Out of the Blue: Essays on Artists from Aotearoa New Zealand 1985–2021 Anuk Tola The Slynx is a brilliantly

The Slynx is a brilliantly inventive and shimmeringly ambiguous work of art: an account of a degraded world that is full of echoes of the sublime literature of Russia’s past

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Out of the Blue: Essays on Artists from Aotearoa New Zealand 1985–2021 Anuk Tola The Slynx is a brilliantlyIn a collection spanning her career, highly regarded art historian and curator Christina Barton reminds readers of the art writers essential quandary: how to put the visual, material, sensory and temporal into words. The project of art writing is at once argumentative and invested, she writes, self doubting and ambitious, flawed yet with its own beauty (at its best). Published in partnership with Te Ptaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Out of the Blue gathers