The Invention of New Zealand Art and National Identity, 1930-1970 ~ Hardback ~ Francis Pound

Engagingly written by one of New Zealand's most brilliant and original art historians, this study of 20th-century New Zealand art helps define a national identity within the cultural context of art and literature. The essence of New Zealand and the invention of a specifically New Zealand high culture is presented and celebrated in this beautifully illustrated volume. Biography Francis Pound is a senior lecturer in art history at the University of Auckland and the author of Frames on the Land: Early Landscape Painting in New Zealand and The Space Between: Pakeha Use of Maori Motifs in Modernist New Zealand Art.