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A concise history of Canadian painting
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ISBN: 0195402065 0195402073 Year: 1973 Publisher: Toronto Oxford university press

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Quebec
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ISBN: 0773552707 9780773552708 9780773551640 0773551646 0773551646 9780773551640 Year: 2017 Publisher: Montreal

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The 2017 painting Quebec by Adam Miller represents over four hundred years of Quebec history. Featuring recognizable Quebec and Canadian politicians, ordinary characters, and allegorical figures, this unusual work visualizes many of the debates surrounding the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation as well as the 375th anniversary Montreal's founding. Bringing together a collection of commentaries on the painting and its artist, this volume contemplates the Quebec and Canadian experience and the bonds that link art and history. Included within are a reproduction of the painting, assorted detail shots, a key to the figures represented, and preparatory drawings used for the final work. Furthermore, essays by art historians François-Marc Gagnon, Donald Kuspit, and Alexandre Turgeon reflect on the painting and its style, as well as on its representation of history in relation to questions of politics, art, and collective memory. The book also contains an interview with Adam Miller conducted by Clarence Epstein, which reveals the sources of inspiration for the piece and the artist's creative process. A preface by the patron who commissioned the painting, Salvatore Guerrera, rounds out the contributions. Adam Miller is a painter known for his polished neo-classical figurative style that dramatizes historical subject matter and themes of social justice. He lives in New York.


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Regards sur l'art québécois : la collection d'oeuvres d'art de l'Université de Montréal
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ISBN: 9791036503887 2760624315 2760619710 9782760619715 2760629724 Year: 2004 Publisher: Presses de l’Université de Montréal

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Cet important ouvrage, abondamment illustré en couleurs, fait le survol d'un siècle d'art québécois à partir d'une centaine d'œuvres de la collection de l'Université de Montréal. Il intéressera tous les amateurs d'art qui y retrouveront des œuvres importantes de quatre-vingts peintres majeurs, de Marc-Aurèle Fortin à Marc Garneau, en passant par Borduas, Riopelle, Pellan, Molinari, Dominique Blain et Ariane Thézé.

The Logic of Ecstasy
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ISBN: 1282056530 9786612056536 1442681667 9781442681668 0802059163 0802068618 9780802068613 9780802059161 9781282056534 Year: 1992 Publisher: Toronto

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Our understanding of twentieth-century art is largely based on an aesthetic tradition initiated by the Impressionists, Cezanne, and the Cubists. However, painting that is mystically rather than aesthetically realized can not be examined within this tradition. What is needed is a new context, one which allows us to probe the mystical experience and teachings that motivate visionary painters. This book examines the ways in which Bertram Brooker, Emily Carr, Lawren Harris, Jock Macdonald, and Fred Varley, five of the most dynamic and innovative Canadian painters of the period 1920-1940, used mystical form rather than aesthetically initiated form in their painting. None of these painters was motivated solely by mystical concerns; each of them also painted works which were of a secular or non-spiritual nature. None the less, they were all deeply interested in and concerned about matters mystical. Through a careful examination of the primary documentation Ann Davis looks at the sources of their beliefs in Christianity, transcendentalism, and theosophy and theories of the fourth dimension, and attempts to put some of their major works into new contexts so that familiar paintings can be seen in a new and revealing mystical way. Each artist in his or her own way wanted to capture the logic of ecstasy. Their mystical works were conjured up more through contemplation and self-surrender than from direct personal experience. These paintings provided not so much a feast for the eye or an arena for the emotions as a launching pad for the spirit, and an outward manifestation of the hidden spiritual dimension of reality which pervades both nature and oneself.


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Marcel Dzama : puppets, pawns, and prophets.
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ISBN: 9783775737326 3775737324 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York, New York : David Zwirner,

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Marcel Dzama first gained fame with his drawings, but has recently expanded his practice to encompass film and three-dimensional work, developing an immediately recognizable language that draws from a diverse range of references and influences, including Dada and Marcel Duchamp. Created in close collaboration with the artist, this publication includes work from his 2013 exhibition at David Zwirner in London, which featured three videos inspired by the game of chess; puppets and masks based on the characters; and drawings, collages, dioramas, paintings and sculptural works. Dzama utilized the architecture of the gallery itself--an eighteenth-century Georgian townhouse--by hanging puppets from a skylight above the five-story building's central spiral staircase and placing monitors in the windows so videos were viewed from the street. Among the drawings included is the large-scale, four-part Myth, Manifestos and Monsters, in which characters from the films line up alongside figures from the artist's earlier repertoire. Other drawings, such as two large-scale works executed on piano scroll, depict the characters in poses that mirror their movements and dancing in the films, while a series of new collages feature this imagery in more unexpected contexts. Five small paintings depicting a lone female terrorist seated on a bed emphasize the underlying tension between reality and fiction that characterizes all of the works gathered here. --Amazon.

Painting in Canada : a history
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ISBN: 0802022715 0802063071 9780802093011 0802093019 9780802094964 0802094961 1442684151 9781442684157 Year: 1978 Volume: 198 Publisher: Toronto University of Toronto

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"Examining the pervasiveness of censorship in Fascist Italy, from the entrenchment of Mussolini's role as 'prime censor' to the suppression of works by female writers, this is a look, at the vulnerability of culture under a dictatorship."--Jacket

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