Max Oettli Images of War: New Zealand and the First World War in photographs, by Glyn Harper, (Harper Collins, 2013), 399 pp., $99.99 ‘You were in the Great War?’ I said. ‘Tell me about that.’ ‘I’ve been in all the wars,’ Johnston said, ‘but I couldn’t tell you anything about it.’ ‘You won’t talk about […]
The Misshapen Tea Cosy Head
Mary Macpherson Green with Envy, by Layla Rudneva-Mackay, (Clouds and Starkwhite, 2012), 120 pp., $59.95 Green with envy, red with rage, white with fear – in Western culture these are some of the human emotions we’ve associated with particular colours. Colour psychology also pairs colours with qualities, like yellow with emotion, green with balance (in […]
An Empty Tent Flapping in the Wind
Kathryn Mitchell 45 South: A journey across southern New Zealand, by Laurence Fearnley with photographs by Arno Gasteiger, (Penguin, 2013), 191 pp., $65.00 Our journey in this book begins at Hilderthorpe, where a large boulder marks an invisible line laid down by map-makers: 45 degrees south, halfway between the equator and the south pole. 45 […]
Smugglers’ Contraband
David Eggleton Promoting Prosperity: The art of early New Zealand advertising, by Peter Alsop and Gary Stewart (Craig Potton Publishing, 2013), 440 pp., $79.99; From Earth’s End: The best of New Zealand comics, by Adrian Kinnaird (Godwit, 2013) 447 pp., $59.99 You approach Promoting Prosperity: The art of early New Zealand advertising as if through […]
The Orient and Elsewhere
Andrew Paul Wood Incomplete Works, by Dylan Horrocks, (Victoria University Press, 2014), 192 pp., $35; A Rainbow Reader, by Tessa Laird, (Clouds, 2013), 192 pp., $25 Dylan Horrocks’ Incomplete Works tidily fills a gap in the published oeuvre of one of our greatest living comic strip auteurs, snapping up the unconsidered trifles of his shorter […]
Eclectic Styles
David Eggleton R.A. Lawson: Victorian architect of Dunedin, by Norman Ledgerwood (Historic Cemeteries Conservation Trust, 2013), 256 pp., $74.99 New Zealand’s Lost Heritage: The stories behind our forgotten landmarks, by Richard Wolfe (New Holland, 2013), 192 pp., $49.99 Converted Houses: New Zealand architecture recycled, by Lucinda Diack, (Penguin, 2012), 207 pp., $65 On a Saturday […]
Unrepentant Lovers of Modernism
Michael Findlay Modern: New Zealand Homes from 1938 to 1977, by Jeremy Hansen (Godwit, 2013), 352 pp., $75.00 There is something fundamentally wrong about the oxymoronic idea of ‘retro modernism’, but this desire to recapture the essence of mid-century architecture is what has driven design taste here for the past quarter century. It has been […]
Woman with a Rolleiflex Camera
Sally Blundell Self-Portrait, by Marti Friedlander with Hugo Manson, (Auckland University Press, 2013) 264 pp., $59.99 ‘I don’t mind explaining [my work],’ writes Marti Friedlander at the end of her autobiography Self-Portrait. ‘But I also don’t want people to know too much. Even now, writing this book, I wonder if I’m giving too much away. […]
Town and Around
Georgina McWhirter Pictures They Want to Make: Recent Auckland photography, edited by Chris Corson-Scott and Edward Hanfling (Photoforum, Auckland, 2013), 176 pp, $60. Pictures They Want to Make: Recent Auckland photography is not (always) a book of photos of Auckland, nor is it (often) photography by people living in or hailing from the region. What […]
Spiromorphs, Piromorphs, Torsomorphs and Peopillics
Jamie Hanton His Own Steam: The Work of Barry Brickell, by David Craig and Gregory O’Brien (Auckland University Press, 2013) 217 pp., $65. His Own Steam, The Work of Barry Brickell was released in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition of the same name presented at the Dowse Museum, Lower Hutt earlier this year. The publication […]
Farm Fences, Land Slips, Tree Stumps
Andrew Paul Wood Ngā Tau ki Muri (Our Future), by Ans Westra (Suite Publishing, 2013), 160pp., $40. For centuries nature and the natural world was a primary inspiration for the arts – a situation that became increasingly problematic as ‘nature’ was reduced in status to a factory to supply the cities in the inexorable migration […]
Have Paintbrush, Will Travel
David Eggleton Two Hundred and Forty Years of New Zealand Painting, by Gil Docking, Michael Dunn and Edward Hanfling (David Bateman, 2012), 280 pp., $99.99; Behind the Canvas: An Insider’s Guide to the New Zealand Art Market, by Warwick Henderson (New Holland, 2012). 200 pp., $45; Hanly, by Gregory O’Brien and others (Ron Sang Publications […]
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