Stray Leaves: Colonial Trompe l'Oeil Drawings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780864734075)

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Stray Leaves: Colonial Trompe l'Oeil Drawings

$16.95

Stray Leaves: Colonial Trompe l'Oeil Drawings

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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This book reveals a fascinating and little-known form of colonial still-life painting--trompe l'oeil, or illusionistic watercolors that represent the trivia of everyday life through apparently casual arrangements of objects arrayed on tables or desktops and reproduced as realistically as possible. The variety of objects ranged from newspapers, playing cards, pens, and rulers to coins, banknotes, and even a lit cigar. Although the paintings were toured and exhibited in colonial times, they are little-known today. Ten surviving examples from art galleries in New Zealand and Australia are reproduced in this book.

Author: Roger Blackley
ISBN-10: 0864734077
ISBN-13: 9780864734075
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2002
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.30h x 10.42w x 0.22d
By Roger Blackley
By Roger Blackley
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Roger Blackley was a curator at the Auckland Art Gallery and now teaches in the art history department at Victoria University of Wellington. He has curated many major exhibitions and has written a number of books, among them the best-selling Goldie. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

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