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Painting Canada
  • Language: en

Painting Canada

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.

Painting in Canada
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 484

Painting in Canada

  • Categories: Art

Since its first appearance in 1967, Russell Harper's classic study of Canadian painting has been recognized as the outstanding authority on the subject. This edition provides a comprehensive survey, generously illustrated, of three centuries of Canadian painting from its beginnings in the seventeenth century. Through a lively combination of entertaining anecdotes, descriptions of the cultural background, biographical accounts, and critical judgement, the reader comes to know intimately the artists, their paintings, and their environments. Included are 173 reproductions - 45 added since the first addition. They all ow the reader to see representative works from all periods, and provide a visual record of the cultural and social history of Canada.

Magnetic North
  • Language: en

Magnetic North

  • Categories: Art

This book reveals the magnificent landscape paintings of the Group of Seven and their associates and explores how they contributed to Canada's modern cultural identity. The early decades of the 20th century were marked by artistic, economic, and social transformation in Canada and around the world. Starting in Toronto, a group of young modern artists, including Tom Thomson and Lawren S. Harris, and Emily Carr in British Columbia, desired to create a new painting vocabulary for the young nation coming into its own cultural identity. They turned away from city life and explored Canada's landscape, painting sublime vistas, monumental rivers, ancient forests around the great lakes, the mighty Ro...

A Concise History of Canadian Painting
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 472

A Concise History of Canadian Painting

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1988
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This edition studies Canadian painting to 1980 in a new chapter that treats a crucial fifteen years when there developed in Canada a tremendous interest in other art forms and an apparent falling off of interest in painting. It turned out, however, that this was far from true, and Reiddiscusses the established artists who produced steadily throughout the period as well as new arrivals on the scene who have since joined the ranks of leading Canadian painters.

Abstract Painting in Canada
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 464

Abstract Painting in Canada

  • Categories: Art

In the tradition of the distinguished Douglas & McIntyre art program, this lavishly illustrated and superbly printed book is a rich, readable history of abstract painting in Canada. The story begins in the 1920s with the sometimes eccentric but remarkable work, rooted in symbolism and theosophy, of pioneers such as Kathleen Munn, Bertram Brooker and Lawren Harris. Two decades later the Automatistes-Canada's first truly independent avant-garde art movement-burst onto the scene in Montreal. After the Second World War, the urge to abstraction spread across Canada, manifesting itself in significant regional movements. Vancouver painters retained a British flavour, while in Toronto, the Painters ...

Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art & Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 630

Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art & Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1897
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 604

The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art & Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 604

The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art & Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1278

Library of Congress Subject Headings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Canadian Magazine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 610

The Canadian Magazine

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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