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Marking the beginning of a new series of high quality books on contemporary New Zealand artists from Te Papa Press, Judy Darragh: So... you made it? is published to coincide with a major exhibition at Te Papa. This is the first book to present a substantial overview of the work of Judy Darragh, one of New Zealand's best regarded contemporary sculpture and installation artists, in the context of her current practice. The exhibition is the first retrospective of her work, and the first major project for Darragh in a public gallery. There are new and recent works that range from provocative experiments with twink and posters, to beautiful fusions of art and the everyday in metallic beaded curtains, synthetic colour, stickers in flawless geometry. Including an in-depth interview with Darragh, Judy Darragh: So...you made it? is an opportunity to engage in the diversity of contemporary practice through the review of an artist in mid flight of 'making and making it!'
Charts the growth of sculpture from the era of British imports through the period of strong British influence to the more confident art of the twentieth century and beyond.
Now See Hear! has been assembled around the central rubric of translation, and essays address translations between art, language, advertising, television, graphic design, comics, video, film, history, art-history, signs and symbols, landscape and architecture, within the context of the current conditions of the market place.
Includes memoirs, stories, and poems written in France by some of New Zealand's greatest writers - Janet Frame, Allen Curnow, James K Baxter and others. This anthology also represents the imaginative engagement of the French writers - including Blaise Cendrars, rugby writer Denis Lalanne, and Charles Juliet - who, in turn, visited New Zealand.
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The story of Australian art does not begin and end with landscape. This book puts flowers front and centre, because they have often been ignored in preference for more masculine themes. Departing from where studies of single flower artists leave off, Useless Beauty embraces the general topic of flowers in Australian art and shines new light on a slice of Australian art history that extends from 1880 to 1950. It is the first book of broad chronology to discuss Australian art through blossoms, which it does by addressing stories of major figures including Hans Heysen, Margaret Preston and Sidney Nolan, as well as specific objects such as surreal flowers, Aboriginal flowers and war flowers. Whether modern or conservative, the artists in this study shared an intellectual and emotional passion for flora. This was true for men as well as women, despite blossoms being a more traditionally feminine subject. Through spectacular reproductions of historical and contemporary artworks drawn from collections in Australia, the United States, Britain and New Zealand, Useless Beauty explores how flowers influenced the psyche, governed rituals, defined identity and brought a psychological dimension to the everyday. The peak years for flower-centricity in Australian art were between 1920 and 1940 when flowers were known as the apotheosis of useless beauty.
When the Heart Listens takes the reader on a journey into the very soul of lifes profound lessons. The answers provide an insightful and healing experience that will ring true from every page. It is for every reader who has been through the tragic, sad, enlightened, and happy times of their very own personal soulful life journey.
Innovative study of Taika Waititi, whose Maori and Jewish roots influence his distinctive New Zealand comedic style. Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi is the first book-length study of comic film director and media celebrity Taika Waititi. Author Matthew Bannister analyses Waititi's feature films and places his other works and performances—short films, TV series, advertisements, music videos, and media appearances—in the fabric of popular culture. The book's thesis is that Waititi's playful comic style draws on an ironic reading of NZ identity as Antipodean camp, a style which reflects NZ's historic status as colonial underdog. The first four chapters of Eye of the Taika explore Waititi's early life and career, the history of New Zealand and its film industry, the history of local comedy and its undervaluation in favor of more "serious" art, and ethnicity in New Zealand comedy. Bannister then focuses on Waititi's films, beginning with Eagle vs Shark (2007) and its place in "New Geek Cinema," despite being an outsider even in this realm. Bannister uses Boy (2010) to address the "comedian comedy," arguing that Waititi is a comedic entertainer before being a director. With What We Do in The Shadows(2014), Bannister explores Waititi's use of the vampire as the archetypal immigrant struggling to fit into mainstream society, under the guise of a mockumentary. Waititi's Hunt for the Wilderpeople(2016), Bannister argues, is a family-friendly, rural-based romp that plays on and ironizes aspects of Aotearoa/New Zealand identity. Thor: Ragnarok(2017) launched Waititi into the Hollywood realm, while introducing a Polynesian perspective on Western superhero ideology. Finally, Bannister addresses Jojo Rabbit (2019) as an "anti-hate satire" and questions its quality versus its topicality and timeliness in Hollywood. By viewing Waititi's career and filmography as a series of pranks, Bannister identifies Waititi's playful balance between dominant art worlds and emergent postcolonial innovations, New Zealand national identity and indigenous Aotearoan (and Jewish) roots, and masculinity and androgyny. Eye of the Taika is intended for film scholars and film lovers alike.
This film profiles six contemporary New Zealand women artists, internationally successful in their fields of painting, photography, film making and sculpture: Alexis Hunter (painter), Alison MacLean (film-maker), Julia Morison (painter), Lisa Reihana (animator), Merylyn Tweedie (mixed media), and Christine Webster (photographer).