TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wedde,Ian
TI  - Making ends meet: essays and talks, 1992-2004 
SN  - 0864735030
U1  - 306.470993 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Wellington, N.Z.
PB  - Victoria University Press
KW  - Art, New Zealand
KW  - New Zealand literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - New Zealand
N1  - Essays, some previously published in journals; Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-361) and index; Making ends meet : An introduction -- The Jacobin style : Museums, art and virtue -- Lost at sea : Drowning in New Zealand literature -- Tracing Tony Fomison -- Where is the art that does this? -- Living in time : A day at the footie -- Collecting dreams : Art and Arcadia -- Fleeing the centre again : Locating the Metropolis -- Complicit objects, duplicit spaces : The hyperreality of national identity -- The nation's narratives: How are you placed? -- The doco flock : Truth and narrative -- My Victorian year : How to stop writing -- Trouble spots : Where is Ralph Hotere? -- Richard Killeen as history painter : 'Stories without narrative' -- Voyages and beaches : Pacific encounters 1769-1840 -- The atmospheric pressure of culture : Two moments -- Life ho! - The maritime sublime -- Bad language : How to start writing again -- Loaded canons : Whose place? -- 'Our place' : The place of the collection -- Beauty, sex, heroism -- A brief history of derangement and enterprise : Remembering Ann Brunton -- Bungy whakapapa : Who's talking, who's listening, who's deciding? -- The light and dark of culture : Two moments -- The poem as stretch limo : Alan Brunton's Fq -- Making ends meet : Archives and narratives -- Colin McCahon : A question of faith -- Tony Fomison's dark places : A postscript -- Prospect : No worries -- Sublimity and belonging : Rosalie Gascoigne and Colin McCahon -- Walking the dog
N2  - "One of New Zealand's leading writers, Ian Wedde worked from 1994 to 2004 as a member of the conceptual team charged with developing the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa's radical agenda. He came to be closely linked with the museum's aspirations for wide popular appeal, public scholarship and contemporary relevance. Making Ends Meet provides a running commentary on the pressing cultural issues of that project and those years. These essays and talks disclose persistent questionings of the role of institutions in culture. Above all, Wedde challenges them to remain appealing, self-critical, relevant and unafraid; to refuse official sanctimony and to resist co-option to risk-free national brands."--BOOK JACKET
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