The first of an extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by New Zealand’s most important artist, Colin Mc Cahon.Colin Mc Cahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand’s greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Maori motifs, Mc Cahon’s work came to define a distinctly New Zealand modernist idiom. Collected and exhibited extensively in Australasia and Europe, Mc Cahon’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 Mc Cahon’s birth, leading Mc Cahon scholar, writer and curator Peter Simpson chronicles the evolution of Mc Cahon’s work over the artist’s entire forty-five-year career.Simpson has enjoyed unprecedented access to Mc Cahon’s extensive correspondence with friends, family, dealers, patrons and others. This material enables us to begin to understand Mc Cahon’s work as the artist himself conceived it. Each volume includes over three hundred illustrations in colour, with a generous selection of reproductions of Mc Cahon’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.
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