Main entry:

Harper, J. Russell.

Title & Author:

Painting in Canada; a history [by] J. Russell Harper.

Publication:

[Toronto] University of Toronto Press [1966]

Description:

viii, 443 pages illustrations (some color) portraits (some color) 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-432).
Pt. 1. The French colony 1665-1759 -- ch. 1. The age of Laval -- ch. 2. Votive painting in New France -- ch. 3. Local painters in New France -- ch. 4. Early painting in British North America -- pt. 2. The English colonial period 1759-1867 -- ch. 5. The aftermath of the Seven Years' War -- ch. 6. British army topographers in eastern Canada -- ch. 7. The golden age in Quebec : the beginning -- ch. 8. The golden age in Quebec : maturity -- ch. 9. Along the Atlantic seaboard -- ch. 10. Portraits for the masses -- ch. 11. Krieghoff and genre in Quebec -- ch. 12. Pre-confederation years in Ontario -- 13. The lure of the west -- ch. 13. The lure of the west -- ch. 14. The last frozen barrier -- pt. 3. The new dominion 1867-1910 -- ch. 15. Art in the new dominion -- ch. 16. The British tradition at confederation -- ch. 17. A new search for Canada -- ch. 18. The dignity of labour -- ch. 19. French academic influences -- ch. 20. Contrasts in Quebec -- ch. 21. Painting as an aesthetic experience -- pt. 4. Nationalism and internationalism after 1910 -- ch. 22. Nationalism and the "group" -- ch. 23. Contemporaries of the "group" -- ch. 24. Regionalism in the thirties -- 25. Transformation in the west -- ch. 26. Towards non-objectivity -- ch. 27. Reawakening in Montreal -- ch. 28. Trends of the post-war period, 1945 to the present.

ISBN:

0802014135
9780802014139

Subject:

Painting, Canadian.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 62316
Call No.: ID CAN; ID:85-B7847
Status: Available