The transforming image : painted arts of Northwest Coast First Nations

McLennan, Bill (author.). Duffek, Karen, 1956- (author.). Wilson, Lyle, (author of the introduction.).

Summary: "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."--

Record details

ISBN: 0295987081
ISBN: 9780295987088
ISBN: 1553652622
ISBN: 9781553652625
Physical Description: xii, 291 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 x 28 cm.
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Edition: First paperback edition 2007.
Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia : Douglas & McIntyre ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2000.
Copyright: ©2000.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Also: 1st paperback edition Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, 2007.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-282) and index.