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CARVED HISTORIES

Subtitle: Rotorua Ngati Tarawhai Woodcarving
Author: R. neich
Material Type: general or thematic Work
Publisher: Auckland University Press, Auckland (New Zealand), 2001. Bound with editor binding, dust jacket in good condition illustrated in color, in-4, size: 19.5 x 26.5 cm, ISBN 1-86940-257-X
Content: 424 p, 187 ill. b / w, 9 ill. col., 204 b / w photos, 11 Color photos., 34 drawings, 2 maps, biblio., 11 tables, 13 genealogies, appendices, references, index
Additional information: original edition
State of the work: Very good condition
SKU: Réf. 6/527-[588] Category: Tag:
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Description

In this book, Roger Neich following his first great study, “Painted Histories“, with a report and analysis of the great tradition of wood carving Maori. Woodcarvers Ngati Tarawhai the Rotorua district has maintained a continuous distinctive style of sculpture from the pre-European times to the present. As the most prolific and considered one of the most influential schools of Maori carvers in New Zealand, they have played a vital role in modern history of the development and the survival of the Maori carving. With the creation of the art school government-sponsored Maori in Rotorua in 1928, is a sculptor Ngati Tarawhai, Eramiha Kapua, which became the main director and helped her traditional tribal art to the transition to a modern art “national”. Beginning with the life of Ngati Tarawhai around Lake Okataina, this study examines the context of the production of all known sculptures by Ngati Tarawhai in New Zealand and overseas, and explores the relationship between the sculptors and their sponsors Maori.

After the end of the wars of New Zealand, Ngati Tarawhai of sculptors were responsible for some of the most famous meeting houses in the Rotorua and the larger district of the Bay of Plenty Bay, often working with sculptors for Ngati Pikiao 1870 and 1880. with the advent of European influence in the late nineteenth century European concepts of art have been imposed on these sculptors, causing changes in the form of sculpture and making them aware sculptors their work as “art” in the European sense. This self-awareness has reached its highest level in the production of art “tourist” when sculptors manufactured modified traditional and innovative objects that were perceived as “Maori Art” by their European customers. “Carved Histories” is richly illustrated and includes biographies of sculptors Ngati Tarawhai and a list of all known sculptures Ngati Tarawhai. This important book by a renowned scientist, will be well received in both Maori and Pkeha worlds.

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