Leonard Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonard Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonard |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hundertwasser in New Zealand: The Art of Creating Paradise, Andreas J. Hirsch (2022), Translated by Uta Hoffmann
Review of: Hundertwasser in New Zealand: The Art of Creating Paradise , Andreas J. Hirsch (2022), Translated by Uta Hoffmann Auckland: Oratia Books, 240 pp., ISBN 978 1 99004 214 0 (hbk), NZ$70.00
How We Remember: New Zealanders and the First World War, Charles Ferrall and Harry Ricketts (eds) (2014)
Review of: How We Remember: New Zealanders and the First World War , Charles Ferrall and Harry Ricketts (eds) (2014) Wellington: Victoria University Press, 272 pp., ISBN 978 0 86473 935 3 (pbk), NZ$40
Undreamed of … 50 Years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, Priscilla Pitts and Andrea Hotere (2017)
Review of: Undreamed of ... 50 Years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship , Priscilla Pitts and Andrea Hotere (2017) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 232 pp., ISBN 978 0 94752 256 8 (hbk), NZ$59.95
A portrait that asks questions: John Dempsey’s 1828 painting John Rutherford, the Tattooed Englishman
Painted in England, John Dempsey’s portrait (until recently attributed to George Scharf) represents John Rutherford, who lived in pre-colonial New Zealand from 1816 to 1826, with a full-face moko (tattoo), in European clothing and hat, smoking a pipe, with a basket of nuts slung over his left arm, and, curiously, holding a fortune wheel in his right hand. He is posed three-quarter length, facing the viewer. Rutherford was a Pākehā-Māori, a Europe…
Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting? In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literar…
Not quite Darwin's artist: The travel art of Augustus Earle
Eyeing Samoa: People, Places, and Spaces in Photographs of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
This chapter examines a number of images produced locally within a commercial studio in Samoa, which tend to disrupt our expectations of stereotypical tropical scenes and portraits. These photographs suggest more complex and nuanced viewings of Samoa during the 1890s, drawing attention to the fractured, unstable quality of the sites and spaces of the colony. These photographs, too, can be seen to constitute a kind of borderland, in which relation…
Seeing differently: Shifts from the pictorial to the photographic in the shaping of the South Pacific
New Zealand
Artists and Empire: Victorian Representations of Subject People
Impressions
Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting? In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literar…
Artists and Empire: Victorian Representations of Subject People
Impressions
Artists and Empire: Victorian Representations of Subject People
New Zealand
Eyeing Samoa: People, Places, and Spaces in Photographs of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
This chapter examines a number of images produced locally within a commercial studio in Samoa, which tend to disrupt our expectations of stereotypical tropical scenes and portraits. These photographs suggest more complex and nuanced viewings of Samoa during the 1890s, drawing attention to the fractured, unstable quality of the sites and spaces of the colony. These photographs, too, can be seen to constitute a kind of borderland, in which relation…
Seeing differently: Shifts from the pictorial to the photographic in the shaping of the South Pacific
Not quite Darwin's artist: The travel art of Augustus Earle
Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting? In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literar…
A portrait that asks questions: John Dempsey’s 1828 painting John Rutherford, the Tattooed Englishman
Painted in England, John Dempsey’s portrait (until recently attributed to George Scharf) represents John Rutherford, who lived in pre-colonial New Zealand from 1816 to 1826, with a full-face moko (tattoo), in European clothing and hat, smoking a pipe, with a basket of nuts slung over his left arm, and, curiously, holding a fortune wheel in his right hand. He is posed three-quarter length, facing the viewer. Rutherford was a Pākehā-Māori, a Europe…
Undreamed of … 50 Years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, Priscilla Pitts and Andrea Hotere (2017)
Review of: Undreamed of ... 50 Years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship , Priscilla Pitts and Andrea Hotere (2017) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 232 pp., ISBN 978 0 94752 256 8 (hbk), NZ$59.95
How We Remember: New Zealanders and the First World War, Charles Ferrall and Harry Ricketts (eds) (2014)
Review of: How We Remember: New Zealanders and the First World War , Charles Ferrall and Harry Ricketts (eds) (2014) Wellington: Victoria University Press, 272 pp., ISBN 978 0 86473 935 3 (pbk), NZ$40
Hundertwasser in New Zealand: The Art of Creating Paradise, Andreas J. Hirsch (2022), Translated by Uta Hoffmann
Review of: Hundertwasser in New Zealand: The Art of Creating Paradise , Andreas J. Hirsch (2022), Translated by Uta Hoffmann Auckland: Oratia Books, 240 pp., ISBN 978 1 99004 214 0 (hbk), NZ$70.00
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