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The Mystery of the Real: Letters of the Canadian Artist Alex Colville and Biographer Jeffrey Meyers
Jeffrey Meyers
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Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrated with an 8-page colour plate section. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
The work of Alex Colville, O.C. (1920-2013), one of the great modern realist painters, combines the Flemish detail of Andrew Wyeth, the eerie foreboding of George Tooker and the anguished confrontations of Lucian Freud. Behind the North Americans stands their common master, Edward Hopper. Colville's works are in many museums in Canada and Germany. He has affinities with Max Beckmann and appeals to the German secondary virtues : cleanliness, punctuality, love of order. In a long life he resolutely opposed the fashionable currents of abstract and expressionistic art. In contrast to Jackson Pollock's wild action painting, Colville created paintings ... Read more
The work of Alex Colville, O.C. (1920-2013), one of the great modern realist painters, combines the Flemish detail of Andrew Wyeth, the eerie foreboding of George Tooker and the anguished confrontations of Lucian Freud. Behind the North Americans stands their common master, Edward Hopper. Colville's works are in many museums in Canada and Germany. He has affinities with Max Beckmann and appeals to the German secondary virtues : cleanliness, punctuality, love of order. In a long life he resolutely opposed the fashionable currents of abstract and expressionistic art. In contrast to Jackson Pollock's wild action painting, Colville created paintings ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
341g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Brighton, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845198114
SKU
V9781845198114
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About Jeffrey Meyers
Jeffrey Meyers taught for thirty years at universities in America, England and Japan. He has published 53 books and 900 articles on art, film and modern American, English and European literature. Anthony Powell and Anthony Burgess praised his life of Hemingway, and Tom Stoppard chose it as the Best Book of the Year in 1986. Thirty-one of his books ... Read more
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