Max Oettli F4: In the Interval by Susan Jowsey, Marcus Williams, Jesse Williams & Mercy Williams (Rim Books, 2014), 96 pp., $25; An Urban Quest for Chlorophyll by Jennifer Gilliam & Dieneke Jansen (Rim Books, 2013), 80 pp., $30 Seldom have I received a parcel with more disparate contents than that containing the two books […]
The Beaut, the Orsum, the Fugly and the Blah
David Eggleton Shigeru Ban: Cardboard Cathedral by Andrew Barrie, photographs by Bridgit Anderson and Stephen Goodenough (Auckland University Press, 2014), 252 pp., $59.99; Vertical Living: The architectural centre and the remaking of Wellington by Julia Gately and Paul Walker (Auckland University Press, 2014), 232 pp., $59.99; Bungalow: From heritage to contemporary edited by Nicole Stock, […]
Small Worlds
Jonathan W. Marshall Jim Allen: The skin of years, by Philip Dadson & Tony Green with Jim Allen; forewords by Wystan Curnow & Blair French (Clouds and Michael Lett, 2014), 340 pp., $49.95 Notwithstanding illustrious New Zealand contemporaries such as Colin McCahon, Wystan Curnow convincingly argues that ‘Jim Allen is … our first contemporary artist’ […]
Looking Directly at the Camera
Gary Blackman PhotoForum at 40: Counterculture, clusters and debate in New Zealand, by Nina Seja (Rim Books 2014, and PhotoForum issue 83, 2014) 300 pp., $65.00 PhotoForum at 40 is a major addition to the annals of photographic history in New Zealand. It’s a handsome volume of 300 pages of generous page size that comfortably […]
The Urban Archeologist
James Dignan Working Lives c. 1900: A photographic essay, by Erik Olssen (Otago University Press, 2014), 167 pp., $50 Dunedin has seen better times. Once the country’s economic powerhouse, it has been overtaken in size by the likes of Hamilton and Tauranga, and is facing the psychological precipice which may see its ‘main centre’ status […]
Euphoria
Gregory O’Brien Robert Ellis (with main essays by Hamish Keith, Elizabeth Hana and Ngarino Ellis, and further essays by Ian Sinclair, Tasha Haines and Stephen Higginson), (Ron Sang Publications, 2014), 312 pp., $135 Among the many memorable photographs of the painter Robert Ellis in this new, important monograph, one stands out. It is 1963 and […]
The Canvas that Ripples
Jodie Dalgleish Mervyn Williams: From Modernism to the digital age by Edward Hanfling, with essays by Leonard Bell and Michael Dunn (Ron Sang Publications, 2014), 336 pp., $135 Mervyn Williams: From Modernism to the digital age is a large and well-illustrated monograph that seeks to chronicle the life-long artistic journey of Mervyn Williams. It contains […]
Tent Pegs in the Ground
Robert McLean Horse with Hat by Marty Smith, with collages by Brendan O’Brien (Victoria University Press, 2014), 77 pp., $30; Tree Space by Maria McMillan (Victoria University Press, 2014), 80 pp., $25; Remnants by Leonard Lambert (Steele Roberts, 2013), 62 pp., $19.99 At the beginning of Marty Smith’s debut collection Horse with Hat, the reader is […]
The Modeller
Andrew Paul Wood Greer Twiss, Sculptor, by Greer Twiss, Rodney Wilson and Robin Woodward (Ron Sang Publications, 2013), 387 pp., $140 Since 2003 the Auckland architect Ron Sang has been publishing lavishly illustrated monographs on some of New Zealand’s most important and fascinating artists (not excluding craft) of the Modern period. So far, veterans Len […]
The Roll of Honour
Nina Seja ANZAC: Photographs by Laurence Aberhart, with an introduction by Jock Phillips (Victoria University Press, 2014), 108 pp., $60 What are the implications of cultural remembrance? As theorist Marita Sturken points out in her book Tangled Memories, the ‘process of cultural memory is bound up in complex political stakes and meanings.’ The output of […]
Igniting in Small Puffs
Lynley Edmeades Edwin’s Egg and other Poetic Novellas, by Cilla McQueen (Otago University Press, 2014), 264 pp., $39.95 Reviewing Cilla McQueen’s recent collection of poetic novellas is a bit like trying to explain a rainbow to your colour-blind brother-in-law – it is difficult to find language capacious enough. At its most simple, Edwin’s Egg is […]
Man in a Room Selling Dreams
David Eggleton Peter McLeavey: The life and times of a New Zealand art dealer, by Jill Trevelyan (Te Papa Press, 2013), 496 pp., $64.99 ‘I am not slaving my guts out as a dishwasher for kicks,’ Peter McLeavey wrote in a letter to Pat Hanly in December 1968. McLeavey was at that time working as […]
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