Front cover image for New Zealand sculpture from 1860 to the present

New Zealand sculpture from 1860 to the present

This work charts the growth of sculpture in this former British colony from the era of British imports through a period of strong British influence to the more confident art of the 20th century, using a wider set of sources and materials and more personal forms of expression.
Print Book, English, 2002
Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2002
9781869402778, 1869402774
1101390240
Early carvers and masons 1860-1890; public statuary of the Victorian and Edwardian periods; the origins of local sculpture; sculpture between the wars 1918-39; sculpture and the art schools 1920-60; post-war sculpture 1945-60; figurative sculpture post 1960; abstraction and modernism 1960-1990; post-object and conceptual sculpture 1969 to the present; contemporary Maori sculpture; contemporary developments.