New Zealand Sculpture A History

Author: Michael Dunn

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  • : Auckland University Press
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  • : December 2002
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Description

This work charts the growth of sculpture in this former British colony from the era of British imports through a period of strong British influence to the more confident art of the 20th century, using a wider set of sources and materials and more personal dorms of expression.

Author description

Michael Dunn is Professor and Head of the Elam Art School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. He has written many books on New Zealand art including A Concise History of New Zealand Painting (1991) and Contemporary Painting in New Zealand (1996) and was a co-author of Frances Hodgkins: Paintings and Drawings recently reissued in a paperback edition.

Table of contents

Early carvers and masons 1860-1890; public statuary of the Victorian and Edwardian periods; the origins of local sculpture; sculpture between the wars 1918-39; sculpture and the art schools 1920-60; post-war sculpture 1945-60; figurative sculpture post 1960; abstraction and modernism 1960-1990; post-object and conceptual sculpture 1969 to the present; contemporary Maori sculpture; contemporary developments.