Painting Canada by Ian Dejardin
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.
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. 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. Marietta Jansen is Curator of Twentieth-Century Art at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780856676864 |
| ISBN 10 | 0856676861 |
| Title | Painting Canada |
| Author | Ian Dejardin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-06-13 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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