Abstract Painting in Canada
Published on 1. May 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-1-55365-394-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first comprehensive history of abstract painting in Canada, written in an engaging style appropriate for the specialist and non-expert alike. The development of abstract Canadian art closely reflected the movements in New York and London. This is a comprehensive examination of a previously unheralded chapter in the story of contemporary art. A lavishly illustrated volume, featuring 200 full-colour illustrations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Illustrations
200 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 262 mm
Width: 310 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-55365-394-3 (9781553653943)
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Person
Roald Nasgaard is a professor of art history and, for the past decade, chair of the art department at Florida State University. His long and distinguished museum career includes fifteen years as chief curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario, during which he oversaw many projects, among them the seminal 1984 exhibition and book The Mystic North.