Painting in Canada : a history
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1977
- Author
- Harper, J. Russell
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press
- Edition
- 2d ed.
- Call Number
- 06.1 H11p
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- Author
- Harper, J. Russell
- Responsibility
- J. Russell Harper
- Edition
- 2d ed.
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 1977
- Physical Description
- vii, 463 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Art
- Canadian art
- Subjects
- Art History
- Painting
- Paintings, Canadian
- Abstract
- 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.
- Contents
- The age of Laval -- Votive painting in New France -- Local painters in New France -- Early painting in British North America -- The aftermath of the Seven Years' War -- British Army topographers in Eastern Canada -- The Golden Age in Quebec: the beginning -- The Golden Age in Quebec: maturity -- Along the Atlantic seaboard -- Portraits for the masses -- Kreighoff and genre in Quebec -- Pre-confederation years in Ontario -- The lure of the West -- The last frozen barrier -- Art in the New Dominion -- The British tradition at confederation -- A news search for Canada -- The dignity of labour -- French academic influences -- Contrasts in Quebec -- Painting as an aesthetic experience -- Nationalism and the 'Group' -- Contemporaries of the 'Group' -- Regionalism in the thirties -- Transformation in the West -- Towards non-objectivity: beginnings -- Reawakening in Montral -- Anglophone revolt in the fifties.
- Notes
- Abstract taken from Aurora, check link for more details
- ISBN
- 0802022715
- Accession Number
- 2019.61
- Call Number
- 06.1 H11p
- Collection
- Archives Library
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