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Author Simpson, Peter

Title Bloomsbury South : the Arts in Christchurch 1933-1953
Published Auckland University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (364 pages)
Contents Cover; Title page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1933â#x80;#x93;1938; 1. Ursula Bethell: The Mother of Allâ#x80;Œ; 2. Tomorrow, Denis Glover, Allen Curnow and the Caxton Press; 3. Angus, Bensemann, Woollaston and The Group; 1939â#x80;#x93;1945; 4. Douglas Lilburn and Music; 5. Ngaio Marsh, Shakespeare and the Little Theatre; 6. The Group and the Caxton Press II; 1946â#x80;#x93;1953; 7. Charles Brasch and Landfall; 8. Colin McCahon and James K. Baxter; 9. Consolidation and Dispersal; Conclusion; Appendix: Three Poems; List of Art Works; Image Credits; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Summary For two decades in Christchurch, New Zealand, a cast of extraordinary men and women remade the arts. Variously between 1933 and 1953, Christchurch was the home of Angus and Bensemann and McCahon, Curnow and Glover and Baxter, the Group, the Caxton Press and the Little Theatre, Landfall and Tomorrow, Ngaio Marsh and Douglas Lilburn. It was a city in which painters lived with writers, writers promoted musicians, in which the arts and artists from different forms were deeply intertwined. And it was a city where artists developed a powerful synthesis of European modernist influences and an assertive New Zealand nationalism that gave mid-century New Zealand cultural life its particular shape
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Art, New Zealand -- New Zealand -- Christchurch -- 20th century
Artists -- New Zealand -- Christchurch -- 20th century
Art, New Zealand
Artists
New Zealand -- Christchurch
Genre/Form Biographies
Biography.
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