Description
Author: Gregory O’Brien
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 19/10/2023
Imprint: AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN: 9781869409661
WINNER: 2024 NZ Book Awards – Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction
A richly illustrated account of the life and work of one of New Zealand’ s most iconic artists, Don Binney.
Even as an experienced biographer, Gregory O’Brien has achieved a near impossible task in Don Binney: Flight Path. He has encapsulated the artist’s full life, honestly portraying his often contrary personality, and carefully interrogating a formidably large body of work and its place in Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history. O’Brien’s respect for Binney includes acknowledging that he could be both charming and curmudgeonly, and as a result he offers a complete picture of this complex and creative man. Equally compelling are the book’s faithfully reproduced artworks, exemplifying the best in design, layout and reproduction. From the cover onwards, the images of the paintings take us to the place where Binney observed the land and the birds, capturing the qualities of whenua that meant so much to him.
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