Overview

The Spirit of Colin McCahon provides a vivid historical contextualisation of New Zealand’s premier modern artist, clearly explaining his esoteric religious themes and symbols. Via a framework of visual rhetoric, this book explores the social factors that formed McCahon’s religious and environmental beliefs, and justifications as to why his audience often missed the intended point of spiritual his discourse – or chose to ignore it. The Spirit of Colin McCahon tracks the intricate process by which the artist’s body of work turned from optimism to misery, and explains the many communicative techniques he employed in order to arrest suspicion towards his Christian prophecy.More broadly, The Spirit of Colin McCahon outlines a model of analysis for the intersection of art and religion, and the place of images as rhetorical devices within Antipodean culture. The emerging field of religion and visual culture is important not only to students of New Zealand art history, but also to a growing field of appreciation for the communicative power of images. This book provides a helpful model for examining art and literature as social and religious tools, and advances the importance of visual rhetoric within studies of art and social expression.

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Author:   Zoe Alderton
Publisher:   Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint:   Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Weight:   0.717kg
ISBN:  

9781443872324

ISBN 10:   1443872326
Pages:   395
Publication Date:   18 February 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"""The publication of a full-length book devoted specifically to the religious dimension of Colin McCahon’s art is therefore a most welcome development. Zoe Alderton is to be commended for her diligent research and encyclopedic documentation of this foundational theme in McCahon’s life and work.""Rob YuleStimulus: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought and Practice, 23:1 (2017)"

The publication of a full-length book devoted specifically to the religious dimension of Colin McCahon's art is therefore a most welcome development. Zoe Alderton is to be commended for her diligent research and encyclopedic documentation of this foundational theme in McCahon's life and work. Rob YuleStimulus: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought and Practice, 23:1 (2017)

Author Information

Dr Zoe Alderton is a Lecturer and Tutor in the Writing Hub at the University of Sydney, where she specialises in academic writing, rhetoric and composition. She is presently developing theories of visual rhetoric as regards sacred space and monuments, and exploring the spiritual dimensions of online communities.

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