{"product_id":"toss-woollaston-a-life-in-letters-edited-by-jill-trevelyan","title":"Toss Woollaston A Life in Letters Edited by Jill Trevelyan.","description":"\u003cp\u003eToss Woollaston A Life in Letters Edited by Jill Trevelyan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Te Papa Press, Wellington, New Zealand , 2004, First Edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback with jacket in very good condition, no inscriptions, minor edge-wear, marks and creasing, pages excellent.\u003cbr\u003eJacket has a little creasing with some pealing to the laminate.\u003cbr\u003e520 pages, illustrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToss Woollaston was for many years the pre-eminent twentieth-century New Zealand modernist, whose great landscape paintings changed the way New Zealanders saw their country and themselves. He was also a passionate diarist and correspondent who wrote engagingly about everything: life, love, God, the landscape, poetry, and his friends. But above all, he wrote about art - his own and that of others. His letters are an archive of national importance, spanning his entire lifetime. Many hundreds of them are included in this volume. Woollaston's letters provide a vivid, intimate perspective on his life. Here, in place of the 'famous artist', is an appealing individual, constantly beset by financial insecurity and other obstacles to painting, but possessed of unshakeable self-belief and determination. Candid, opinionated, irreverent, and sometimes caustic, Toss is good company - always engaging, and with a keen eye for social mores, whether at a country fair in Greymouth or an art opening in New York. This collection illuminates Woollaston's painting and his relationships with family, friends, and the art community of his time. It includes letters to contemporaries Ursula Bethell, Charles Brasch, Tony Fomison, and Colin McCahon, among others. Beautifully illustrated with reproductions of paintings, sketches, archival photographs, and samples of the letters themselves, this book features a substantial introduction and bridging text from editor and curator Jill Trevelyan. Altogether, it is a compelling biographical portrait and an important record of a key period in NZ's cultural and social history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll books are sent free by courier postage within New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50312875409655,"sku":null,"price":43.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/7687\/5255\/files\/IMG_2604_c35333ac-0e5d-4ec4-9135-bd984dd2be93.jpg?v=1764299131","url":"https:\/\/phoenixbooksnz.com\/en-it\/products\/toss-woollaston-a-life-in-letters-edited-by-jill-trevelyan","provider":"Phoenix Books NZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}