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Towards a promised land : on the life and art of Colin McCahon / Gordon H. Brown.
- Title
- Towards a promised land : on the life and art of Colin McCahon / Gordon H. Brown.
- Author
- Brown, Gordon H., 1931-
- Publication
- Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | ND1108.M23 B764 2010 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- McCahon, Colin
- Description
- 210 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 26 cm.
- Summary
- "McCahon filled his paintings with kauri, cliffs, candles and crosses - motifs and symbols he intended as potent reminders of what was important about ourselves and our environment - yet offered little in the way of explication. 'Towards a promised land' presents fresh insights into the use of these symbols and the underlying complexities of Colin McCahon's paintings" - Publisher's blurb.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part one: Looking, attitudes, habits (1. Colin McCahon: a basis for understanding ; 2. McCahon's early relationship with Woollaston ; 3. To keep back beauty from vanishing away) -- Part two: Autobiographical directions (4. Painter's pleasure ; 5. McCahon in his studio ; 6. Colin McCahon and the theatre ; 7. Colin McCahon: the autobiographical factor) -- Part three: Promised land and other places (8. C. A. Cotton and the Bible's role in McCahon's landscapes ; 9. Colin McCahon: Crucifixion: the Apple branch, 1950 ; 10. Colin McCahon's Angels and Bed series ; 11. Colin McCahon and the Promised Land) -- Part four: Challenge of inscribed words and numbers (12. With my left hand, I write: a consideration of Colin McCahon's word paintings to 1967 ; 13. McCahon's bridging numbers of 1965-66 ; 14. Colin McCahon: Can you hear me St Francis, 1969 ; 15 Colin McCahon's use of A letter to [the] Hebrews ; 16. Ecclesiastes and McCahon, the discursive dialoguer)
- ISBN
- 9781869404529 (hbk.)
- 1869404521 (hbk.)
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library