Alan Caswell Collier, Relief Stiff - An Artist's Letters from Depression-Era British Columbia (Hardcover)

Alan Caswell Collier was one of Canada's most admired and successful landscape painters, but during the Depression he worked alongside other single, unemployed men in government-run relief camps. Labouring for twenty cents a day, he detailed camp life and politics in letters to his fiancee and depicted fellow "relief stiffs" and the BC landscape in character sketches and paintings. Incisive and candid, his letters reveal a born contrarian with a strong sense of social superiority over his fellow "twenty centers." But his letters also offer a fresh perspective on the hopes and dreams of an eminent Ontario artist and of the generation who came of age at a time of economic upheaval and class conflict.

General

Imprint:	University of British Columbia Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	March 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Peter Neary
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket / With dust jacket
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-0-7748-3498-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Design styles > Modernist design & Bauhaus Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre
LSN:	0-7748-3498-6
Barcode:	9780774834988

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