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Insolent bassists and mad drummers, Mark Amery

Posted on June 1, 2004 by NZ Books

Ready to Fly: The Story of New Zealand Rock Music David Eggleton Craig Potton Publishing, $49.95, ISBN 1877333069 I have a confession to make. I’m not much of a reader – at least not in the always-head-in-a-novel kind of a…

Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, David Eggleton, Issue 66, Mark Amery, Winter 2004
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review

Another coffee-table paperweight, Mark Amery

Posted on December 1, 2003 by NZ Books

New Zealand Painting: a concise history Michael Dunn Auckland University Press, $99.99, ISBN 1869402979 There’s a story that’s been hanging around a while now like a bad smell. Once upon a time, the story goes, painting died. Bloated and fat,…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 64, Mark Amery, Michael Dunn, Summer 2003
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review

Ways of cooking it – a smorgasbord of art books, Mark Amery

Posted on June 1, 2002 by NZ Books

If you were to place all of the volumes on New Zealand art in one bookcase, you’d be presented with one rather higgledy-piggledy collection. Together they would tell an odd tale of short-lived publishing lines, changing institutional agendas, different and…

Tagged with: Issue 58, Mark Amery, Winter 2002
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review

Lyetening up, Mark Amery

Posted on October 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Len Lye: A Biography Roger Horrocks Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1869402472 Len Lye himself ensures his biography is a ripper of a read. While biographer Roger Horrocks studiously clocks and chronicles the events and years of a long, ever-colourful…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 50, Len Lye, Mark Amery, October 2001, Roger Horrocks
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review

Rearranging the found, Mark Amery

Posted on December 1, 2000 by NZ Books

Shifting Nature: Photographs by Wayne Barrar Wayne Barrar, with an essay by Geoff Park Otago University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1877276057 Chris Booth: Sculpture in Europe, Australia and New Zealand Edward Lucie-Smith, Ken Scarlett and Gregory O’Brien Godwit, $49.95, ISBN 1869620739…

Tagged with: Chris Booth, Edward Lucie-Smith, Geoff Park, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 52, Ken Scarlett, Mark Amery, Otago University Press, Summer 2002, Wayne Barrar
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Photography, Review

Really real, Mark Amery

Posted on September 1, 1999 by NZ Books

The Spit Children Jo Randerson Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0864733968 There was once this young woman who liked to make up stories. They were the kind of stories you might have made up for your best friend when…

Tagged with: Issue 47, Jo Randerson, March 2001, Mark Amery, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review