Rita Angus

2008

Rita Angus: An Artist's Life.

Author: Jill Trevelyan

Publisher: Te Papa Press

ISBN: UOM:39015077115213

Category: Art

Page: 440

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Rita Angus: An Artist's Life.
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The Mirror and the Palette

2021-03-30

205 Self-Portrait (in green jacket): In the collection of Te Papa, on loan from the Rita Angus Estate. 206 new and liberated woman: Claire Finlayson, ... 206 ballet lessons herself: Jill Trevelyan, Rita Angus, An Artist's Life, p. 75.

Author: Jennifer Higgie

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9781474613804

Category: Art

Page: 336

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Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws and religion to the pressures of family and public disapproval. In THE MIRROR AND THE PALETTE, Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embody the fact that there is more than one way to understand our planet, more than one way to live in it and more than one way to make art about it. Spanning 500 years, biography and cultural history intertwine in a narrative packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great resilience, creativity and bravery. This is a dazzlingly original and ambitious book by one of the most well-respected art critics at work today.
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Rita Angus

2008

"Fourteen writers and critics have produced ... criticism on every period of the artist's work" -- Jacket flap.

Author: William McAloon

Publisher:

ISBN: UCSC:32106019655031

Category: Art, New Zealand

Page: 232

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"Fourteen writers and critics have produced ... criticism on every period of the artist's work" -- Jacket flap.
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Encounters The Creation of New Zealand

2013-07-24

See R. Angus to G. Docking, 5 November 1968, in MS papers 1399:1/4, Alexander Turnbull Library, in National Art Gallery, Rita Angus, p. 68. 28 M. N. Day, 'The Years 1908–1958', p. 47. 29 J. Trevelyan, Rita Angus: An Artist's Life, ...

Author: Paul Moon

Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

ISBN: 9781742539188

Category: History

Page: 432

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'Throughout its human history, New Zealand has been interpreted and experienced in often radically different ways. Each wave of arrivals to its shores has left its own set of views of New Zealand on the country - applying a new coat of mythology and understanding to the landscape, usually without fully removing the one that lies beneath it.' Encounters is the wide-ranging, audacious and gripping story of New Zealand's changing national identity, how it has emerged and evolved through generations. In this genre-busting book, historian Paul Moon delves into how the many and conflicting ideas about New Zealand came into being. Along the way, he explores forgotten crevices of the nation's character, and exposes some of the mythology of its past and present. These include, for example, the earliest Maori myths and the 'mock sacredness' of the All Blacks in the twenty-first century; the role of nostalgia in our national character, both Maori and Pakeha; whether the explorer Kupe existed; the appeal of the Speight's 'Southern Man'; and ruminations on New Zealand art and landscape. What results is an absorbing piece of scholarship, an imaginative and exuberant epic that will challenge preconceptions about what it means to be a New Zealander, and how our country is understood. Lyrical, breathtaking and provocative, and illustrated with artworks throughout, Encounters offers an extraordinary insight into thebeginnings of our country.
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Different Lives

2020-06-15

And just as the authors of biographies of recent politicians are, typically, politically engaged, the artists' ... His Life and Music (Christchurch: University of Canterbury Press, 2006); Jill Trevelyan, Rita Angus: An Artist's Life ...

Author: Hans Renders

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789004434974

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 294

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Internationally acclaimed biographies are mostly written by Anglophone biographers. How does biography function as a public genre in the rest of the world? Different Lives offers a global perspective on the biographical tradition by seventeen scholars of fifteen different countries.
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Bloomsbury South

2016-07-18

2 Quoted in Alison Mitchell, Retrospective: Olivia Spencer Bower, Christchurch Robert McDougall Art Gallery, 1977, n.p. 3 Neil Roberts, ... 5 Jill Trevelyan, Rita Angus: An Artist's Life, Wellington, Te Papa Press, 2008, p. 22.

Author: Peter Simpson

Publisher: Auckland University Press

ISBN: 9781775588535

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 364

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‘Why was it then that out of the hundreds of towns and universities in the English-speaking lands scattered over the seven seas, only one should at that time act as a focus of creative literature of more than local significance; that it should be in Christchurch, New Zealand, that a group of young writers had appeared who were eager to assimilate the pioneer developments in style and technique that were being made in England and America since the beginning of the century...and to give their country a new conscience and spiritual perspective?’ – John Lehmann For two decades in Christchurch, New Zealand, a cast of extraordinary men and women remade the arts. Variously between 1933 and 1953, Christchurch was the home of Angus and Bensemann and McCahon, Curnow and Glover and Baxter, the Group, the Caxton Press and the Little Theatre, Landfall and Tomorrow, Ngaio Marsh and Douglas Lilburn. It was a city in which painters lived with writers, writers promoted musicians, in which the arts and artists from different forms were deeply intertwined. And it was a city where artists developed a powerful synthesis of European modernist influences and an assertive New Zealand nationalism that gave mid-century New Zealand cultural life its particular shape. In this book, Simpson tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of this ‘Bloomsbury South’ and the arts and artists that made it. Simpson brings to life the individual talents and their passions, but he also takes us inside the scenes that they created together: Bethell and her visiting coterie of younger poets; Glover and Bensemann’s exacting typography at the Caxton Press; the yearly exhibitions and aesthetic clashes of the Group; McCahon and Baxter’s developing friendship; the effects of Brasch’s patronage; Marsh’s Shakespearian re-creations at the Little Theatre. Simpson recreates a Christchurch we have lost, where a group of artists collaborated to create a distinctively New Zealand art which spoke to the condition of their country as it emerged into the modern era.
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Insight Guides New Zealand

2015-06-01

Art. and. culture. Rita Angus: An Artist's Life by Jill Trevelyan. In this revelatory and subtle book, Jill Trevelyan traces Angus's entire life, from her childhood in Napier and Palmerston North to her death in Wellington in 1970.

Author: Insight Guides

Publisher: Apa Publications (UK) Limited

ISBN: 9781780058788

Category: Travel

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Insight Guides: Inspiring your next adventure Frequently voted one of the best travel destinations in the world, New Zealand is famed for its stunning landscapes, hospitable people and range of thrilling outdoor experiences. The new edition of Insight Guide New Zealand provides both inspiration and practical guidance for a visit, with its combination of lavish full-colour photos of the country's incredible scenery and detailed information on the country's fascinating history, culture and diversity. The Best of New Zealand section guides you to all the must-see sights and quintessential experiences, while fascinating features explore topics from Maori art to thrill-seeking in depth. Our expert author guides you through all the sights, from cosmopolitan Auckland in the north to the vast southern extremes of Southland and Stewart Island, taking in beautiful beaches and vineyards, adrenaline-pumping outdoor activities, Maori culture and the safe, laid-back atmosphere of this small and friendly country. Maps throughout will help you get around and travel tips give you all the essential information. A comprehensive Travel Tips section gives you all the travel advice you need to plan your trip. Discover this exhilarating destination with Insight Guide New Zealand. About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-color print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travelers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure. 'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine
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English Colonial Modern and Maori

2014-11-24

The Changing Faces of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1932-2002 Anna Crighton ... Jill Trevelyan, Rita Angus An Artist's Life, Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2008, 259. Ibid, 234. Neither of these works entered ...

Author: Anna Crighton

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

ISBN: 9781443871693

Category: Art

Page: 420

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How and why do works make their way into a public art collection? Who decides what will be hung on the walls, placed on plinths, displayed in cases? These important, but seldom discussed, questions lie at the heart of this ‘cultural biography’ of the 70 years during which the Robert McDougall Art Gallery was Christchurch’s civic art gallery. The book explains how the collection came together, how it developed, and how the public, and artists and critics, reacted to it. The book is presented in three parts, each of which has its own introduction. It provides an analytical framework in detail and in context by defining terms and explaining particular, recurrent concepts. These include, and indeed highlight, selection and presentation cultures derived from the core museological functions of collection and display. These, together with the framework’s other concepts, are related to mainstream methodology in the social sciences, particularly political science. The latter is especially relevant to the study of a public art gallery – owned and funded by the public and its elected representatives, and controlled by these representatives and their appointed agents. Furthermore, the framework explores the concept of post-colonial tensions between heritages – specifically indigenous, transplanted and autochthonous ones. The significance of this becomes more apparent when the concepts used in relevant previous studies of specific public art galleries in New Zealand are reviewed. There is also a strong emphasis on the development of a public Maori art collection. It is a story, too, of vivid and influential personalities – the directors and curators who fought for the gallery and the artists represented in it. But the book is more than just the story of a single gallery’s collection: it shines a light on concerns and patterns that will be familiar to galleries everywhere, and provides a unique perspective on New Zealand’s cultural development over much of the twentieth century.
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Camouflage Australia

2018-08-30

Rita Angus: an artist's life. Wellington: Te Papa Press. TrevelyanJ (1957). Indigo days. London: MacGibbon & Kee. Tythacott L (2003). Surrealism and the exotic. London & New York: Routledge. Underhill NDH (1991). MakingAustralian art ...

Author: Ann Elias

Publisher: Sydney University Press

ISBN: 9781743320693

Category: History

Page: 262

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Camouflage Australia provides international context for the historical circumstances and events of the organisation of camouflage in World War II in Australia and the Pacific region. She elaborates on the parallel involvement of British and American artists in the field of concealment and deception, and reveals the widespread interest shown by western naturalists and scientists in the application to warfare of the behaviours and aesthetics of animals.
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Historical Dictionary of New Zealand

2016-10-20

Mata Toa: The Life and Times of Ranginui Walker. Auckland: Penguin, 2009. Stewart, William Downie. ... An Unsettled Spirit: The Life and Frontier Fiction of Edith Lyttelton. ... Rita Angus: An Artist's Life. Wellington: Te Papa Press, ...

Author: Janine Hayward

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9781442274396

Category: History

Page: 528

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This third edition of Historical Dictionary of New Zealand contains a chronology, an introduction, appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
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