Struck by the dynamic character of a nineteenth-century Northwest Coast painted chest that he had walked past many times at the museum where he worked, Bill McLennan decided to photograph it for closer study. Infrared film produced surprising results. Painted areas that had been obscured with a patina of oils and soot could now be clearly seen, as the complete painting emerged from beneath the weathered surface. With this find, the Image Recovery Project was born, whose object was to produce a database of infrared ...
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Struck by the dynamic character of a nineteenth-century Northwest Coast painted chest that he had walked past many times at the museum where he worked, Bill McLennan decided to photograph it for closer study. Infrared film produced surprising results. Painted areas that had been obscured with a patina of oils and soot could now be clearly seen, as the complete painting emerged from beneath the weathered surface. With this find, the Image Recovery Project was born, whose object was to produce a database of infrared photographs of historical Northwest Coast paintings. The Transforming Image brings together some of the most intriguing images, many revealed for the first time since the objects were collected at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Add this copy of The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of Northwest Coast to cart. $57.00, good condition, Sold by Chaparral Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Univ of British Columbia Pr.
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Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 1x9x11; Sewn-in binding is shaken but holding strong. Light shelf wear to extremities. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. Oblong 8vo. 291pp.
Add this copy of The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of Northwest Coast to cart. $92.00, very good condition, Sold by Michael Patrick McCarty, Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New Castle, CO, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Univ of British Columbia Pr.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x1x11; In Very Good+ condition and Very Good dustjacket. Struck by the dynamic character of a nineteenth-century Northwest Coast painted chest that he had walked past many times at the museum where he worked, Bill McLennan decided to photograph it for closer study. Infrared film produced surprising results. Painted areas that had been obscured with a patina of oils and soot could now be seen clearly, as the complete painting emerged from beneath the weathered surface. With this find, the Image Recovery Project was born, whose object was to develop a database of infrared photographs of historical Northwest Coast paintings. The Transforming Image brings together some of the most intriguing images, many revealed for the first time in over a hundred years. Karen Duffek's text adds new insights derived from the project's detective work, linking painted images to communities, histories, and the hands of individual painters.
Add this copy of The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of Northwest Coast to cart. $134.00, very good condition, Sold by Edmonton Book Store rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Edmonton, AB, CANADA, published 2000 by Douglas and McIntyre.
Add this copy of The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of Northwest Coast to cart. $159.00, very good condition, Sold by Edmonton Book Store rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Edmonton, AB, CANADA, published 2000 by UBC Press.
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Very Good. No dustjacket. pp. 291, alas no dustjacket, "All who have seen the results so far agree that...the paintings being revealed to us are among the great masterpieces not only of the Northwest Coast, but of the whole world. --Bill Reid Struck by the dynamic character of a nineteenth-century Northwest Coast painted chest that he had… Oblong 4o.
Add this copy of The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of Northwest Coast to cart. $359.00, very good condition, Sold by Edmonton Book Store rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Edmonton, AB, CANADA, published 2000 by University of British Columbia Press.
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Very Good. No dustjacket. pp. 291, alas no dustjacket, "All who have seen the results so far agree that...the paintings being revealed to us are among the great masterpieces not only of the Northwest Coast, but of the whole world. --Bill Reid Struck by the dynamic character of a nineteenth-century Northwest Coast painted chest that he had… Oblong 4o.
