In this updated edition, Professor Michael Dunn has added a new chapter, "Crisis of Identity: Sculpture since 2000”, in which he discusses New Zealand sculpture's international reach. The book now charts the growth of sculpture from the era of British imports and influence to the more confident art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Michael Dunn is the former head of the Elam School of Fine Arts and the department of art history at the University of Auckland. He is the author of Contemporary Painting in New Zealand, Nerli: An Italian Painter in the South Pacific, and New Zealand Painting: A Concise History. He is the coeditor of Frances Hodgkins: Paintings and Drawings.