New Zealand Portraits
Author(s): Richard Wolfe
This magnificent book is a collection of New Zealand painted portraits from our earliest times. With selections based on the quality of the art and the importance of the artist, this offering promises to be a truly memorable and significant snapshot of a vital aspect of New Zealand's art heritage. After introductory essays, in which author Richard Wolfe discusses alternately the nature of a portrait and New Zealand's history of portraiture as an art form, the book features 83 full-page portraits alongside their provenance, historical significance and often little-known facts.
Product Information
Richard Wolfe has worked for many years in museums and for twenty years was Curator of Display at Auckland Museum. He has spent the last ten years as a freelance writer and exhibition curator. Richard has published more than twenty books covering aspects of New Zealand popular culture, and social and military history.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books
- : Viking
- : 01 January 2008
- : 300mm X 230mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : folio
- : Richard Wolfe
- : Hardback
- : 757.0993
- : very good
- : 240
- : Portraits in art
- : illustrations