Ebook: Defiant spirits: the modernist revolution of the Group of Seven
- Tags: Landscape painting Canadian--20th century, Painting Canadian--20th century, Painting Canadian, Intellectual life, Landscape painting Canadian, History, Group of Seven (Group of artists), Landscape painting Canadian -- 20th century, Painting Canadian -- 20th century, Canada -- Intellectual life -- 20th century, Canada -- History -- 1914-1945, Canada
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West
- City: Berkeley Calif;Berkeley;Calif;Canada;Kleinburg;Ont;Vancouver
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed
- Language: English
- epub
Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley, over a dozen years in Canadian history. Working in an eclectic and sometimes controversial blend of modernist styles, they produced what an English critic celebrated in the 1920s as the most vital group of paintings” of the 20th century. Inspired by Cézanne, Van Gogh and other modernist artists, they tried to interpret the Ontario landscape in light of the strategies of the international avant-garde. Based after 1914 in the purpose-built Studio Building for Canadian Art, the young artists embarked on what Lawren Harris called an all-engrossing adventure”: travelling north into the anadian Shield and forging a style of painting appropriate to what they regarded as the unique features of Canada’s norther...
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