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-- Nineteen twenties modernism in Montreal - The Beaver Hall Group2015., General, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts ; Black Dog Publishing Call No: NEW 759.11 B759m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Taking their name from the downtown street in Montreal where members shared a studio in the early 1920s, The Beaver Hall Group were early adopters of new modernistic approaches to painting and explored their potential within a variety of genres, including portrait, still life, landscape and prescient scenes of urbanity. As well as providing an artistic window into the modern lives of Canadians during this transformational period of history, as a collective The Beaver Hall Group are exceptional for their inclusion of female artists as core members. Initially comprising of both genders, the group would become an all-female collective that includes some of Canada's most celebrated modern painters. Through a series of comprehensive contextual essays The Beaver Hall Group: 1920s Modernism in Montreal interweaves the work of this pioneering artistic collective within a broader narrative of the arts in the first half of the twentieth century. Exploring the groups' greater role in the modernity of Canada--and more specifically the cultural context of Montreal--the book takes on core themes such as the rise of the metropolis, juxtapositions between economic progress and cultural development, and the impact of gender on critical approaches to both artists and their work.
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-- Max Stern[2004?], Montreal Museum of Fine Arts : Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery Call No: 759.11 M811m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2017., Arthur Fineberg Call No: 751.73 F495m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Montreal’s Street Art Gallery; The Best of the City’s Graffiti and Wall-Art and its French translation, Montréal, galerie à ciel ouvert; le meilleur des graffitis et des murals en ville, by Archie Fineberg showcase the work of many talented artists, both amateur and formally trained. The books feature more than 140 high definition, full-colour images of works created primarily with spray paint and brush, as well as mosaic and ceramic tile, paper, wood, abstract sculpture and knitting yarn. All the pictures are accompanied by captions that provide the title of the works, their location and the artist(s) who created it. An essay that elaborates on a specific aspect of this genre of art begins each of the nine sections.
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2013., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF Bio B729g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.Summary Note: From his beginnings as a rural church decorator, to his role as catalyst of the social and artistic manifesto the Refus global, to a career as Canada's pre-eminent practitioner of radical abstraction abroad, Paul-Émile Borduas's short life encompassed the reversals and contradictions of the modern condition. Drawing on a lifetime of published research, François-Marc Gagnon's comprehensive biography is a far-reaching exploration of a Quebec cultural figure renowned for both his art and his thought. Gagnon details each period of Borduas's dynamic career - his apprenticeship with Ozias Leduc, his teaching in Montreal and the role within the Automatiste group, his move to New York at the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement, and then, against the current of the times, to Paris, where he created the iconic images of his "cosmic" period. Borduas's relentless search for an authentic art often put him at odds with his surroundings. As an avant-garde artist in a Montreal art world bound by tradition, his most important work had to be exhibited in makeshift venues; as a surrealist-influenced francophone in New York, he recognized the importance of the major figures of Abstract Expressionism but maintained an independent style and method. A full appreciation of Borduas's radical stance - an artistic and intellectual orientation that was always towards the universal - transforms a Canadian cultural landscape where the narrative of artistic modernism centres on figurative landscape art. An original and rigorously researched work, Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography provides an English-language readership with a much-needed understanding of a seminal modernist, an exemplary figure in Canadian art, and the origins of modern art in North America.
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c2003., Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec Call No: FR 759.11 L646n Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
