Painting Canada

Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven

Ian A. C. Dejardin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2011
Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-85667-708-3 (ISBN)

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Tom Thomson developed an artistic language that captured the unique qualities of the Canadian landscape - dazzling in colour and in tune with the subtle changing of the seasons. After his untimely death, Thomson's friends organised a memorial exhibition, and followed this up by forming probably the most famous artistic force in Canadian art history: the Group of Seven. Lawren Harris, J.E.H. MacDonald, Arthur Lismer, Frederick Varley, Frank Johnston, Franklin Carmichael and A.Y. Jackson created - along with Thomson - a landscape style that to this day influences the way Canadians visualise their own country. Highly revered in Canada, these great artists are virtually unknown outside. This spectacularly illustrated book, arranged according to the geographical areas depicted, with scholarly essays investigating different aspects of the painters' craft, aims to redress that imbalance. With contributions by Anna Hudson, Katerina Atanassova, Nils Ohlsen and MariA"tta Jansen.

Ian Dejardin has spent twenty-five years working in museums, spending a year with English Heritage before starting as curatorial assistant at the Royal Academy in 1987. Between 1990 and 1998 he was back with English Heritage, as Senior Curator and Head of the Historic Team (London Region), before accepting the post of Curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery. He became the Gallery's Director in April, 2005. He has organized countless exhibitions over the years. Katerina Atanassova is Chief Curator at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. She has curated numerous exhibitions and has written various publications including the award-winning publication and exhibition entitled F.H.Varley: Portraits into the Light. Anna Hudson is Associate Professor of Canadian Art History at York University, Toronto. She has curated numerous exhibitions including The Nude in Modern Canadian art, 1920-1950, which received the 2011 Canadian Museums Association Award of Outstanding Achievement in Research. Nils Ohlsen is Director of Old Masters and Modern Art at the National Museum of Norway. He has curated exhibitions and published books on historic and contemporary art, including Garten Eden, The Garden in Art since 1900 (2007) and Realism, The Adventure of Reality (2010). Marietta Jansen is Curator of Twentieth-Century Art at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands. She is a specialist on Northern European Expressionism and has written several publications on contemporary Dutch art and the De Ploeg artists.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2011
Co-Autor	Anna Hudson, Katerina Atanassova, Nils Ohlsen
Zusatzinfo	195 colour
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10	0-85667-708-6 / 0856677086
ISBN-13	978-0-85667-708-3 / 9780856677083
Zustand	Neuware