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Speaking Truth to Power - Public Intellectuals Rethink New Zealand by Laurence Simmons (ed.)
45.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
Public Intellectuals Re-Think New Zealand Eggheads...the chattering classes...the ivory tower... This is a book about a contentious subject, intellectual life in today's New Zealand. Speaking Truth to Power is organised around interviews with leading intellectuals, such as Jane Kelsey, Brian Easton, Mar ...Show more
The Image Always Has the Last Word : On contemporary New Zealand painting and photography by Laurence Simmons
49.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Essays On Contemporary New Zealand Painting and Photography This book, which takes its title from a phrase by Roland Barthes, examines in detail the work of seven major twentieth-century New Zealand painters and photographers: Rita Angus, Colin McCahon, Gordon Walters, Milan Mrkusich, Richard Killeen, L ...Show more
Tuhituhi - William Hodges, Cook's Painter in the South Pacific by Laurence Simmons
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
This study of the art of William Hodges opens fresh theoretical perspectives on the representational problems raised by these early paintings produced in the South Pacific. Following Pacific Island historians of the 1960s, it argues that it is possible to read the texts and visual material produced f ...Show more
Victory over Death - The Art of Colin McCahon by Rex Butler; Laurence Simmons
49.99 NZD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art History Ser.
Perhaps at the origin of all thinking about culture lies the question of the afterlife. The artist makes their work hoping that it will live on after their death. The critic reads or looks at the work wondering whether a future audience will engage with it. Victory over Death: The Art of Colin McCahon t ...Show more
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