Professor Paul Moon is one of New Zealand's most respected historians, and most prolific authors. His latest book, the biography of photographer Ans Westra, was published by Massey University Press to laudatory reviews. In this book Moon meticulously researches, through selected art works, how imperial art became a form of colonisation by colour. He writes, Artists in New Zealand in the colonial era, not tied to a state vision, tried to flex their individual aesthetic and ideological perspectives. A spectacular production both historically and aesthetically.