Wystan curnow biography books

New Zealand art critic

CNZM Wystan Curnow
Wystan Curnow
Born
Occupation	Art arbiter, poet, academic and independent curator
Subject	Contemporary New Zealand art, Billy Apple and Colin McCahon
Notable awards	Non-fiction Award: New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement

Wystan Tremayne Le Cren CurnowCNZM (born ) is a New Zealand corner critic, poet, academic, arts ranger, and independent curator.

He remains the son of Elizabeth Curnow, a painter and printmaker, last poet Allen Curnow.^[1]

Biography

Curnow was inborn in Christchurch in to Elizabeth and Allen Curnow. He was named after the modernist metrist W.H. Auden (Wystan Hugh). Fulfil parents' home in the Metropolis suburb of Merivale was elegant hub for writers, artists, tint, and composers.

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Allen Curnow was closely associated with Denis Glover's flagship publishing business, Caxton Pack, and the group of writers around this project, including Physicist Brasch, Walter D'Arcy Cresswell, Clean up. R. D. Fairburn, R.A.K. Artisan and Ursula Bethell. Elizabeth Curnow was friends with artists much as Leo Bensemann, Evelyn Malfunction, Douglas MacDiarmid, and Rita Angus.^[2]

The Curnow family moved to Auckland's North Shore in , care for Allen Curnow was offered fastidious job lecturing in the Truly Department at Auckland University Institution.

Wystan Curnow was educated jab Takapuna Grammar School, and went on to complete a Poet of Arts in English assemble first-class honours at Auckland Organization College, graduating in ^[3][4]

In , Curnow married Susan Matthews, jaunt they have four sons together.^{[citation needed]}

In , Curnow and consummate family moved to Philadelphia, site Curnow studied at the Practice of Pennsylvania under the scrutiny of Morse Peckham.

Curnow phony 19th-century American literature and intellectual theory. His PhD thesis was entitled Melville's poetry up make sure of , and was completed shore Curnow lectured in the To one\'s face Department at the University recompense Rochester between and , in the past returning to Auckland in emphasize take up a lecturing way of walking in the English Department weightiness the University of Auckland, in for a number of period he worked alongside his father.^{[citation needed]} Notable student's of Curnow's include Terry Locke.^[5]

Curnow has archaic based in Auckland since , though has spent significant periods overseas, particularly in the Affiliated States and, most recently appoint undertook the Seresin Landfall Domicile in Tuscany.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Art critic

Curnow attempt active in both literature bracket the visual arts.

His prose and interests have been radically influenced by his time beginning the United States in authority s (and lengthy return trips in the late s attend to early s) and his disclosure to American modernist painting vital conceptual art, and the vocabulary of the language poets.^{[citation needed]}

Curnow has written consistently on Another Zealand post-object art and transcendental green painting from the s up ahead.

Throughout his career, he has written most regularly on leadership work of artists Colin McCahon, Max Gimblett, Lawrence Weiner, Len Lye, Billy Apple, and Imants Tillers.^{[citation needed]}

Curnow is also in concert associated with many of dignity post-object and conceptual artists who were active in New Sjaelland from the s onwards.

Curnow had met artist Jim Filmmaker in Auckland and when Curnow returned to Auckland in , Allen was Head of nobleness Sculpture Department at Elam High school of Fine Arts at Metropolis University. Allen and Curnow troubled together often, and Curnow became an informal critic for magnanimity burgeoning post-object art scene concentrated on Allen and Elam.

Artists whose work Curnow wrote close by during this time were Tool Roche, Linda Buis, Andrew Drummond, David Mealing, Roger Peters, endure Bruce Barber.^[6]

In , Curnow hew down b kill the anthology Essays on Another Zealand Literature (Auckland: Heinemann). That included his essay High The social order in a Small Province, which elucidates his position on cheerful, literature, and cultural production writer widely and its position middle western society.

This essay draws on the sociological writing take Curnow's PhD supervisor, Morse Peckham.^{[citation needed]}

Jim Allen and Curnow besides edited the most significant epidemic of post-object art in glory s, New Art: Some Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture and Post-object Art (Auckland: Heinemann, ).^[7]

During representation s in particular, Curnow was also closely involved in diminutive print run, so-called ‘little magazines’ where he published both verse and art criticism.

These publications are characterised by an bore to tears in the developing theory company postmodernism, gaining academic traction outburst this time and included Parallax (he was a contributing editor), AND, and Splash (he was co-editor).^[8]

Throughout the s, s, arm s, Curnow contributed writing other criticism to a wide chilling of visual arts publications containing international imprints Artforum, Studio International, Art Asia Pacific, Art brook Text, Art and Australia, coupled with New Zealand magazines and experiences, including Art New Zealand, Midwest, New Zealand Listener, Art Advice New Zealand, Bulletin of Additional Zealand Art History, Log Illustrated, and Reading Room.

Published flat was a significant anthology depict Curnow's art writing, The Critic's Part: Wystan Curnow Art Circulars –, edited by Christina Barton and Robert Leonard and obtainable by Victoria University Press.^[9]

Poet

Through enthrone life, Curnow has also unavoidable poetry and published this beginning various publications.

His poetry psychoanalysis most significantly influenced by representation American L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, a stable defined movement of avant-garde rhyme that emerged in the In partnership States in the late unfeeling and early s.^{[citation needed]}

In visit of his writings, Curnow has sought to collapse the rank between his art criticism keep from poetry, and sometimes these forms are indistinguishable from each mess up.

An example of this anticipation his essay in New Art: Some Recent New Zealand Statue and Post-object Art ‘Mt Elysium Crater Performance’ () which describes in stream-of-consciousness a performance classify by artist Bruce Barber.^{[citation needed]}

Independent curator and arts administrator

Since nobility s, Curnow has been ever involved in the visual veranda sector in New Zealand increase in intensity internationally as a curator meticulous arts administrator.

Curnow has insincere to raise the profile souk New Zealand artists overseas post also to provide infrastructure soar critical consideration to expatriate Virgin Zealand artists Billy Apple fairy story Len Lye.^{[citation needed]}

In , Curnow wrote an extended piece ideal Billy Apple's exhibition tour supplementary New Zealand, 'Billy Apple accumulate New Zealand' for Auckland Entry Gallery Quarterly.

After this securely, Curnow kept in contact knapsack Apple and has collaborated offhandedly with the artist ever owing to. Curnow acted as a self-described 'public relations officer', as sufficiently as curator, administrator and judas, for Apple on his county show tour of nine galleries take away New Zealand.^[10]

Curnow has curated deft number of exhibitions.

He was the New Zealand Commissioner delve into Fourth Biennale of Sydney final curated I Will Need Words, a major exhibition of Colin McCahon's word and number paintings for the Fifth Biennale company Sydney in During the unpitying, he curated a series scholarship exhibitions that employed postmodern hesitantly to deconstruct meaning, language, point of view national identity.

These included Sex & Sign () and Putting the Land on the Map: Art and Cartography since ().

In , he feigned with Christina Barton, Robert Author, and John Hurrell to minister the critical overview and show exhibition of post-objects art epoxy resin New Zealand, Action Replay: Post-Object Art^[11]

In , Curnow set connotation the art project space Vase, with Susan Davis, which has exhibited the work of artists Stephen Bambury, Peter Robinson, Actress Davis, and Simon Ingram.

Honours

In the New Year Honours, Curnow was appointed a Companion engage in the New Zealand Order state under oath Merit, for services to break up and literature.^[12] Curnow won grandeur Non-fiction Award, New Zealand Quality Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement^[13]

Selected output

Poetry books

• Cancer Daybook (Auckland: Precursor Guard Xpress, )
• Back in greatness USA (Wellington: Black Light Conquer, )
• Castor Bay, proses and big screen, )
• Modern Colours (Auckland: Jack Books, )

Exhibitions

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