A holistic amalgam of spirituality and physical health, the School of Radiant Living was founded in New Zealand by the English psychologist Herbert Sutcliffe and flourished in that country from the 1930s through the 1980s.

New Zealand artist Louise Menzies has investigated this optimistic, mid-century movement through several installations, a film, and now this rich artist's book. Bringing together a wealth of ephemera on the School of Radiant Living, she imaginatively reconfigures her materials to draw out broader tensions between the individual and the collective, the practical and the ideal, the nostalgic and the utopian visions.

Including a poster insert and pamphlet, this perceptive publication reintroduces us to an idealistic past.