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Colin McCahon : there is only one direction.

Title: Colin McCahon : there is only one direction. Vol. 1, 1919-1959 / Peter Simpson.
Author: Simpson, Peter, 1942-
Publication: Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2019.

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McCahon, Colin

Description

358 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits; 30 cm

Summary

"The extraordinary first volume of a two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by our most important artist, Colin McCahon. Colin McCahon (1919-1987) was New Zealand's greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Māori motifs, McCahon's work came to define a distinctly New Zealand modernist idiom. Collected and exhibited extensively in Australasia and Europe, McCahon's work has not been assessed as a whole for thirty-five years. In this richly illustrated two-volume work, written in an accessible style and published to coincide with the centenary of Colin McCahon's birth, leading McCahon scholar, writer and curator Dr Peter Simpson chronicles the evolution of the artist's work over McCahon's entire forty-five-year career."--Publisher's information.

Alternative Title

There is only one direction

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346) and index.

Contents

Preface -- Introduction: One direction / many mansions -- Southern beginnings, 1919-36 -- Dunedin, Nelson, Wellington, 1937-46 -- Tāhunanui, 1946-48 -- Christchurch I, 1948-49 -- Chistchurch II, 1950-53 -- Titirangi I, 1953-58 -- Titirangi II, 1958-59 -- Conclusion -- List of artworks -- Exhibition record, 1940-59.

Call Number

JQF 22-743

ISBN

9781869408954
1869408950

OCLC

1121460098

Author

Simpson, Peter, 1942- author.

Title

Colin McCahon : there is only one direction. Vol. 1, 1919-1959 / Peter Simpson.

Publisher

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2019.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

McCahon, Colin, artist.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-743

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