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Magnetic North: Imagining Canada in Painting 1910--1940

Magnetic North: Imagining Canada in Painting 1910--1940

Atanassova, Katerina
Herlemann, Rebecca
Weinhart, Martina

Hardcover

Art HistoryCanadian ArtGeneral Art

Publisher Price: $60.00

ISBN10: 3791359940
ISBN13: 9783791359946
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Published: May 4 2021
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 7.60 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
This book reveals the magnificent landscape paintings of the Group of Seven and their associates and explores how they contributed to Canada's modern cultural identity.

The early decades of the 20th century were marked by artistic, economic, and social transformation in Canada and around the world. Starting in Toronto, a group of young modern artists, including Tom Thomson and Lawren S. Harris, and Emily Carr in British Columbia, desired to create a new painting vocabulary for the young nation coming into its own cultural identity. They turned away from city life and explored Canada's landscape, painting sublime vistas, monumental rivers, ancient forests around the great lakes, the mighty Rocky Mountains, and the arctic tundra, determined to break away from European stylistic traditions. Together, their paintings imagined a mythical Canada, expansive and rugged, that added to their country's growing sense of national pride. Featuring paintings, sketches,

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