| Colin McCahon: There Is Only One Direction: Vol. I 1919-1959 Volume 1 Contributor(s): Simpson, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1869408950 ISBN-13: 9781869408954 Publisher: Auckland University Press OUR PRICE: $71.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers - Art | Australian & Oceanian - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2019458276 |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 9.6" W x 11.3" (5.15 lbs) 360 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first of an extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by New Zealand's most important artist, Colin McCahon. Colin McCahon (1919-1987) was New Zealand's greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings, abstraction, the introduction of words, and Maori 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 Peter Simpson chronicles the evolution of McCahon's work over the artist's entire forty-five-year career. Simpson has enjoyed unprecedented access to McCahon's extensive correspondence with friends, family, dealers, patrons, and others. This material enables us to begin to understand McCahon's work as the artist himself conceived it. Each volume includes over three hundred illustrations in colour, with a generous selection of reproductions of McCahon's work (many never previously published), plus photographs, catalogue covers, facsimiles, and other illustrative material. This will be the definitive work on New Zealand's leading artist for many years to come. |