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McCahon Country
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In this landmark new book, celebrated writer and curator Justin Paton takes readers on a journey through the landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand as seen by our foremost modern artist. 'My painting tells you where I am at any given time, where I am living and...
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In this landmark new book, celebrated writer and curator Justin Paton takes readers on a journey through the landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand as seen by our foremost modern artist.
'My painting tells you where I am at any given time, where I am living and the direction I am pointing in.'
β Colin McCahon
McCahon (1919-1987) is widely recognised as an outstanding figure in twentieth-century art whose ground-breaking work over four decades changed the way we see this country, while engaging intensely with questions of faith, mortality, belonging, and the power of art.
In this landmark new book, published in association with Auckland Art Gallery Toi o TΔmaki on the 100th anniversary of McCahon's birth, Justin Paton takes readers on a journey through the landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand, as the artist loved and painted it.
From Otago to Canterbury, Takaka to Taranaki, Muriwai to Northland, and many more places in between, Paton brings his curator's eye to a selection of nearly 200 of McCahon's paintings and drawings. This includes iconic and beloved works and others never before published, presented in fifteen themed sections offering fresh perspectives on McCahon's abiding concerns.
In elegant, responsive, and deeply compelling prose, the author traces McCahon's travels through New Zealand, charts his remarkable development as a painter and thinker, explores his deepening engagement with MΔori culture and environmental issues, and reveals his vision of the land as a source of light, peace, and spiritual sustenance.
A book to introduce new viewers to McCahon's vision and to enlarge the view for those who know the work well, McCahon Country illuminates the beauty, spiritual urgency, and enduring power of McCahon's artworks.
Above all, it shows the reader how McCahon's paintings get us looking at the world we live in with new eyes.
'McCahon is not only New Zealand's most significant or important artist. He is our most soulful artist, our most searching. He asks the most of art and the world it renders. One hundred years since his birth, he still wants to know what we should believe in and where we belong.'
β Justin Paton
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780143773931
Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 05 November 2019
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Penguin Books (NZ)
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 34.0mm
Width: 260.0mm
Height: 308.0mm
Weight: 2260g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Justin Paton is one of New Zealand's most respected writers and has been described as 'brilliant' and a 'master of accessible art.' (Sydney Morning Herald). The author of dozens of books, including the bestselling winner of the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Award, How to Look at A Painting, he presented the popular TV series of the same name. Currently the Head of International Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Justin has held top curatorial positions at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery and was the curator of New Zealand's official presentation by Bill Culbert at the 2013 Venice Biennale. He was the editor of Landfall and the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow in 2012. He lives in Sydney, Australia, but returns to New Zealand frequently.
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