New Zealand Sculpture

New Zealand Sculpture PDF Author: Michael Dunn
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1869402774
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Charts the growth of sculpture from the era of British imports through the period of strong British influence to the more confident art of the twentieth century and beyond.

New Zealand Sculpture

New Zealand Sculpture PDF Author: Michael Dunn
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1869402774
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Book Description
Charts the growth of sculpture from the era of British imports through the period of strong British influence to the more confident art of the twentieth century and beyond.

Fine Line

Fine Line PDF Author: Martin Jones Phillipa Hill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781988538914
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Maori Folk Art

Maori Folk Art PDF Author: Alan Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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"Maori folk art is a distinctive, widespread tradition in painting and carving that first appeared in meeting houses throughout eastern tribal areas of the North Island just over a hundred years ago. It has obvious sources in both European and Classic Maori art traditions and is a clearly identifiable and vital communicative art, complex in its iconography and significance to its creators."--From preface.

New Zealand Painting

New Zealand Painting PDF Author: Michael Dunn
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1869402979
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Completely revised and updated. Chapters have been rewritten. Also added in a substantial new chapter on contemporary Maori and Pacific Island painting, as well as an acknowledgement of the coming wave of Asian artists.

One Day Sculpture

One Day Sculpture PDF Author: David Cross
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783866783331
Category : Art, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In One Day Sculpture, prominent critics, curators and scholars explore new considerations of public sculpture, temporality, performance, and curating art in the public realm. Conceived as both a document and critical expansion of the year-long One Day Sculpture temporary public art series in New Zealand (August 2008 ndash; March 2009), the book opens with an anthology of newly commissioned texts which expand conventional notions of encounter, performativity, publicness, photography, materiality, space and place in relation to contemporary public art. Set within this critical context, are in-depth considerations of each of the twenty projects, forming a new dimension to recent discussions on situation-specific art practices and commissioning public art. English text.

Te Tuhirangi Contour

Te Tuhirangi Contour PDF Author: Richard Serra
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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"Located on the Kaipara harbor in New Zealand, Te Tuhirangi Contour is one of Serra's latest site-specific works. The site is a vast open grass pasture with rolling elevations and curvilinear contours. The sculpture, made of hundreds of tons of steel, is located on one continuous contour, 843 feet long. Documented in Reinartz's black and white photography."--William Stout Architectural Books.

New Zealand Sculpture

New Zealand Sculpture PDF Author: Michael Dunn
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ISBN: 9781869404253
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Summary: "The first important study of sculpture in New Zealand - well received by art lovers and educational institutions alike on its publication in 2002 - is now back in print in an updated edition. For the new edition, Dunn has added a chapter, ʻCrisis of Identity: Sculpture since 2000ʼ, in which he discusses New Zealand sculptureʼs international reach, its role at Venice Biennales and the importance of overseas-based New Zealand sculptors such as Francis Upritchard and Ronnie van Hout. Dunn also sees a new popularity for sculpture with the establishment of several outdoor sculpture walks. The book now charts the growth of sculpture from the era of British imports and influence to the more confident art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It includes a general bibliography and reading lists for each major artist and fourteen new colour plates have been added to the original 76 black and white figures and 92 colour plates."--Publisher description.

Serious Fun

Serious Fun PDF Author: Paul Goldsmith
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1869799305
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Biography of Alan Gibbs, one of New Zealand's most influential and controversial businessmen and Aquada amphibious car developer. When Sir Richard Branson drove the Aquada high speed amphibious car across the English Channel it was a watershed moment. At last, had the holy grail of amphibious transport been achieved? The developer of the car, New Zealander Alan Gibbs, has since gone on to unveil a range of amphibious vehicles, including the Quadski, Humdinga and Phibian. Businessman, inventor, merchant banker, philanthropist, art collector, adventurer and inveterate traveller, Gibbs’ life has been far from ordinary. The one-time socialist became a very active participant and free-market champion when New Zealand’s economy was transformed in the mid to late 1980s. These days he is also focussed on developing Gibbs Farm, his remarkable sculpture park on the Kaipara Harbour, in New Zealand. The Farm, which has works by Richard Serra, Bernar Venet, Anish Kapoor, Tony Oursler and Andy Goldsworthy, among others, is of international stature. Gibbs lives in London and has factories in the UK, Detroit and New Zealand. It’s a life, as biographer Paul Goldsmith engagingly conveys, that’s been a lot of serious fun.

Stickwork

Stickwork PDF Author: Patrick Dougherty
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616891955
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Using minimal tools and a simple technique of bending, interweaving, and fastening together sticks, artist Patrick Dougherty creates works of art inseparable with nature and the landscape. With a dazzling variety of forms seamlessly intertwined with their context, his sculptures evoke fantastical images of nests, cocoons, cones, castles, and beehives. Over the last twenty-five years, Dougherty has built more than two hundred works throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia that range from stand-alone structures to a kind of modern primitive architecture--every piece mesmerizing in its ability to fly through trees, overtake buildings, and virtually defy gravity. Stickwork, Dougherty's first monograph, features thirty-eight of his organic, dynamic works that twist the line between architecture, landscape, and art. Constructed on-site using locally sourced materials and local volunteer labor, Dougherty's sculptures are tangles of twigs and branches that have been transformed into something unexpected and wild, elegant and artful, and often humorous. Sometimes freestanding, and other times wrapping around trees, buildings, railings, and rooms, they are constructed indoors and in nature. As organic matter, the stick sculptures eventually disintegrate and fade back into the landscape. Featuring a wealth of photographs and drawings documenting the construction process of each remarkable structure, Stickwork preserves the legend of the man who weaves the simplest of materials into a singular artistic triumph.

Virginia King

Virginia King PDF Author: Virginia King
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781869536152
Category : Nature in art
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Born in 1946 in Kawakawa, Virginia King attended Wellington Polytechnic School of Design in 1963, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 1964/65 and Chelsea Art School, London in 1979. King is one of New Zealand's best known sculptors, she began focussing on sculpture in the mid-1980s, and has worked in Hinuera stone, bronze, aluminium, stainless steel, earth and wood. Underlying her practice is a concern for the environment, a passion for words and an interest in history and micro-organisms, all of which inspire and inform her work. King's sculptures have ranged from domestic scale to the monumental. King's public commissions include the Rewarewa Creek footbridge in Waitakere City, the Tree of Life sculpture at Auckland's AUT foyer, Nikau Vessel (a 5.5m high aluminium/stainless steel sculpture) in Hastings CBD and Reed Vessel, a 6.5m x 18m stainless steel sculpture incorporating flowing water, mist and poetry, among recreated wetlands in the Melbourne Docklands. Collaborative works include the concept design of the Mission Bay footbridge, and the Waitakere City Aquatic Centre.