Author: F. B. HousserPublisher: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1974, t.p. 1926.
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A Canadian Art Movement
Author: F. B. HousserPublisher: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1974, t.p. 1926.
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A Canadian Art Movement
Author: F. B. HousserA Canadian Art Movement
Author: F. B. HousserA Canadian Art Movement
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Group of Seven (Group of artists)
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Defiant Spirits
Author: Ross KingPublisher: D & M Publishers
ISBN: 1553658078
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley, over a dozen years in Canadian history. Working in an eclectic and sometimes controversial blend of modernist styles, they produced what an English critic celebrated in the 1920s as the “most vital group of paintings” of the 20th century. Inspired by Cézanne, Van Gogh and other modernist artists, they tried to interpret the Ontario landscape in light of the strategies of the international avant-garde. Based after 1914 in the purpose-built Studio Building for Canadian Art, the young artists embarked on what Lawren Harris called “an all-engrossing adventure”: travelling north into the anadian Shield and forging a style of painting appropriate to what they regarded as the unique features of Canada’s northern landscape. Rigorously researched and drawn from archival documents and letters, Defiant Spirits constitutes a “group biography,” reconstructing the men’s aspirations, frustrations and achievements. It details not only the lives of Tom Thomson and the members of the Group of Seven but also the political and social history of Canada
This Woman in Particular
Author: Stephanie Kirkwood WalkerPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554588146
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
What happens when an individual becomes the subject of many and divergent portraits? “Biography,” says Stephanie Kirkwood Walker, “is a deceptive genre. Positioned between fact and fiction and elusive in its purposes, biography displays an individual life, an existence patterned by conventions that have also shaped the reader’s experience.” In This Woman in Particular, Walker explores versions of Emily Carr’s life that have appeared over the last half-century. Walker contends that the biographical image of Emily Carr that emerges from an accumulation of biographies, films, plays and poetry as well as her own autobiographical writing establishes an elaborated cultural artefact — an “image” that is bound by its very nature to remain forever incomplete and always elusive. She demonstrates how changes in Carr’s biographical image parallel the maturing of Canadian biographical writing, reflecting attitudes toward women artists and the shifting balance between religion, secular attitudes and contemporary spirituality. And she concludes that biography plays a crucial role in all our lives in initiating and sustaining debate on vital personal and collective concerns.
Canadian Painters in a Modern World, 1925–1955
Author: Lora Senechal CarneyPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773551921
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
From the Roaring Twenties and the Group of Seven to the Automatistes and the early Cold War, Canadian artists lived through and embodied an era of global tumult and change. With an interweaving of historical narrative, lavish illustrations, and writings by many of Canada's most revered cultural figures, Lora Senechal Carney illuminates the lives, perspectives, and works of the era's painters and provides glimpses of the sculptors, poets, dancers, critics, and filmmakers with whom they associated. Canadian Painters in a Modern World gives readers direct access to a carefully curated selection of writings, artworks, photos, and other documents that help to reconstruct the public spheres in which artists including Paul-Émile Borduas, Emily Carr, Alex Colville, Lawren Harris, David Milne, and Pegi Nicol MacLeod circulated. Each of the book’s eight chapters consists of a narrative about a key issue or debate, focusing on the relationship of art to politics and society, and on how these are negotiated in an individual's life. Relating artistic engagement with and responses to the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and the Cold War, Senechal Carney discovers a common desire for new connections between art and life. Revealing continuities, ruptures, and watershed moments, Canadian Painters in a Modern World showcases artistic production within specific socio-political contexts to shed new light on Canadian art during three decades of conflict and crisis.
Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century
Author: Joan MurrayPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1550023322
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Joan Murray discusses social and political events in combination with the movements, ideas, attitudes, styles, and important groups in Canadian art of this century.
Painting Canada
Author: Ian A. C. DejardinPublisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN: 9780856676864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published to accompany exhibition organized by Dulwich Picture Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada, in collaboration with the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, and the Groninger Museum.
Canadian Art
Author: William G. ColgatePublisher: Ryerson
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description