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Answering Hark - McCahon/Caselberg Painter/Poet by Peter Simpson
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ Art & Artists | Reading Level: very good
This book records the friendship and artistic collaboration between New Zealand's pre-eminent painter Colin McCahon and the poet John Caselberg. Drawing mainly on the rich archival resources of the Hocken Library in Dunedin, the book fully documents this moving friendship with letters, manuscripts, poem ...Show more
Bloomsbury South: The arts in Christchurch, 1933—1953 by Peter Simpson
$69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art & Artists
For two decades in Christchurch, New Zealand, a cast of extraordinary men and women remade the arts. In this book, Simpson tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of this 'Bloomsbury South' and the arts and artists that made it. Simpson brings to life the individual talents and their passions, b ...Show more
Charles Brasch Journals 1945-1957 by Charles Brasch; Peter Simpson (ed.)
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ Literature | Series: Charles Brasch Journals | Reading Level: very good
This volume of Charles Brasch's journals covers the years from late 1945 to the end of 1957, when the poet and editor was aged 36 to 48. It begins with his return to New Zealand after World War II to establish a literary quarterly to be published by the Caxton Press. The journals cover the first decade ...Show more
Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land?: Vol.2 1960-1987 by Peter Simpson
$79.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art & Artists | Series: Colin Mccahon Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
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 and abstraction, the introduction of words and Māori ...Show more
Colin McCahon: There is Only One Direction, Vol. I 1919-1959 by Peter Simpson
$80.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art & Artists | Reading Level: near fine
Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand’s greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Māori motifs, McCahon’s work came to define a distinctly New Zealand modernist idiom. Collected and exhibited extensively in Australasia an ...Show more
Dear Colin, Dear Ron: The Selected Letters of Colin McCahon and Ron Reilly by Peter Simpson
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
This substantial book of letters selected by esteemed Colin McCahon scholar Peter Simpson shines a light on one of the most remarkable relationships in New Zealand art. The painter Colin McCahon and the librarian Ron O'Reilly first met in 1938, in Dunedin, when McCahon was 19 and O'Reilly 24. They rem ...Show more
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