Magnetic North: Imagining Canada in Painting 1910-1940

Category: Book
Contributions By: Atanassova, Katerina
Contributions By: Herlemann, Rebecca
Contributions By: Thomas, Jeff
Contributions By: Uhlaryik, Georgiana
Edited By: Weinhart, Martina
Subject:  ART / Canadian
  ART / General
  ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
  ART / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Published: April 2021
Format: Book-hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 11.00in x 9.25in
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From The Publisher*This book reveals the magnificent landscape paintings of the Group of Seven and their associates and explores how they contributed to Canada's modern cultural identity.

The early decades of the 20th century were marked by artistic, economic, and social transformation in Canada and around the world. Starting in Toronto, a group of young modern artists, including Tom Thomson and Lawren S. Harris, and Emily Carr in British Columbia, desired to create a new painting vocabulary for the young nation coming into its own cultural identity. They turned away from city life and explored Canada's landscape, painting sublime vistas, monumental rivers, ancient forests around the great lakes, the mighty Rocky Mountains, and the arctic tundra, determined to break away from European stylistic traditions. Together, their paintings imagined a mythical Canada, expansive and rugged, that added to their country's growing sense of national pride. Featuring paintings, sketches,
photographs, film stills, and documentary material, this catalog examines the language of Canadian modernism. It also includes essays and interviews that offer contemporary indigenous perspectives on the impact of industry on nature, issues surrounding national identity, and modern Canadian landscape painting. This generously illustrated book critically reviews Canada's modernism in art history.
Biographical NoteMARTINA WEINHART is Curator at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.