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From the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the Bohemian immigrant artist Gottfried Lindauer travelled to marae and rural towns around New Zealand and – commissioned by Māori and Pākehā – captured in paint the images of key Māori figures. For Māori then and now, the faces of tūpuna are full of mana and life. Now this definitive book on Lindauer’s portraits of the ancestors collects that work for New Zealanders. The book presents 67 major portraits and 8 genre paintings alongside detailed accounts of the subject and work, followed by essays by leading scholars that take us inside Lindauer and his world: from his artistic training in Bohemia to his travels around New Zealand as ...
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Published by Honolulu Biennial Foundation, in conjunction with the inaugural Honolulu Biennial 2017 exhibition, co-curated by Fumio Nanjo and Ngahiraka Mason. The exhibition was on view from 8 March through 8 May at The Hub, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu Hale, ward Village IBM Building, Foster Botanical Garden, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Prince Hotel Waikiki, and Shangri La, A Museum of Islamic Art, Culture and Design and The ARTS at Marks Garage.
This book, one of a series on the gallery's collections, has two broad objectives: firstly to introduce the contemporary collection and the ideas that have provided direction for its evolution; and secondly to address and discuss with brevity and clarity the individual works of art.
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"To accompany the exhibition of the new multi-media work by artist Lisa Reihana in Pursuit of Venus (infected) at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki"--Publisher information.
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