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‘Our Little Gang’The Lives of the Vorticists
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James King

The Vorticists, a rebellious cohort of young artists in early twentieth-century England, defied the conventions of the art world with their distinctive abstract creations. Despite the brevity of their existence, from 1911 to 1914, their startling innovations left an indelible mark on English art history. In this book James King explores the personalities and lives of these colourful individuals…

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Michael SnowLives and Works
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An all-encompassing view of the life and work of one of Canada's greatest living artists Michael Snow is rightly recognized as one of the greatest Canadian artists. In a productive, lengthy career, he has, in a wide variety of genres and media, asked (and often answered) some of the most vexing and important questions in the history of art. During his lifetime, the notion of what constitutes a …

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9781459741362
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The Way It IsThe Life of Greg Curnoe
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The long-awaited biography of one of Canada's most intriguing and beguiling artists. Do artists really thrive in big cities, or do they just learn to imitate New York? Is it a contradiction for an artist to be fiercely local and profoundly identified with international art movements? If the brilliant colourist and regionalist pioneer Greg Curnoe stood for any one thing, it was making trouble. A…

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9781459736900
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1 online resource (392 pages)
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Inner PlacesThe Life of David Milne
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2016 Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award for Non-Fiction — Winner David Milne is one of Canada's finest artists, a man whose work speaks to the intricate beauty of the world as he experienced it. David Milne (1882–1953) dedicated his life to exploring nature and casting it into art in a variety of modernist formats. He was born into poverty in rural Ontario and remained poor all his life b…

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9781459729094
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1 online resource (384 pages)
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Roland PenroseThe Life of a Surrealist
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The first biography of Roland Penrose, one of the great English-born practitioners of modernism in the twentieth century As an artist, an impresario, a biographer and a collector, Roland Penrose (1900-1984) is a key figure in the study of art in England from 1920 to 1984. In the first biography of Penrose, acclaimed biographer James King explores the intricacies of Penrose's life and work tra…

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9781474414517
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1 online resource (352 pages)
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