Don Binney : flight path / Gregory O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien, Gregory, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Binney, D. H., 1940-2012.

Binney, D. H.

Painters--New Zealand--Biography.

Painters.

Landscape painting--New Zealand--20th century.

Landscape painting.

Figurative painting--New Zealand--20th century.

Figurative painting.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

399 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Flight path

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Drawing extensively on Binney's letters, journals and other writings, award-winning author and curator Gregory O'Brien takes us into the world of this gifted but paradoxical artist. Richly illustrated with Binney's paintings, drawings and prints - alongside photographs and documentary materials - this is the first full-length monograph on one of New Zealand's most important twentieth-century artists"--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1: Taking flight 1940-1962

part 2: Between bird & headland 1963-1967

Part 3: Offshore 1968-1973

Part 4: Returning bird 1974-1985

Part 5: Four or five ways of not being a painter

Part 6: Descending bird 1986-2012

A flight path

an afterword

Chronology

Endnotes

Select bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Binney, D. H., 1940-2012. Works. Selections.

ISBN:

9781869409661

1869409663

OCLC:

1401638225