Author: Gerald BarnettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Toss Woollaston
Author: Gerald BarnettMaking Ends Meet
Author: Ian WeddePublisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864735034
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Passionate, witty, and erudite, these essays by a radical curator describe how museums approach their sometimes conflicting missions to sponsor scholarship, generate popular appeal, and claim social significance. This analysis includes discussions of art and ethnology, the failure of late-Modernist art history, the construction of official culture, the intellectual history of European exploration in the Pacific, problems with cultural studies of the Pakeha Maori, and the conservation of archives and narratives.
Between the Lives
Author: Deborah ShepardPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1775580261
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This fascinating look at artists and their intimate partners takes nine well-known New Zealand couples and explores the many aspects of their lives—particularly how the presence of an artistic companion or soul mate impacts the art they produce. Combining the pleasures of gossip with information about how these artists have conducted their lives, this illuminates many of the themes found in the artists' paintings, poems, and films that revolve around their partners and the strains of producing serious art in a small and isolated country. The couples include Gil and Pat Hanly, Colin and Anne McCahon, Sylvia and Peter Siddell, Frances Hodgkins and D. K. Richmond, James K. Baxter and Jacquie Sturm, Kendrick Smithyman and Mary Stanley, Rudall and Ramai Hayward, Toss and Edith Woollaston, and Meg and Alister te Ariki Campbell. All told, nine painters, six poets, two filmmakers, and a photographer are included.
Toss Woollaston
Author: The Palm at the End of the Mind
Author: Michael JacksonPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822392437
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In many societies and for many people, religiosity is only incidentally connected with texts or theologies, church or mosque, temple or monastery. Drawing on a lifetime of ethnographic work among people for whom religion is not principally a matter of faith, doctrine, or definition, Michael Jackson turns his attention to those situations in life where we come up against the limits of language, our strength, and our knowledge, yet are sometimes thrown open to new ways of understanding our being-in-the-world, to new ways of connecting with others. Through sixty-one beautifully crafted essays based on sojourns in Europe, West Africa, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, and taking his cue from Wallace Stevens’s late poem, “Of Mere Being,” Jackson explores a range of experiences where “the palm at the end of the mind” stands “beyond thought,” on “the edge of space,” “a foreign song.” Moments of crisis as well as everyday experiences in cafés, airports, and offices disclose the subtle ways in which a single life shades into others, the boundaries between cultures become blurred, fate unfolds through genealogical time, elective affinities make their appearance, and different values contend.
Picking Up the Traces
Author: Lawrence JonesPublisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864734556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The story of the generation of New Zealand writers who came of age in the 1930s and who deliberately and decisively changed the course of literature is told in this book, shedding important new light on the key participants, including Allen Curnow, Denis Glover, and Robin Hyde. The movement is traced through small circulation magazines and small press publications from 1932 to 1941. The repudiations and loyalties by which the movement defined itself are explored, including its opposition to the literary establishment and to late Georgian verse, its naming of its precursors and allies from the 1920s, and its choice of overseas models such as the British Moderns and the new American short-story writers for the creation of a new literature. oppose the cultural myths supported by the literary establishment and the writers' responses to the world-wide social upheavals of the period -- the Depression, the international crises of 1935 to 1939, and World War II.
Ground/work
Author: Christina BartonPublisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864734334
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The art of Pauline Rhodes is often temporary and housed outside of the usual gallery setting. This book documents her extraordinary body of work, making it accessible to a wider public and securing her a central place in art history. Additional essays by ecologist and historian Geoff Park and architectural theorist Sarah Treadwell consider her work in light of their respective disciplines.
Toss Woollaston
Author: Marlborough, Nelson and Kaikoura (Rough Guides Snapshot New Zealand)
Author: Rough GuidesPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0241248523
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Rough Guide Snapshot to Marlborough, Nelson and Kaikoura is the ultimate travel guide to these alluring parts of New Zealand, packed with reliable information. There's detailed coverage of all the sights and attractions, from whale watching in Kaikoura to browsing in Nelson's lively Saturday market. Comprehensive maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and vineyards, ensuring you have the best trip possible, whether you're passing through or staying for longer. The Rough Guides Snapshot to Marlborough, Nelson and Kaikoura covers the Marlbourgh Sounds, the Queen Charlotte Track, Abel Tasman National Park, Golden Bay, Farewell Spit, the Heaphy Track, Nelson Lakes National Park and the Marlborough Wine Country. Also included is the Basics section from the Rough Guide to New Zealand, with all the practical information you need for travelling in and around Marlborough, Nelson and Kaikoura, including transport, food, drink, costs and health. Also published as part of the Rough Guide to New Zealand. The Rough Guide Snapshot to Marlborough, Nelson and Kaikoura is equivalent to 106 printed pages.
Colin McCahon
Author: Peter SimpsonPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1776710517
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 787
Book Description
The first of an extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by New Zealand's most important artist, Colin McCahon.Colin McCahon (1919&–1987) was New Zealand's greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Maori motifs, McCahon's work came to define a distinctly New Zealand modernist idiom. Collected and exhibited extensively in Australasia and Europe, McCahon's work has not been assessed as a whole for thirty-five years.In this richly illustrated two-volume work, written in an accessible style and published to coincide with the centenary of Colin McCahon's birth, leading McCahon scholar, writer and curator Peter Simpson chronicles the evolution of McCahon's work over the artist's entire forty-five-year career.Simpson has enjoyed unprecedented access to McCahon's extensive correspondence with friends, family, dealers, patrons and others. This material enables us to begin to understand McCahon's work as the artist himself conceived it. Each volume includes over three hundred illustrations in colour, with a generous selection of reproductions of McCahon's work (many never previously published), plus photographs, catalogue covers, facsimiles and other illustrative material.This will be the definitive work on New Zealand's leading artist for many years to come.