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

Gregory O'Brien

Back and Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young and Curious
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Country
New Zealand
Published
1 September 2008
Pages
104
ISBN
9781869404048

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

Gregory O'Brien

A painting can take you to many places. It can take you around the world, or it can take you around the country, city or neighbourhood you live in. It can also transport you back into the distant past of myths, legends and ancient history - or it can take you way into the future. Since Maori first drew moa and mythical birds on cave walls, artists in Aotearoa New Zealand have provided an imaginative, lively account of the lives locals have been leading, the dreams they’ve been dreaming and the stories they’ve been telling. Alongside works painted during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book features art by contemporary painters and printmakers, all of them seasoned travellers across time and space. Angels, rugby players, whales, kiwi and canoes, moa and mountains, the bush and the beaches all play starring roles in this bird’s-eye view of New Zealand painting.
Back and Beyond
is alive with real and imagined encounters, with mysteries and discoveries, and with many of the paintings that have, over the past few hundred years, broadened the horizons of the citizens, young and old, of the shaky isles.

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