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Higher States - Lawren Harris and His American Contemporaries (Hardcover)
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Higher States - Lawren Harris and His American Contemporaries (Hardcover)
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Lawren S. Harris is best known for his iconic landscape paintings
that declare a sense of cool Canadian resilience. Yet, in the
1920s, an audacious and more colourful interior world began to
emerge in his work, and by 1934, the patriotic landscape painter
had taken a seemingly unexpected turn toward a transnational career
in abstract painting. The social, intellectual, and aesthetic
milieu of American transcendentalism shaped a movement of abstract
art across North America, seen in the paintings of Georgia
O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Katherine Dreier, Raymond Jonson, and
Lawren Harris. Harris, in particular, made an impact on both sides
of the border. Inspired by the ideas of Kandinsky and informed by
the writings of Emerson and Whitman, Harris and his contemporaries
turned to abstraction to express higher states of consciousness,
creating work that was the very embodiment of the modern spirit. As
Harris's career progressed, as he ascended from mountaintops to
inner states of mind, he sought greater and more ethereal spiritual
heights. This magnificent volume features reproductions of more
than 75 paintings by Harris and his contemporaries. Two major
essays by Roald Nasgaard and Gwendolyn Owens investigate Lawren
Harris's exploration of modernity and the evolution of his work
towards a form of abstraction that enthusiastically embraced the
energies of the ambient visual culture. Higher States: Lawren
Harris and His American Contemporaries accompanied an exhibition
organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
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