Biography & Autobiography Artists, Architects, Photographers
Alex Colville
A Rebellious Mind
- Publisher
- Gaspereau Press Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2019
- Category
- Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554471881
- Publish Date
- Jan 2019
- List Price
- $21.95
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Description
While serving as a Canadian war artist in Europe during the Second World War, Alex Colville (19202013) 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 developedwhere realism is heightened by the artist’s assertion of order through compositionexpresses 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.
About the author
Ray Cronin détient un baccalauréat en arts visuels du Nova Scotia College of Art and Design et une maîtrise en arts visuels de l'Université de Windsor. Cronin est directeur général du Musée des beaux-arts de la Nouvelle-Écosse où il a occupé différents postes depuis 2001, notamment conservateur de l'art contemporain et premier conservateur du Prix artistique Sobey. Auteur de plusieurs essais pour des catalogues et de nombreux articles parusdans des magazines d'art canadiens et américains, Cronin a reçu en 2000 le prix Cristina-Sabat de la critique d'art. Parmi ses projets d'exposition récents et à venir, mentionnons des rétrospectives de l'œuvre de Thierry Delva, Nancy Edell, Chris Hanson et Hendrika Sonnenberg, ainsi que les expositions itinérantes Graeme Patterson : Woodrow et Arena : The Art of Hockey.
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