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Ildren's History Natural Y Pacific Culture Taonga ART CHILDREN’S HISTORY NATURAL HISTORY PACIFIC CULTURE TAONGA MĀORI ABOUT TE PAPA POSTERS AND STATIONERY ART CHILDREN’S HISTORY NATURAL HISTORY TE PAPA PACIFIC CULTURE TAONGA MĀORI PRESS ABOUT TE PAPA POSTERS AND STATIONERY ART CHILDREN’S HISTORY NATURAL HISTORY PACIFIC CULTURE CATALOGUE TAONGA MĀORI ABOUT TE PAPA 2018–2019 AND WWW. STATIONERY ART CHILDREN’S TEPAPAPRESS. HISTORY PACIFIC CULTURE CO.NZ TAONGA MĀORI ABOUT TE PAPA POSTERS AND STATIONERY ART CHILDREN’S HISTORY PACIFIC CULTURE ART TAONGA MĀORI PACIFIC CULTURE CHILDREN’S TE PAPA PRESS NEW ZEALAND’S UNIQUE MUSEUM PUBLISHER Te Papa Press is the publishing arm of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. It creates popular, highly respected and award-winning books about the art, culture and natural world of Aotearoa New Zealand, for readers everywhere. ART Scenic Playground: The Story Crafting Aotearoa: Behind New Zealand’s A Cultural History of Mountain Tourism Making in New Zealand and Peter Alsop, Dave Bamford and Lee Davidson the Wider Moana Oceania Drawing on a treasure trove of publicity – Karl Chitham, Kolokesa Māhina-Tuai and posters, advertisements, paintings, Damian Skinner hand-coloured photos and more – this book explores how A major new history of craft that spans three New Zealand built its reputation as an alpine playground, and how centuries of making and thinking in Aotearoa mountains became central to belonging to Aotearoa. Featuring over New Zealand and the wider Moana (Pacific). It tells the previously 600 spectacular images, Scenic Playground is the first time this untold story of craft in Aotearoa New Zealand, and proposes a new important slice of our history has been fully told. idea of craft – one that acknowledges Pākehā, Māori and wider Winner: Grand Prize and Mountain and Adventure Heritage Award, Moana histories of making, so that the connections, as well as the 2019 New Zealand Mountain Film and Book Festival differences and tensions, can be identified and explored. PUB DATE: November 2018 NZ RRP: $80 ISBN: 978-0-9941460-2-1 PUB DATE: November 2019 NZ RRP: $90 ISBN: 978-0-9941362-7-5 Hardback, 280 x 250 mm, 416 pages NEW Hardback, 270 x 220 mm, 496 pages The New Photography New Zealand Art at Te Papa Edited by Mark Stocker Athol McCredie Te Papa holds New Zealand’s national art This handsome book shines a light on the collection, the origins of which date back pioneering practice of eight photographers, to 1865. In this elegant hardback, Te Papa’s who together created the new field of curators and a range of other expert art contemporary social photography in writers discuss 268 works from the museum’s New Zealand. Via interviews with the photographers and an collection. From early colonial artworks outstanding introductory essay, Athol McCredie shows how this break- through to recent acquisitions, their essays offer insight into the art, through approach was the creator of art photography in this country. the artists and the context and issues that drove them. PUB DATE: June 2019 NZ RRP: $70 ISBN: 978-0-9951031-9-1 PUB DATE: October 2018 NZ RRP: $75 ISBN: 978-0-9941460-3-8 NEW Hardback, 227 x 270 mm landscape, 216 pages Hardback, 270 x 230 mm, 376 pages Terracotta Warriors: Ten x Ten: Art at Te Papa Guardians of Immortality Edited by Athol McCredie Edited by Rebecca Rice This book takes an intimate yet expert look Excavated from the archaeological site at the national art collection held at Te Papa at Xi’an, the remarkable third-century BC Tongarewa. Ten curators have each chosen funerary statues of Qin Shihuang, the First ten works and tell us why they love/admire/ Emperor of China, were made to protect revere/are moved by them. It’s an entirely him in his afterlife. This highly illustrated fresh way to approach art, by those who work with these paintings, catalogue showcases the 200 sculptures from photographs, prints, applied art objects and sculptures every day the Terracotta Warriors exhibition held at Te Papa, and details the and who know them better than most. creation of the objects and their ongoing discovery. PUB DATE: October 2017 NZ RRP: $45 ISBN: 978-0-9941362-5-1 PUB DATE: December 2018 NZ RRP: $35 ISBN: 978-0-9951031-1-5 Limpbound, 210 x 210 mm, 300 pages Limpbound, 250 x 190 mm, 168 pages New Zealand CHILDREN’S Photography Collected Maui’s Taonga Tales Athol McCredie He Paki Taonga i a Māui The history of photography coincides David Brechin-Smith with the history of New Zealand more Translated by Stephanie Tibble closely than almost any other country in the From Kupe’s anchor stone and Ruhia’s cloak to a flute like that used world. New Zealand Photography Collected by Tutanekai and Willie Apiata’s uniform, this treasury of stories – old illuminates this history, from the earliest and new – from Aotearoa springs from taonga held at Te Papa, and is nineteenth-century portraits of Māori and local ‘scenic views’ to accompanied by amazing images by some of Aotearoa’s best young the latest contemporary art photography. It features more than illustrators. A must-have for all libraries and families. Two editions: in 350 photographs drawn from the national collection at Te Papa. English and fully in te reo Māori. Winner: New Zealand Herald’s 2015 Book of the Year. NEW PUB DATE: November 2019 NZ RRP: $35.00 PUB DATE: October 2015 NZ RRP: $99.99 ISBN: 978-0-9941041-4-4 ISBN: 978-0-9951136-1-9 ISBN: 978-0-9951136-2-6 Hardback, 305 × 250 mm, 368 pages Hardback, 196 x 297 mm, 208 pages Peter McLeavey: The Life Why is That Lake So Blue? and Times of a New Zealand A Children’s Guide to Art Dealer New Zealand’s Natural World Jill Trevelyan Simon Pollard Through exclusive access to McLeavey’s Why is our place magic? Why are its islands extensive archive, this book offers remarkable shaky? Why are our mountains tall and our insight into the artists McLeavey has forests green? Why are some lakes so blue? represented across half a century. Far more What happens beneath the waves? What than a simple biography, this is an utterly compelling historical account changed when mammals arrived? In this fun-filled, fact-rich book, of the birth of the modern art market and the status of art today. award-winning science writer Simon Pollard shares the magic, secrets, Winner: 2014 New Zealand Post Book of the Year; HarperCollins mysteries and marvels of Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural world. Publishers Award for Best Cover, 2014 PANZ Book Design Awards. PUB DATE: October 2018 NZ RRP: $29.99 ISBN: 978-0-9941460-1-4 Limpbound, 260 x 220 mm, 112 pages PUB DATE: October 2013 NZ RRP: $64.99 ISBN: 978-0-9876688-4-4 Flexibind, 230 × 170 mm, 496 pages The New Zealand Brian Brake: Lens on Art Activity Book the World Helen Lloyd Edited by Athol McCredie Bursting with art activities, this fun new The complete life and work of Brian edition of Te Papa Press’s original and Brake, encapsulated in one stunning successful art activity book is designed book. Comprising more than 300 superb to introduce young New Zealanders to a photographic reproductions and six all-new variety of different creative processes. It essays, this publication gives the reader new includes reproductions of 51 historical and insights into Brian Brake and how he saw the world. contemporary works from Te Papa’s art collection, new works commissioned from contemporary New Zealand artists, and art- Finalist: 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards. based activities. PUB DATE: October 2010 NZ RRP: $99.99 ISBN: 978-1-877385-64-3 PUB DATE: October 2017 NZ RRP: $29.99 ISBN: 978-0-9941362-3-7 Hardback, 290 x 237 mm, 344 pages Limpbound, 270 x 200 mm, 160 pages The Genius of Bugs and 100 Amazing Tales from The Genius of Bugs: Aotearoa Activity Book Simon Morton and Riria Hotere Simon Pollard Te Papa stores more than two million treasured items in trust for the nation. Each They may be small, they may be object in 100 Amazing Tales from Aotearoa creepy, but bugs have super-sized powers! Illustrated with up-close, tells a unique story about the culture and dramatic bug photography throughout, The Genius of Bugs is a fresh history of the nation, about science and exploration, and the deep take on the world of bugs, filled with bug tales, facts and figures and personal stories of Māori taonga. that showcase bug ingenuity and reveal astounding bug behaviour. Companion book is The Genius of Bugs Activity Book. Winner: Elsie Locke Medal for Non-fiction, 2013 LIANZA Children’s Book Awards. Shortlisted for the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. PUB DATE: September 2012 NZ RRP: $34.99 ISBN: 978-1-877385-79-7 Limpbound, 240 × 210 mm, 224 pages PUB DATE: December 2016 NZ RRP: $24.99 ISBN: 978-0-9941362-1-3 Limpbound, 270 x 210 mm, 32 pages GENIUS OF BUGS: ACTIVITY BOOK HISTORY PUB DATE: December 2016 NZ RRP: $14.99 ISBN: 978-0-9941362-0-6 Limpbound, 270 x 210 mm, 24 pages Protest Tautohetohe: Objects of Resistance, Persistence and The Curioseum: Collected Stories Defiance Matariki Williams, Stephanie Gibson and of the Odd and Marvellous Puawai Cairns Edited by Adrienne Jansen Illustrated by Sarah Laing Aotearoa New Zealand has a long legacy of activism. This richly illustrated book brings What happens when you let a group of twenty-two together over 300 objects made by protesters authors loose ‘back-stage’ in a museum? Te Papa to proclaim and symbolise their causes and their struggles.
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