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Art history in New Zealand had been dominated by landscape paintings, but there is a complementary field of portrait painting which has not received the same attention. This book redresses the balance a little by presenting a selection of self portraits by well-known New Zealand artists.
This Thing in the Mirror is not a comprehensive survey of New Zealand self-portraiture nor a thorough academic study. Instead, in a style intended to appeal to the general reader as well as the art specialist, it seeks to peel back a few layersw, offer some illuminating points and ponderings, and drop an anecdote in here and there.
Claire Finlayson was born in Staffordshire, England, but brought up in New Zealand. She studied Art History at both the University of Canterbury and Victoria University of Wellington, and has worked at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and in the Pictorial Collections of the Hocken Library in Dunedin. She now works as a freelance writer.
ISBN: 1877333182
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