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Author : Helen Jeanette Dow
Publisher : Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Art of Alex Colville written by Helen Jeanette Dow and published by Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson. This book was released on 1972 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the man and his work.
Author : Ray Cronin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781554471881
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Alex Colville written by Ray Cronin and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While serving as a Canadian war artist in Europe during the Second World War, Alex Colville (1920-2013) was immersed in the overwhelming nihilism and horror of the period, witness to the enactment of humanity's darkest possibilities. Colville's war-time experience ultimately animated his remarkable painting career. The style of representational painting he developed-where realism is heightened by the artist's assertion of order through composition-expresses the tenets of his personal revolt against chaos and despair; if these prospects lurk in even his most intimate, domestic images, so also do order and hope, charging Colville's art with tension and vitality.
Author : Helen Jeanette Dow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (833 download)
Download or read book The Art of Alex Colville written by Helen Jeanette Dow and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Fischl
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0770435580
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Bad Boy written by Eric Fischl and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bad Boy, renowned American artist Eric Fischl has written a penetrating, often searing exploration of his coming of age as an artist, and his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly charged and competitive New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s. With such notorious and controversial paintings as Bad Boy and Sleepwalker, Fischl joined the front ranks of America artists, in a high-octane downtown art scene that included Andy Warhol, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, and others. It was a world of fashion, fame, cocaine and alcohol that for a time threatened to undermine all that Fischl had achieved. In an extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Fischl discusses the impact of his dysfunctional family on his art—his mother, an imaginative and tragic woman, was an alcoholic who ultimately took her own life. Following his years as a student at Cal Arts and teaching in Nova Scotia, he describes his early years in New York with the artist April Gornik, just as Wall Street money begins to encroach on the old gallery system and change the economics of the art world. Fischl rebelled against the conceptual and minimalist art that was in fashion at the time to paint compelling portraits of everyday people that captured the unspoken tensions in their lives. Still in his thirties, Eric became the subject of a major Vanity Fair interview, his canvases sold for as much as a million dollars, and The Whitney Museum mounted a major retrospective of his paintings. Bad Boy follows Fischl’s maturation both as an artist and sculptor, and his inevitable fall from grace as a new generation of artists takes center stage, and he is forced to grapple with his legacy and place among museums and collectors. Beautifully written, and as courageously revealing as his most provocative paintings, Bad Boy takes the reader on a roller coaster ride through the passion and politics of the art world as it has rarely been seen before.
Author : Mark A. Cheetham
Publisher : Canadian Biography
ISBN 13 : 9781550222401
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Alex Colville written by Mark A. Cheetham and published by Canadian Biography. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting the prodigious life and career of one of Canada's best-known artists, this illustrated biography shows Alex Colville as both artist and public figure, engaging many worlds at once—from painting and politics to creativity and business. He has been given some of the highest honors for his art, but he has also been charged with misogyny, opportunism, and crowd-pleasing. This compelling profile ultimately attempts to answer the question, Where is the truth among all these contradictions?
Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802071512
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Mystery of the Real written by Jeffrey Meyers and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Alex Colville, O.C. (1920-2013), one of the great modern realist painters, combines the Flemish detail of Andrew Wyeth, the eerie foreboding of George Tooker and the anguished confrontations of Lucian Freud. Behind the North Americans stands their common master, Edward Hopper. Colville's works are in many museums in Canada and Germany. He has affinities with Max Beckmann and appeals to the German "secondary virtues": cleanliness, punctuality, love of order. In a long life he resolutely opposed the fashionable currents of abstract and expressionistic art. In contrast to Jackson Pollock's wild action painting, Colville created paintings of contemplation and reflection. As Jeffrey Meyers writes: I spent several days with Colville on each of three visits from California to Wolfville. I received seventy letters from him between August 1998 and April 2010, and kept thirty-six of my letters to him. He sent me photographs and slides of his work and, in his eighties, discussed the progress and meaning of the paintings he completed during the last decade of his life. His handwritten letters, precisely explaining his thoughts and feelings, provide a rare and enlightening opportunity to compare my insights and interpretations with his own intentions and ideas. He also discussed his family, health, sexuality, politics, reading, travels, literary interests, our mutual friend Iris Murdoch, response to my writing, his work, exhibitions, sales of his pictures and of course the meaning of his art. His letters reveal the challenges he faced during aging and illness, and his determination to keep painting as health difficulties mounted. He stopped writing to me when he became seriously ill two years before his death. In this context the late paintings, presented in colour in this book, take on a new poignancy.
Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782846840
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The Mystery of the Real written by Jeffrey Meyers and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Alex Colville, O.C. (1920-2013), one of the great modern realist painters, combines the Flemish detail of Andrew Wyeth, the eerie foreboding of George Tooker and the anguished confrontations of Lucian Freud. Behind the North Americans stands their common master, Edward Hopper. Colville's works are in many museums in Canada and Germany. He has affinities with Max Beckmann and appeals to the German "secondary virtues": cleanliness, punctuality, love of order. In a long life he resolutely opposed the fashionable currents of abstract and expressionistic art. In contrast to Jackson Pollock's wild action painting, Colville created paintings of contemplation and reflection. As Jeffrey Meyers writes: I spent several days with Colville on each of three visits from California to Wolfville. I received seventy letters from him between August 1998 and April 2010, and kept thirty-six of my letters to him. He sent me photographs and slides of his work and, in his eighties, discussed the progress and meaning of the paintings he completed during the last decade of his life. His handwritten letters, precisely explaining his thoughts and feelings, provide a rare and enlightening opportunity to compare my insights and interpretations with his own intentions and ideas. He also discussed his family, health, sexuality, politics, reading, travels, literary interests, our mutual friend Iris Murdoch, response to my writing, his work, exhibitions, sales of his pictures and of course the meaning of his art. His letters reveal the challenges he faced during aging and illness, and his determination to keep painting as health difficulties mounted. He stopped writing to me when he became seriously ill two years before his death. In this context the late paintings, presented in colour in this book, take on a new poignancy.
Author : Tom Smart
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre ; Halifax, N.S. : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
ISBN 13 : 9781550549829
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Alex Colville written by Tom Smart and published by Douglas & McIntyre ; Halifax, N.S. : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The director of museum programs at the Frick Art and Historical Center in Pittsburgh celebrates the last ten years in the career of the "magic realist" painter, presenting forty color illustrations from the artist's most recent oeuvre.
Author : Dot Tuer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781894243728
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Frida and Diego written by Dot Tuer and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual feast of Kahlo and Rivera's finest works that will leave readers intellectually challenged and emotionally awakened. He painted for the people. She painted to survive. Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) and Diego Rivera's (1886-1957) legendary passion for each other and for Mexico's revolutionary culture during the 1920s and 1930s made them two of the twentieth century's most famous artists. During their life together as a married couple, Rivera achieved prominence as a muralist, while Kahlo's intimate paintings were embraced by the Surrealist movement and the Mexican art world. After their deaths in the 1950s, retrospectives of Kahlo's work enshrined her as one of the most significant women artists of the twentieth century, partially eclipsing Rivera's international fame as Mexico's greatest muralist painter. Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting offers a new perspective on their artistic significance for the twenty-first century, one that shows how their paintings reflect both the dramatic story of their lives together and their artistic commitment to the transformative political and cultural values of post-revolutionary Mexico. Frida & Diego features colour reproductions of 75 paintings and works on paper by both Kahlo and Rivera, rarely reproduced archival photographs, and new biographical information on the couple assembled by scholar Dot Tuer.
Author : Canada. Embassy (U.S.). Art Gallery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Colville : Être Vu : Les Sérigraphies written by Canada. Embassy (U.S.). Art Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alex Colville
Publisher : London : Fischer Fine Art
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Alex Colville written by Alex Colville and published by London : Fischer Fine Art. This book was released on 1977 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307814564
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Progress of Love written by Alice Munro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven stunning stories that explore the most intimate and transforming moments of existence, from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the foremost practitioners of the short story” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). “Throughout this remarkable collection moments of insight flash from the pages like lightning, not necessarily providing answers—more like showing the way to new questions.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents’ confounding yet deep bond. The accidental near-drowning of a child exposes to the shaken mother the fragility between children and parents. A young man, remembering a terrifying childhood incident, wrestles with the responsibility he has always felt for his hapless younger brother. A man brings his lover on a visit to his ex-wife, only to feel unexpectedly closer to his estranged partner. In these and other stories, Alice Munro proves once again a sensitive and compassionate chronicler of our times. Drawing us into the most intimate corners of ordinary lives, she reveals much about ourselves, our choices, and our experiences of love.
Author : Tom Smart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781554700059
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tom Forrestall written by Tom Smart and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated volume explores the range, depth, and visual poetry of Tom Forrestall’s work as a painter of magical realism. It explores the development of his characteristic style and the genesis of his shaped paintings, the origins, limitations, and use of his egg tempera technique, and Forrestall's choice of subject matter and its relationship to defining a poetry of place. Curator and critic Tom Smart also examines the artist’s spirituality as expressed directly and symbolically in his imagery, the relationship between his sketchbooks, personal written reflections, and paintings, and how Forrestall's art relates to analogous contemporary movements in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Historical facts, critical opinions, anecdotes, artist writings and statements, and Tom Smart’s own analysis of the works are combined in a book that illuminates the artist’s work for readers while also providing the contexts needed to appreciate it.
Author : David G. Burnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Colville written by David G. Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angus Hyland
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781780676562
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (765 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Dog written by Angus Hyland and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring all kinds of dogs – big, small, graceful, cute, funny – The Book of the Dog is a cool and quirky collection of dog art and illustration by artists around the world. Interspersed through the illustrations are short texts about the artists and different breeds, paying homage to man's best friend. Beautifully designed and packaged, the book will appeal to dog lovers of all ages.
Author : Andrew Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Looking at the Art of Alex Colville written by Andrew Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alex Colville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Alex Colville written by Alex Colville and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly documenting the body of work created over the past decade by renowned Canadian realist Colville (b. 1920), this catalogue provides excellent full-page reproductions of 23 paintings and ten serigraphs along with illustrations of nearly 350 related preparatory drawings. Lengthy individual analyses of the painstaking composition of the featured images and their simultaneously mundane and evocative narrative content are augmented by detailed examinations of two paintings created by Colville in 1964 and 1981 and by a discussion of the central role of drawing in his working process.
