Between the lives :  partners in art / 
edited by Deborah Shepard. 
 - ix, 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations (some colour) ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Portrait of a marriage : Toss & Edith Woollaston / Jill Trevelyan -- 'I did not want to be Mrs. Colin' : Anne & Colin McCahon / Linda Tyler -- 'Sinfonia Domestica' : Mary Stanley & Kendrick Smithyman / Peter Simpson -- Captured in words and paint : the life together of Frances Hodgkins & D.K. Richmond / Joanne Drayton -- Shadow play : the film making partnership of Rudall &Ramai Hayward / Deborah Shepard -- 'Nobody would have given tuppence for our chances' : James K. Baxter & J.C. Sturm / Paul Millar -- Pictures and politics : Pat & Gil Hanly / Claudia Bell -- 'My way is to be with you' : Meg & Alistair Te Ariki Campbell / Joy MacKenzie -- Symbiosis : Sylvia & Peter Siddell / Catherine Lane West-Newman. 
<br/><br/> "Between the lives presents a compelling collection of essays by leading New Zealand writers and art historians on the impact of close partnership on the life and work of nine celebrated artist couples - Colin and Anne McCahon, Toss and Edith Woollaston, Frances Hodgkins and Dorothy Kate Richmond, Kendrick Smithyman and Mary Stanley, Rudall and Ramai Hayward, James K. Baxter and Jacquie Sturm, Alistair and Meg Campbell, Gil and Pat Hanly, and Sylvia and Peter Siddell." "Spanning a century of art production in New Zealand and set against the broad social changes which have transformed gender relations everywhere, the essays explore the role of partnership and creative interaction in the formulation of great poems, paintings, films and photographs. In the process the formerly hidden stories of famous artists' wives - Anne McCahon, Edith Woollaston, Jacquie Sturm - whose own work was overshadowed by their giant artist partners, are uncovered. Their experiences are juxtaposed with those of artist couples whose lives were touched by contemporary feminism. Acknowledging the complex and at times volatile mix of two artist egos struggling side by side for self-expression, Between the lives balances poignant revelations of despair and family breakdown with moments of sublime inspiration and creative interdependence."--BOOK JACKET. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1869403339 9781869403331 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Artist couples--New Zealand--Biography<br/>Artists--New Zealand--Biography
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>709.22