Notes

Table of contents: I. Looking, attitudes, habits -- 1. Colin McCahon : a basis for understanding -- 2. McCahon's early relationship with Woollaston -- 3. To keep back beauty from vanishing away -- II. Autobiographical directions -- 4. A painter's pleasure -- 5. McCahon in his studio -- 6. Colin McCahon and the theatre -- 7. Colin McCahon : the autobiographical factor -- III. The promised land and other places -- 8. C.A. Cotton and the Bible's role in McCahon's landscapes -- 9. Colin McCahon : Crucifixion: the apple branch, 1950 -- 10. Colin McCahon's Angels and bed series -- 11. Colin McCahon and the promised land -- IV. The challenge of inscribed words and numbers -- 12. With my left hand, I write : a consideration of Colin McCahon's word paintings to 1967 -- 13. McCahon's bridging numbers of 1965-66 -- 14. Colin McCahon : Can you hear me, St Francis, 1969 -- 15. Colin McCahon's use of A letter to Hebrews -- 16. Ecclesiastes and McCahon, the discursive dialoguer