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name: Rebecca  Rice
about: Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.Dr Rebecca Rice is a New Zealand curator and author of Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality.She earned her PhD in Art History from Victoria University of Wellington in 2010, after returning to study after working as a physiotherapist for several years.Her research includes New Zealand’s representation at international exhibitions, particularly through the displays of fine art, photography and ethnographic artefacts, as well as how artists used these exhibitions to promote their own practice. She is also researching the art produced during the New Zealand Wars of the nineteenth century, and the impact of impressionism on New Zealand artists at hom Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.Dr Rebecca Rice is a New Zealand curator and author of Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality.She earned her PhD in Art History from Victoria University of Wellington in 2010, after returning to study after working as a physiotherapist for several years.Her research includes New Zealand’s representation at international exhibitions, particularly through the displays of fine art, photography and ethnographic artefacts, as well as how artists used these exhibitions to promote their own practice. She is also researching the art produced during the New Zealand Wars of the nineteenth century, and the impact of impressionism on New Zealand artists at home and abroad.She has published a number of journal articles and has contributed to catalogues. She was awarded the Victoria University of Wellington Medal for Academic Excellence, And received both a Victoria University of Wellington Postgraduate and William Georgetti Scholarship for her Master’s and a Vice-Chancellor’s Strategic Research Scholarship for her PhD study.Before being appointed Curator Historical New Zealand Art at Te Papa Tongarewa in 2013, she worked as a part-time lecturer in Art History at Victoria University of Wellington and Collection Officer for the Adam Art Gallery. ...more