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Nationalism debates: interpreting New Zealand painting

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Nationalism debates: interpreting New Zealand painting

Gordon H. Brown and Hamish Keith's book on New Zealand painting first appeared in 1969. The jacket design, to which Colin McCahon contributed, signalled the modernism in New Zealand art that Keith and Brown sought to explain.

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HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand

Reference: Gordon H. Brown and Hamish Keith, An introduction to New Zealand painting, 1839-1980. Auckland: Collins, 1969

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Rebecca Rice rāua ko Mark Williams, Criticism and the arts – Issues of identity, 1960s onwards, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/object/42932/nationalism-debates-interpreting-new-zealand-painting (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Rebecca Rice rāua ko Mark Williams, i tāngia i te 2 October 2013.