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The place where architecture and art intersect is a rich one, and rarely documented with the kind of care and attention that went into (Massey University Press, Auckland 2021). Bridget Hackshaw has collected a portrait of each of her subjects: James Hackshaw, her father, the architect; Colin McCahon, the painter; and Paul

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