 [ Large Image ] | Alex Colville: A Rebellious Mind Ray Cronin 2019 / Canadian Art Biography, Biography, Artists / $21.95 9781554471881 / Trade paper / 64 pp A Gaspereau Field Guide to Canadian Artists: No. 3 While serving as a Canadian war artist in Europe during the Second World War, Alex Colville (1920–2013) 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 developed—where realism is heightened by the artist’s assertion of order through composition—expresses 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. To purchase this title: Add it to your cart | Other Books by this Author |  | Herménégilde Chiasson: In Acadie Ray Cronin 2024 / Canadian Art, Biography, Artists / $22.95 CAN 9781554472604 / Trade paper / 64 pp |  | Alan Syliboy: Culture is Our Medicine Ray Cronin 2022 / Canadian Art Biography, Biography, Artists / $22.95 CAN 9781554472468 / Trade paper / 64 pp |  | Colleen Wolstenholme: Complications Ray Cronin 2021 / Canadian Art, Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN 9781554472147 / Trade paper / 64 pp |  | Maud Lewis: Creating an Icon Ray Cronin 2020 / Canadian Art Biography, Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN 9781554472062 / Trade paper / 64 pp |  | John Greer: Hard Thought Ray Cronin 2019 / Canadian Art Biography, Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN 9781554471980 / Trade paper / 64 pp |  | Gerald Ferguson: Thinking of Painting Ray Cronin 2018 / Canadian Art Biography, Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN 9781554471874 / Trade paper / 64 pp |  | Mary Pratt: Still Light Ray Cronin 2018 / Canadian Art Biography, Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN 9781554471805 / Trade paper / 64 pp |
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