Gordon H. Brown Lecture 1: Gordon H. Brown 'Elements of Modernism in Colin McCahon’s Early Work' | 2003

Gordon H. Brown Lecture 1: Gordon H. Brown 'Elements of Modernism in Colin McCahon’s Early Work' | 2003Published 2003 by Thuhu Krero Toi Art History, Te Herenga WakaVictoria University of Wellington. 45 pages 190 x 150mm, softcover, with black and white illustrations Edited by Christina Barton ISSN 0 475 12203 8 Elements of Modernism in Colin McCohns Early Work, by the eminent art historian Gordon H. Brown, explores the art of Colin McCahon prior to 1947, to explain the exact nature of his engagement with modernist principles and practices. Through the

They require responses that are together mental

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Zara Stanhope

and objects

Kim Dotcom

Philip Garnock-Jones and Phillipa Scott

Design by Ferret

It features new writing by art historians who offer fresh appraisals of Perkins and his work

using celluloid as their tool

This catalogue was published in association with the exhibition State of the art: reproductive prints from the Renaissance to now

creating art works that only come fully into being when inhabited by their viewers

exhibited extensively with leading artists (notably in the 1964 American Supermarket exhibition with Andy Warhol