Research Catalog

Title

The carver and the artist : Māori art in the twentieth century / Damian Skinner.

Author

Skinner, Damian

Publication

Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2008.

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Details

Description

vii, 224 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 29 cm.

Summary

"In The Carver and the Artist Damian Skinner charts the growth and development of the new forms of Maori art that emerged from the rapid urbanisation of Maori in the mid-twentieth century. He tells the story of the customary culture championed by Apirana Ngata at the Rotorua School of Maori Arts and Crafts, and how artists like Arnold Wilson, Para Matchitt and Selwyn Muru, encouraged by Gordon Tovey and the Education Department, reacted against this and constructed a Maori art that engaged with the modern world in which they lived. There was a rich trafficking between tradition and modernism - two seemingly incompatible but not always opposing positions that were the source of a great upswelling of creativity." "Illustrated with over 100 colour photographs of works that are not widely known, The Carver and the Artist demonstrates the dynamic way in which Maori art negotiated modernity in the twentieth century."--Jacket.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1900-2000
• Wood-carving > New Zealand
• Art, Māori > New Zealand
• Artists, Māori > New Zealand
• Art, Modern > 20th century
• Mahi toi

Genre/Form

Mahi toi.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The carver and the artist -- Carving histories: Apirana Ngata, the Rotorua School of Māori Arts and Crafts, and Māoritanga, 1900-1950 -- The master carver: Hone Taiapa, the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute, and Māoritanga, 1950-1979 -- Modern trends in Maori art forms: Māori modernism, 1950-1970 -- The ancient custom of treasurable uniqueness: contemporary Māori art, 1970-1980 -- Modern Māoritanga: customary culture, 1980 to the present -- Modernity: Māoritanga and Māori modernism.

ISBN

• 9781869403737
• 1869403738

OCLC

• 179840516
• SCSB-11221628

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library