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Defiant spirits : the modernist revolution of the Group of Seven /

The Group of Seven, sometimes known as the Algonquin School, were a group of Canadian landscape painters in the early 20th century who initiated the first Canadian art movement. Original members include: Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonal...

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Main Author: King, Ross, 1962-
Corporate Author: McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kleinburg, Ont. : McMichael Canadian Art Collection, c2010.
Subjects:
Group of Seven (Group of artists)
Groupe des Sept (Groupe d'artistes)
Painting, Canadian > 20th century.
Peinture canadienne > 20e siècle.
Canada > History > 1914-1945.
Canada > Histoire > 1914-1945.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • A wild deserted spot
  • This wealthy promised land
  • Ein Toronto realist
  • Eerie wilderness
  • Life on the Mississagi
  • Wild men of the North
  • The Infanticist school
  • The happy isles
  • Rites of Paysage
  • The young school
  • Men with good red blood in their veins
  • The great explosion
  • White feathers and tangled gardens
  • The line of beauty
  • Imperishable splendour
  • Shades of grey
  • The vortex of war
  • The dweller on the threshold
  • The great Konodian army
  • The spirit of young Canada
  • A septenary fatality
  • Are these new Canadian painters crazy?
  • Multiples of ugliness
  • By the shining big-sea-water
  • Gypsies, lepers and freaks
  • Wembley
  • Epilogue : The end of the trail.

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