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Leonard Bell Author

Leonard Bell is professor of Art History at The University of Auckland and the author of Colonial Constructs (AUP) and The Maori in European Art (Reed), both of which sold 5,000 copies. His research and writing has been published in New Zealand, Australia, Britain, the USA, Germany and the Czech Republic. He has held fellowships at the National Gallery of American Art, Washington DC, and at the Yale Center for British Art; he was the Daphne Mayo Visiting Professor, University of Queensland in 2005.