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Hundertwasser in New Zealand – The Art of Creating Paradise

Andreas J. Hirsch, translated by Uta Hoffmann Oratia Books, August 2022

There were a few subversive little books circulating in the 1970s – Mao’s so-called and, of more relevance to teens, the “morally offensive” (1969). The little black Hundertwasser book I rhapsodised about in my review of the new Hundertwasser Art Centre (HAC) in Whangārei ( March/April, 2022) may not seem subversive but, if you had the great misfortune to go to a boys’ high school in Hastings, it was

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