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Paradise or purgatory, Alan Knowles

Posted on December 1, 2003 by NZ Books

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

Hills, weather, houses, Norman Bilbrough

Posted on June 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Why Go To The Riviera: Images of Wellington Peter Shaw Godwit, $99.95, ISBN 1869621018 When Evelyn Page arrived in Wellington in 1947 she was captured by the capital’s energy and bustle. She often painted scenes from her car, even obtaining…

Tagged with: Godwit, Issue 62, Norman Bilbrough, Peter Shaw, Winter 2003
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review

From the marae to modernism: the buildings in which we live, Pam Wilson

Posted on March 1, 1992 by NZ Books

New Zealand Architecture from Polynesian Beginnings to 1990 Peter Shaw, photographs by Robin Morrison, Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland, 1991, $59.95 ‘New Zealand’s European-derived architectural history may be short but it should be accorded the same respect we now give as…

Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 4, Pam Wilson, Peter Shaw, Robin Morrison
Posted in Architecture, History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review