Published to coincide with a touring exhibition of her work initiated by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, this book explores Hodgkins as a traveller across cultures and landscapes - teaching and discovering the cubists in Paris, absorbing the landscape and light of Ibiza and Morocco, and exhibiting with the progressive Seven & Five Society in London. New Zealand-born Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) arrived in London in 1901 and, by the 1920s, had become a leading British modernist, exhibiting frequently with avant-garde artists such as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. It is the type of volume that is indi spensable to museum-goers in that country, and indeed in Australi a.' Anne Kirker, Adjunct Associate Professor at the Queensland Co llege of Art, Brisbane, writing in Museums Australia magazine.
' Angels and Aris tocrats is not only a triumph for the author and publisher, but i t also deserves distinction for the way this book provides an eng rossing and wide-ranging narrative of the history of European art on display in New Zealand.
Superbly illustrated, accessibly written and meticulously researched, Angels and Aristocrats is both a long-o verdue celebration of magnificent and important works and also an indispensible and expert guide to art history. In this outstanding book, respected curator Mary Kisler delves into the storerooms and reintroduces our historic art treasures (and those generous individuals who co llected them) to us. Many are infrequently seen and the richness of the collectio ns often goes unacknowledged. That's because New Zealand's pu blic art galleries are richly studded with works collected by ben efactors over the last 150 years and generously gifted to the nat ion.
392 pages.It is entirely possible to immerse oneself in the g lories of European art without having to travel to the Louvre, th e Uffizzi, the Tate or the Frick.
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