Rita Angus
Subtitle: New Zealand modernist = He Ringatoi Hou o Aotearoa
By: edited by Lizzie Bisley
Contributors: Trevelyan, Jill; Locke, Adrian; Te Papa (Museum)
Publisher: Te Papa Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Wellington, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780995133846
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Exhibitions; Criticism and interpretation; Modernism (Art); Modernisme (Art); Expositions
Work titles: Rita Angus (New Zealand modernist)
Description: The work of seminal, pioneering New Zealand modernist artist Rita Angus returns in triumph to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in late 2021, in a major show of more than 100 works from throughout her career. This extensive catalogue includes all the works in the show and is anchored by a major essay by Angus's biographer, Jill Trevelyan, which gives deep insight into Angus's life and practice. Adrian Locke, the Royal Academy, London, curator who was helming the major Angus show there until pandemic intervened, contributes a significant text that puts her work into international context, assessing her alongside contemporary women artist peers such as Anita Malfatti, Amrita Sher-Gil, Irma Stern, Emily Carr, Frida Kahlo, Henrietta Shore and Georgia O'Keeffe. Short pieces by well-known New Zealanders, including Gaylene Preston, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Fay Weldon and Robin White, who each examine the force of Angus's work and its impact on them, complete this rich celebration of Angus's life.
Notes: "This comprehensive catalogue features all the works in the exhibition 'Rita Angus: New Zealand modernist = He Ringatoi Hou o Aotearoa' plus major essays by Angus's biographer Jill Trevelyan and Royal Academy of Arts Chief Curator Adrian Locke"--Back cover.

"This exhibition was developed in partnership by the Royal Academy of Arts, London and Te Papa"--Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Lizzie Bisley; title: Considering Rita; title: 'Live to paint' / Jill Trevelyan; title: The other side of the easel / Adrian Locke; title: Rita and me. Fay Weldon; title: Ani O'Neill; title: Megan Dunn; title: Robin White; title: Thomasin Sleigh; title: Jennifer Ward-Lealand; title: Glen Hayward; title: Matariki Williams; title: Sinead Overbye; title: Gaylene Preston; title: Catalogue.