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Book Marti Friedlander  Portraits of the Artists

Download or read book Marti Friedlander Portraits of the Artists written by Leonard Bell and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fifty years, Marti Friedlander (1928–2016) was one of New Zealand's most important photographers, her work singled out for praise and recognition here and around the world. Friedlander's powerful pictures chronicled the country's social and cultural life from the 1960s into the twenty-first century. From painters to potters, film makers to novelists, and actors to musicians, Marti Friedlander was always deeply engaged with New Zealand's creative talent. This book, published to coincide with an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Wellington, brings together those extraordinary people and photographs: Rita Angus and Ralph Hotere, C. K. Stead and Maurice Gee, Neil Finn and Kapka Kassabova, Ans Westra and Kiri Te Kanawa, and many many more. Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists chronicles the changing face of the arts in New Zealand while also addressing a central theme in Marti Friedlander's photography. Featuring more than 250 photographs, many never previously published, the book is an illuminating chronicle of the cultural life of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Book The Bird in Me Flies

Download or read book The Bird in Me Flies written by Sara Lundberg and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prize-winning, illustrated novel in verse about a young girl who dreams of being an artist, inspired by the life of Swedish artist Berta Hansson. What do you do when it feels impossible to live up to everything expected of you? When the only person who understands you disappears? When you are young and long for something that seems out of reach? Berta dreams of being an artist, but as a girl growing up in a small Swedish farming village in the 1920s, she has little hope. She finds solace in nature, and in drawing and shaping birds from clay for her mother, the only person who seems to truly understand her. When her mother succumbs to tuberculosis, Berta feels alone, in despair and even more burdened by all the work on the farm. Can she find the courage to defy her father and the social conventions of her time, and fly free? This beautifully illustrated novel in verse, inspired by the paintings, letters and diaries of Swedish artist Berta Hansson (1910-1994), is a universal story of grief, longing and following your dreams. Includes an afterword by journalist Alexandra Sundqvist. Key Text Features captions photographs biographical information Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).

Book Harvenger

    Book Details:
  • Author : Albert David Sutton
  • Publisher : Albert David Sutton
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9780473181369
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Harvenger written by Albert David Sutton and published by Albert David Sutton. This book was released on 2012 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innocent farm girl, suddenly orphaned by a terrible accident, is forced to face an isolated and vulnerable life where even the most pious of men covet her beauty with their deep, dark and desperate desires. In this world of mortal danger Lauryl is not without an ally. Unknown to her she has sparked the flame of desire in one who has not know such feelings for eons. Unfettered, he lets the flame grow, and while it burns any who try to harm her will fall beneath his blade. He shows no mercy, gives no quarter. Neither kings nor armies can touch her, because his name is Death!

Book Buller s Birds of New Zealand

Download or read book Buller s Birds of New Zealand written by Sir Walter Lawry Buller and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references.

Book A Natural History of Australian Parrots

Download or read book A Natural History of Australian Parrots written by Joseph M. Forshaw and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the final collaboration of Joseph M. Forshaw and William T. Cooper and combines the finest Cooper artwork with an updated, authoritative Forshaw text. Presented as a deluxe edition, this book is truly a combination of art and science presenting many previously unpublished Cooper drawings, sketches and paintings. Containing more than 300 artworks, it is fully cased in grey Ballantine cloth, with black blocking and marbled endpapers. The book is landscape format printed on fine quality satin art paper and the size is 350 mm x 305 mm.

Book New Zealand Birds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raymond Harris-Ching
  • Publisher : Salem House Publishers
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book New Zealand Birds written by Raymond Harris-Ching and published by Salem House Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creative Conservation

Download or read book Creative Conservation written by Chrissy Wickes and published by White Cloud Books. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book showcases a group of 35 artists and their work, looking at what inspires them and how their awareness of the importance of conservation informs their work"--Back cover.

Book Capturing the Essence

    Book Details:
  • Author : William T Cooper
  • Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
  • Release : 2011-05-12
  • ISBN : 0643103392
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Capturing the Essence written by William T Cooper and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the Essence is a step-by-step personal guide – by one of Australia's greatest living bird artists – to observing, retaining the essential information and then painting birds from field notes and sketches, photographs and other field observations. The author takes the reader through the processes involved in oil painting, watercolour and acrylic techniques, and a piece of art is built up in stages to demonstrate the skills required in each of these media. While the book covers some of the general basics relevant to various kinds of painting of natural history subjects, the concentration is very much on birds. Painting or drawing any subject well, gives great satisfaction. In this book the author hopes to help the reader become competent at drawing and painting birds, or at least to enjoy trying!

Book Tuamaka

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joan Metge
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 2013-11-01
  • ISBN : 1775582280
  • Pages : 109 pages

Download or read book Tuamaka written by Joan Metge and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the point of view of a renowned anthropologist, this invaluable volume narrates the history of a multicultural New Zealand in which both Maori and non-Maori individuals cohabitate. Arguing that the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840—signed by the indigenous Maori and the British—established a foundation from which New Zealanders could grow and prosper, this account demonstrates how two cultures met, disputed, and dealt with diversity. In addition, this unique record analyzes the country's languages and myths and explores how they have influenced New Zealand society. Moving and engaging, this record covers six decades of enlightening field work.

Book A History of the Birds of New Zealand

Download or read book A History of the Birds of New Zealand written by Walter Lawry Buller and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Book Bringing Back the Birds

    Book Details:
  • Author : American Bird Conservancy
  • Publisher : Mountaineers Books
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781680512113
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Bringing Back the Birds written by American Bird Conservancy and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Jonathan Franzen Original poem by Margaret Atwood With species ranging from tiny iridescent-green hummingbirds to giant, gangly flightless rheas, the Americas feature an astonishing array of birds that rely upon the region's tremendous diversity of habitats. That reliance may be very localized or it may reach across continents: Swainson's Thrushes travel from South America all the way to Alaska, while certain grebes spend their entire lives on a single lake. Treasured songbirds feed at northern backyard feeders yet often arrive from points far to the south. The American Bird Conservancy (ABC) works across the Americas with a goal to have birds routinely prioritized in all land-use and policy decision-making. Bringing Back the Birds showcases these efforts, alongside the stunning photography of Owen Deutsch and eloquent essays from renowned experts in the field: Peter P. Marra, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center; researchers Kimberly and Kenn Kaufman; John W. Fitzpatrick, Cornell Lab of Ornithology; and Mike Parr, EJ Williams, and Clare Nielsenof ABC.

Book The Art of the Bird

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roger J. Lederer
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2019-09-25
  • ISBN : 022667505X
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book The Art of the Bird written by Roger J. Lederer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human history of depicting birds dates to as many as 40,000 years ago, when Paleolithic artists took to cave walls to capture winged and other beasts. But the art form has reached its peak in the last four hundred years. In The Art of the Bird, devout birder and ornithologist Roger J. Lederer celebrates this heyday of avian illustration in forty artists’ profiles, beginning with the work of Flemish painter Frans Snyders in the early 1600s and continuing through to contemporary artists like Elizabeth Butterworth, famed for her portraits of macaws. Stretching its wings across time, taxa, geography, and artistic style—from the celebrated realism of American conservation icon John James Audubon, to Elizabeth Gould’s nineteenth-century renderings of museum specimens from the Himalayas, to Swedish artist and ornithologist Lars Jonsson’s ethereal watercolors—this book is feathered with art and artists as diverse and beautiful as their subjects. A soaring exploration of our fascination with the avian form, The Art of the Bird is a testament to the ways in which the intense observation inherent in both art and science reveals the mysteries of the natural world.

Book The Book of the Bird

    Book Details:
  • Author : Angus Hyland
  • Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
  • Release : 2016-05-31
  • ISBN : 9781780677507
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Book of the Bird written by Angus Hyland and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of the Bird celebrates the bird in art with an elegant, international collection of paintings, illustrations, and photographs, featuring all kinds of birds from the smallest tits and wrens to colourful exotics. Interspersed though the illustrations are short texts giving background to the pictures and information on bird species. This is the perfect gift for all bird lovers.

Book Discovering the Birds of New Zealand

Download or read book Discovering the Birds of New Zealand written by Piers Hayman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Native Birds of New Zealand

Download or read book Native Birds of New Zealand written by David Hallett and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bird

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roni Horn
  • Publisher : Steidl / Edition7L
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9783865216694
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Bird written by Roni Horn and published by Steidl / Edition7L. This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roni Horn's "To Place" is an ongoing series of small editions, each book a unique look at the relationship between identity and location. They take as their starting point Iceland and Horn's evolving experiences there, illustrated in watercolors, photographs, typographic drawings, and text. "Doubt Box" is the ninth book in the set, printed in a limited edition of 1,000 copies, and it comes in the form of a collection of 28 loose two-sided images printed on cards, which makes for 56 color reproductions. One face of each shows the glacial river Skafta, proverbially both changing and constant. The other shows any of a collection of possibilities--a boy, an iceberg, birds. Each card offers a hybrid, a composite, while together they suggest the universality of duality, and particularly the dual nature of identity.

Book The Bush Birds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bridget Farmer
  • Publisher : Black Cockatoo Books
  • Release : 2021-10
  • ISBN : 9780646843025
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book The Bush Birds written by Bridget Farmer and published by Black Cockatoo Books. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of Australian birds commonly found in the bush. Each page contains a riddle to engage the reader with the illustration and try and guess the name of the bird. This book aims to both familiarise readers with the twelve birds included within the pages but also teach them what to look for when trying to identify birds in real life.