Colin McCahon in Australia

dc.contributor.author	Butler, Rex
dc.date.accessioned	2016-07-29T03:18:06Z
dc.date.accessioned	2022-11-03T19:22:32Z
dc.date.available	2016-07-29T03:18:06Z
dc.date.available	2022-11-03T19:22:32Z
dc.date.copyright	2010
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.identifier.uri	https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/29941
dc.description.abstract	This essay, the revised text of a lecture by Rex Butler, provides an intriguing new reading of Colin McCahon and his legacy. Using examples drawn from Australian art and literature, Butler builds a case for the prophetic character of McCahon's painting, exploring how its full meaning is realised not in the artist's life but in his works' afterlife. This not only offers a provocative way of thinking about McCahon's achievement, but also models a different understanding of the work of art as a form of material and spiritual embodiment that lives on and through the work of others.	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
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Gordon H. Brown lecture 08	en_NZ
dc.subject	McCahon, Colin--Criticism and interpretation	en_NZ
dc.subject	Painting, New Zealand--20th century	en_NZ
dc.title	Colin McCahon in Australia	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

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