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Miller Brittain - When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears (Hardcover): Tom Smart Miller Brittain - When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears (Hardcover)
Tom Smart
R1,506 R1,184 Discovery Miles 11 840 Save R322 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Miller Gore Brittain (1912-1968) had an unerring sense of structure and composition. In the early 1930s, at the Art Students' League in New York, he experienced the pivotal moment in American art: the shift from tradition to abstract expressionism. When he returned to Canada, the Group of Seven still defined Canadian art, and he burst upon the scene with emotion-filled drawings and paintings of the human form. Later, combining figuration and abstraction, he explored the limits of the body and the borderlands of sanity to express the depths of despair and the heights of ecstasy. World War II interrupted Brittain's career and on his bombing missions he carried William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience with him. Blake's poetry, particularly "The Tyger," inspired the pervasive motif of Brittain's later career. At first a description of searchlights and shot-down aircraft, the star and spear motif later developed into iconic flowers and stems, heads and necks, sunbursts and smoke. In this illuminating and provocative book, Tom Smart examines the sweep of Brittain's work, his progression from social realism to abstraction and surrealism, while Allen Bentley shows the profound influence of Blake's thought in Brittain's painting and drawings.

Jack Chambers' Red and Green - Decrypted by Tom Smart (Paperback, First): Tom Smart Jack Chambers' Red and Green - Decrypted by Tom Smart (Paperback, First)
Tom Smart
R562 R471 Discovery Miles 4 710 Save R91 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1968, Canadian artist and filmmaker Jack Chambers was diagnosed with leukemia. Faced with his own mortality, Chambers began a programme of research into the nature of his own immortality. From that starting point the artist embarked on a nine-year journey that would ultimately take him to the end of his days.

Tantramar Revisited, Revisited (Paperback): Thaddeus Holownia Tantramar Revisited, Revisited (Paperback)
Thaddeus Holownia; Text written by Tom Smart
R622 Discovery Miles 6 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Materiality and Perception in Contemporary Atlantic Art (Hardcover): Tom Smart Materiality and Perception in Contemporary Atlantic Art (Hardcover)
Tom Smart
R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A fresh look at what is going on in the world of Atlantic Canadian art.Materiality and Perception in Contemporary Atlantic Art showcases over forty contemporary works of art from Atlantic Canada, from established artists such as Freeman Patterson, Gerald Beaulieu, Dawn MacNutt, and Alan Syliboy to emerging artists such as Emma Hassencahl-Perley, Ursula Johnson, and Marie Fox. This is art engaged with contemporary conversations: the frailty of bodies and land, the interactions between people and environment, Indigenous - Settler relations, and the inner and outer markings of identity.Focusing intently on the materiality of the objects themselves -- from jewellery to photographs, from carved paddles to video installations -- the works selected for this publication and the associated exhibition ask viewers to look again, challenging their initial perceptions about what they see and what they perceive about the context in which the work is made.Tom Smart's accompanying essay introduces each work and its context and discusses the role of the viewer in interpreting art objects and creating meaning, whether viewing works as discrete individual objects or as part of the larger, holistic whole.Materiality and Perception in Contemporary Atlantic Art accompanies the 2019 Marion McCain Exhibition of Atlantic Art at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.

Miller Brittain - Quand les A (c)toiles jetArent leurs lances (French, Hardcover): Tom Smart Miller Brittain - Quand les A (c)toiles jetArent leurs lances (French, Hardcover)
Tom Smart
R1,506 R1,183 Discovery Miles 11 830 Save R323 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Dans Miller Brittain : Quand les etoiles jeterent leurs lances, Tom Smart demontre pour la premiere fois la cohesion de l'imagerie de Brittain et les liens entre le realisme social de ses premieres oeuvres ulterieures, des abstractions figuratives et des compositions d'inspiration surrealiste. Miller Brittain a fait irruption sur la scene artistique canadienne A la fin des annees 1930, avec ses dessins et ses peintures du corps humain temples d'emotion et admirablement executes. Pendant ses etudes A l'Art Students League, A New York, il avait interiorise un point tournant de l'art americain, alors que les modes realistes traditionnels etaient remis en question par une nouvelle generation d'artistes radicaux selon qui l'art se devait de refleter la vie de l'artiste et les conditions de vie des sujets representes. A une epoque ou les paysages du Groupe des Sept dominaient la peinture canadienne, Brittain defia l'establishment avec son sens infallible de la ligne et de la composition, et ses recits humains attrayants. Plus tard, alliant l'art figurative et l'art abstrait, il explora les limites du corps et les confines de la raison afin d'exprimer les profondeurs du desespoir et les sommets de l'extase. Au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Brittain s'enrola dans l'Aviation royale du Canada, fut decore de la Croix du service distingue dans l'Aviation et devint un artiste de guerre canadien. Quand il partait en mission de bombardement, il emportait avec lui un exemplaire des Chants d'experience, de William Blake. Dans Miller Brittain : Quand les etoiles jeterent leurs lances, Smart fait voir comment le celebre poeme " Le tigre ", de Blake, inspira le motif omnipresent dans les oeuvres de Brittain apres la guerre, c'est-A-dire la cominaison de l'etoile et de la lance. Ce qui au depart representait des faisceaux de projecteurs et des avions abattus devint au fil des annees des representationsiconiques de fleurs et de tiges, de tetes et de cous, de rayons de soleil et de fumee. Allen Bentley appuie les observations de Smart en montrant la profonde influence exercee par les theories de Blake sur l'oeuvre de Brittain dans l'apres-guerre.

Materialite et perception dans l'art contemporain des provinces atlantiques (French, Hardcover): Tom Smart Materialite et perception dans l'art contemporain des provinces atlantiques (French, Hardcover)
Tom Smart
R417 Discovery Miles 4 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Materialite et perception dans lart contemporain des provinces atlantiques presente une quarantaine duvres contemporaines realisees par des artistes canadiens renommes de la region, notamment Freeman Patterson, Gerald Beaulieu, Dawn MacNutt et Alan Syliboy, mais aussi par des artistes emergents comme Emma Hassencahl-Perley, Ursula Johnson et Marie Fox. Leur pratique est ancree dans des preoccupations actuelles : la fragilite des corps et du territoire, les interactions entre les humains et lenvironnement, les relations entre les Autochtones et les colons ou encore les marqueurs identitaires internes et externes. Les uvres selectionnees pour lexposition et cette publication bijoux, photographies, pagaies gravees ou installations video sont centrees sur la materialite des objets eux-memes. Elles interpellent le spectateur et linvitent a jeter un autre regard sur le contexte de leur creation, a remettre en question ce quil voit et percoit initialement. Lessai de Tom Smart presente chaque uvre dans son contexte, et traite du role du spectateur dans la creation de sens et linterpretation des objets dart, tant individuellement qua titre delements dun ensemble global plus vaste. Materialite et perception dans lart contemporain des provinces atlantiques accompagne lexposition Marion McCain dart de la region atlantique 2019 presentee a la Galerie dart Beaverbrook.

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