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Canadian art in the twentieth century / Joan Murray.
- Title
- Canadian art in the twentieth century / Joan Murray.
- Author
- Murray, Joan, 1943-
- Publication
- Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | N6545 .M868 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 272 p. : ill. (some col.); 33 cm.
- Summary
- Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century is a survey of the richest, most controversial and perhaps most thoroughly confusing centuries in the whole history of the visual arts in Canada - the period from 1900 to the present. Murray shows how, beginning with Tonalism at the start of the century, new directions in art emerged - starting with our early Modernists, among them Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Today, Modernism has lost its dominance. Artists, critics, and the public alike are confronted by a scene of unprecedented variety and complexity. Murray discusses the social and political events of the century in combination with the cultural context; movements, ideas, attitudes, and styles; the important groups in Canadian art, and major and minor artists and their works. Fully documented, well researched and written with clarity and over four hundred illustrations in both black-and-white and colour, Murray’s book is essential for understanding Canadian art of this century. As an introduction, it is excellent in both its scope and intelligence.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-256) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Tonalism to post-impressionism -- Approaches to abstraction-- Innovations of the 1930s -- Abstraction in Canada: the 1950s -- Post-painterly abstraction, minimal art and post-minimal art -- Alternate practice -- Developments in representation; post-modernism; new image painting -- Themes of the 1980s and 1990s: identity and difference; memory; the environment.
- ISBN
- 1550023322
- LCCN
- ^^^00303205^
- OCLC
- 44391899
- SCSB-11743449
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library