Defiant Spirits (eBook)

The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven

Ross King (Autor)

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2010
504 Seiten
Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd. (Verlag)
978-1-55365-807-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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 the most vital group of paintings of the 20th century. Inspired by Czanne, Van Gogh and other modernist artists, they tried to interpret the Ontario landscape in light of the strategies of the international avant-garde. Based after 1914 in the purpose-built Studio Building for Canadian Art, the young artists embarked on what Lawren Harris called an all-engrossing adventure: travelling north into the anadian Shield and forging a style of painting appropriate to what they regarded as the unique features of Canadas northern landscape.Rigorously researched and drawn from archival documents and letters, Defiant Spirits constitutes a group biography, reconstructing the mens aspirations, frustrations and achievements. It details not only the lives of Tom Thomson and the members of the Group of Seven but also the political and social history of Canada

Autor

Ross King is the author of three previous best-selling art history books, including Brunelleschi's Dome, which won the 2001 Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Nonfiction and The Judgment of Paris, winner of the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction in Canada. He lives in England, near Oxford.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements ixBook I1 A Wild Deserted Spot2 This Wealthy Promised Land3 Ein Toronto Realist4 Eerie Wildernesses5 Life on the Mississagi6 Wild Men of the North7 The Infanticist School8 The Happy Isles9 Rites of Paysage10 The Young SchoolBook II1 Men with Good Red Blood in Their Veins2 The Great Explosion3 White Feathers and Tangled Gardens4 The Line of Beauty5 Imperishable Splendour6 Shades of Grey7 The Vortex of War8 The Dweller on the Threshold9 The Great Konodian ArmyBook III1 The Spirit of Young Canada2 A Septenary Fatality3 Are These New Canadian Painters Crazy?4 Multiples of Ugliness5 By the Shining Big-Sea-Water6 Gypsies, Lepers and Freaks7 WembleyEpilogue: The End of the TrailNotesSelected bibliographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.9.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• ISBN-10: 1-55365-807-8 / 1553658078
• ISBN-13: 978-1-55365-807-8 / 9781553658078