200 Years of New Zealand Painting
By Gil Docking.
Description
A.H & A. W. Reed [Published date: 1980].[From front jacket flap] IN 1769 Cook's Endeavour was off Tolaga Bay on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island.Here Sydney Parkinson, an English painter engaged by Banks to record botanical discoveries, made a pen-and-wash study of A Perforated Rock.This work is the starting-point of Gil Docking's zoo-year survey of New Zealand painting, which concludes with Brent Wong's Abandoned Settlement (1969), a title that is itself a silent commentary on the two centuries that separate it from Parkinson's sketch.Gil Docking, D...
ISBN(s)
0589004263, 9780589004262
