Māori art : history, architecture, landscape and theory /
Publisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Bateman, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 352 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 cmISBN:- 9781869538675
- 1869538676
- NZ&P N 7407 PAN
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library NZ & Pacific | NZ & Pacific | NZ&P N 7406 MAO PAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0012513 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-343) and index.
Traditionally books on Maori art have described the work as either 'traditional' (as in the arts of carving, weaving, painting) or 'contemporary', that is work produced post-1950s. This book presents a unique focus on Māori art by exploring the connection between the traditional and contemporary, and the place of Māori art within an international context. In doing so, it provides a framework for looking at Māori art in a new way. It leads to thought-provoking criticism of current art historical approaches to Māori art and constitutes probably the first sustained critique of the modern development of Māori art from an authentic Māori point of view. The book is extensively illustrated with 300 art works, landscapes and meetinghouses, with many never before published images, including 90 specially commissioned photographs from renowned New Zealand photographers Mark Bentley Adams and Haruhiko Sameshima.