{"product_id":"gordon-walters","title":"Gordon Walters","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first substantial monograph on the art of one of New Zealand's country's most influential artists, Gordon Walters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this remarkable study by the late Francis Pound, author of the landmark \u003ci\u003eInvention of New Zealand\u003c\/i\u003e, we are introduced to the making of a New Zealand modernist - tracing the work of Gordon Walters (1919-1995) from student charcoal sketches in the 1930s to the revelation of the mature Koru works at the 1966 New Vision Gallery exhibition in Auckland.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePound follows Walters through steps and missteps, explorations and diversions, travel in Aotearoa and overseas, as the artist discovers new forms, invents others and discards many more. Pound looks hard at the paint, the brushes, the rulers, the scrapbooks, to reveal an artist at work. And, resolutely internationalist like the artist, the author provides not only astute insights into Walters' art, but also a guide to the elements and ideas that informed the work - notably, Māori and Pacific art, surrealism, Mondrian, De Stijl, the Bauhaus and Euro-American abstraction, conceptual art and minimalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith Francis Pound accompanying us through the work as guide, critic, wit and enthusiast, Gordon Walters is an extraordinary journey into twentieth-century art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43585810432197,"sku":"","price":90.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/Gordon_20Walters.jpg?v=1716726606","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/gordon-walters","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}