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OverviewWinner, Canadian Museums Association’s Outstanding Achievement in Research Award and IPPY Awards Silver Medal (Fine Art) A Toronto Star Holiday Gift Guide Selection A Like Vision is a lavish celebration of the legacy of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, Canada’s canonical landscape painters. The Group’s depiction of the rugged beauty of the Canadian landscape — from the coastal mountains of British Columbia to the north shore of Lake Superior, the villages of rural Quebec, and the rocky, windswept coves of Newfoundland — charged Canadians to experience their country in a bold new light and changed the face of Canadian art forever. Through their vigorous and expressive painterly style and vibrant colours, the Group of Seven significantly contributed to Canada’s sense of autonomy and identity as a modern state in the aftermath of the First World War. Featuring three hundred full-colour images, A Like Vision includes a lead essay by Ian A.C. Dejardin, Executive Director of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and contributions by a host of artists, curators, and writers. Among them are Indigenous art historian and curator Gerald McMaster, filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal, novelists David Macfarlane and Jane Urquhart, painters John Hartman and Robert Houle, and Inuk writer Tarralik Duffy. One hundred years on from the Group’s first exhibition in 1920, A Like Vision is both a chance to review the Group’s legacy and a tribute to these giants of Canadian art and culture. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ian A.C. Dejardin , Sarah MilroyPublisher: Goose Lane Editions Imprint: Goose Lane Editions Dimensions: Width: 25.40cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 27.90cm Weight: 2.146kg ISBN: 9781773102054ISBN 10: 1773102052 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 03 November 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsA gorgeous book featuring the art of the Group of Seven, yes, but also an examination of how their painting fits into a longer history of this land that includes -- and excludes -- Indigenous peoples. Beautiful and thought-provoking. - Deborah Dundas - Toronto Star's Book Gift Guide - 20211203 Exceptionally informative as a collective enterprise expertly showcasing the life and art of Tom Thomson. - Midwest Book Review - 20210221 This beautifully produced book with full colour reproductions ... looks at the paintings through the eyes of immigrants or Indigenous people. As Milroy writes in her introduction, 'These are either the least political paintings ever made (just trees, please, we're Canadian) or the most -- in what they leave out.' - Toronto Star - 20201128 This beautifully produced book with full colour reproductions ... looks at the paintings through the eyes of immigrants or Indigenous people. As Milroy writes in her introduction, 'These are either the least political paintings ever made (just trees, please, we're Canadian) or the most -- in what they leave out.' - Toronto Star - 20201128 Author InformationIan A.C. Dejardin is an art historian and executive director of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Sarah Milroy is Executive Director and Chief Curator at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. A highly respected art writer and exhibition curator, she has contributed to more than a dozen books on art, including Generations: The Sobey Family & Canadian Art, A Like Vision: The Group of Seven & Tom Thomson, and From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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