Early Maori Figurative Painting

by NEICH, ROGER; Cliff Whiting, Foreword

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Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in original black paper-covered boards and fine pictorial dust jacket.. Quarto. 7.5 x 11.75 in. xii, 330 pp. Illustrated with 175 black & white reproductions of artworks and photographs, finely detailed. Neich archives in theory and practise the figurative paintings of more than eighty meeting houses across New Zealand (especially in the east of the North Island), many of which have now disappeared. Figurative paintings circa 1840s distinguished themselves from the Maori traditions restricted to body painting and coating of timber with red ochre and abstract scroll patterns, known as kowhaiwhai.
  • Bookseller Captain's Bookshelf, Inc., ABAA US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Fine in original black paper-covered boards and fine pictorial dust jacket.
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • ISBN 10 1869400879
  • ISBN 13 9781869400873
  • Publisher Auckland University Press
  • Place of Publication Auckland, New Zealand
  • Date Published 1993
  • Keywords BOOKOFCHAN