R g kimber (18 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Binding tight and square. Small tape to top of rear spine gutter. Pages clean and free of writing or marks.

Condición: New. In English.

soft cover. Condición: Fine, near new condition. No Jacket. 2nd edition. Second edition contains a postcript and eulogy. Illustrated with photographs in colour and black and white. 22 cm. VI, 187 pages.

soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated with photographs in colour and black and white, maps. 22 cm. VI, 176 pages VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear and edge wear to covers, signed by the author on title page. Signed by author.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. Covers & Spine: both front and back glossy picture-boards are undamaged with minimal wear along the edges and corners, spine is intact with only slight bumping at ends. Binding: firm throughout, both hinges strong. Pages & Markings: unstained, no markings, clean throughout. No dust jacket as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Due to this item weighing less than 500g, postage cost for international orders (i.e. not Australian) will be less than what is shown here. Please email me if you would like a quote. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya (Distributed for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University) 2009, hardcover "very good condition" Icons of the Desert is an exhibition catalog produced by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University for a show featuring forty-nine "dot-paintings" produced by Aboriginal artists from the settlement of Panpunya. Dot-painting has become an art instantly associated with Aboriginal Australia. In the more than thirty-five years since the advent of this movement, Papunya works have been widely exhibited and acquired by private collectors and museums in Australia, and increasingly abroad. Icons of the Desert is the first book to focus on the founding expressions of Papunya art. It examines their origins in the paintings produced in Papunya in the Western Desert during the years 1971 to 1973, after the Sydney schoolteacher Geoffrey Bardon provided Aboriginal men with art materials and encouraged them to paint on Masonite, against the wishes of Australian government officials. These paintings claim a unique status. Only around six hundred were made. They are also the first painted works to transfer the designs of desert ceremonial imagery to a permanent surface. Beyond this rarity and historical significance, however, the visual qualities of Papunya boards make them a uniquely appealing body of work. They have the freshness of trial and error, of experiment by artists who were seasoned in other media adjusting to an unfamiliar format. Illustrated with full-color plates of the forty-nine exhibited works by such great artists as Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, and Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, Icons of the Desert features numerous color figures of comparative works and documentary photographs of the original artists at work, some never before published, and a chronological catalog documenting the works' history and iconography, edited by project curator Roger Benjamin. The leading Indigenous curator in the field, Hetti Perkins, contributed the preface. Roger Benjamin authored the lead essay, which situates the works in their historical and cultural context. Fred Myers, an internationally renowned cultural anthropologist who undertook his doctoral research at Papunya when the movement was still in formation, has written an essay on the stylistic development of one of the painting men he knew personally, Shorty Lungkarta Tjungurrayi. Vivien Johnson, the most prominent Australian author on Western and Central Desert art, writes on a second important artist in the collection, Charlie Tarawa Tjungurrayi. In addition, the memories of relatives of deceased painters in the exhibition are presented in the form of an interview conducted by Dick Kimber, who was a schoolteacher at Papunya in 1971 when the paintings were first produced.…

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in light blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and the upper board. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper has some minimal edge wear is still in fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. The author joined Halton with the 18th Entry, 1928-31, and in which he describes as the "tough and demanding school wherein we were hammered and shaped into our manhood" He speculates that the results of the training policy were beyond Lord Trenchard's greatest hopes and this became manifest in World War II. The primary role of RAF Halton is to train military and civilian personnel to perform to the highest standard for military operations. In particular this sees the Station deliver the Basic Recruit Training Course which has a throughput of approximately 2300 personnel graduating from the Phase 1 course annually, as well as the delivery of command, leadership and management training for all non-commissioned Service Personnel as part of their Phase 3 development. RAF Halton is home to 21 Supported Units across a range of specialities from air activity to defence media operations. The Station also supports 16 RAF Sports Associations as their nominated 'home', Wider Defence Tasks, Air Cadet Activity and Senior Leadership Team events. RAF Halton is one of the largest RAF stations and home to approximately 2,100 personnel from all three armed services, contractors, and civilians. Ref P 2.…

Hardcover in Dustjacket. Condición: Near Fine. AUSTRALIAN ART ABORIGINAL - Papunya artists; contact history of Papunya region 1870s to 1988; Creation mythology; interpretation of paintings.First Edition. 144 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 29 cm. Bibliography: p. 140-144. (name on fep) #150126 Nations (AIATSIS) Subject: Art - Production - Materials / techniques Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology Art - Painting - Acrylic Art - Sand and ground design Art - Artists Settlement and contacts Papunya (South Central NT SF52-16) Subject: Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia, Central Art, Australian -- Australia, Central -- Aboriginal artists Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Ex library with all the usual stickers and stamps.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Book condition is fine. Hard cover. No dust jacket. 1st edition, 2009. Book block clean and unmarked all sides Book boards clean and unmarked front and back. Spine intact. Text body clean and unmarked through the body. Overall an excellent and neat copy of the. See photos for synopsis and more information on book. Extra charges for oversea postage as the book weight is over 500grams.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Biography of a legendary Australian aborigine. Signed Hardcover in excellent condition! Much that is published on the Centre is from the perspective of the jet-and-chopper journalist, so it is with sheer delight that one greets Man from Arltunga, written from the perspective of a local and a bushman. The author's knowledge of this country is of a rare quality. Not only is he interested in the White settlement of the area but he also has a broader appreciation for the prehistory and for the Black version of their history. In the thirteen years that Dick Kimber has lived in the Centre he has travelled extensively with Aboriginal people through their ancestral country. He has travelled the Aboriginal way, with Aboriginal navigators, journeying slowly, digressing for relatives, or for bush tucker, or for ceremonial business. His first-hand knowledge together with his affinity for the country made him an ideal companion for Walter Smith on their journey to record Walter's story. Signed by Author(s).…

Condición: New. Print on Demand.

hardcover. Condición: New.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Condición: Very Good. 8vo softcover 176pp index, map. very good, owner's notes inside front cover.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

4to (28x23cm), hardback, xxx + 393pp. Very good condition in good dustwrapper (lightly bumped, small crease to mid-upper front edge, 2cm closed tear to upper left front). Mild wear only. Interior very good, with b&w and colour photographs. Pictures available on request.

4to (28x23cm), hardback, xxx + 393pp. Good condition in good dustwrapper (bumped, light creasing to upper edges). Bumped, lower edges have faded from red to white. Interior very good, with b&w and colour photographs.