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This model world
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- Book Synopsis
- In April 2011, Anthony Byrt was living in Berlin and building a career as a critic, writing about the world of contemporary art for magazines like frieze and Artforum International. Then one day his world turned upside down. A baby boy, two weeks in intensive care, and Byrt, his wife and new-born son suddenly found themselves booked on a one-way trip home to New Zealand. This Model World is a portrait of what Byrt found when he came back. Built around hundreds of hours spent in galleries, artists' studios and on the road from Brisbane to Detroit to Venice, this is a deeply personal journey into the contemporary New Zealand art world and the global world it inhabits. It's a book about major figures like Yvonne Todd, Shane Cotton, Billy Apple, Peter Robinson, Judy Millar and Simon Denny, and emerging artists such as Luke Willis Thompson, Shannon Te Ao and Ruth Buchanan. It's about severed heads and failed cities; about bright young stars and old men with a final point to prove; about looking for God and finding Edward Snowden; and about what it means to investigate the boundary where our bodies hit the world. This Model World - a riveting first-person account of one author's travels to the edge of contemporary art.
- About The Author
- Anthony Byrt is an award-winning New Zealand author, critic and journalist. He has written art criticism for publications including Artforum, NZ Listener and Metro, and has published two major books. This Model World: Travels to the Edge of Contemporary Art (AUP, 2016), a finalist in the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, was described as 'breathtaking' and a book that 'enlightens and provokes' (NZ Listener). The Mirror Steamed Over: Love and Pop in London, 1962 (AUP, 2020), longlisted for the Ockhams, was 'a wonderfully written, affecting account of the personalities and layered complexities of life in and around the Royal College of Art in the early 1960s' according to Professor Thomas Crow from NYU; Professor Matt Saunders from Harvard wrote that Byrt has 'a special talent for zooming into a milieu'. Byrt's whakapapa ties him to Ngati Kahu ki Whaingaroa and the Dalmation gumdiggers who settled later in Te Tai Tokerau. He currently lives in Naarm/Melbourne with his family and has recently published his first novel, Dying Days (Affirm Press).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781869408589
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Auckland University Press, (15 September 2016)
- Number of Pages
- 242
- Weight
- 520 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 210 x 150 x 23 mm
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