
Gerard Collins
Fifty Years of Painting
Goose Lane Editions (Publisher)
Published on 25. April 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-77310-307-5 (ISBN)
Description
The art of Gerard Collins resists categorisation. Over a 50-year career, Collins's conceptual imagination and dizzying array of influences has produced a body of work as eclectic as it is stimulating. His oeuvre, ranging from still lifes to landscapes, from realism to neo-conceptualism, remains undeniably embedded in Saint John, while partaking in - and pushing against - national and international conversations about art and theory.
Featuring over 75 reproductions of Collins's work, including examples from his famous Women in Hats, 100 Portraits, and Harlequin series, Gerard Collins: Fifty Years of Painting is the first book to encompass Collins's entire career, from his early training at St. Martin's School of Art and under the "NSCAD school," to his return to Saint John and pandemic-era experiments with online pop-up galleries. Robert Barriault, a contemporary of Collins at NSCAD, develops a fresh critical methodology to analyze Collins's enigmatic vocabulary, drawing connections and identifying distinctive features of Collins's massive body of work.
Featuring over 75 reproductions of Collins's work, including examples from his famous Women in Hats, 100 Portraits, and Harlequin series, Gerard Collins: Fifty Years of Painting is the first book to encompass Collins's entire career, from his early training at St. Martin's School of Art and under the "NSCAD school," to his return to Saint John and pandemic-era experiments with online pop-up galleries. Robert Barriault, a contemporary of Collins at NSCAD, develops a fresh critical methodology to analyze Collins's enigmatic vocabulary, drawing connections and identifying distinctive features of Collins's massive body of work.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Fredricton
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 281 mm
Width: 209 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
754 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77310-307-5 (9781773103075)
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Persons
Robert Barriault is a writer, artist, and fine-art photographer. He has published on the art of Stephen Scott. Mary Blatherwick is a professor of education at the University of New Brunswick. She is the founder of the New Brunswick Art Education Association and past chair of the Saint John Arts Centre.