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Endless Yet Never
Paperback Edition: 1
"McCahon House are pleased to offer for sale this short but highly informative introduction to the life and work of Colin McCahon.
There is something about the way Colin McCahons life and work intertwine that resists interpretation. He always insisted it was the work that was important, not the life; while at the same time maintaining that the work was autobiographical. He also said that all art is about death: biography, too, seeks to describe the shape of a life which is over.
Endless Yet Never is not exhaustive; nor psychological; nor even interpretative. Instead it sets out the primary facts of the artists life in chronological order, relates those facts to the work he did and suggests what his influences, his preoccupations and his ambitions at any given time might have been.
The virtue of concision in the re-telling of a life is the opportunity it gives to identify the main lines without seeking to explain them. Biography may be an imperfect form; but it can show the trajectory of a soul and also say something about the character of that souls journey.
This is what Endless Yet Never tries to do"
Publisher : McCahon House
Publication date : 2020
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in New Zealand, New Zealand, NZ Art & Artists