Wednesday, March 19, 2008


A note just in from the team at
Parsons Bookshop, Auckland
Just into the shop. And we're doing the launch this evening.....

Damian Skinner's newest book
'The Carver and the Artist; Maori Art in the Twentieth Century'
Parsons Price $75.00 (RRP $89.99)

Hardback. 224 pages. Fully illustrated. b&w, and colour.
Chapters include:
Chapter 2.Carving Histories: Apirana Ngata, the Rotorua School of Maori Arts and Crafts, and Maoritanga, 1900-1950.
Chapter 6. Modern Maoritanga: Customary Culture, 1980 to the Present.
Chapter 7. Modernity, Maoritanga and Maori Modernism.

Damian Skinner is a highly regarded art historian and curator.
This book is based on his doctoral thesis, completed in 2006.
He has published widely on Pakeha modernism.
His research interests include cross-cultural contact in the arts and the politics of Pakeha identity.

Parsons Bookshop in Auckland, 26 Wellesley Street East, Auckland 1010, New Zealand

Ph +64 9 303 1557. Fax +64 9 357 0877. books@parsons.co.nz

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