| Bloomsbury South: The Arts in Christchurch 1933 - 1953 Contributor(s): Simpson, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1869408489 ISBN-13: 9781869408480 Publisher: Auckland University Press OUR PRICE: $62.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Australian & Oceanian - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers - Art | History - General |
| Dewey: 709.938 |
| LCCN: 2017392532 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 8.1" W x 9.3" (3.00 lbs) 364 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |