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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787753203321

Autore

Fahey Jacqueline

Titolo

Something for the birds / / Jacqueline Fahey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, [New Zealand] : , : Auckland University Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-77558-620-0

1-86940-510-2

1-77558-156-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

759.993

Soggetti

Painters - New Zealand

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Epigraph; CHAPTER ONE : He Rode Like a Cossack; CHAPTER TWO : When They Stopped Singing; CHAPTER THREE : Imagining the Faheys; CHAPTER FOUR : Marchwiel; CHAPTER FIVE : My Father's Teeth; CHAPTER SIX : Are These My Memories?; CHAPTER SEVEN : The Index and Teschemakers; CHAPTER EIGHT : The Dove, the Hawk and Mother Francis; CHAPTER NINE : Finding Out About Myself; CHAPTER TEN : Timaru in the Forties; CHAPTER ELEVEN : Exit from Christchurch; CHAPTER TWELVE : Looking for Colin McCahon; CHAPTER THIRTEEN : Messing Up in Timaru

CHAPTER FOURTEEN : Falling in LoveCHAPTER FIFTEEN : Party in a Submarine; CHAPTER SIXTEEN : Commitment to Madness and Painting; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN : Harry's; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN : Looking Back and Being Here; Plates; Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

Fizzing with wit and style and featuring original illustrations by the author, Something for the Birds is a lively, humorous and tragic memoir that traces the roots of a distinguished painter and her crucial role in New Zealand's feminist movement. Jacqueline Fahey moves from childhood in provincial Timaru and back to her Irish ancestors. She describes her bohemian life as a student and her marriage to celebrated psychiatrist Fraser Macdonald. These stories highlight the evolution of culture and the visual arts in New Zealand while they



brilliantly depict her courageous and flamboyant tre