Marian Maguire (born 1962) is a lithographer from New Zealand. She is thought for juxtaposing landscapes, historical characters, and legendary figures from New Zealand and ancient Greece, mixing the realism of 19th-century colonial prints with the extra stylized designs of Greek black-determine pottery and Māori wooden carvings.[1][2][3]

Life and education
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Maguire was born in 1962 in Christchurch. She earned a BFA at the College of Canterbury in 1984. Has additionally studied on the Tamarind Institute in the US. [4][5] She returned to New Zealand in 1987 and set up a print studio and later a print gallery there. She has additionally taught printmaking on the Ilam College of Wonderful Arts at Canterbury. [5]

Works
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Maguire’s early printmaking work included figures, architectural components, and (by the late nineteen nineties) historic Greek culture.[5]

The prints of her work on New Zealand and historic Greece are organized into sequence, including:

Southern Myths (2001), which transported Achilles and Ajax into the new Zealand panorama.[1]

The Odyssey of Captain Cook (2003-2005), which mixed 19th-century historical figures reminiscent of Captain Cook and the Māori chief Natai with Greek imagery.[1][5]

The Labors of Herakles (2006-2008), during which Hercules takes part in New Zealand occasions such because the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.[1][3][5]

Titokowaru’s Dilemma (2008-2011), a dialogue on struggle and passive resistance between Tītokowaru and Socrates that compares scenes from The Iliad with events from Māori history.[2][5]

In 2015, she shifted media along with her sequence Feats, Pursuits & Limitless Toil of seven painted door panels and 4 etchings, persevering with the mixture of Greek and New Zealand themes. The works on this sequence had been partly inspired by Maguire’s experiences dwelling by the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.[6]

Collections
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Maguire’s works are within the collections of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki,[7] the Museum of new Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa,[8] Puke Ariki,[9] the Nationwide Maritime Museum in London,[10] and the British Museum,[11] amongst others.[4]

^ a b c d Noyce, Richard (2010), “Marian Maguire”, Crucial Mass: Printmaking Past the sting, A&C Black, pp. 119-120, ISBN 9781408109397

^ a b Fordyce, Linda (2013), “Marian Maguire – Titokowaru’s Dilemma” (PDF), Teacher’s Notes, Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, retrieved 2017-08-20

^ a b Hawes, Greta (2015), “The Unsettled Settler: Herakles the Colonist and the Labours of Marian Maguire”, Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, 23 (2): 11-28, doi:10.2307/arion.23.2.0011, S2CID 163506330

^ a b Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2017-08-20

^ a b c d e f Moore, Christopher (19 November 2011), “An unlikely pairing”, Stuff.co.nz, archived from the original on 2017-08-21. With a evaluation of Titokowaru’s Dilemma by Andrew Paul Wood.

^ Hanton, Jamie (1 October 2015), “Nice feats of energy”, New Zealand Listener

^ Marian Maguire, Auckland Artwork Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, retrieved 2017-08-20

^ Person: Maguire, Marian, Museum of new Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, retrieved 2017-08-20

^ “Marian Maguire”, Collection, Puke Ariki, retrieved 2024-01-18

^ Maguire, Marian, Royal Museums Greenwich, retrieved 2017-08-20

^ Prints made by Marian Maguire, British Museum, retrieved 2017-08-20. 11 prints from the Titokowaru’s Dilemma sequence listed.

Additional assets
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Hughes, Jessica (2012), “Marian Maguire (interview)”, Practitioners’ Voices in Classical Reception Studies, 3, The Open University

Titokowaru’s dilemma: an interview with Marian Maguire, British Museum, 26 December 2016

McDonald, Donald (22 October 2016), “Ko wai Koe (Who’re You) 2005 from the series The Odyssey of Captain Cook by Marian Maguire”, The Spectator

Hercules (Heracles)

Hercle

Ercole

Hercule

Alcide

Family

Zeus (father)

Alcmene (mother)

Megara, Omphale, Deianira, and Hebe (wives)

Heracleidae (children)

Occasions

Creation of Milky Way

Hercules at the crossroads

Labours of Hercules

Hercules in historical Rome

Shirt of Nessus

Literature

Poems

Heracles Papyrus

Shield of Heracles

Catalogue of Women

L’Atlàntida

Plays

Herakles

Girls of Trachis

Hercules Furens

Hercules Oetaeus

The Labours of Hercules

Hercules and the Wagoner

Artwork

Hercules and the lion of Nemea (5th century BCE)

Hercules of the Discussion board Boarium (2nd century BCE)

Lansdowne Heracles (c. 125)

Velletri Sarcophagus (c. 140-150)

Statue of Hercules, Dura-Europos (c. 150-256)

Farnese Hercules (216)

Hercules slaying Antaeus (c. Hercules. Deianira (c. Hercules. Antaeus (c. 1500-1510) The Hydra (c. Hercules.

The choice of Hercules (c. 1520-1525)

Hercules and Antaeus (1531)

Hercules and Cacus (1534)

The Origin of the Milky Way (1575-1580)

The choice of Hercules (1596)

Hercules and Omphale (1603)

Hercules Combating the Nemean Lion (1634)

Hercules and the Hydra (1634)

Hercules Separates Mounts Calpe and Abylla (1634)

The Death of Hercules (1634)

Hercules’s Canine Discovers Purple Dye (1636)

The Origin of the Milky Manner (1637)

Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides (1638)

Landscape with Hercules and Cacus (c. 1660)

Hercules and Omphale (1732-1734)

Libertas Americana (1783)

The Sanctuary of Hercules (1884)

Hercules the Archer (1909)

Achelous and Hercules (1947)

The Twelve Labors of Hercules (1981)

The Labors of Herakles (2006-2008)

Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar

Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Opera

Ercole amante (1662)

Alcide (1693)

Ercole amante (1707)

Ercole su’l Termodonte (1723)

Admeto (1727)

Laßt uns sorgen, laßt uns wachen, BWV 213 (1733)

Hercules (1744)

Le nozze d’Ercole e d’Ebe (1747)

The choice of Hercules (1750)

Hercule mourant (1761)

Le Rouet d’Omphale (1871)

Déjanire (1911)

Atlántida (1962)

Hercules vs. Vampires (2010)

Movies

Italian sequence

Hercules (1957)

Hercules Unchained (1959)

Goliath and the Dragon (1960)

The Loves of Hercules (1960)

Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis (1961)

Hercules within the Haunted World (1961)

Hercules in the Valley of Woe (1961)

The Fury of Hercules (1962)

Hercules, Samson and Ulysses (1963)

Hercules vs. Moloch (1963)

Hercules the Invincible (1964)

Hercules In opposition to Rome (1964)

Hercules Towards the Sons of the Solar (1964)

The Triumph of Hercules (1964)

Samson and His Mighty Problem (1964)

Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon (1964)

Hercules and the Princess of Troy (1965)

Hercules the Avenger (1965)

Other European
live-motion

Herakles (1962)

Hercules Towards the Moon Males (1964)

American films
stay-action

The Warrior’s Husband (1933)

The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1962)

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

Hercules in New York (1970)

Hercules (1983)

The Adventures of Hercules (1985)

Jason and the Argonauts (2000)

Immortals (2011)

The Legend of Hercules (2014)

Hercules (2014)

Animated movies

Hercules (1995)

Hercules (1997)

Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus (1998)

Hercules: Zero to Hero (1999)

Television

The Mighty Hercules

The Sons of Hercules

Mole Males Against the Son of Hercules (1961)

Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules (1962)

Ulysses Towards the Son of Hercules (1962)

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995)

Hercules and the Amazon Girls (1994)

Hercules and the Misplaced Kingdom (1994)

Hercules and the Circle of Fireplace (1994)

Hercules within the Underworld (1994)

Hercules within the Maze of the Minotaur (1994)

Hercules: The Animated Sequence (1998)

“Hercules and the Arabian Night time” (1999)

Young Hercules (1998)

Hercules (2005 miniseries)

Atlantis (2013)

Comics

Hercules (Marvel Comics)

Hercules (DC Comics)

Hercules (Radical Comics)

The Return of Heracles (1983)

Hercules (1984)

Disney’s Hercules (1997)

Herc’s Adventures (1997)

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (2000)

Heracles Chariot Racing (2007)

Glory of Heracles (2008)

God of Warfare III (2010)

Hercules in common culture

Hercules (franchise)

Hercules (2019 musical)

Pillars of Hercules

Maczuga Herkulesa

Hercules’ Membership

Xena: Warrior Princess

Hercules (constellation)

Fast

WorldCat

Auckland

New Zealand Artists

IdRef

Te Papa (New Zealand)

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twentieth-century New Zealand ladies artists

21st-century New Zealand women artists

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