Painting Canada Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven
by Dejardin, Ian A.C.; Hudson, Anna; Atanassova, Katerina; Ohlsen, Nils; Jansen, MariëttaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2013-01-22
Publisher(s): Philip Wilson Publishers
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Summary
Original and exciting essays offer new research and insight into often overlooked movement in painting and provide an excellent platform for reappraisal of this important work and its wider recognition. Will appeal to artists, art historians of twentieth-century art, art collectors, art lovers, general audience.
Author Biography
Ian Dejardin has spent 25 years working in museums, spending a year with English Heritage before starting as curatorial assistant at the Royal Academy in 1987. From 1990-98 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, acting as co-curator for Henry Moore at Dulwich in 2004.Anna Hudson is Associate Professor, York University, Toronto.
Katerina Atanassova is Chief Curator, McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
Nils Ohlsen is Director of Old Master and Modern Art, National Museum, Norway.
Mariëtta Jansen is Curator, Groninger Museum, Netherlands.
Table of Contents
Foreword * Acknowledgements * Map * Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven * Landscape Atomysticism: a revelation of Tom Thomson * Defining the North: Searching for a Visual language * 'This is what we want to do with Canada': Reflections of Scandinavian landscape painting in the work of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven * Terra Incognita: The Group of Seven and the European expressionist landscape tradition * Catalogue: * Tom Thomson * Algonquin * Georgian Bay * Southern Ontario and Algoma * Quebec * The Canadian Rockies and British Columbia * Lawren Harris: Lake Superior, North Shore, Rockies and Arctic * Canadian Nature and its Painters * Select Bibliography * Index
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