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Fizz with zip, Wystan Curnow

Posted on March 13, 2016 by NZ Books

Zizz! The Life and Art of Len Lye In his own words with Roger Horrocks Awa Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781927249215 Back in 1965, aged 26, I walked into the Howard Wise Gallery in New York and saw the best kinetic…

Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Awa Press, Issue 113, Len Lye, Roger Horrocks, Wystan Curnow
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review

Culture wars, ancient and modern, Hugh Roberts

Posted on August 31, 2015 by NZ Books

The Critic’s Part: Wystan Curnow Art Writings 1971-2013 Wystan Curnow Adam Art Gallery/Victoria University Press, $80.00, ISBN 9780864739322 Then It Was Now Again: Selected Critical Writing Murray Edmond Atuanui Press, $44.00, ISBN 9780992245368 The editors of The Critic’s Part tell…

Tagged with: Adam Art Gallery, Atuanui Press, Hugh Roberts, Issue 111, Murray Edmond, Spring 2015, Victoria University Press, Wystan Curnow
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review

Removing the cycle clips, John Horrocks

Posted on March 1, 2007 by NZ Books

Like Love Poems: Selected Poems Joanna Margaret Paul (ed Bernadette Hall) Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735278 Modern Colours Wystan Curnow Jack Books, $24.95, ISBN 0473102544 One Shapely Thing: Poems and Journals Dinah Hawken Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 08646735286…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2007, Bernadette Hall, Dinah Hawken, Issue 77, Jack Books, James Brown, Joanna Margaret Pau, John Horrocks, Michael Jackson, Victoria University Press, Wystan Curnow
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

An elegant and serious survey, Jonathan Else

Posted on September 1, 1992 by NZ Books

Pleasures and Dangers: Artists of the 90s Trish Clark and Wystan Curnow (eds), Longman Paul, $34.95 This volume is a refreshing challenge to several assumptions that have become the dead wood of art theory and scholarship in New Zealand, and,…

Tagged with: Issue 6, Jonathan Else, Longman Paul, Spring 1992, Trish Clark, Wystan Curnow
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review