Modern Women Flight of Time

The transformational forces of 20th-century modernity dramatically altered past ways of life, creating conditions for the performance of new identites – for women to lead ‘all sorts of lives’ as Katherine Mansfield wrote.

Modern Women: Flight of Time explores the vivid responses of women artists to this time of change. Moblie, commanding and often elusive, these artists exist as shifting traces in a betwork of fully lived creative lives.

Modern Women: Flight of Time is a stunning new publication that cements a previously understudied history of modern art in Aotearoa New Zealand: that of modern women artists. Profiling 44 innovative artists, this book places women in the front and centre of New Zealand modernism and explores their varied responses to the transformational changes occurring across five decades of the 20th Century. A beautiful book for your collection that contains over 120 rich illustrations.

Format: Hardback
Imprint: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Publication date: 08/08/2024