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Sto caricando le informazioni... Splendours of civilisation : the John Money Collection at the Eastern Southland Gallerydi Michael King
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In 2004 John Money concluded a research career that spanned 50 years. He cleared his offi ce at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA and returned to his near empty house. In preparation for retirement his massive book collection and many archives had been deposited with major academic institutions throughout the world. After all, these same institutions had honoured him over the years for his ground-breaking and often controversial work in the area of sexology. However, his remarkable art collection, one that encroached upon almost every surface and corner of his Baltimore house, was to fi nd a very unlikely home. Splendours of Civilisation not only tells the heroic story of how the John Money collection came to be housed at the Eastern Southland Gallery in Gore, it also shows the collection in all its splendour. The late Michael King re-acquainted himself with John Money while carrying out research for his biography on Janet Frame. This in turn led him to explore the patronage of this particular expatriate, which began and ended in small town New Zealand.Here Michael King, in his last published work, documents Money's life and places him within the generation of 20th Century artists, writers, composers and academics that helped weave the cultural fabric of New Zealand. This handsome book is illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and a 32-page section of colour plates. Includes photos of interior views of Money's house in Baltimore; as well as photos of noted New Zealanders Janet Frame, Michael King, Ralph Hotere and others. The colour plates include works by Rita Angus, Australian aboriginal artists, African carvings and Theo Schoon. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This short but valuable introduction to the John Money Collection helps to deepen an appreciation of a visit to the Gallery and the Collection. It includes a brief outline of how New Zealander John Money's Collection ended up in Southland from 2104 East Madison, Baltimore in the United States.
The late Michael King gives a biographical sketch in his introductory essay entitled: 'John Money: Scientist, Eccentric, Patron of the Arts.' In particular I found his overview of Money's friends and like-minded people very interesting: Diny and Paul Schramm, Rodney Kennedy, Charles Brasch, Freddie Page, Douglas Lilburn, Denis Glover, Theo Schoon among others.
Michael King asserts that Karl Popper (Canterbury University College) and visiting academic to Otago University where Money was lecturing, wrote 'possibly the most influential book ever written in New Zealand.' Popper's colleague,at Canterbury University College, Ivan Sutherland, would surely have an opinion on that!
The illustrations and production are exemplary; the often-noted omission of an index would help to make this book and its contents more accessible, but it does have Notes and a Bibliography.
See also my Clippings Scrapbook 2. ( )