Strangers Arrive: Emigrés and the Arts in New Zealand, 1930–1980

by Leonard Bell

From the 1930s through the 1950s, a substantial 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 and writers, photographers and architects whose European modernism radically reshaped the arts in this country. In words and pictures, Strangers Arrive tells their story.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2017