Cotton, Shane. <br/><br/>
Shane Cotton, The Hanging Sky / 
[curated by] Justin Paton ; with Eliot Weinberger, Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow and Robert Leonard. 
 - 192 pages :  colour illustrations ;  38 cm 
<br/><br/> "The exhibition Shane Cotton: The Hanging Sky, curated by Justin Paton, was organised by Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu is association with the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane and showed in Australia and New Zealand in 2012 and 2013." -- p. 192.  Includes plates: (p. 52-183) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> The ghosts of birds /  Finding space : six encounters with Shane Cotton /  Ever in between /  The treachery of images /  Plates.  Eliot Weinberger --  Justin Paton --  Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow --  Robert Leonard -- 
<br/><br/> ''For two decades Shane Cotton (ONZM, Ngāpuhi) has been one of New Zealand's most acclaimed painters. His works of the 1990s played a pivotal part in that decade's debates about place, belonging and bicultural identity. In the mid 2000s, however, Cotton headed in a spectacular and unexpected new direction: skywards. Employing a sombre new palette of blue and black, he painted the first in what would become a major series of skyscapes, vast, nocturnal spaces where birds speed and plummet. The Hanging Sky brings together highlights from this period with four distinctive new responses. New York essayist Eliot Weinberger offers a poetic meditation on what he calls 'the ghosts of birds' in Cotton's paintings. Christchurch Art Gallery senior curator Justin Paton plots his own encounters with Cotton across six years in which the artist was constantly 'finding space'. Melbourne-based curator Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow confronts the haunting role of Toi moko, tattooed Māori heads, in the paintings and in her own past. And Institute of Modern Art Director Robert Leonard argues the case for Cotton as a cultural surrealist exploring 'the treachery of images'. This beautifully presented, grandly scaled book on one of New Zealand's best-known artists features accessible, readable texts by internationally acclaimed writers. This book is an essential purchase for audiences with an interest in New Zealand art. The book will be a must for appreciators of beautiful books, as well as readers who have followed the authors and wish to read more of their writingz'--www.craigpotton.co.nz 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>187737525X 9781877375255 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Cotton, Shane--Art collections--Exhibitions.<br/>Cotton, Shane--Criticism and interpretation.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>709.2