BLACK LIGHT celebrates the work of one of New Zealand'?s greatest artists, Ralph Hotere. Born in 1931 in the Te Aupouri community of Taikarawa in the northern Hokianga, Hotere has baffled commentators and awed viewers for more than forty years. In this book, which accompanied the exhibition Black Light, his paradoxical themes are explored by some of New Zealand'?s leading writers and critics, including Ian Wedde and Cilla McQueen.

Also celebrated in BLACK LIGHT is one of the most marvelous creative friendships of our time, between Ralph Hotere and the sculptor Bill Culbert. The book'?s title is partly homage to Bill Culbert'?s light genius. BLACK LIGHT explores the tensions between the artist'?s silences and his protests, the sense of deep spirituality in the work, and the many elegant and meticulous ways in which he has claimed the colour black as his signature - from the austere black paintings of 1968, through the ?Black Windows? and the monumental Black Phoenix of the 1980s, to the great end-of-millennium works Blackwater and Black Cerulean.

BLACK LIGHT was an illustrative arts winner in the 2001 Montana Book Award.

Softcover - 133 pages

Published 2000

Very good condition - ex library copy