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Travels with a paintbrush, Iain Sharp

Posted on September 1, 2012 by NZ Books

Tuhituhi: William Hodges, Cook’s Painter in the South Pacific Laurence Simmons Otago University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781877578175 In the last decades of the 20th century, with political correctness at its zenith, you could scarcely mention the British Empire in…

Tagged with: Iain Sharp, Issue 99, James Cook, Laurence Simmons, Otago University Press, Spring 2012, William Hodges
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review

Rethinking ourselves, Tim Hazledine

Posted on September 1, 2007 by NZ Books

Speaking Truth to Power: Public Intellectuals Rethink New Zealand Laurence Simmons (ed) Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869403799 I was thrilled to be asked to review this book. You see, I am a bit of a public intellectual myself, yet…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 79, Laurence Simmons, Spring 2007, Tim Hazledine
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology

Figuring out art history, Damian Skinner

Posted on December 1, 2002 by NZ Books

FigureWork: The Nude and Life Modelling in New Zealand Art Sandra Chesterman University of Otago Press, $59.95, ISBN 1877276375 The Image Always Has the Last Word: On Contemporary New Zealand Painting and Photography Laurence Simmons Dunmore Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864694121…

Tagged with: Damian Skinner, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 60, Laurence Simmons, Otago University Press, Sandra Chesterman, Summer 2002
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review

Domesticating Derrida, Kim Worthington

Posted on December 1, 2000 by NZ Books

Derrida Downunder ed Laurence Simmons and Heather Worth Dunmore Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864693745 Jacques Derrida’s visit to New Zealand, for the Derrida Downunder Conference organised by Auckland University in 1999, was certainly an event worthy of commemoration in print. This…

Tagged with: Dunmore Press, Heather Worth, Issue 52, Jacques Derrida, Kim Worthington, Laurence Simmons, Summer 2002
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review