Book Author Rangihiroa Panoho
Photography by Mark Adams & Haruhiko Sameshima
Rights Available: World excl. NZ
While there have been myriad surveys of Māori art published before, there is currently very little critical writing on Māori art and artists. These two books fill a gap in Māori art history and provide a framework for looking at Māori art in a new way.
Each chapter in Māori Art: How to Read it juxtaposes images by some of the major tohunga mahi toi Māori artists and European and American modernist painters and sculptors of the 20th century carefully examining the influences and the differences. This book picks up where Māori Art: History, Architecture, Landscape & Theory left off; taking the definitions of toi tāhuhu ‘Māori art history’ established in the first volume and applying them to specific images, providing the viewer an opportunity to better understand how one might read these exciting global art forms.
About the Author
Dr Rangihiroa Panoho is New Zealand Māori and has affiliations with the northern iwi/tribes of central Tai Tokerau, Northland. He has over 30 years’ experience as a leading New Zealand curator and art historian. His specialist areas are Māori, Pacific, New Zealand and international indigenous art. He has published and lectured extensively, and participated in collective projects, exhibitions and presentations within the Australasian gallery circuit, New York University, Field Museum Chicago and the International Social Sciences Council UNESCO, Paris.
Publisher
Bateman Books
Extent
352pp
Format
292 x 235mm
Binding
Hardback with jacket
Category
Non-Fiction
Genre
Art, Photography
Publication Date
June 2026
Rights Available:
World excl. NZ
Rights Agents:
World
Paul Bateman, David Bateman Ltd
bateman@bateman.co.nz
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