New Art: Some Recent New Zealand Sculpture : A Past Object of Art

Literature & Fiction

Allen, Jim

Curnow, Wystan

Dramas & Plays

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Essays on New Zealand literature

Heinemann Educational Books

Wystan Curnow is New Zealand’s longest-serving and, arguably, most important art critic. This edited collection brings together a selection of his art writings from 1971 to 2013 to provide the first comprehensive overview of his practice. Selectively drawing on his considerable output, the publication features Curnow’s long-form essays that investigate the stakes for “high culture” in a “small province” like New Zealand. It includes major essays on key artists, including Len Lye, Colin McCahon, Billy Apple, Stephen Bambury, Max Gimblett, and Imants Tillers, and vivid reports on the contemporary art scene. Catalog essays and short reviews offer insightful readings of art and artists in all their material and conceptual specificity. Both a map of contemporary theory and practice and a cogent agenda for thinking through the implications and challenges of making art here, this compilation is an essential companion for anyone interested in New Zealand art as it has unfolded since 1970.

The Critic's Part: Wystan Curnow Art Writings 1971–2013

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Victoria University Press

This is the first major monograph on Max Gimblett and provides an overview of his extraordinary varied art practice as well as a glimpse at the man himself. A New Zealander who has made New York his home for the past thirty years, Gimblett has exhibited extensively since the mid-1970s with his work shown internationally in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Korea, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and Spain and held as a consequence in major collections, both public and private, throughout the world. 
Max Gimblett’s work consists largely of object based paintings in a variety of shapes – the oval, rectangle, circle, square, and most well know, the quatrefoil. The surfaces combine the use of acrylic paints and resins with precious metals such as gold, silver, moon gold and copper as he explores the multiplicity of meanings attached to such revered materials and forms. The paintings embrace both Eastern and Western philosophies in associating precious metals with honor, wisdom, light and enlightenment and together with the drawings, which are a distinctive and parallel achievement, reference ancient symbols and belief systems and enact the transformation of material and spiritual energies. 
The essays by eminent art writers Wystan Curnow and John Yau allow for insights and reflection on the various aspects of Gimblett’s practice. From the ‘Geos’ of the 1970s, through a myriad of shapes and techniques to current work that is just as stylistically diverse, this book maps the development of an exceptional career.

Max Gimblett

YAU, John

Craig Potton Publishing

Very red and very shiny, this artist's book--also the catalogue for Lawrence Weiner's show at the Power Plant in Toronto--collects a variety of sentences and statements by the veteran Conceptualist, typeset with Weiner's customary care, and accompanied by a text by poet Wystan Curnow, and an essay by Gregory Burke. It is printed in a limited edition of 900.

Lawrence Weiner: The Other Side of A Cul-De-Sac

Individual Artists

The Power Plant

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