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Barbara Brooke: A Trend-Setting Art Professional in New Zealand 1959-1980
(University of Canterbury. Art History, 2015)
Barbara Brooke was an early New Zealand arts professional. Born in Belfast, Canterbury, in 1925, Brooke became an important advocate for contemporary New Zealand art and its developing professionalism in Christchurch ...
Static Moments Photographic Notions of Time in the Paintings of Degas, Vuillard, Bonnard and Sickert
(University of Canterbury. Art History and Theory, 2012)
This thesis explores the relationship between photography and painting from the mid-nineteenth-century to the early twentieth-century. Specifically, I focus on the artistic outputs of four painters, Degas, Vuillard, Bonnard ...
Mina Arndt (1885-1926) : the making of a New Zealand artist
(University of Canterbury. Dept. of Art History, 2000)
Mina Arndt (1885-1926) belongs to the generation of New Zealand born artists, who established early patterns of professional art practice in this country. The events of her life
show how Arndt followed career strategies ...
From Cottages to 'Skyscrapers' : The Architecture of A.E. & E.S. Luttrell in Tasmania and New Zealand
(University of Canterbury. Art History, 1988)
This thesis examines the contribution of Alfred and Sidney Luttrell to architecture in Tasmania and New Zealand. From 1886 Alfred, in partnership with Sidney after 1897, designed buildings for a wide variety of clients ...
The Basilicas of F. W. Petre
(University of Canterbury. Art History, 1982)
Francis William Petre is a major New Zealand architect whose work has never before been subject to a detailed study. For this reason a large part of this thesis has been devoted to the provision of an accurate account of ...
Figuring Desire : psychoanalytic perspectives on the discourse surrounding Colin McCahon and Ralph Hotere
(University of Canterbury. Art History and Theory, 2015)
This thesis presents an interweaving of the discourse surrounding Colin McCahon and Ralph Hotere, the philosophy of art, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. In so doing, a Lacanian understanding of subjectivity, painting, discourse, ...
Ngaromoana Raureti Tomoana, Indigenous Village Artist, Story Teller and Ahi Kaa
(University of Canterbury. School of Humanities, 2009)
Ngaromoana Raureti Tomoana is a painter from the East Coast of the North Island. In more than 30 years she has produced and shown a large body of work, like many other women artists concurrently juggling motherhood and ...
Tony Fomison : an artist's life.
(University of Canterbury, 1991)
Tony Fomison, New Zealand artist, was born in Christchurch in 1939 and
died at Whangarei in 1990. He lived an extreme and仕equentlyeccentric
life, during which he produced a substantial body of work in a variety of
media.
The ...
A Forgotten Contribution: re-establishing the production and significance of New Zealand's official First World War artists
(University of Canterbury, 2015)
This thesis examines the history of New Zealand’s National Collection of First World
War Art. It explores the reasons behind the establishment and collapse of New
Zealand’s official war art programme and the unfulfilled ...
Questions of Cultural Identity and Difference in the work of Yasumasa Morimura, Mariko Mori and Takashi Murakami
(University of Canterbury. Fine Arts, 2007)
This thesis explores the work of three contemporary Japanese artists - Yasumasa Morimura, Mariko Mori and Takashi Murakami - in relation to cross-cultural exchanges and differences between Japan and the West. In carrying ...
