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Glamorous facelift, Stella Ramage
Two Hundred and Forty Years of New Zealand Painting Gil Docking (with additions covering 1970-1990 by Michael Dunn and 1990-2010 by Edward Hanfling) David Bateman, $100.00, ISBN 9781869538040 Publishers presumably ask themselves some questions before undertaking a new book. What…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, David Bateman, Edward Hanfling, Gil Docking, Issue 101, Michael Dunn, Stella Ramage
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Erratic humanity, Roger Blackley
Nerli: An Italian Painter in the South Pacific Michael Dunn Auckland University Press, $79.99, ISBN I869403355 According to the traditional mythology of New Zealand art, the annus mirabilis of 1890 heralds the arrival of professionalism and modernism in the figures…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 71, Michael Dunn, Roger Blackley, Spring 2005
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Paradise or purgatory, Alan Knowles
John Kinder’s New Zealand Ron Brownson (with contributions from Peter Shaw, Michael Dunn and Roger Blackley) Godwit and Auckland Art Gallery, $49.95, ISBN 1869621077 John Kinder turned his back on taunts of religious inflexibility and charges of being a “stiff-necked”…
Tagged with: Alan Knowles, Auckland Art Gallery, Godwit, Issue 64, John Kinder, Michael Dunn, Peter Shaw, Roger Blackley, Ron Brownson, Summer 2003
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Photography, 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
Over‑respecting the person, Tony Bellette
Frances Hodgkins: Paintings and Drawings Iain Buchanan, Michael Dunn, Elizabeth Eastmond Auckland University Press, $79.95 Do we have any right to claim Frances Hodgkins? Famous expatriate artists, to be regarded as properly belonging to their land of birth, normally continue…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Eastmond, Frances Hodgkins, Iain Buchanan, Issue 16, Michael Dunn, Summer 1994, Tony Bellette
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
An admirable thematic approach, Mark Stocker
A Concise History of New Zealand Painting Michael Dunn, David Bateman, Auckland, 1991, $89.95 A history of New Zealand painting written by a scholar is well overdue. Michael Dunn, longtime Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Auckland,…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, David Bateman, Issue 4, Mark Stocker, Michael Dunn
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review