Gottfried Lindauer's New Zealand : the Māori portraits / edited by Ngahiraka Mason and Zara Stanhope.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition The Māori Portraits: Gottfried Lindauer's New Zealand, curated by Ngahiraka Mason and held at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki October 2016-February 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.

Gottfried Lindauer's New Zealand / Zara Stanhope and Ngahiraka Mason -- View from Central Europe: a Bohemian artist in New Zealand / Aleš Filip and Roman Musil -- A perspective from New Zealand: Lindauer's painting in the settler colonial world / Leonard Bell -- Life and image: the Partridge collection / Ngahiraka Mason -- The Māori portraits / Ngahiraka Mason and Nigel Borell -- Scenes of Māori life and custom / Nigel Borell -- Under the lens: Gottfried Lindauer, the photographer-painter / Ute Larsen and Jane Davidson-Ladd -- Gottfried Lindauer: painting materials and techniques / Sarah Hillary -- Cultural crossings: Victorian and Māori dress in Lindauer's portraits / Chanel Clarke -- He iti, he pounamu: Lindauer and personal adornment / Ngarino Ellis -- The Kākahu tradition of Māori / Kahutoi Te Kanawa and Ngahiraka Mason -- The 'speaking likeness': Gottfried Lindauer's Pākehā portraits / Jane Davidson-Ladd -- Chronology: Gottfried Lindauer, Henry Partridge and the Partridge Collection / Caroline McBride.

From the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the Bohemian immigrant artist Gottfried Lindauer travelled to marae and rural towns around New Zealand and - comissioned by Māori and Pākehā - captured in paint the images of key Māori figures. For Māori then and now, the faces of tūpuna are full of mana and life. Now this definitive work collects those portraits for New Zealanders. The book presents 67 major portraits and 8 genre paintings alongside detailed accounts of the subject and work, with essays by leading scholars that takes us inside Lindauer and his world: from his artistic training in Bohemia to his travels around New Zealand as Māori and Pākehā comissioned him to paint portraits; his artistic techniques and deep relationship with photography; Henry Partridge's gallery on Auckland's Queen Street where M?ori visited to see their ancestors; and the afterlife of the paintings in marae and memory. * Co-produced with the Auckland Art Gallery to tie in with a major internationally-touring exhibition of Lindauer's Māori portraits. These images are important not only as artwork but as living taonga. The essays discuss the lives of Lindauer's subjects, not just the paintings themselves.