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Elements of modernism in Colin McCahon's early work

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dc.contributor.author Brown, Gordon H.
dc.date.accessioned 2016-07-29T03:18:03Z
dc.date.accessioned 2022-11-03T19:20:09Z
dc.date.available 2016-07-29T03:18:03Z
dc.date.available 2022-11-03T19:20:09Z
dc.date.copyright 2003
dc.date.issued 2003
dc.identifier.uri https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/29936
dc.description.abstract THIS ESSAY IS the text of a lecture by Gordon H. Brown, on aspects of Modernism in the early work of Colin McCahon, which was delivered on 12 December 2002 at the City Gallery in Wellington. It marked three very special occasions. Firstly the lecture was scheduled on the day after Gordon H. Brown was awarded his Honorary Doctorate of Literature by Victoria University for his services to Art History in New Zealand. What better way to commemorate this event than to enable McCahon's friend and exegete to peak on his specialist subject, to reveal , in new and nuanced ways , his intimate knowledge of the artist's life and work? Secondly, what better venue than the City Gallery, Wellington, where a major exhibition of McCahon 's work (Colin McCahon : A Question of Faith) - the first staged by and for a European audience - had just opened, having returned from the institution that had organised it, Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum? And thirdly, the serendipity of these two events lent special weight to our decision to seize this opportunity to present Brown's lecture as Victoria University's inaugural Art History Lecture, which we hope to continue and to publish as one of our contributions to the development of the history of art in this country. en_NZ
dc.format pdf en_NZ
dc.language en_NZ
dc.language.iso en_NZ
dc.publisher Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington en_NZ
dc.relation.ispartofseries Gordon H. Brown lecture 01 en_NZ
dc.subject McCahon, Colin--Criticism and interpretation en_NZ
dc.title Elements of modernism in Colin McCahon's early work en_NZ
dc.type text en_NZ
vuwschema.contributor.unit School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies / Te Kura Toirangi en_NZ
vuwschema.contributor.unit Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences / Te Wāhanga Aronui en_NZ
vuwschema.type.vuw Working or Occasional Paper en_NZ
thesis.degree.grantor Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington en_NZ
thesis.degree.level Masters en_NZ


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