Art Modern (late 19th Century To 1945)
David Milne
Modern Painting
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury USA
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2018
- Category
- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781781300725
- Publish Date
- Apr 2018
- List Price
- $84
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781781300619
- Publish Date
- Apr 2018
- List Price
- $46
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Description
This beautifully illustrated book documents the life and work of David Milne (1882-1953), one of Canada's greatest modern painters whose vast body of work shows him to be an artist of true originality and vision. Like the members of the Group of Seven, Milne primarily chose landscape as his subject matter. However, his true subject was the process of perception and representation, reducing his painting to its essentials and infusing it with his own distinctive modern sensibility. The book presents an account of one man's spiritual and emotional voyage into modernity - from the bustling sidewalks of New York to the war-torn landscapes of northern France and back to rural Canada. With more than one hundred works in oil and watercolour, this publication provides an appreciation of one of Canada's most sophisticated modern painters.
About the authors
Sarah Milroy is a Toronto writer and art critic. She served as editor and publisher of Canadian Art magazine (1991-96) and as art critic of the Globe and Mail (2001-10). Milroy has contributed to publications on the work of Gathie Falk, Jack Chambers, Greg Curnoe and Fred Herzog, and is a regular contributor to Canadian Art, Border Crossings and The Walrus.
Other titles by Sarah Milroy
Dempsey Bob
In His Own Voice
Generations
The Sobey Family and Canadian Art
Uninvited
Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment
Like Vision
The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson
Into the Light
The Art of Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald
Maud Lewis
Paintings for Sale
Vanessa Bell
Mary Pratt
From the Forest to the Sea
Emily Carr in British Columbia
Fred Herzog: Photographs
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