
Creative Victoria
A History of 119 Years of Creativity at Victoria University of Wellington
Rachel Barrowman(Author)
Victoria University Press
Published on 8. November 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
175 pages
978-1-77656-206-0 (ISBN)
Description
Creativity isnt all about individual inspiration and work. It sparks from the cross fertilisation of energy and imaginations and ideas, and thrives in institutional, social and cultural places that recognise the worth of cultural activity and creative expression, and that make room for and foster it. Over 119 years (and counting) Victoria University has made huge contributions to the cultural and creative life of Wellington and New Zealand, and beyond in music, art, theatre, film, architecture, creative literature and publishing. It has actively sought to encourage creative thinking and creative expression in a diversity of forms, across a diversity of fields and to establish the creative arts as not only a legitimate but a vital part of the institution and its work. This is a story not only of the creative activity that has come out of Victoria, but also of the universitys role as a custodian of cultural treasures, and of its engagement with creative and cultural life beyond its doors. It is a rich and distinctive history, one of which the University can be proud.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wellington
New Zealand
Publishing group
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 208 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77656-206-0 (9781776562060)
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Person
Rachel Barrowman is a biographer and historian. Her books include Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason, which won the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Biography and Memoir, and Maurice Gee: Life and Work, which was a finalist in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2016.