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Defiant Spirits, The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven

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non fiction

Defiant Spirits

electronic resource

781471806

The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven

A Governor General's Award-winning author recounts the turbulent years during which a group of young Canadian painters went from obscurity to international renown. 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 th

Contents; Acknowledgements; Book I; 1 A Wild Deserted Spot; 2 This Wealthy Promised Land; 3 Ein Toronto Realist; 4 Eerie Wildernesses; 5 Life On The Mississagi; 6 Wild Men Of The North; 7 The Infanticist School; 8 The Happy Isles; 9 Rites Of Paysage; 10 The Young School; Book Ii; 1 Men With Good Red Blood In Their Veins; 2 The Great Explosion; 3 White Feathers And Tangled Gardens; 4 The Line Of Beauty; 5 Imperishable Splendour; 6 Shades Of Grey; 7 The Vortex Of War; 8 The Dweller Of The Threshold; 9 The Great Konodian Army; Book Iii; 1 The Spirit Of Young Canada; 2 A Septenary Fatality3 Are These New Canadian Painters Crazy?4 Multiples Of Ugliness; 5 By The Shining Big-Sea-Water; 6 Gypsies, Lepurs, And Freaks; 7 Wembley; Epilogue; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index