Colonial Gothic to Maori Renaissance ─ Essays in Memory of Jonathan Mane-wheoki

Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (1943–2014) was a much loved and respected academic and curator of broad and varied interests, who made an immense contribution to New Zealand art history over almost half a century. His scholarship was matched by a terrific generosity of spirit and personal charisma. Colonial Gothic to Maori Renaissance is a remarkable tribute to his memory from friends, colleagues and former students alike. Its contents are as varied and interesting as the man himself: Victorian church architecture and liturgy, mysticism, the New Zealand International Exhibition of 1906, the Toi Te Papa exhibition of 2006, traditional and contemporary Maori art, and the artists Thomas Benjamin Kennington, Gottfried Lindauer, Colin McCahon, Tony Fomison, Philip Clairmont and Emily Karaka are all included here. Beautifully illustrated and scholarly yet readable, this book is a powerful testament to the inspiration of a remarkable person.

Dr Conal McCarthy is Director of the Museum & Heritage Studies programme at Victoria University. He completed a Master’s degree in Art History at Canterbury University in the 1980s, where he was taught by Jonathan Mane-Wheoki. His latest co-authored book is Collecting, ordering governing: Anthropology, museums and liberal government (Duke University Press, 2017). His next book, co-edited with Philipp Schorch, is Curatopia: Museums and the future of curatorship (Manchester University Press, 2018). Dr Mark Stocker, FSA, is Curator Historical International Art at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. He has published extensively on Victorian art, and was Jonathan Mane-Wheoki’s colleague and friend both at the University of Canterbury (1986-2003) and at Te Papa (2014). He recently edited Tributes to Jean Michel Massing: Towards a Global Art History (Turnhout; Brepols, 2016).