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Strangers arrive : emigrés and the arts in New Zealand, 1930-1980 / Leonard Bell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bell, Leonard, 1945- author.
- Series:
- Gerrard & Marti Friedlander creative lives series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts--New Zealand--History--20th century.
- Arts.
- Immigrants--New Zealand--History--20th century.
- Immigrants.
- Refugees--Europe--History--20th century.
- Refugees.
- New Zealand--Social life and customs--20th century.
- New Zealand.
- New Zealand--Intellectual life--20th century.
- New Zealand--Civilization--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- "From the 1930s through the 1950s, a substantial number of forced migrants - refugees from Nazism, displaced people after World War II and escapees from Communist countries - arrived in New Zealand from Europe. Among them were an extraordinary group of artists and writers, photographers and architects whose European modernism radically reshaped the arts in this country."--Publisher description.
- Contents:
- Alien registration
- Taking pictures
- New visions
- Words
- Architectural episodes
- Virtual strangers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781775589556
- 1775589552
- 9781775589549
- 1775589544
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