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Radical carrot, upside down parrot, Gregory O’Brien
Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys Catherine Hammond and Mary Kisler (eds) Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 9781869408930 Finding Frances Hodgkins Mary Kisler Massey University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9780995102972 You reach a certain age and your favourite artists and writers start invading…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Catherine Hammond, Frances Hodgkins, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 128, Mary Kisler, Massey University Press, Summer 2019
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Heroic lives, Bruce Babington
Whatever it Takes: Pacific Films and John O’Shea 1948-2000 John Reid Victoria University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781776562114 Many years ago, I was invited by the New Zealand Film Archive to try to order the mass of material in its John…
Tagged with: Bruce Babington, Issue 126, John Reid, Victoria University Press, Winter 2019
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Colonial orientalism, Paula Morris
Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, Collectors and the Māori World, 1880–1910 Roger Blackley Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 9781869409357 The cover image of Roger Blackley’s impressive new book is a famous one: a tea break in Charles Goldie’s frame-stacked studio in…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2019, Issue 125, Roger Blackley
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
A singular genius, Andrew Wood
Colours of a Life: The Life and Times of Douglas MacDiarmid Anna Cahill Mary Egan Publishing, $80.00, ISBN 9780473423834 Over the decades, New Zealand has lost a tragic amount of cultural talent overseas for many reasons: the old bashing machine…
Tagged with: Andrew Wood, Anna Cahill, Autumn 2019, Douglas MacDiarmid, Issue 125, Mary Egan Publishing
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction
Unpleasant truths, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins
Theo Schoon: A Biography Damian Skinner Massey University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9780995100176 Hudson and Halls: The Food of Love Joanne Drayton Otago University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781988531267 There has long been an uneasiness on the part of local biographers when…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, Damian Skinner, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, Issue 125, Theo Schoon
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The light, fantastic toe, Jennifer Shennan
Limbs Dance Company – Dance for All People, 1977–1989 Marianne Schultz Marianne Schultz in conjunction with DANZ, $40.00 ISBN 9780473407698 This book about Limbs, New Zealand’s brightest modern dance troupe, in its heyday in 1980s Auckland, is dedicated “for Sue…
Plays and playmaking, Mark Houlahan
Performing Dramaturgy Fiona Graham Playmarket, $40.00, ISBN 9780908607648 Floating Islanders: Pasifika Theatre in Aotearoa Lisa Warrington and David O’Donnell ISBN 9781988531076 Dawn Raids Oscar Kightley Playmarket, $18.00, ISBN 97809080607631 “What is a dramaturg?” I overheard that question earlier this year…
Tagged with: David O’Donnell, Fiona Graham, Issue 124, Lisa Warrington, Mark Houlahan, Oscar Kightley, Playmarket, Summer 2018
Posted in Art, Literature, Non-fiction, Pacific, Plays, Review
Posted in Art, Literature, Non-fiction, Pacific, Plays, Review
Entangled histories, Megan Dunn
Strangers Arrive: Emigrés and the Arts in New Zealand 1930-1980 Leonard Bell Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 9781869408732 Did you realise that artist Theo Schoon, best known for his modernist photographs of rippling mud pools, also performed Balinese dance? Have…
Championing indigenous art histories, Stella Ramage
Colonial Gothic to Māori Renaissance: Essays in Memory of Jonathan Mane-Wheoki Conal McCarthy and Mark Stocker (eds) Victoria University Press, $80.00, ISBN 9781776561094 The Gedenkschrift – essays by colleagues collected in posthumous commemoration of an esteemed academic – is an…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Conal McCarthy, Issue 121, Mark Stocker, Stella Ramage, Victoria University Press
Posted in Art, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review