Vivid: The Paul Hartigan Story
This must rank as the most spectacular book published in New Zealand this year. From its French folded dust jacket to its spectacular colour illustrations, its design and binding - not to mention the story it tells - everything about this book is hugely impressive and I salute the publisher for a superb job.
Vivid is a rare,
career-spanning survey of New Zealand artist Paul Hartigan.
Hartigan is
the painter of the original Phantom, an icon in New Zealand art. He is also the
creative mind behind some of New Zealand’s best-known and loved public
sculptures: the neon works Colony
(Auckland), Whipping the
Wind (Wellington) and Nebula
Orion (Christchurch).
Hartigan was
often in the right place at the right time: as a schoolboy he was the protégé
of the progressive team that set up New Plymouth’s Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
in 1970; in the late '70s he was half of the creative duo at Snake Studios; and
in the mid-1980s he was the artistic talent behind the company Gone On Neon,
which transformed Auckland’s nightscape.
The book is a
unique mix of biography and art history, generously illustrated throughout, and
will appeal to buyers of art books as well as those interested in New Zealand’s
visual and popular culture.
$65.00
ISBN:
978-0-473-33711-7
Hard cover,
336p, full colour throughout
190 x 240mm
portrait
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