Blackley Roger (94 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Fine. 176 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. *** "The Guide is a lively introduction to the collections of New Zealand's leading art museum, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. Established in 1888, the Gallery has developed its outstanding collections through the generosity of many benefactors and the continuing support of Auckland City. The Guide is an invitation to discover 160 outstanding works of art ranging in date from 1376 to 1999, including several of the Gallery's superb British paintings, highlights of the European painting and sculpture collections and representative examples of old master prints. New Zealand art of all periods and media with a particular emphasis on the last fifty years, is at the heart of The Guide, which includes many works by Maori and Pacific Island artists." "Brief, informative texts by the Gallery's curatorial staff accompany each image and an introductory essay recounts the development of the Gallery and its collections. Paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings and photographs give a fascinating and memorable insight into the development of the visual arts in New Zealand, as represented in the collections of its oldest public, art gallery, The Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki is one of New Zealand's national treasures, and a tribute to the power of private and public philanthropy working for a common good. These great collections are already much loved by New Zealanders - The Guide will help make them known to a wider world." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Small gift inscription, else unmarked with modest wear.

Condition: New.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The perfect guidebook to the Auckland Art Gallery, the oldest public art gallery in New Zealand. Beautifully illustrated, showing paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings, and photographs. Brief informative texts accompany each image. 184 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 156 pages.

Softcover. Oblong quarto. Softcover. Pictorial wraps. 128 pp. 110 color plates. 21 x 27 cm. Landscape paintings that range from watercolors and oil paintings by William Hodges to works by contemporary New Zealand artists. VG. Light touches of shelfwear.

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Tight unmarked book in bright covers with flaps. 49 colour plates with extensive commentary.; 10.6 X 8.1 X 0.6 inches; 144 pages.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Two Centuries of New Zealand Landscape Art is the sort of title that sounds, at first, as though it might be a dutiful march through a great many hills. But this handsome volume turns out to be something far better: a rich, civilised, quietly fascinating tour through the way an entire country has been seen, imagined, framed, romanticised, and occasionally improved upon with paint. Because landscape art is never just about landscape, however earnestly it may pretend otherwise. A mountain is never merely a mountain once an artist has arrived with oils, ambition, and a theory about light. A harbour becomes identity. A valley becomes myth. A line of trees becomes nationhood with better weather. Over two centuries, New Zealand?s land has been painted as sublime, raw, settled, contested, majestic, empty-looking but not empty, and generally capable of making Europe seem faintly overfurnished. This book gathers all that visual argument into one place, which is very convenient for those of us who like our cultural perspective bound between covers. Roger Blackley, with the calm authority of someone who knows both art and the stories that cling to it, offers not just pictures but a whole evolving sensibility. You can sense the shifts in taste, purpose, and politics. Early artists arrive and gaze upon the scenery as though God has been showing off. Later painters begin to see more than spectacle: atmosphere, settlement, memory, ownership, mood, modernity, perhaps even the faint suspicion that landscape is never innocent once people start naming it, painting it, selling it, and hanging it in drawing rooms. It is art history doing what art history does best: revealing that even a peaceful-looking view contains quite a lot of human intention. And what views they must be. New Zealand, after all, is one of those countries that behaves like an overachiever in visual terms. Lakes that look invented. Mountains with the dramatic timing of opera singers. Coastlines determined to be noticed. Skies apparently unwilling to settle for mere background duty. One imagines that the poor artists barely stood a chance. The landscape is doing at least half the work already, leaving them to decide whether to worship it, interpret it, tame it, or produce something tasteful enough for a gallery wall without simply writing ?look at this? underneath. This 1990 Auckland City Art Gallery publication has exactly the right aura for the subject: serious but attractive, scholarly without becoming a punishment, and likely filled with the sort of plates that make you involuntarily slow down and stare a bit. It sounds like the kind of art book that belongs equally well on a coffee table, a studio shelf, or in the possession of someone who says ?tonal qualities? with complete sincerity. In other words, ideal Crappy Old Books material. As a Good condition copy, it promises the sensible virtues one hopes for in an illustrated art book: sound, presentable, and ready to resume its duties as a portable museum for the visually inclined. Perhaps it has already lived a respectable life among gallery-goers, students, homes with large windows, or travellers who returned from New Zealand convinced the place had no business being that scenic. Now it stands ready for its next custodian, who may be an art lover, a collector, an armchair traveller, or simply someone who enjoys books that make landscapes look more meaningful than one?s own commute. There is also a pleasing irony in landscape art books generally. They allow one to admire vast wilderness, light, distance, and elemental grandeur while sitting indoors with a cup of tea, in weather entirely of one?s choosing. No mud, no midges, no carrying easels up slopes, no sudden rain ruining one?s transcendent communion with nature. Just two centuries of carefully curated visual awe, conveniently flattened into pages. So Two Centuries of New Zealand Landscape Art offers rather more than a procession of pretty scenes. It is a record of visi.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. Book has minor shelf wear.

Paperback. Condition: New. viii, 200 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 30 cm The book explores Charles F. Goldie's career, his early still life paintings, his time as a student in Paris, his reign as Auckland's leading painter, the fall from critical favour, descent into ill health and distinctive late period paintings of the 1930s.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small twinked out inscription and some minor dulling down to the spine. . This book examines the art of one of New Zealand's most distinguished water colourists of the colonial period. Alfred Sharp played a leading role in Auckland's art culture of the 1870s and 1880s, receiving support exclusively from private collectors.…

Soft cover. Revised edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Cover faded, remnant of sticker.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 128pp, index, bibliography, num col ills. Or pictorial card with integral flaps. Minor bend. Size: Oblong 4to.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A very clean copy. This book examines the art of one of New Zealand's most distinguished water colourists of the colonial period. Alfred Sharp played a leading role in Auckland's art culture of the 1870s and 1880s, receiving support exclusively from private collectors.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minor dulling down to the spine only. . This book examines the art of one of New Zealand's most distinguished water colourists of the colonial period. Alfred Sharp played a leading role in Auckland's art culture of the 1870s and 1880s, receiving support exclusively from private collectors.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Nice clean copy. . This book examines the art of one of New Zealand's most distinguished water colourists of the colonial period. Alfred Sharp played a leading role in Auckland's art culture of the 1870s and 1880s, receiving support exclusively from private collectors.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minor dulling down to the spine only. . This book examines the art of one of New Zealand's most distinguished water colourists of the colonial period. Alfred Sharp played a leading role in Auckland's art culture of the 1870s and 1880s, receiving support exclusively from private collectors.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A very clean copy with only very light shelf wear.

ex-library, softcover octavo (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very clean copy which has the usual dulling down to the spine. Charles F. Goldie (1870-1947) is one of New Zealand's best known artists, with mystique surrounding his work. His fame has been fed by newspaper reports documenting record-shattering prices, thefts, vandalism and forgeries. The book explores Goldie's career, his early still life paintings, his time as a student in Paris, his reign as Aukland's leading painter, the fall from critical favour, descent into ill health and distinctive late period paintings of the 1930s. Heavy volume for outside NZ.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. illustrated, 144 pages.

oblong quarto softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…