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Reflecting on the now, Melissa Laing

Posted on December 3, 2018 by NZ Books

Towards a History of the Contemporary: Gordon H Brown Lecture 16 Christina Barton Art History, School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, $15.00, ISBN 9771176588005 For the last 16 years, the art history department of…

Tagged with: Christina Barton, Classics and Religious Studies, Issue 124, Melissa Laing, School of Art History, Summer 2018, Victoria University of Wellington
Posted in Art, Review

Rethinking the past, Melissa Laing

Posted on December 7, 2016 by NZ Books

Re-inventing New Zealand: Essays on the Arts and the Media Roger Horrocks Atuanui Press, $45.00, ISBN 9780992245382 As I opened a blank document to begin this review, a tweet popped up in my feed from Morgan Godfery: “Sure,” Godfery writes…

Tagged with: Atuanui Press, Issue 116, Melissa Laing, Roger Horrocks, Summer 2016
Posted in Art, Essays, Media, Non-fiction, Review

Not to be sneezed at, Melissa Laing

Posted on June 1, 2011 by NZ Books

Fantastica: The World of Leo Bensemann Peter Simpson Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 978869404710 It has been a prolific few years for New Zealand art history at Auckland University Press, with monographs on Bill Culbert, Marti Friedlander, Len Lye…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 94, Leo Bensemann, Melissa Laing, Peter Simpson, Winter 2011
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review