Vivid: The Paul Hartigan Story
by Don Abbott
Vivid is a rare, career-spanning survey of
New Zealand artist Paul Hartigan.
Hartigan is the painter of the original
Phantom, an icon in New Zealand art. He is also the creative mind behind
some of New Zealand’s best-known
and loved public sculptures: the neon
works Colony (Auckland), Whipping the
Wind (Wellington) and Nebula Orion
(Christchurch).
Hartigan was often in the right place at
the right time: as a schoolboy he was the
protégé of the progressive team that set
up New Plymouth’s Govett-Brewster Art
Gallery in 1970; in the late '70s he was
half of the creative duo at Snake Studios;
and in the mid-1980s he was the artistic
talent behind the company Gone On
Neon, which transformed Auckland’s
nightscape.
The book is a unique mix of biography
and art history, generously colour-illustrated
throughout.
336 pp. Released November 2 2015 $65
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