Colin McCahon / Peter Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simpson, Peter, 1942- author.

Contributor:

Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McCahon, Colin.

McCahon, Colin--Criticism and interpretation.

Painters--New Zealand--Biography.

Painters.

Criticism and interpretation.

New Zealand.

Genre:

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2019-2020.

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. 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"--Publisher information.

Contents:

vol. 1. There is only one direction, 1919-1959

vol. 2. Is this the promished land? 1960-1987.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.

ISBN:

9781869408954

1869408950

9781869409081

1869409086

OCLC:

1191457318

Publisher Number:

99986142514