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Insolent bassists and mad drummers, Mark Amery
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
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Another coffee-table paperweight, Mark Amery
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
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Ways of cooking it – a smorgasbord of art books, Mark Amery
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…
Lyetening up, Mark Amery
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
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Really real, Mark Amery
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
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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