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

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

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.

"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.

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