Contemporary Canadian Art
Hurtig Publishers | 1983 | ISBN 0888302428 | English | 304 pages | PDF | 42.8 MB

This is the book the Canadian art world has been awaiting for years. Lavish volumes on the Group of Seven and their contemporaries are all too numerous, and the number of books devoted to well-known individual artists is growing. Never before, however, has there been a work with the scope and perspective of Contemporary Canadian Art. It encompasses every aspect of contemporary art in Canada, with the exception of native art (which the authors feel deserves a volume of its own—and which the publishers are now planning). Contemporary Canadian Art is a fascinating, concise, liberally illustrated history of Canadian art from the 1 940s to the 1 980s. With adroitness and style, the authors examine the many forms of art—representational, landscape, primitive, conceptual, sculpture, film, performance—with in-depth discussion of the work of Canada's artists, from Jock Macdonald, Harold Town, Jack Bush, and Jack Shadbolt, through Greg Curnoe, Betty Goodwin, and Jack Chambers, to talented newcomers whose names will be household words tomorrow