21 Oct 2017

Linda Tyler - RIP Francis Pound

From Saturday Morning, 8:15 am on 21 October 2017

Francis Pound, one of New Zealand's most influential art critics, died last weekend. He was an independent art curator and writer who taught for some years in the art history department of The University of Auckland. His books include Frames on the Land: Early Landscape Painting in New Zealand (1983), The Space Between: Pakeha Use of Maori Motifs in Modernist New Zealand Art (1994), a book to accompany the exhibition Walters en Abyme, which he also curated, and The Invention of New Zealand (2009). An associate professor in art history at Auckland University's history department, Linda Tyler, talks to Richard about her former colleague.