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Galleries of Maoriland : artists, collectors and the Māori world, 1880-1910 / Roger Blackley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: xi, 298 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some colour), photographs ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1869409353
  • 9781869409357
Other title:
  • Artists, collectors and the Māori world, eighteen eighty-nineteen ten
  • Artists, collectors and the Māori world, 1880-1910
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Galleries of MaorilandDDC classification:
  • 704.949305899442 23
LOC classification:
  • N7406 .B533 2018
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- Curios and exhibitions -- Māori prehistory -- Portrait galleries -- Performing the ancient past -- The curio economy -- Problems with portraits -- Pākehā propaganda -- Cosmopolitan Maoriland -- Maoriland in focus.
Summary: "Galleries of Maoriland looks at Māori prehistory in Pākehā art; the enthusiasm of Pākehā and Māori for portraiture and recreations of ancient life; the trade in Māori curios; and the international exhibition of this colonial culture. By illuminating New Zealand’s artistic and ethnographic economy at the turn of the twentieth century, this book provides a new understanding of our art and our culture"--Publisher information.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 704.949305899442 BLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A539908B

"Published as part of the Gerrard & Marti Friedlander Creative Lives Series"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- Curios and exhibitions -- Māori prehistory -- Portrait galleries -- Performing the ancient past -- The curio economy -- Problems with portraits -- Pākehā propaganda -- Cosmopolitan Maoriland -- Maoriland in focus.

"Galleries of Maoriland looks at Māori prehistory in Pākehā art; the enthusiasm of Pākehā and Māori for portraiture and recreations of ancient life; the trade in Māori curios; and the international exhibition of this colonial culture. By illuminating New Zealand’s artistic and ethnographic economy at the turn of the twentieth century, this book provides a new understanding of our art and our culture"--Publisher information.

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