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Kōrero: Criticism and the arts

Biographical criticism

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Biographical criticism

A tradition of literary biography was established in New Zealand in the 1950s, but from the 1980s numbers of biographies of writers and artists began to mount up. These influenced wider critical debates and helped explain some significant artistic movements.

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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

by Marguerite Hill

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Rebecca Rice rāua ko Mark Williams, Criticism and the arts – Critical approaches, 1980s onwards, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/42940/biographical-criticism (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Rebecca Rice rāua ko Mark Williams, i tāngia i te 2 October 2013.