Gottfried Lindauer's New Zealand. The Maori Portraits

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publisher Place: New Zealand
Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: First Edition

Description: 320 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: From the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the Bohemian immigrant artist Gottfried Lindauer travelled to marae and rural towns around New Zealand and - comissioned by Mori and Pkeh- captured in paint the images of key Mori figures. For Mori then and now, the faces of tpuna are full of mana and life. Now this definitive work collects those portraits for New Zealanders. The book presents 67 major portraits and 8 genre paintings alongside detailed accounts of the subject and work, with essays by leading scholars that takes us inside Lindauer and his world: from his artistic training in Bohemia to his travels around New Zealand as Mori and Pkeh comissioned him to paint portraits; his artistic techniques and deep relationship with photography; Henry Partridges gallery on Aucklands Queen Street where Mori visited to see their ancestors; and the afterlife of the paintings in marae and memory. * Co-produced with the Auckland Art Gallery to tie in with a major internationally-touring exhibition of Lindauers Mori portraits.* These images are important not only as artwork but as living taonga* The essays discuss the lives of Lindauers subjects, not just the paintings themselves.

ISBN: 9781869408565