Between the lives : partners in art / edited by Deborah Shepard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shepard, Deborah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artist couples--New Zealand--Biography.

Artist couples.

Arts, New Zealand--20th century.

Arts, New Zealand.

New Zealand.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 246 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2005.

Summary:

This fascinating look at artists and their intimate partners takes nine well-known New Zealand couples and explores the many aspects of their lives--particularly how the presence of an artistic companion or soul mate impacts the art they produce. Combining the pleasures of gossip with information about how these artists have conducted their lives, this illuminates many of the themes found in the artists' paintings, poems, and films that revolve around their partners and the strains of producing serious art in a small and isolated country. The couples include Gil and Pat Hanly, Colin and Anne McCahon, Sylvia and Peter Siddell, Frances Hodgkins and D. K. Richmond, James K. Baxter and Jacquie Sturm, Kendrick Smithyman and Mary Stanley, Rudall and Ramai Hayward, Toss and Edith Woollaston, and Meg and Alister te Ariki Campbell. All told, nine painters, six poets, two filmmakers, and a photographer are included.

Contents:

Portrait of a marriage : Toss & Edith Woollaston / Jill Trevelyan

'I did not want to be Mrs. Colin' : Anne & Colin McCahon / Linda Tyler

'Sinfonia Domestica' : Mary Stanley & Kendrick Smithyman / Peter Simpson

Captured in words and paint : the life together of Frances Hodgkins & D.K. Richmond / Joanne Drayton

Shadow play : the film making partnership of Rudall & Ramai Hayward / Deborah Shepard

'Nobody would have given tuppence for our chances' : James K. Baxter & J.C. Sturm / Paul Millar

Pictures and politics : Pat & Gil Hanly / Claudia Bell

'My way is to be with you' : Meg & Alistair Te Ariki Campbell / Joy MacKenzie

Symbiosis : Sylvia & Peter Siddell / Catherine Lane West-Newman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index.

ISBN:

1869403339

OCLC:

61114281