From the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the Bohemian immigrant artist Gottfried Lindauer travelled to marae and rural towns around New Zealand and – comissioned by M?ori and P?keh?- captured in paint the images of key M?ori figures. For M?ori then and now, the faces of t?puna are full of mana and life. Now this definitive work collects those portraits for New Zealanders. The book presents 67 major portraits and 8 genre paintings alongside detailed accounts of the subject and work, with essays by leading scholars that takes us inside Lindauer and his world: from his artistic training in Bohemia to his travels around New Zealand as M?ori and P?keh? comissioned him to paint portraits; his artistic techniques and deep relationship with photography; Henry Partridge’s gallery on Auckland’s Queen Street where M?ori visited to see their ancestors; and the afterlife of the paintings in marae and memory. * Co-produced with the Auckland Art Gallery to tie in with a major internationally-touring exhibition of Lindauer’s M?ori portraits.*
These images are important not only as artwork but as living taonga* The essays discuss the lives of Lindauer’s subjects, not just the paintings themselves.
ISBN: 9781869408565
Publication date: 27/10/2016
Price: $75.00
RRP: $75.00
Format: Hardback
Available stock: 2
Publishing status: Active
Author: Mason, Ngahiaka
Imprint: Auckland University Press
