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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The second in the Queensland Art Gallery’s series of country-specific exhibition projects Unnerved: The New Zealand Project celebrates the strength and vitality of contemporary art practice in New Zealand. Drawn largely from the Gallery’s unique collection of art from this country Unnerved explores a particularly rich dark vein found in contemporary New Zealand art and cinema. The psychological or physical unease underlying many works is addressed with humour parody and poetic subtlety by artists across generations and mediums. This richly illustrated publication brings together more than 120 works by over 30 artists from the late 1960s to the present and includes a strong focus on photography and moving-image works. Major sculptures by Michael Parekowhai installations by Lisa Reihana and Michael Stevenson and photographic series by Yvonne Todd Gavin Hipkins Anne Noble and Greg Semu feature alongside film and video art by Sriwhana Spong and Nathan Pohio as well as the work of emerging artists James Oram and Lorene Taurerewa. Essays by the Gallery’s curatorial staff explore the work of each artist while lead essays by Maud Page Senior Curator Pacific Art and Wystan Curnow Professor of English at the University of Auckland examine New Zealand’s contemporary artistic practice in terms of complex traditions and histories as well as a changing social political and cultural landscape. (MP)