Francis Pound

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Dr Francis Pound (1948 - 15 October 2017) was a New Zealand art historian, curator and writer.

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Pound's writings "challenged the writing of an earlier generation of art historians, including Hamish Keith, Gordon H. Brown and Peter Tomory, and championed abstract artists, especially Gordon Walters and Richard Killeen." [1] Pound completed his doctorate on the work of Richard Killeen and lectured in art history at the University of Auckland. [2] Pound's particular concern was nationalism and New Zealand art. His 1983 book Frames on the Land refuted earlier art historical arguments for a particular quality to New Zealand's light, which resulted in a bold, hard-eged approach to landscape painting in that country. Instead, he argued that visiting and immigrant artists in the 19th century brought established 'frames' with them, such as a sense of the land and a sublime and awesome force, through which they interpreted the New Zealand landscape. [3]

His 1994 book The Space Between: Pakeha Use of Maori Motifs in Modernist New Zealand Art came in the wake of the 1992 exhibition Headlands: Thinking Through New Zealand Art , and discusses the cultural appropriation of Māori art and culture by modern Pākehā New Zealand artists, including Gordon Walters, Colin McCahon and Richard Killeen. [1] [4] Pound's final book summarises his thinking on 1930s artists, writers and thinkers who used art, literature and theory to posit a new sense of New Zealand identity through high culture, and how from the 1970s this framework was dismantled. [5] [6]

Pound’s book on the artist Gordon Walters was published posthumously in 2023. In it Pound covers all aspects of Walters life and work including the painting of his first large scale koru work Te Whiti  first shown in 1966. [7] The book was assisted into publication by Leonard Bell who also contributed a forward and afterword to the book. [8]

Publications

Books by Francis Pound include:

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References

  1. 1 2 Farrar, Sarah. "Rewriting New Zealand art: Francis Pound (1948-2017)". Te Papa. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  2. ↑ Conland, Natasha. "Remembering Francis Pound (1948–2017)". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  3. ↑ "Nationalism debates: Frames on the land". Te Ara - Encyclopedia of New Zealand. New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  4. ↑ Leonard, Robert. "Gordon Walters: Form Becomes Sign". robertleonard.org. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "The Invention of New Zealand: Art and National Identity, 1930–1970 - The University of Auckland". Auckland University Press. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  6. ↑ "Criticism and the arts". Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand. New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  7. ↑ Dunn, Michael (1983). Gordon Walters. Auckland City Art Gallery. p. 26. ISBN   0864631111.
  8. ↑ Pound, Francis (2023). Gordon Walters. Auckland: Auckland University Press. ISBN   9781869409531.

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