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Back and Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young and the Curious

O’Brien, Gregory

This companion to the popular Welcome to the South Seas: Contemporary New Zealand Art for Young People is a journey through the heartlands and far flung regions of New Zealand’s imagination. From the time early Maori made cave drawings of the moa, artists have invented and shaped reality rather than simply copying it. This book spans the history of picture-making, highlighting the imagined rather than the strictly ‘observed’ record. Since the colonial period New Zealanders have thought of themselves as resourceful, practical people. However, amidst the conformity of colonial times and much of the 20th century, there were people making radical and even visionary art. Moa, angels, rugby players, insects and aunts, saws and mountains, the bush and the beaches all play starring roles in this bird’s-eye view. The book includes work by over 50 painters and printmakers. Black and white illustrations and forty colour plates.

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Winner of the 2009 New Zealand Post Book Awards — Non Fiction category

1. IN THE BEGINNING
Len Lye, Alexis Hunter, Jane Pountney.
2. OF PEOPLE AND PLANETS
E. Mervyn Taylor, Robyn Kahukiwa, Ralph Hotere, Juliet Peter, Hariata Ropata Tangahoe,Tony Fomison, John Walsh, Euan McLeod, Elizabeth Thomson.
3. MOA HUNTING
Anonymous (cave paintings), Ted Bullmore, Harry Watson, Trevor Lloyd, Graham Percy,Michael Shepherd.
4. THE DISCOVERY OF NEW ZEALAND
Marion Maguire, Anonymous, Charles Meryon, William Read (after Joel Samuel Polack), Charles Heaphy, Tony De Lautour, Harry Watson, Megan Campbell.
5. EARLY DAYS IN THE COLONY
Mary-Rose Crook, Saskia Leek, William F. Gordon, Christopher Perkins, Doris Lusk, Melvin Day
6. NEW ZEALANDERS
Frances Hodgkins, A. Lois White, Felix Kelly, Edith Collier, H. Linley Richardson, Colin McCahon, Anne McCahon, Rita Angus, Leo Bensemann, M. T. Woollaston, Patrick Hayman.
7. COUNTRY
W. J. Reed, John Drawbridge, Helen Stewart, E. Mervyn Taylor, Marilyn Webb, Don Binney.
8. NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT
Jeffrey Harris, Michael Smither, Philip Clairmont, Phil Judd, Brent Wong, Richard Lewer, Robin White, John Pule, Johanna Pegler Stanley Palmer, John Reynolds, Graham Sydney.

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