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Kia ora koutou
These are trying days as we fight to get on top of the latest COVID-19 outbreak. Our thoughts are with everyone in Auckland battling to eradicate it and racing to get vaccination rates up. Kia kaha!
Never has escaping into a good book had more appeal and so, on that note, it gives us great pleasure to introduce you to our last four books of 2021.
Kia haumaru, kia kitea
Ngā mihi
The Te Papa Press team
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Why is That Spider Dancing? | The Amazing Arachnids of Aotearoa by Simon Pollard and Phil Sirvid
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In this fun-filled, fact-rich, and highly illustrated book, award-winning science writer Simon Pollard and Te Papa spider expert Phil Sirvid share the magic, secrets, mysteries and marvels of Aotearoa New Zealand’s abundance of eight-legged beasties, from microscopic mites to spiders as large as your hand. They also profile some of the men and women who have helped build our knowledge in this area.
Read more here.
Look inside here
Read the Ten Question Q&A with Simon and Phil here.
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PUB DATE: October 2021 | NZ RRP: $29.99 | ISBN: 978-0-9951338-9-1 | Limpbound, 260 x 220mm, 112 pages
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Ngā Tai Whakarongorua | Encounters by Rebecca Rice and Matariki Williams
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The portrait wall in Toi Art, the art gallery within New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa, is the most popular art exhibition for museum visitors. Hung salon-style on dark red walls, its 36 arresting portraits span historical portraiture to contemporary practice, and represent mana. Some trumpet the status of European royalty, Māori leaders, or prosperous colonial settlers in New Zealand. Others advertise the skills of the artist. All carry stories from the past into the present.
This handy book details each work in both English and te reo Māori and is the perfect souvenir of a visit to Te Papa and an ideal starting point for exploring questions of art, identity, and cross-cultural exchange.
Read more here.
Look inside here.
Read the Ten Question Q&A with Rebecca and Matariki here.
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PUB DATE: October 2021 | NZ RRP: $22.00 | ISBN: 978-0-9951136-5-7 | Limpbound, 195 x 140mm, 112 pages
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Hei Taonga mā ngā Uri Whakatipu by Wayne Ngata, Anne Salmond, Natalie Robertson, Amiria Salmond, Monty Soutar, Billie Lythberg, James Schuster and Conal McCarthy
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From 1919 to 1923, at Sir Apirana Ngata’s initiative, a team from the Dominion Museum travelled across Te Ika-a-Māui, the North Island, to record tikanga Māori (ancestral practices) such as fishing techniques, art forms, ancestral rituals and everyday life in the communities they visited, using cutting-edge technology of the time, cinematic film and wax cylinders for recordings.
This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of these expeditions, and the determination of early twentieth-century Māori leaders, including Ngata, Te Rangihīroa and James and those in the communities they visited, to pass on ancestral tikanga ‘hei taonga mō ngā uri whakatipu’ as treasures for a rising generation.
Read more here.
Look inside here.
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PUB DATE: November 2021 | NZ RRP: $75.00 | ISBN: 978-0-9951031-0-8 | Hardback, 270 x 220 mm, 368 pages
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Rita Angus, New Zealand Modernist | Ringatoi Hou o Aotearoa by Lizzie Bisley
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The work of seminal, pioneering New Zealand modernist artist Rita Angus returns in triumph to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in mid-December 2021, in a major show of more than 100 works from throughout her career.
This extensive catalogue includes all the works in the show and is anchored by a major essay by Angus’s biographer, Jill Trevelyan, which gives deep insight into Angus’s life and practice.
Read more here.
Look inside here.
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PUB DATE: November 2021 | NZ RRP: $35.00 | ISBN: 978-0-9951338-4-6 | Limpbound, 250 x 190 mm, 224 pages
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OCTOBER NEWSLETTER GIVEAWAY
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We have two copies of both Why is That Spider Dancing? and Ngā Tai Whakarongorua | Encounters to give away to newsletter readers. To enter the draw, please email tepapapress@tepapa.govt.nz with your name and address before 18 October. The two winners will receive a copy of each book and will be notified by email. Please note that we are only able to send books within New Zealand.
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Surrealist Art | He Toi Pohewa
- “Reading a catalogue before visiting an exhibition is rather like perusing the menu before ordering dinner. It certainly whetted our appetites.” NZ Booklovers
- “[Surrealist Art | He Toi Pohewa] is richly illustrated with an extensive text. The various chapters provide an excellent introduction to surrealism and the artists at the centre of the various movements which contributed to it. The background to many of the works is often as interesting as the works themselves.” NZ Arts Review
Dressed | Fashionable Dress in Aotearoa New Zealand 1840 to 1910
- “an exquisite tome that will delight both historians and fashionistas.” Good Magazine
- "Claire Regnault examines the creation, consumption and spectacle of fashionable dress in Victorian and Edwardian New Zealand." Otago Settlers News
- “How did European interactions with Māori, settler life, and geography affect Victorian fashion in our fair country? This beautiful illustrated volume – a hardback with a wonderful cushy padded cover – tells all.” The Spinoff.
Going to Te Papa | Asiasiga ‘i le Falemata‘aga i Te Papa
- "With warm and friendly text in both Samoan and English, and with rich cultural content this is an excellent learning resource for both families at home and for schools." Kete
- "[Dahlia Malaeulu's] behind-the-scenes exploration, uncovered everyday Samoan cultural artefacts (measina) that Palangi children will also relate to." The Listener
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Te Papa Press
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
PO Box 467, Cable Street
Wellington 6011
New Zealand
Email: tepapapress@tepapa.govt.nz
Phone: 04 381 7470
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