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Paul-Émile Borduas
Bound catalogue listing 47 works; 23 illustrations, 7 colour; biography; bibliography; artist portrait.
Living Art
An original, extremely well-researched and illustrated book that uses multiple perspectives to bring the reader closer to the experience of Bourdas' contemporaries, and a new understanding of the period. Paul-Émile Borduas had both successes and failures as he tried to express in art-work and words his vision of a generous, spontaneous, creative society. He was the catalyst for events that led to the writing of an important social and artistic manifesto, Refus global, published in 1948 by the movement known as Les automatistes. Jean-Philippe Warren shows us the reversals and contradictions that make up this cultural figure, renowned for both his art and his thought. How his early hopes and ...
Total Refusal
Art historian Dennis Reid has called Refu global 'the single most important social document in Quebec history and the most important aesthetic statement a Canadian has ever made'. This volume contains Paul Emile Borduas' famous lead manifesto, newly translated, along with other texts which made up the complete Total Refusal published in 1948 by a heterogeneous group of artists called the Automatists of Montreal. It is illustrated with photographs from the period and introduced with historical and biographical notes.
Conservation of Modern Oil Paintings
Artists’ oil paints have become increasingly complex and diverse in the 20th Century, applied by artists in a variety of ways. This has led to a number of issues that pose increasing difficulties to conservators and collection keepers. A deeper knowledge of the artists’ intent as well as processes associated with material changes in paintings is important to conservation, which is almost always a compromise between material preservation and aesthetics. This volume represents 46 peer-reviewed papers presented at the Conference of Modern Oil Paints held in Amsterdam in 2018. The book contains a compilation of articles on oil paints and paintings in the 20th Century, partly presenting the o...
Suzanne
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her grandmother Suzanne, an artist who abandoned her husband and children in her youth and never looked back. The Escape Artist is a fictionalized account of Suzanne’s life over 85 years, taking readers through Québec’s Quiet Revolution and the American civil rights movement, offering a portrait of a volatile woman on the margins of history.
