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The Resource Canadian painters in a modern world, 1925-1955 : writings and reconsiderations, Lora Senechal Carney

Canadian painters in a modern world, 1925-1955 : writings and reconsiderations, Lora Senechal Carney

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"A window onto the perspectives of Canadian artists during three eventful decades of local and global history. 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, artwork, 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, consistently 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 before the atomic era. 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."--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource.
Contents
  • Lawren Stewart Harris, Europe, and the Bodhisattva in the next room
  • Discovering David Milne
  • Emily Carr and the wordless speech of things
  • The Spanish Civil War and the moral duty of artists
  • Defending art vivant in Montreal
  • The war and new cultural order
  • The automatistes, true poets
  • Cold war culture
Isbn
9780773551923
Link
http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=153&titleID=3471253
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Canadian painters in a modern world, 1925-1955 : writings and reconsiderations
Title
Canadian painters in a modern world, 1925-1955
Title remainder
writings and reconsiderations
Statement of responsibility
Lora Senechal Carney
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
"A window onto the perspectives of Canadian artists during three eventful decades of local and global history. 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, artwork, 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, consistently 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 before the atomic era. 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."--
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Carney, Lora
Dewey number
759.11
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
ND249
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Painting, Canadian
  • Art and society
  • Art and society
  • Painting, Canadian
  • Canada
  • ART / History / General
  • Peinture canadienne
  • Peintres
  • Art et société
Label
Canadian painters in a modern world, 1925-1955 : writings and reconsiderations, Lora Senechal Carney
Link
http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=153&titleID=3471253
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
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  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Lawren Stewart Harris, Europe, and the Bodhisattva in the next room -- Discovering David Milne -- Emily Carr and the wordless speech of things -- The Spanish Civil War and the moral duty of artists -- Defending art vivant in Montreal -- The war and new cultural order -- The automatistes, true poets -- Cold war culture
Control code
ocn988155069
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource.
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780773551923
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
8513C7D8-5D28-4027-86E0-FC4EE0F11BEB
System control number
(OCoLC)988155069
Label
Canadian painters in a modern world, 1925-1955 : writings and reconsiderations, Lora Senechal Carney
Link
http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=153&titleID=3471253
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Lawren Stewart Harris, Europe, and the Bodhisattva in the next room -- Discovering David Milne -- Emily Carr and the wordless speech of things -- The Spanish Civil War and the moral duty of artists -- Defending art vivant in Montreal -- The war and new cultural order -- The automatistes, true poets -- Cold war culture
Control code
ocn988155069
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource.
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780773551923
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
8513C7D8-5D28-4027-86E0-FC4EE0F11BEB
System control number
(OCoLC)988155069

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