Research Catalog
Living halls
- Title
- Living halls / Fiona Jack.
- Author
- Jack, Fiona, 1974-
- Publication
- Auckland, N.Z. : Clouds ; New Plymouth, N.Z. : Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, ©2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | N7406.7 .J33 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
- Description
- 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "LIVING HALLS represents the findings of an ambitious research project undertaken by Fiona Jack based in the study and cataloguing of New Zealand war memorial halls. Following the Second World War, government funds were made available for communities to plan and apply for support for memorial halls. Hundreds of these buildings, in what became a vernacular tradition, now form a chain of public space the length of the country. Jack has compiled a list of all extant halls and is working with people living in proximity to the halls to provide paintings of them. She is also making paintings herself based on the original applications made by communities now kept in the National Archives. LIVING HALLS will feature writing by architectural historian Bill McKay, fiction by Los Angeles writer Janet Sarbanes and writing by Jack herself. Jack has been artist-in-residence at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery during the 2009-2010 summer, and the gallery will co-publish the book with Clouds. The publication has received major funding from the University of Auckland's Elam School of Fine Arts Research Fund."--Publisher's description.
- Subject
- Jack, Fiona, 1974- > Exhibitions
- Jack, Fiona, 1974-
- 2000-2099
- Art, New Zealand > 21st century
- War memorials > New Zealand > Exhibitions
- Buildings > New Zealand > Exhibitions
- War memorials > New Zealand > History
- Buildings > New Zealand > History
- Monuments in art
- Art, New Zealand
- Buildings
- War memorials
- New Zealand
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- History.
- Note
- Published on the occasion of Fiona Jack's residency and resulting Living Halls exhibition project at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, June 19-Sept. 5, 2010.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- A memorial with an inside : a conversation about art, monuments, memorials and war / Sam Durant, Fiona Jack, Tom Nicholson -- Living halls: the war memorial community centres / Bill McKay -- Monument / Janet Sarbanes -- Dancehalls / Georgina White -- Fiona Jack: Living halls / Rhana Devenport -- Paintings -- Drawings -- Appendix: Register of halls.
- ISBN
- 9780986462818
- 0986462810
- LCCN
- 2012518490
- OCLC
- ocn807999835
- 807999835
- SCSB-1766649
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library