Colin McCahon: There is Only One Direction, Vol. I 1919-1959

By Peter Simpson

The first of an extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by New Zealand&#39;s most important artist, Colin McCahon.Colin McCahon (1919-1987) was New Zealand&#39;s greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Maori motifs, McCahon&#39;s work came to define a distinctly New Zealand modernist idiom. Collected and exhibited extensively in Australasia and Europe, McCahon&#39;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&#39;s birth, leading McCahon scholar, writer and curator Peter Simpson chronicles the evolution of McCahon&#39;s work over the artist&#39;s entire forty-five-year career.Simpson has enjoyed unprecedented access to McCahon&#39;s extensive correspondence with friends, family, dealers, patrons and others. This material enables us to begin to understand McCahon&#39;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&#39;s work (many never previously published), plus photographs, catalogue covers, facsimiles and other illustrative material.This will be the definitive work on New Zealand&#39;s leading artist for many years to come.

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 and 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

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