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A tribute to the Canadian North, a meditation on artistic creation,
and a window onto the ideological musings of Canada's greatest
Structurist artist. In celebration of his 100th birthday, Eli
Bornstein, in collaboration with author and curator Roald Nasgaard,
has published a stunning work of personal reflection on a most
transformative time in his life and career. Eli Bornstein: Arctic
Journals, 1986 and 1987 is a tribute to the Canadian North, a
meditation on artistic creation, and a window onto the ideological
musings of Canada's greatest Structurist artist. Devoid of the
mythologizing other artists have given their writing on the North,
Bornstein's journals are introspective, insightful, and sometimes
funny. Comprised of personal journal entries from two northern
trips he took with photographer Hans Dommasch-along with
watercolour studies, Structurist reliefs, and a personal collection
of poems-Bornstein's work is a vital reminder of our outsized
influence over the natural world and an invitation to recognize our
need for nature in our life and in our art. Bornstein's publication
is the culmination of a life's work on reconciling himself with
nature and the understanding our very existence.
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.
Lawren S. Harris doit sa renommee A ses paysages emblematiques
penetres d'un force tranquille resolument canadienne. Dans les
annees 1920, un monde interieur audacieux et colore commence A se
manifester dans son oeuvre, et en 1934, contre toute attente, il
entreprend une carriere de peintre abstrait outre-frontiere.Le
milieu social, intellectuel et esthetique du transcendantalisme
americain sert de modele A un mouvement d'art abstrait en Amerique
du Nord. Inspires par les idees de Kandinsky et les ecrits
d'Emerson et Whitman, Harris et ses contemporains americains --
Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Katherine Dreier et Raymond
Jonson -- se tournent vers l'abstraction pour exprimer des etats de
conscience plus eleves.Aspirant A s'elever au-dessus des choses
terrestres, Harris delaisse le paysage au profit du spirituel et de
l'interiorite. Ce magnifique ouvrage reproduit plus de 75 peintures
realisees par Harris et ses contemporains. Les essais de Roald
Nasgaard et Gwendolyn Owens analysent l'exploration de la modernite
chez Lawren Harris et l'evolution de son oeuvre vers une
abstraction qui se nourrit du dynamisme de la culture visuelle
ambiante.Vers de nouveaux sommets : Lawren Harris et ses
contemporains americains accompagne une exposition organisee par la
Collection McMichael d'art canadien qui prendra l'affiche en
fevrier 2017. L'exposition sera presentee egalement au Musee
Glenbow, A Calgary, dans le cadre d'une tournee canadienne.
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