The Spirit Of Colin Mccahon

Author : Zoe Alderton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443875936

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The Spirit of Colin McCahon by Zoe Alderton Pdf

The Spirit of Colin McCahon provides a vivid historical contextualisation of New Zealand’s premier modern artist, clearly explaining his esoteric religious themes and symbols. Via a framework of visual rhetoric, this book explores the social factors that formed McCahon’s religious and environmental beliefs, and justifications as to why his audience often missed the intended point of spiritual his discourse – or chose to ignore it. The Spirit of Colin McCahon tracks the intricate process by which the artist’s body of work turned from optimism to misery, and explains the many communicative techniques he employed in order to arrest suspicion towards his Christian prophecy. More broadly, The Spirit of Colin McCahon outlines a model of analysis for the intersection of art and religion, and the place of images as rhetorical devices within Antipodean culture. The emerging field of religion and visual culture is important not only to students of New Zealand art history, but also to a growing field of appreciation for the communicative power of images. This book provides a helpful model for examining art and literature as social and religious tools, and advances the importance of visual rhetoric within studies of art and social expression.

Author : Peter Simpson
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781776710515

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Colin McCahon by Peter Simpson Pdf

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 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.

Author : Peter Simpson
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 935 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781776710560

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Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land? by Peter Simpson Pdf

The second of an extraordinary 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, abstraction, and 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 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. These books will be the definitive work on New Zealand's leading artist for many years to come.

Author : Vivienne Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Historic house museums
ISBN : 0473547082

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McCahon 100 by Vivienne Stone Pdf

Author : Te Miringa Hohaia,Gregory O'Brien,Lara Strongman
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0864735200

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Parihaka by Te Miringa Hohaia,Gregory O'Brien,Lara Strongman Pdf

"Drawing on previously unpublished manuscripts, many of the teachings and sayings of Te Whiti and Tohu - in Maori and English - are reproduced in full with extensive annotation by Te Miringa Hohaia. Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance reaches beyond the art and literary worlds to engage with cultural issues important to all citizens of Aotearoa New Zealand."--Jacket.

Author : Geoff Park
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0864734573

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Theatre Country by Geoff Park Pdf

The conservation movement opposing the 19th-century torching of forests by British settlers is appraised in this collection of essays from a leading New Zealand environmentalist. The book delves into subjects as diverse as William Wordsworth, Charles Darwin, the rise of nature tourism, the ecology of the inhabited landscape, environmental management in Indonesia, the ecological practices of the early Pakeha settlers, and the Urewera landscape paintings of Colin McCahon.

Author : Christopher Hartney,Daniel Tower
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004328983

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Religious Categories and the Construction of the Indigenous by Christopher Hartney,Daniel Tower Pdf

This volume extends the debate and addresses the central issues concerning two the problematic categories of “religion” and the “indigenous".

Author : Conal McCarthy
Publisher : Te Papa Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780995103160

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Te Papa by Conal McCarthy Pdf

Published to mark 20 years since the landmark opening of Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand in 1998, this illustrated book by well-known museum studies academic Conal McCarthy examines the vision behind the museum, how it has evolved in the last two decades, and the particular way Te Papa goes about the business of being a national museum in a nation with two treaty partners. McCarthy provides a warm and at times critical appraisal of its origins, development, innovations, and reception, including some of its key museological features which have drawn international attention, highlights of exhibitions, collections and programs over its first twenty years, and the issues that have sparked national and local debate.

Author : Alex Norman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781443850056

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Journeys and Destinations by Alex Norman Pdf

Journeys and Destinations: Studies in Travel, Identity, and Meaning brings together scholarship from diverse fields all focused on either practices of journeying, or destinations to which such journeys lead. Common across the contributions herein are threads that indicate travel as a core component — as a concept or a practice — of the fabric of identity and meaning.

Author : William Leslie Renwick
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0864734751

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Creating a National Spirit by William Leslie Renwick Pdf

By exploring New Zealand's centennial celebration in 1940, this volume paints a vivid picture of New Zealanders and how they perceived themselves and their relationships to the world at that time. Detailing the Centennial Exhibition, Wellington trade fair, and various other public commemorations, special publications of dictionaries and pictorial surveys, and cultural and art exhibits, this text fully examines how the country and citizens commemorated their history and recognized new opportunities in the changing world landscape.

Author : Rosalie Gascoigne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000018788808

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Rosalie Gascoigne, Colin McCahon by Rosalie Gascoigne Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3735608329

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The Dialogics of Contemporary Art: Painting Politics by Anonim Pdf

Exploring Bakhtin's "interanimating dialogics" as a way to reimagine the relationship between art and politics This book proposes that the relationship between art and politics can be reimagined through formal and bodily dialogue. Artists include Anoushka Akel, Mark Bradford, Stella Corkery, James Cousins, Graham Fletcher, Vibha Galhotra, Ayesha Green and Julian Hooper.

Author : Simon Knell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317432425

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National Galleries by Simon Knell Pdf

Are national galleries different from other kinds of art gallery or museum? What value is there for the nation in a collection of international masterpieces? How are national galleries involved in the construction national art? National Galleries is the first book to undertake a panoramic view of a type of national institution – which are sometimes called national museums of fine art – that is now found in almost every nation on earth. Adopting a richly illustrated, globally inclusive, comparative view, Simon Knell argues that national galleries should not be understood as ‘great galleries’ but as peculiar sites where art is made to perform in acts of nation building. A book that fundamentally rewrites the history of these institutions and encourages the reader to dispense with elitist views of their worth, Knell reveals an unseen geography and a rich complexity of performance. He considers the ways the national galleries entangle art and nation, and the differing trajectories and purposes of international and national art. Exploring galleries, artists and artworks from around the world, National Galleries is an argument about how we think about and study these institutions. Privileging the situatedness of each national gallery performance, and valuing localism over universalism, Knell looks particularly at how national art is constructed and represented. He ends with examples that show the mutability of national art and by questioning the necessity of art nationalism.

Author : Marja Bloem,Martin Browne,Colin McCahon
Publisher : Orbit Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Painters
ISBN : 0908802919

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Colin McCahon by Marja Bloem,Martin Browne,Colin McCahon Pdf

In August 2002 the Stedelijk Museum of Art in Amsterdam opened a major travelling exhibition of Colin McCahon's most important paintings, those that deal with the main concerns of the artist; his questioning of faith and his exploration of the landscape. This book has been prepared to accompany the exhibition. book has a detailed chronology of McCahon's life and career, and a comprehensive bibliography on the artist.

Author : Michael Jackson
Publisher : Union Bridge Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785276422

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Quandaries of Belonging by Michael Jackson Pdf

Those who leave their homelands, either under duress or by design, will see them in a different light than those who have stayed put. Michael Jackson argues that the perspective of the expatriate may be compared with what ethnographers call ‘stranger value’. In moving between detachment and deep immersion, this bifocal perspective implicates a bicultural one, which is why Jackson has recourse to Māori traditional knowledge, not in order to impose a Eurocentric interpretation on them, but to show how cross-cultural conversations and interactions can promote new forms of sociality and coexistence.