Description - Strangers Arrive: Emigres and the Arts in New Zealand, 1930-1980 by Leonard Bell
"None of us had the idea where we were going in 1938-39. Christchurch was strangely interesting for anyone like myself, a refugee. There were people among us who were from places like Vienna, Chemnitz, Berlin And knew the work of Schoenberg and Gropius." -Anthony Alpers, 1985 From the 1930s throughout the 1950s, a number of forced migrants - refugees from Nazism, displaced people after World War II and escapees from Communist countries - arrived in New Zealand from Europe. Among them were an extraordinary group of artists; writers, photographers, architects whose European modernism radically transformed the arts in this country. In words and pictures, Strangers Arrive tells their story. Throughout the photography arts from Irene Koppel to art dealer and printmaker Kees Hos, writer Antigone Kefala, to architect Imric Porsolt Leonard Bell takes us inside New Zealand's coffeehouses and bookstores, galleries and studios to introduce us to a compelling body of artistic work. Asking the following questions; how were migrants received by New Zealanders? How did displacement and settlement in New Zealand transform their work? How did the arrival of European modernists intersect with the burgeoning nationalist movement in the arts in New Zealand?
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