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TE PAPA PRESS Catalogue 2017 Te Papa Press New Zealand’S Unique Museum Publisher TE PAPA PRESS Catalogue 2017 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. 2017 TITLES 2017 TITLES Museum of The Great Art Activity New Zealand Book for Young Te Papa Tongarewa New Zealanders Souvenir Guide Helen Lloyd PUB DATE: January 2017 NZ RRP: $9.99 PUB DATE: November 2017 ISBN: 978-0-9941362-2-0 NZ RRP: $29.99 Paperback, 160 x 130 mm, 112 pages ISBN: 978-0-9941362-3-7 Paperback, 280 x 210mm, 184 pages Haere mai and welcome to Te Papa, New Zealand’s national museum. Get in the frame with 100+ fun art activities. From the revolutionary Britten motorbike to precious Bursting with art activities, this fun book aimed at young New Māori artefacts, this new souvenir guide from Te Papa Press Zealanders is sure to please – both them and their teachers is the ideal companion for all visitors to the Museum of and caregivers. Based around 60 paintings from Te Papa’s New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. collection and also original works made just for the book by Be guided through the story of Aotearoa New Zealand, from leading New Zealand artists, it’s a great way for young people the earliest Polynesian voyagers to our vibrant multicultural to learn about art while exploring their own creativity. present. Discover along the way highlights from Te Papa’s A new and totally revised edition of the bestselling collections, including early navigator Kupe’s anchor, Captain New Zealand Art Activity Book. James Cook’s cannon, a 165-million-year-old giant ammonite, the world’s largest colossal squid specimen, legendary race horse Phar Lap’s skeleton, the America’s Cup–winning yacht Samoan Tattooing NZL32 Black Magic, Colin McCahon’s masterful art works and O le Tatau o Samoa many more national treasures or taonga. JACKET A Cultural History NOT YET Sean Mallon and Sebastien Galliot FINAL Ten x Ten PUB DATE: November 2017 100 Favourite Art Works NZ RRP: $75.00 978-0-9941362-4-4 at Te Papa ISBN: JACKET Hardback, format TBC, 320 pages NOT YET Edited by Athol McCredie FINAL PUB DATE: December 2017 A beautifully designed and richly illustrated retelling of NZ RRP: $45.00 the unique and powerful history of Samoan tattooing, ISBN: 978-0-9941362-5-1 from 3000 years ago to modern practices. Paperback, 200 x 235mm, 256 pages This cultural history is the first publication to examine 3000 One hundred of the best-loved works in the national art years of Samoan tatau. Through a chronology rich with people, collection at Te Papa. encounters and events, it describes how Samoan tattooing has been shaped by local and external forces of change over Published to coincide with the opening of the beautiful new many centuries. It is richly illustrated with historical images art galleries at Te Papa, this book takes an intimate yet expert of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Samoan tattooing, look at the national art collection. Ten curators have each contemporary tattooing, diagrams of tattoo designs and chosen ten works and tell us why they love/admire/revere/ motifs, and with supplementary photographs such as posters, are moved by them. It’s an entirely fresh way to approach art, ephemera, film stills and artefacts. seen by those who work with these paintings, photographs and sculptures every day and who know them better than most. NEW TITLES NEW TITLES The Genius The Genius of of Bugs Bugs Activity Simon Pollard Book PUB DATE: December 2016 PUB DATE: December 2016 NZ RRP: $24.99 NZ RRP: $14.99 ISBN: 978-0-9941362-1-3 ISBN: 978-0-9941362-0-6 Paperback, 270 x 210 mm, Paperback, 270 x 210 mm, 32 pages 24 pages They may be small, they may be creepy, but bugs have Test your genius in these awesome bug activities! super-sized powers! Packed with awesome bug-filled activities to entertain and Meet a roll call of some of New Zealand’s and the world’s most inform curious minds, The Genius of Bugs Activity Book incredible bugs, from the cunning portia spider to the killer celebrates the insanely interesting world of bugs. brain-surgeon wasp. A companion to The Genius of Bugs fact book, this activity Illustrated with up-close, dramatic bug photography book lets children pit their own brain power against a number throughout, The Genius of Bugs is a fresh take on the world of resourceful creepy crawlies. Activities from a bug word find of bugs, filled with bug tales, facts and figures that showcase to creative web designing showcase bug behaviour – children bug ingenuity and reveal astounding bug behaviour. can see if they can outsmart the fearsome portia spider’s prey, Biologist and award-winning author Simon Pollard draws on spot the cunning orchid mantis and decipher the fireflies’ the latest research to reveal why, for example, the delicate secret code. dragonfly is four times better at catching prey than a lion, and Hand-drawn illustrations by leading New Zealand illustrator how a beetle sets off an explosion in its bottom to defend itself. Kieran Rynhart, along with brain-teasers, bug fact boxes and Featuring New Zealand and international examples, children the occasional joke, will keep young bug lovers engaged. will be entranced by these inspiring bugs and remarkable The Genius of Bugs and The Genius of Bugs Activity Book are recent discoveries about their genius. inspired by the Bug Lab exhibition, a spectacular immersive experience developed by Te Papa in collaboration with Weta Workshop that opens for a five-month run in December 2016. Simon Pollard is a successful children’s book author, spider expert and natural history writer. He is currently the Adjunct Professor of Science Communication at the University of Canterbury. Simon is the author of the award-winning I Am a Spider (Reed, 2004) and I Am an Insect (Reed, 2002). His book Dear Alison (Penguin, 2009) won the 2010 Children’s Choice Award for non-fiction at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards and the 2010 LIANZA Elsie Locke Award, Non-fiction Book of the Year. NEW TITLES NEW TITLES The Māori Meeting House Introducing the Whare Whakairo Damian Skinner PUB DATE: September 2016 NZ RRP: $49.99 ISBN: 978-0-9941041-5-1 Paperback, 250 × 230 mm, 224 pages An accessible, illustrated guide to the history, artistry and cultural significance of the whare whakairo or Māori meeting house. This all-new introductory guide to the whare whakairo, or decorated Māori meeting house, covers every aspect of these magnificent taonga (treasures) – their history and evolution, structure and art forms, symbolism and cultural power. Generously illustrated with over one hundred intriguing historical and contemporary photographs, and containing original watercolour illustrations and a helpful glossary, the ‘A welcome addition to the growing body of literature book clearly illustrates the parts – and the arts – of the whare on the modern meeting house as a statement of Māori whakairo with reference to numerous houses from all over identity, culture and mana.’ –RANGINUI WALKER Aotearoa New Zealand and the world. Damian Skinner is an art historian, writer and the 2017 JD Stout In an accessible and engaging text, Dr Damian Skinner Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington. He is interested in art and brings together existing scholarship on whare whakairo craft in the twentieth century, and, in particular, the history of contact with his own reflections as a Pākehā art historian and between Māori and Pākehā, and the relationship between art and curator. He weaves in the voices of many carvers, artists, politics in New Zealand. He has written numerous books, including The Carver and the Artist: Māori Art in the Twentieth Century (2008) architects, writers, experts and iwi to give every reader and The Passing World, The Passage of Life: John Hovell and the Art new ways of seeing these taonga – whether it is their first of Kowhaiwhai (2010), which won the New Zealand Post Illustrated visit or their hundredth. Non-fiction Award in 2011. BACKLIST TITLES BACKLIST TITLES The Fishes of New Zealand A Comprehensive Guide Edited by Clive D Roberts, Andrew L Stewart and Carl D Struthers PUB DATE: November 2015 NZ RRP: $250.00 ISBN: 978-0-9941041-6-8 4 hardback volumes in a slipcase, 320 × 230 mm, 2000 pages The most detailed reference to the fishes of New Zealand ever published – definitive and completely illustrated. Clive Roberts has been Curator of Fishes and leader of the fish team Explore, discover and identify every known species of at the National Museum and Te Papa since 1992. Clive was New Zealand fish in this encyclopaedic and beautifully co-author, along with Andrew Stewart, of New Zealand Fish, A Complete Guide (2002) and Rockpool Fishes of New Zealand illustrated guide. (1992). He is lead editor of The Fishes of New Zealand. The Fishes of New Zealand represents the culmination of Andrew Stewart has been Collection Manager of Fishes at the decades of collecting and taxonomic research by scientists National Museum and Te Papa since 1982. Drawing on his experiences, based at New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa, in Andrew has regularly run training seminars on the identification collaboration with specialists worldwide. It reveals the of deep-water fishes as well as giving public talks. He is a regular contributor to New Zealand Fishing News. history, diversity and biogeography of the region’s rich freshwater and ocean life across four cased, easy-to- Carl Struthers has been Research and Technical Officer at Te Papa since 2005.
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