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A rainbow reader

documentary heritage
  • Description

    "Rainbow Reader is a work of creative non-fiction which looks at colour from the personal perspective of Tessa Laird, an artist and writer based in New Zealand. In 2009, Tessa Laird started a Doctorate of Fine Arts investigating the (r)evolutionary power of colour, from a personal, and political, transformative angle. A Rainbow Reader is the result of that study, but it is no ordinary academic treatise.

    Consisting of six chapters, one on each spectral hue, colour becomes a catalyst for speculative writing encompassing art history, literary criticism, personal anecdote, philosophy and anthropology. Each chapter of A Rainbow Reader is bound in the appropriately coloured card; together, the six chapters form a rainbow spine and operate as a kind of edition-based artwork, a veritable rainbow on your bookshelf"--Publisher's website.

  • Place
    Auckland, New Zealand
  • Other Id

    PR9639.4 LAI (Library of Congress Call Number)

    83550 (Cat ID)

    83522 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

    Publications

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type

    book

  • Name/Title
    A rainbow reader
  • Primary Maker

    Tessa Laird (Author)

  • Contributor/Publisher
    Clouds
  • Place
    Auckland, New Zealand
  • Date
    2013?
  • Physical Description

    188 pages ; 21 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    9780987659378
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category

    New Zealand literature--21st century

  • Content
    The red thread
    A tiger's leap into history
    Canary-coloured runway into sun
    They sing in ancient green
    Cops and commercials
    The other side.
  • Collection Type
    Reserve Collection
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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